First listen, and I'm honestly impressed. After listening to that trainwreck at the Los Angeles stadium, I was ready to write this dude off. Incredible what they dead with the corpse that he put out previously.
The album is long and some tracks probably should have been cut. Some of the verses still sound like they were written by your local high school rapper. Overall this album was probably the best thing that could out of Christian CHUD Kanye, and for that I thank Yeezy. I could see a few of these songs getting regular airplay, which he probably hasn't seen since Cruel Summer. Give it a listen.
I don't really like it, the songs tend to go on for way too long like Ye forgets to end his verse or just lets the beat run. Also, some of the songs were better in their previous versions, especially Hurricane and Praise God which are basically ruined for me.
But when it's good, it's good. I don't really have any big complaints with Heaven and Hell, No Child Left Behind, 24, Jonah, New Again, Believe What I Say.
Some thing I did notice though is that at this point in his career, Ye can't really keep up with his features anymore. I'd go as far as to say he gets renegaded a most of the time. But of course he still got great lines here and there like "How we in my car, and you say we ain't in the same lane?" or funny ones like "Some say Aadam could never be blaaack cus a black man'll never share his rib, rib, rib, rib, rib, rib"
I'm glad you liked it cus, man, I really didn't. Lol.
Its very well produced. Other than that its like 100 minutes of empty noise to me. The songs/parts I liked were so far apart it was hard for me to really enjoy.
The album could have handled some cuts for sure, but I think the length was probably an intentional thing considering the theme, for better or worse.
Yeezus is by far my fave Kanye album. Since you named drop the GOAT I gotta give this one a try.
Seriously, that’s high praise. Yeezus is my favorite by far, and if this shit is the same slop that he’s been putting out since that album I’m going to hunt down OP for wasting my time.
I had heard people talking about this, and didn't understand why until I heard the full thing. One of the better tracks on here for sure.
Listening to it right now, I avoided all the streams (except the now infamous Dunkey leak) so I don't have much to say about them but the final version sounds good so far. We'll never get young Kanye back, that person is dead and buried under a pile of cash - but new Kanye if nothing else knows how to put on a show.
Haven't listened: Is he still doing the Christian gimmick like he was on Jesus is King? Or did he stop (Or at least cool it) with that?
Far less noticeable on this album, but definitely present. There's also only a censored version.
I've been following this whole rollout hanging out in r/WSE and tuning into the LPs.
What a wild ride it's been.This makes me want to listen to Yeezus again. I hated that album.
I’m definitely feeling Donda, best Kanye album in a while.
