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- Snappy - 06-12-2013
Quote:Originally posted by Spangle@Jun 10 2013, 09:50 AM
Three new 'Ye songs!
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Not sure I'm in love with the EDM-type beats Ye's been using...
I love the EDM beats. He did some dubstep with Skrillex too. Combining my love of EDM and Rap. Amazing.
I wanna do a remix of "Who Shot Ya" by biggie but I dont want to fuck with a great song. Or "Juicy" with a more upbeat beat.
Im working on making beats with my friend who is a local rapper at the moment.
- Member #1 - 06-12-2013
Quote:Originally posted by Snappy@Jun 12 2013, 08:32 PM
I love the EDM beats. He did some dubstep with Skrillex too. Combining my love of EDM and Rap. Amazing.
I wanna do a remix of "Who Shot Ya" by biggie but I dont want to fuck with a great song. Or "Juicy" with a more upbeat beat.
Im working on making beats with my friend who is a local rapper at the moment.
oh god lol
- Snappy - 06-12-2013
Quote:Originally posted by Dyl@Jun 12 2013, 08:58 PM
oh god lol
I wont butcher it too much :ph34r:
- Spangle - 06-12-2013
snappy rapping can only end poorly. oh and quick review of truly yours 3 aka the deluxe edition of born sinner.
Miss America: 4.5/5
New York Times (ft. 50 Cent & Bas): 4.5/5
-Yayyyyy 50 on a hook!!! Feels brief as hell though...
Is She Gon Pop: 3.5/5
Niggaz Know: 4/5
Sparks Will Fly (ft. Jhene Aiko): 4.75/5
-Dayum Jhene Aiko. Dayum.
Combined with the standard...
79/95 -> 4.16/5
So it only goes up a few ticks (originally 4.13/5), but damn did Cole ever deliver here.
- GroupMeIsKindOfOkay - 06-12-2013
Quote:Originally posted by Spangle@Jun 7 2013, 03:54 PMi would suck Nas off tbh.
Let Nas Down: 3/5
-Might be the gayest song title I have ever seen. Why doesn't he just suck Nas off at this point? Like Cole, but wtf man.
does that make me gay?
- Spangle - 06-12-2013
Quote:Originally posted by Alex@Jun 12 2013, 10:11 PM
i would suck Nas off tbh.
does that make me gay?
better suck that dick good, alex. cole set the bar pretty high.
- BasedMinkus - 06-14-2013
YEZZUS IS OUT.
- Maxy - 06-14-2013
Quote:Originally posted by JayTee@Jun 14 2013, 12:46 PMHoly fuck pm me a link please!!!!!
YEZZUS IS OUT.
- Maxy - 06-14-2013
NVRMIND Spangs is a doll!
- BasedMinkus - 06-14-2013
Kanye West - Yeezus: Album Review
![[Image: kanye-west-yeezus-artwork-official.jpg]](http://cdn.idolator.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/31/kanye-west-yeezus-artwork-official.jpg)
1|On Sight| 5
2|Black Skinhead| 5
3|I am God ft. God| 5
4|New Slaves ft. Frank Ocean| 5
5|Hold My Liquor ft. Chief Keef & Justin Vernon| 5
6|I'm In It ft. Travi$ Scott| 5
7|Blood on Leaves| 5
8|Guilt Trip ft. Kid Cudi| 4.75
9|Send it Up ft. King Louie| 4
10|Bound 2 ft. Charlie Wilson| 5
Total: 48.75/50 = 4.875/5 = Best in show; pinnacle
The album starts out with this distorted noise going on and follows that with this really electronic soundings production with the drum machine being put to good work. Daft punk produced this song and Ye lays down good verses.
Black Skinhead has SICK drums, they are so heavy and the effect he put on his voice is a cool touch. "I Keep it 300 bitches, where the trojans" is a great line. The screams really work here. The reverb on this song is nice. This has a real rock feel with hard drums that made me want to start air drumming. This doesn't have a hip-hop feel but it is something great.
I am God has this electronic drum that rattles the headphones with a few boom baps. It starts off with this reggae hook in the background with the beat surrounding and engulfing him. This is Ye at his egotistical best, I mean God is a feature on the track. Favorite line of the album: "I am a god, hurry up with my damn massage, in a french restaurant, HURRY UP WITH MY DAMN CROISSANT". The edm sounding lasers are back and really work here. The screaming shocks you at first here but this track has yeezy going crazy so it only seems right.
