Jan 22, 2015 Nothing, however, prepared the room for what happened at 10am, when Steve Bartels bought out Kanye West to say a “few words” and play some new music. West, clearly in a good mood, began by recounting his career path, from making beats for Jay Z to being part of Def Poetry Jam to getting booed on stage for wearing a Roc-a-Fella necklace, because in his words “Unless you’d killed four people you couldn’t rap.” He told a story about going to jail for stealing a maxi-cassette single, because he “needed the information” on it. He spoke of himself as a “contradiction”, that it was his “responsibility to innovate” and “Things are going good so far, so I have risk being Kanye—I’m the best MFer at innovation.” “Sometimes innovation means you have to move on; sometimes I don’t like where I’ve moved on to…like not being on the radio.” He then said he needed to retract a prior statement he made when the Yeezus record came out about not caring about being on the radio: “It was a joke! You weren’t supposed to take it seriously—I want to be on the radio!” He told candid stories about past interactions with record execs, producers, his managers and working with Sir Paul McCartney. He swore he asked Sir Paul “What was p---- like in the ’60s?” In between tales, he would sing or rap a verse or a chorus of a song and even sang “Only One” a cappella. This went on for almost an hour. West finally played a new song featuring Rihanna that he said he’s about to release, pulled the plug on his laptop and walked off stage to a standing ovation. During the break, there were some mixed reactions to what happened, not to mention the fact that his stream-of-consciousness monologue put the day an hour behind schedule. But that said, no one could deny that it was clearly a moment
Jan 22, 2015 To add to @Boos' post: https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-juice/6450364/kanye-west-new-music-rihanna Kanye West Plays New Music, Embraces Radio at Industry Event: 'Of Course I Want to Be on Radio!'
Jan 22, 2015 All Of The Lights Pt 2 on the way "He finished by playing one new song: a duet with Rihanna (title unknown) that featured acoustic guitar and a big, soaring chorus and melody with a massive hook."
Jan 22, 2015 For some reason not everyone on S80 likes AOTL. ...which is a bad opinon. bring on pt. 2!
Jan 22, 2015 n----s on SXN80 need to relisten. That joint combined with the interlude that precedes it
Jan 22, 2015 I was just saying to a friend of mine earlier today that songs featuring guitar are rarely bad. Really looking forward to this single now.
Jan 22, 2015 Flashing Lights --> AOTL at the Yeezus Tour opening night on the floor in a 100% capacity Key Arena
Jan 22, 2015 I don't really. Mainly because of how maximal everything about MBDTF was, and from everything I've read and going off Only One, I think he's sticking with the minimalist approach of Yeezus.
Jan 23, 2015 http://www.stereogum.com/1730678/wa...new-uniforms-for-the-washington-wizards/news/ Waiting on the album because he's designing uniforms for the Wizards? EDIT: also, Wale is still alive?
