Kanye

I got to Hurricane and turned it off, not because I wasn't enjoying it, but I just didn't feel prepared to absorb it all in one sitting. My favorite of the five tracks I heard was probably God Breathed. I'll pick it back up at some point but it just feels exhausting thinking about trying to tackle 108 minutes of Kanye all at once lol
 
Why did p4k decide to pick off the grid as the song to review (with no BNM because look they weren't going to do that with Kanyes current antics)

It was one of the of worst songs in the album.. Kanye is not great on a brooklyn drill best especially in front of 2 who do it better
 
duke86fan said:
Why did p4k decide to pick off the grid as the song to review (with no BNM because look they weren't going to do that with Kanyes current antics)

It was one of the of worst songs in the album.. Kanye is not great on a brooklyn drill best especially in front of 2 who do it better
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It's easier to be negative about someone they are tired of like most others. By showcasing one of the weak songs, as opposed to one with say Jay Z, where they are obviously ending their period of silence and separation! Lol kanyes hated by alot rn therefore anything slighting him is more shareable according to the numbers
 
pitchfork.com

5 Takeaways from Kanye West’s Donda

On his tenth album, Kanye performs the act of creating
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holy shit this is a LOOOOOOOOT of salt

like yeah fuck kanye supporting dababy and manson, or his stupid antics... but yall weren't that bitter when he was doing this shit on TLOP (which btw they say this sounds like the emo rap style he started on 808s which no its not.. this is very much as fractured and weird as TLOP)

inconsistent progressivism is pretty stupid... i was saying kanye was stupid back then too and complaining about the dumb shit even though the sonics were solid... him letting manson and dababy show up is horrible to them now but when he outright said he believed bill cosby was innocent it felt like "oooh that qwirky kanye"
 
Urbs_hott said:
Hot take that isn’t: the new Nas album is way better than Donda…..but nobody seems to care.
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i am guessing thats more because nas albums haven't been interesting in a while... not saying that they aren't good i haven't heard the album.. but he is super safe unless you are storf
 
It's because Kanye has a much wider appeal than modern day Nas. Quality of their work aside, Kanye has a huge audience outside of those who listen to just hip-hop. Kanye has the ears of the mainstream, the "alternative" crowd and everything in between, so his releases are events. Someone like Nas is a legend in his genre, but doesn't have the same mass appeal in 2021 as a Kanye.
 
Yeah you are both right. Kanye is more of a cultural icon than Nas has ever been. I just find it funny because the music is the reason why and if it’s about the music, Nas is who we should be talking about…..even in a Kanye thread lol.

One thing is for sure, and that is that Kanye should call Hit Boy and start taking credit for his beats instead of who he’s been calling lately.
 
Kanye West: Donda

6/10

i wouldn't even mind it this much

but this is the lowest rated kanye album pitchfork has done (that VH1 album doesn't count and you know it)

Jesus is King and ye both got low 7s.... like yeah donda is overlong, sloppy, and weirdly rushed.. but worse than JiK?
 
duke86fan said:
Kanye West: Donda

6/10

i wouldn't even mind it this much

but this is the lowest rated kanye album pitchfork has done (that VH1 album doesn't count and you know it)

Jesus is King and ye both got low 7s.... like yeah donda is overlong, sloppy, and weirdly rushed.. but worse than JiK?
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Pitchfork doesn't review music they review who makes it.

Its somewhere in the low 7s for me
 
Urbs_hott said:
And my point wasn’t which one is a better artist, it’s who made a better album this year.
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I understood your point, and my point was the last thing Nas did that was interesting was in the 90s. Give me Donda with all of its imperfections over KD2 any day of the week.


Also what a boring point. Like why go to a non Nas thread to talk about Nas? :sleep:
 
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Nas delivers straight forward hip hop. No frills, what you see is what you get. It runs counter to some of the stuff that is coming out today, which is a little aloof and unique. Kanye has done a better job at adapting to this new fangled sound because that's the sound he came up on (and quite frankly, kind of invented). Nas came up during the golden age scene, and I don't think I've seen many of those golden-age artists adapt terribly well once the turn of the century hit.

Are there golden-age inspired artists out there today? Definitely. Guys like Joey Badass, among others. But that doesn't mean they're bringing anything new and exciting to the table.
 
Woob_woob said:
I understood your point, and my point was the last thing Nas did that was interesting was in the 90s. Give me Donda with all of its imperfections over KD2 any day of the week.


Also what a boring point. Like why go to a non Nas thread to talk about Nas? :sleep:
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For me, what I value about albums is consistency. Here we have two great artists. One that has famously struggled with consistency and another who has one of the most consistent discographies in music history. Kanye appears to have lost his ability to edit himself or he no longer has the people around him that used to help him do it so well. And on the other hand Nas finally got his shit together!

If we are comparing the two, which I have chosen to do for some reason, one is on the rise and the other is continuing a steep decline.

Nas wins 2021 in the fake, Nas x Kanye battle Royale!

And to your douche bag comment at the end. Nas and Kanye are both titans in the rap game and they both just released albums, so it’s not that big of a stretch to compare them.
 
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