New Slaves starts with the screaming that is sped up and goes from one ear to another. I love that ability to do in headphones. Has strong drums again, this time mixed with some good guitar and great and I mean GREAT piano. Favorite line "I'd rather be a dick than a swallower". This has a deeper meaning. Everyone copies Ye now in hopes of getting to him. 808's created guys like Drake and the Weeknd, the more religious MBDTF shifted how a guy like J. Cole raps. So here he is saying I create it and you swallow that shit and try to digest it. I should also not he goes HAM. Also nice touch about have way in with the sped up soul sample. He also uses Auto tune, which i hate from him usually.... but this works. It has an epic feel as it is distorted and clouded by heavy instruments. Nice soul french sample at the end.
I can hold my liquor has Justin Vernon of Bon Iver and Chief Keef. What a weird fucking combo. Chief keef doesn't detract from the song. which I was afraid he would do. He has an autotune hook and then out comes ye sounding hungry. This has a more soft airy sound at the start. With the the guitars and piano sounding light while mixed with distortion. This song really has Ye professing how he is happy with Kim and the haters don't bother him. I hate Kim but eh, you love who you love.
Im in it. This has a screwed and chopped ye mixed with a distorted Ye. The drums are real rock sounding here and they are strong drums. "Eatin asian pussy all i need is sweet and sour sauce". This has a somewhat reggae feel as well. Then the army drums come in and holy hell does it get good. This is probably top 3 or 4 on the album. And that is saying something. The scream after saying she came is weird. Even more weird since I have seen the Kim K sex tape and she fakes the whole time even with the jungle dick of Ray J. Nice layered vocals near the end with Ye going hard to complete a great song. "My vibe like a tron bike, pop a wheelie on a zeitgeist".
Now we get to my 2nd favorite song in Blood on the Leaves. It has Ye harping back to 808s but here it sounds more genuine where 808s Kanye sounded contrived and fake. The sample is fucking amazing. The piano is rich and the drums are again heavy. The edm sounds here are great and the weird piano sounds... HOLY FUCK. It is hard to believe this album wasn't produced by Ye because it fits in, yet stands out at the same time. The horns are also great on here. He has an egotistical edge here but also spits about Beyonce and Jay in relation to what he sees. He sees it not working out yet he loves Kim. It is a weird dichotomy here. God the sample is still good. Not a fan of the autotune at the end as I feel it becomes overdone here, but takes nothing away from the song. Piano finishes it off and we get to the next track....
... Which is Guilt Trip ft. Cudi. This has a great sample and some nice mixing. There isn't much to say about this song. It is cohesive and the piano is nice and the drums are once again heavy. Cudi kills this shit, something i never thought I would say. I remember him on his mixtapes and his singing wasnt that great. Hear though... damn. He does his thing and we get back into the screwed and chopped sounding beat. This song sounds hip-hop, which I don't find a lot on this album. It is a nice change of pace.
Send it Up has a sound the alarm type sound. With weird fucking instrumentals in the back. I don't even no what genre the background could be but it is cool. Not a fan of King Louie but whatever. The drums are real hip hop and the guitar has been distorted that reminds me of Hell of a Life off of MBDTF. Yeezy comes in and does his thing for sure. You can tell here Ye wanted the sound to be the star. If Ye was going for that, then this production is on some Michael Jordan level... THE GOAT. Reggae shit is kinda meh here but it is short.
Then we get to my favorite track, Bound 2. It has a sick soul sample reminiscient of College Dropout. Like this track is so soulful. It brought me back to 04 when i popped in College Dropout on my discman and heard We Don't Care. This is Kanye bridging the gap of "I supercede this rap game, but I am still hip-hop. It is a beautiful convergence of music. Charlie Wilson kills the hook. Kanye sounds happy on here "1 super girl is better than a hundred bitches. Kanye did his thing and I am sad it ended.
This album transcends hip-hop. It rarely even sounds hip-hop. It mixes so many different flavours from reggae to rock to jazz to soul to rock, and it never misses a step. There is not one bad song on this album. Something I could not say on any of his other previous albums. I was worried when I heard the live songs. There wasn't enough rapping, he was screaming a lot and the beats sound weird. You know what, they still do, but it doesn't matter. It is different without sounding contrived, it is hard without sounding too primal, it is airy without sound like 808s. It is the perfect blend of music. This is like what Zepplin or the Doors did for rock, what Michael Jackson did for pop and what Biggie and Pack did for rap, it changes the game. It gets people who may not even like the genre listening. Will everyone like it? No. But i think Ye likes it that way. He wants people to leave the album thinking what the fuck just happened. He wants some to leave and be like this dude has fucking lost it.
