Often West’s production can help paper over the places where he’s taken lyrical shortcuts. Each record he drops feels less and less like a finished product.sits there like a rough draft, as if West is still tweaking this on his headphones while on his private jet. Even the sampling feels lazier than usual.
It’s hard to imagine what this record is supposed to be the soundtrack for. It’s not a party record. It doesn’t invite introspection. It’s not spiritual outside of literal references. It’s not really a radio record, although “Jail” and “Ok ok” will probably do fine as singles. The only thing this feels apt for is listening to by yourself while scrolling Twitter. It’s disposable and completely forgettable, like so much of culture spat down to us during COVID.
Many of the featured artists are rappers with “Lil” or “Baby” in their names, and that’s apt when the material itself feels emotionally stunted. It’s nice to see elder rap statesmen like Jadakiss make an appearance, after the Lox’s dismantling of Dipset earlier this summer, but heavies like Jay-Z do little to move the needle. Kanye’s own lyrics leave much to be desired: “Man, it’s hard to be an angel surrounded by demons,” for example, on “Jesus Lord pt. 2.
The track “Hurricane” with The Weeknd comes out coincidentally and distastefully on the day Hurricane Ida touches ground on the Gulf Coast, 16 years after Katrina and West’s infamous “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” line. “Hurricane” is another generic snooze-fest with all the usual Kanye production touchstones. He has always been a producer first, but the novelty of his tropes has worn pretty thin at this point.
Your journalism is a joke. Now wonder it's a dying medium lmao
So it sucks? K thanks
This review gotta be a joke
Anti-climactic.
Somebody print this out and burn it a thousand times listening to 24
Damn!!!! 😂 Tell me how you really feel!!!
woof
A what in what 😂
This is legit the dumbest review ever.
Says more about the author than the album.
One of the worst reviews for any album I've ever read
This sounded personal and biased asf
Witaf does that even mean
What a fucking stupid review
Wait, what? 🤔
'Kanye and his fans name-search and seem to get off on any criticism of his work, so here’s some: He’s not really an interesting rapper.' Truth. Never has been very interesting except when producing.
So, what you're saying is, no one should get their hopes up that this will crack even 100k sales. kanyewest's mental illness has been a real problem for his album sales. The chart has been straight down for a decade. 4 million down to 100k per album now. He's sick.
Don’t buy anything this fool makes!
I swear , nobody cares about your opinion
The album came out this morning…lol. And this take, re. Hurricane was a bit much😂
Didn't ask, don't care, plus ratio, plus you fell off.
And you expected something else?
Yeah but if Promoter's paid he gets a free pop up merch store that's what the size of a mall?
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