Word on the title. It's funny how in Hip Hop circles
Kanye is more often than not referred to as Ye. Whereas among the commercial fans and 'Rap' websites he's known as '
Yeezy'....Yeah, we didn't jump on that whole '
eezy' hype being added on to names. Snoop made it big, you just killed it.
Kanye's latest offering is set to drop sometime in October, but who really knows when it comes to this guy. I'm not really a fan of the obnoxious idiot. It bothers me that he thinks he's the only person that puts heart and passion in to his music. It bothers me more, that rather than just bragging about being great like most rappers do, you can honestly tell this man thinks he's only a hop-step and jump away from God himself.
However, all that being said, I am a fan of the man's music. The title of this post wasn't aimed at highlighting the fact that
Kanye is back with a new album. Instead it was meant as reference to Chi-town's beat aficionado returning to his style of old. That being, heavily soul-sampled beats with straight forward lyrics, at times heartrendingly emotional, at others blatantly arrogant. A style that Ye has made his own. No
Kanye's not the best
lyracist in the game -there's even rumours of ghostwriters - nor on the whole does he make the best albums. Though his powerful beat selection is always ill and when accompanied by raw passion (in abundance), there's no denying the classic Hip Hop sound of his music.
Word is filtering through that this year he may be joined by
RZA, Pete Rock, and DJ Premier on the producing side of things. If that's the case, someone tell this man to pass a note to
Nas instructing the idiot to follow suit. Hopefully what that line-up also means, is that the
electro/techno sounding beats he's been using over the past couple of albums are now dead. For me, that totally ruined his music and the music of others that blindly followed the trend (Usher), 808's was just horrible. Not Hip Hop at all. A statement you may reply to with,
'There's more to music than just Hip Hop you know!' Yes, you're right there is. But I look to
Kanye for Hip Hop. If i wanted alternative or
electro, I'd look elsewhere. Think Anthony Hamilton trying to rap when there's already millions doing it better.I know Ye was being creative and 'ground-breaking,' trying to push boundaries, but the bottom line is, the music was type turd.
It's a joke that Jay-Z made a song called 'Death Of Auto-Tune' co-produced by
Kanye, the King of using auto-tune. Many people don't know this but the pair actually made an auto-tune song together until
Kanye came up with the idea of doing an 'anti' auto-tune song. This was furthered by removing all auto-tune tracks from Blueprint 3. The fact that he even had them on there just shows you Jay-
z's lack of integrity. And I like Jay some what, but he
has lost all integrity as an artist. He's a business man, not a musician. If he thinks going against the grain (current trend) like that will gain attention and make him a quick buck, he'll do so. But then he'll go straight to using an auto-tune song on his next album, that's what he's like.
Despite being based on that ridiculous egyptian chain he rocks,
this is live.Anyway, there's been much debate about the covers. Personally I think the two I've pictured here look real clean and fresh. They would transcend time, still looking dope in decades to come. But unfortunately there have been other images noted as possible selections. Though those look a little
photoshop cartoony or straight up corny. I like the faded minimalist approach to colours on these ones here.
I hope
Kanye's fans way back from College Dropout and Late Registration days, love this album. I hope it caters to them. Ultimately I hope fans of 808 and
wack Hip Hop in general hate this album.
Infact it would bring me great pleasure to know that they do. However with losers like Drake featuring (must be hard when you know
Kanye's only featuring you to raise publicity. Ha! you know Drake's the type of guy Ye would have cursed out back in the day) along with Niki Manaj, it's sure to appeal to the lame crowd also. The track list I've seen looks a little disappointing. He's doing that thing I mentioned before that i hate, which is including a million featuring artists on
you're own album. I bought you're album to hear you, not them. Take heed from Illmatic and only use one, at most two features. That being said, Mos Def, Common and Phonte look set to feature so, that may just counteract the onslaught of 'ewww' we'll hear from those previously mentioned.
Am i expecting any less hedonism, hubris, extravagance and overall
egotism?.......Of course not it's
Kanye.
Some videos just leaked of 'the making of power' and the album itself, go google.
EDIT: I discovered during the writing of this post that those two covers were made by '
Casso,' a
kanyelive forum member. Good shit sir.
Peesh.
While the ungratefuls complain on Twitter, Lupe is giving the fans what they want regardless of label bitchassness. Well at least a snippet of what they want. I feel for the man somewhat. He could have what turns out to be another 'Food And Liquor' case on his hands, and I would hate to see the watering down of this forthcoming album just to satisfy some business folk.
Well dam, ha ha, my god. Tyson most definitely won that battle.
What this pic doesn't show is the comfortable distance Tyson won this race by
Kanye's latest offering is set to drop sometime in October, but who really knows when it comes to this guy. I'm not really a fan of the obnoxious idiot. It bothers me that he thinks he's the only person that puts heart and passion in to his music. It bothers me more, that rather than just bragging about being great like most rappers do, you can honestly tell this man thinks he's only a hop-step and jump away from God himself.
Despite being based on that ridiculous egyptian chain he rocks,
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feRRis Lo) song accidentally late last year and have been bumping it ever since. It only occurred to me a few months back that I should probably try and look in to his music to see wasup. He seemed to fit the kind of 'alternative music' trend my ears have been taken to of late. Here's the track that had me hooked. You may recognise the dope beat from the N.E.R.D song 'Thrasher' of 'Fly or Die.' Pharrell and the team ripped that joint but iFFy more than does it justice. Hint, bump it loud for full effect.
So while I was away travelling I got wind of the album 'Songs of Love and Madness' that iF finally got around to releasing. Listening to it now, it has got some nice cuts, though you'd be wrong to expect the entire album to sound like that 'Feelin' iFFy' track. On first listen, it sounds like good background music for chillin' and working. There's definitely some nice beats on there such as the '1+1=2' piano loop. I think I'm right in saying he produced everything himself on this album. That seems to be the way a lot of up and coming artists are going nowdays, no surprise really, shit is cheap! However, his producing skills are equal to his rhyme skills and no one would know the skills of a 'big name' producer haven't been acquired. iF makes use of some nice samples, peep the 'Fifth Dimension' Sunshine and Reakwon beat in particular.