To some he may have, but to me, he has made an album that is so uniquely different that listening to anything else in the rap genre and almost all the genres, feel like adultery. Ye can encapsulate something and make it cool. He did it with the soul samples and now you have guys like Big Krit, and J Cole making waves when they wouldn't have if Ye hadn't dropped CD in 04 that stood out in a gangsta dominated rap game. He did it again with 808s and make guys like Drake and the Weeknd relevant. He finally did it while make a more spiritual and dark album in MBDTF and now you have Kendrick Lamar being as huge as he is. Yeezy shapes hip hop.
If there was a critique I would say he used autotune a little too much and I would have liked a bit more rapping. At just 40 minutes this album is short, but doesn't feel short. It is cohesive and sharp while remaining hard and egotistical. It is Kanye in another dimension. This is one of the best albums I have heard. Period.
- Spangle - 06-14-2013
Yeezus
On Sight: 4.75/5
Black Skinhead: 5/5
I Am a God: 5/5
New Slaves (ft. Frank Ocean): 5/5
Hold My Liquor (ft. Chief Keef & Justin Vernon): 5/5
I’m In It (ft. Travis Scott): 5/5
Blood on the Leaves: 4.75/5
Guilt Trip (ft. Kid Cudi): 4.5/5
Send It Up (ft. King L): 4.75/5
Bound 2: 5/5
48.75/50 -> 4.88/5
This shit is gonna be inspirational in hip hop, no question about it. The meshing of EDM and hip hop was done so beautifully here that it's insane. I don't feel like this rating is my excitement speaking, but rather the sheer quality of this album. Though, if you're just getting into Kanye, I'd recommend listening to his other albums before jumping into this one. Shit's life changing though man. This is the closest to perfect I've ever gotten. GOAT album.
- Dion - 06-14-2013
Spangs giving a song that includes Chief Keef in it a 5?
- Spangle - 06-14-2013
Quote:Originally posted by Dion.OvOxO@Jun 14 2013, 04:02 PM
Spangs giving a song that includes Chief Keef in it a 5?
JT too.
- Dion - 06-14-2013
Quote:Originally posted by Spangle@Jun 14 2013, 02:03 PM:ahh!:
JT too.
- Maxy - 06-14-2013
On Sight- 5/5 I love the start, song is really unique and Yeezy comes out hard. If the rest of the album is like what I've heard so far it's definitely gonna be a new chapter in Yeezy's repetoir. Some sounds work (MBDTWF) and some don't (808's) but so far I like this one.
Black Skinhead- 5/5 Much better than on SNL. If there's one thing I've learned about Yeezy so far listening to him his production levels are always incredibly phenomenal and add such another level to his songs that you don't get from live plays and shit. On SNL it was good but not great, I love it on the album though, different vocal effects are phenomenal here. Reminds me of Monster from MBDTWF but instead of bringing in like 10 other rappers he just goes hard as fuh with a couple different vocal effects.
I Am A God- 5/5 Holy fuck Yeezy tore this apart. I am absolutely blown away by Yeezy's rapping so far he really is coming out hard and proving he's not just a producer rapper. Although I must say the screaming at the end was kinda creepy
New Slaves- 5/5 Now this one I was soooooooo excited to hear and holy fuck it doesn't disappoint. Hearing it on closed in headphones was sex. Frank Ocean's part sounds so much better on headphones as well
Hold My Liquor- 5/5 Wasn't expecting much from this one with Chief Keef on the track list. At first listen I was only eh about this one. I wasn't digging the... Chicken? Lol it's definitely different, second playthrough of this song (Only one so far I've given a second listen) I loved it especially the hook. I think it grew on me. This is the first one where Yeezy isn't glaringly apparantly the headliner, Solid song, exceeded my expectations
I'm In It- 5/5 Absolutely filthy beat absolutely love it. One of my favorites so far. Love the hook so much, rapping is solid. Wonder if this is bout Kim
Blood on Leaves- 5/5 Reminds me of a track from 808, cept it's much better. Proves Autotune isn't absolutely terrible all the time if you don't overkill it. My favorite beat so far
Guilt Trip- 4.5/5 A Little too much going on here. I was actually pretty excited for this one as Gorgeous was one of my favorite tracks on MBDTF but this one just didn't mesh the way I wanted. Was too underwhelming.
Send It up- 4.25/5 Eh not a huge fan of this one, too much a club music song and I didn't like it.
Bound 2- 5/5 Absolutely my favorite song. Reminds me of something I'd have heard on College Dropout which is still my favorite Ye album and Charlie Wilson is amazing.
Rating 4.875/5 Yeezy does not disappoint and this and JCole's albums make this year on par or better than last year already. Such a great album. Absolutely masterful production value. Great rapping. LOVE The lack of features in terms of rapping, this album is mainly Ye's rapping with features on the hook and it's wonderful.