Kanye West - Yeezus (OUT NOW)

[PAINKILLƎR]

Guys, I'm 100% sure Royce was being sarcastic.

I thought so too... esp. 'cuz of the capital letters.

I agree.

I fucking hate Royce most of the time. He has done NOTHING with his life or career and if not for Eminem nobody would give a shit about him. He would have drank himself to death and sent his family into debt.

Then there's his body of work, which is heavily inconsistent at best. The fact that Royce feels the need to poke fun at successful artists is just petty, and shows how insecure he is with his own music and career.

Fuck Royce.

[12characters]

Guys, he's serious.

[SliK]

Guys, he's serious.

That explains the "super lyricism" on WTOH then.

[EminemBase]

Reviews for this album is proof that critics are fucking idiots.

Yeah I've already seen two call it a classic and someone say it is a game changer. LOL.

Critics get blinded and influenced in either direction depending on what the overwhelming direction of critical appraisal is on an artist...

To call Yeezus a game changer is just ridiculous.

[12characters]

Guys, he's serious.

That explains the "super lyricism" on WTOH then.

Yeah, Royce isn't a tough critic at all.

[Solace]

I think I'm not going to listen to it tonight at all. A ***** overplaying it like no tomorrow, gonna chill on that.

So you're actually like it a lot... Right Sol?

Yeah

[Mr Change]

I'm not a member of the 'Everything Kanye Creates is Genius Committee' (Also known as Critics), however I don't think this album is as bad as half of you are saying it is. Probably because ya'll are looking at it as a follow up to MBDTF, which technically it is but if you look at it like that it'll substantially lower your feeling for the album tbh. It is less like a big epic artistic swim through Kanye's ocean and more like a compact little collection of experimental songs that go together and are fun to listen to.

Production- 9.3/10
Originality-8.5/10
Content- 7/10
Lyrics-6.5/10
31.3/40
78.25/100
78%
C+

+Those beats
+Nice changes in sound during many songs
+Immense variety in instrumentals
-Lazy lyricism, C'mon Ye!
-Not much of a lasting effect

[EminemBase]

If hip hop magazines/sites give a good score then I'm done. Seriously I've given it six listens and it still feels average. Doesn't sound anything like hip hop.

If ?

USA Today: 4/4
New York Daily News: 5/5
SQ Magazine: 5/5
Rolling Stone: 4.5/5
Billboard: 88/100
SPIN Magazine: 8.4/10
The Independent: 4/5

You go by critics? Lol, think for yourself.

5/5? How ridiculous. They're delusional.

There's many examples throughout musical and artistic (movies, such as with Hitchcock) where the pendulum swings too far either way initially but then history sorts it out.

What will happen is a project or an artist or an album or a movie will initially get a misunderstood reaction and doesn't click with the average faggots so gets 2/5 and average ratings and shit and then in time, once the fog has passed and people analyze it more and it sinks in, history rates it.

Similarly, there's examples of what I feel Yeezus will become - where critics want to feel like they're the first to say it and are blinded by his past work so are like OMG IT'S REVOLUTIONARY then once the dust settles, history will rate it and they'll be like "oh, okay yeah maybe we overreacted".

Yeezus has innovative music and is cohesive; but it has ass concepts and ass raps and an ass overall effect on the ears and end result... to give it a perfect or near perfect rating is completely absurd. Perfect means EVERYTHING about it is amazing, not just the production.

With his past albums, his rapping wasn't revolutionary either but it was fresh. His raps brought something new with fresh concepts, storytelling or emotion or ideas.

I'd give Yeezus 3/5.

[rockbottom]

This album one of the great let downs for me. Pretty cool beats etc, but the rapping ranges from awful to non-existent. I honestly don't understand how this is getting such good reviews.

On the other hand - Born Sinner is fucking amazing to me. Can't understand the reaction that is getting from people.

[EminemBase]

Royce da 5'9:

Ok, I just listened to Yeezus all the way thru... My PERSONAL opinion is that it's creative, SUPER LYRICAL and not for everybody...

https://twitter.com/Royceda59/status/345875387051560960

Super lyrical

Super lyrical... Lol.

Also - so Royce is admitting he's listened to the leak? When he's previously cried about leaks?

Hypocrite much.

[SliK]

I'm not giving an opinion of the album for like a week. I did the same with GKMC.

[SliK]

If hip hop magazines/sites give a good score then I'm done. Seriously I've given it six listens and it still feels average. Doesn't sound anything like hip hop.

If ?

USA Today: 4/4
New York Daily News: 5/5
SQ Magazine: 5/5
Rolling Stone: 4.5/5
Billboard: 88/100
SPIN Magazine: 8.4/10
The Independent: 4/5

You go by critics? Lol, think for yourself.

Who said they went by critics? Did you even read the conversation that you quoted? Lol, think for yourself <--- you are soooo arrogant lmao no wonder you're depressed, life must just send you blow after blow to your ego.

[EminemBase]

Who said they went by critics? Did you even read the conversation that you quoted? Lol, think for yourself <--- you are soooo arrogant lmao no wonder you're depressed, life must just send you blow after blow to your ego.

Well the fact they're quoting critics as proof of the album's greatness is a big clue...

And, I'm not depressed?... and arrogant?... how? Because I don't think Yeezus is groundbreaking?

Also that last sentence was so tryhard, what the hell are you talking about lmao.

[CrashBand]

Replay value is immense for me.

Lol @ most the dumb-fucks in this thread calling it trash or whining about it being praised when they don't/can't justify why it's bad. It's just as bad as someone like Alm who doesn't justify it in the other direction.

Not talking about everyone of course.

[B.A.D.]

"On Sight" is awful.

terrible

waste of talent