Kanye West

[FloorFiller]

5 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

This seems a lot of work for a album that isn’t going to be that good.

Well I’m sure Kanye isn’t actively making a not very good album so I’m sure he doesn’t think so. Let’s hope the thing actually turns out to be pretty damn good and surprises us all when it finally comes out after listening party #37.

[kalifire]

I’ve given up keeping a look out for this now. I wonder if he thinks endless delays are increasing the hype? It’s having the opposite effect on me. 

[Andre91]

3 hours ago, kalifire said:

I’ve given up keeping a look out for this now. I wonder if he thinks endless delays are increasing the hype? It’s having the opposite effect on me. 

Likewise. 

[st dan]

Is there much point in hype around a new album release in the days of streaming though?

I understand it in years gone by when people could pre order CDs weeks in advance etc, and hyping up certainly had its relevance then, but in modern way we consume music - does it really have a benefit? People will stream it and have a listen to see if they like it or not, and just move on if they don’t, with little to no impact to Kanye’s pocket. 

[kalifire]

It would be interesting if he were to fuse together gospel music with his brand of hard beats. That’s kind of what I’m hoping from DONDA. 

Too much “Christian” music drops the quality of play/lyrics/production on account of ticking the Jesus box, and I say that as somebody who used to review contemporary Christian music in my younger years as a believer. I was eventually thrown off the magazine staff for criticising a Christian rap album because the production just couldn’t measure up to the secular west coast hip hop I was listening to at the time. Apparently I should have been satisfied that this artist mentioned Jesus a lot. Um, no. 

[Suprefan]

1 hour ago, kalifire said:

It would be interesting if he were to fuse together gospel music with his brand of hard beats. That’s kind of what I’m hoping from DONDA. 

Too much “Christian” music drops the quality of play/lyrics/production on account of ticking the Jesus box, and I say that as somebody who used to review contemporary Christian music in my younger years as a believer. I was eventually thrown off the magazine staff for criticising a Christian rap album because the production just couldn’t measure up to the secular west coast hip hop I was listening to at the time. Apparently I should have been satisfied that this artist mentioned Jesus a lot. Um, no. 

They didnt want you to say the new DC Talk album was shite lol.

[kalifire]

11 minutes ago, Suprefan said:

They didnt want you to say the new DC Talk album was shite lol.

Ha! Actually I had a bit of time for DC Talk - production and delivery on Free At Last and Jesus Freak was really good. It was my review of T-Bone that they didn’t appreciate. I opened the magazine on delivery to find my tepid review had been replaced with a ten star gush from the editor. 

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

4 hours ago, Ddiamondd said:

Objectively it's an interesting business strategy, milking his chaos / monetising the bags under Mike Dean's eyes. Who else could sell out arenas for little more than a glorified playback sandbox. Barely care about the album anymore though.

When it does finally come out...

[Suprefan]

5 hours ago, kalifire said:

Ha! Actually I had a bit of time for DC Talk - production and delivery on Free At Last and Jesus Freak was really good. It was my review of T-Bone that they didn’t appreciate. I opened the magazine on delivery to find my tepid review had been replaced with a ten star gush from the editor. 

Hahaha, puff piece! Thats too funny. Pitchfork just reviewed Jesus Freak for one of their sunday reviews and Im sure it was eye opening to a ton of people that werent old enough during those times. Them and Jars of Clay were all the christian labels fawned over. And Newsboys since they were aussie!

[priest17]

What a prick.

[kalifire]

15 hours ago, Suprefan said:

Hahaha, puff piece! Thats too funny. Pitchfork just reviewed Jesus Freak for one of their sunday reviews and Im sure it was eye opening to a ton of people that werent old enough during those times. Them and Jars of Clay were all the christian labels fawned over. And Newsboys since they were aussie!

Haha, wow those names bring it back a bit. I was quite the fan of Audio Adrenaline, and of course over in good old Blighty, Manchester based 'World Wide Message Tribe' were putting out stuff like this, which I enjoyed at the time.

 

[Slugy]

Still not sure if I believe it or not.

Edited August 20, 2021 by Slugy

[Hugh Jass]

1 minute ago, Slugy said:

Still not sure if I believe it or not.

“And this time he means it.”

[Slugy]

"Absolutely, 100%, maybe, if he feels like it"

[FloorFiller]

Yeah I’m not gonna take that guys word as gospel as we all know full well if Kanye decides he doesn’t want to release it at the last minute that night then he won’t and nobody can stop him. Fingers crossed though eh.

[FloorFiller]

Lmao Kanye threatening Drake with Joker pictures. It’s album rollout time!

 

[dentalplan]

[dentalplan]

This should give Kanye the impetus to actually release something.

Obviously Donda will be scrapped to make way but still.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

On 8/20/2021 at 2:24 PM, Slugy said:

Still not sure if I believe it or not.

 

[dentalplan]

He brought Marilyn Manson and DaBaby out on stage last night.

Couldn't make it up.

[Suprefan]

9 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

He brought Marilyn Manson and DaBaby out on stage last night.

Couldn't make it up.

It was the porch!

 

and he fake remarried Kim Kardashian after he lit himself on fire at the end.

[FloorFiller]

6 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

He brought Marilyn Manson and DaBaby out on stage last night.

Couldn't make it up.

Yeah, discussed a bit in the new music thread, but Kanye seems to have some weird obsession with sticking by abusers/pieces of shit to the point that he’s now associated himself with a guy who he previously had no relationship with, like he’s actually called up Manson to offer condolences over being outed as being an awful prick and given him a public seal of approval. So weird, and out of all the crap that Kanye pulls probably the least forgivable. He actually replaced Jay Z’s (albeit shit) verse on the album with DaBaby!

[Suprefan]

Gonna get spicy if this does happen

 

 

[dentalplan]

"Label representatives were very surprised to find that the album art was a photo of Jeffrey Epstein."

[FloorFiller]

14 minutes ago, Suprefan said:

Gonna get spicy if this does happen

 

 

God I hope so. Like, I couldn’t be any less hyped for the album at this point, but fuck having another listening party. Just release the fucking thing so we can all be mildly disappointed and move on.