Oct 28, 2019

use this gospel is good too

 

Oct 28, 2019

After a couple listens Follow God and Use This Gospel are the only songs I like, and even then it’s a crime that he didn’t let Clipse rap over the beat that plays after the Kenny G solo

God Is is so tiring to listen to, Ye needs to sit down and drink something hot

 

Oct 28, 2019

There are 100% versions of these songs in Kanyes vault that have Yeezus style beat drops

 

Oct 28, 2019

On God beat sounds like soundtrack from some old NES game

 

Oct 28, 2019

Play it sped up, I was thinking the same thing

I think it has some form of NES sample in it

 

Oct 28, 2019

The more I listen to it the more I want to play some NES games, whew

I checked whosampled.com, so far no NES samples mentioned

 

Oct 28, 2019

The outer worlds is occupying all of my time

And ghost samples?

 

Oct 28, 2019

As much as this is very different and obviously its own thing cemented in this era of Kanye, this feels like a spiritual extension of The College Dropout. It almost wraps up his catalogue, bringing it full circle. I listened again in full right before JIK, and after both I was shocked at how a Kanye entering a world of excess was fighting this fight even back in 03/04. Especially with the context of it leading to Graduation - the peak of his on-album superstar indulgence - then wrapping back to Yeezus over a half decade later where the God and Devil side of him were clearly at odds with each other.

Unlike Ye, this does indeed feel incredibly focused, comfortable, and assured in a way that TLOP eventually finished as, like Yeezus and everything before was. Even if Kanye album's have always had this aura of insecurity/vanity spilling out of them by nature of what he's talked about and the grandeur they play off, this doesn't feel thrown together like the two last year do.

As a front to back project, this is pretty comfortably sitting in the fifth spot behind MBDTF/CD/Yeezus/808s right now.

 

Oct 28, 2019

album a 9 now

 

Oct 28, 2019

Flawless album. Wish it were longer forreal tho.

 

Oct 29, 2019

I didnt see you mentioned in the top 10 user thread. You must be a nobody in these parts.

 

Oct 29, 2019

...to listen to

 

Oct 29, 2019

Hadn't given it enough time to marinate. Had one haphazard listen and some of the stuff was great and some felt inauthentic to me.

 

Oct 29, 2019

half of this is a masterpiece

 

Oct 29, 2019

cheers mate, in Aus Kanye is what we would call "completely cooked" which is term often reserved for the most junky of drug users who are unable to string together a sentence longer than "pass the bong". They are past the point of returning to sanity and cling to whatever belief drives them to staying sober (More often than not, these people IRL will cling to religion and subconsciously replace it with their drug behavior as their lives have been nothing but revolving around drugs and their only interest outside of drugs is there new found comradery and shared interest in a religion - very boring people)
not this is what happened to Kanye, but you can tell he's second guessing himself and doesn't know wtf he's doing half the time. I'd say his addiction in this instance would be success/reassurance he's doing the "right" thing and for some reason thinking his "vices" are worse than what they are.

 

Oct 29, 2019

this album is amazing some great tracks on here follow god is a classic

 

Oct 29, 2019

Rated less than Revival on metacritic.
This is a true achievement

 

Oct 29, 2019