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I'm curious, what is /mu/'s consensus on Yeezus, and Kanye West in general?
I originally hated him and all of his fans. The way they'd praise him like he's some brilliant guy whose ahead of his time. I figured they all drank the kool-aid and couldn't tell that his stuff is just typical shallow, racial, provocative rap. But after watching full interviews with him and listening to Yeezus all the way through, I think I finally realize why people praise this guy. Yeezus is just insane. No one is doing anything close to this. His language is just typical simplistic rapper shit, but what he's actually expressing is some profound stuff. And I somewhat understand now what he's always raving about in his interviews about commercialism, racism, and all that. He's just a poor communicator and so relies on metaphors and wordplay, which everyone is confused by and ends up taking literally. I hate to admit it, but I've been completely turned on him.
tl;dr was a Kanye hater, now I'm all in with him
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yeezus is the literal definition of style over substance. from the artwork to the lyrical content, kanye's taking all the things the media THINKS he is ("reverse racist" even tho that's not a real thing, a narcissist, a misogynst, a man who hates jews, etc) and decided to put that persona on as a post-ironic joke for himself and those into him enough to get it. The album is almost the literal opposite of MBDTF (minimal production instead of maximalist gems full of samples, self-hyping lyrics instead of "i'm an asshole, what the fuck am i doing" lyrics, etc) in an intentional artistic move kanye even acknowledges on the album ("as soon as they like you make em unlike you" obviously refers to MBDTF's critical acclaim and how yeezus is that album's antithesis). But for everything the album has in artistic intentent, subversive self parody, and occasional legitimate criticism of race in america ("New Slaves"), it lacks in actual musical content. The production, while good on some tracks ("Blood On The Leaves", "Send It Up") is sadly a bit rough and, at times, jarring in its seeming obsession with untransitioned changes (i.e. Frank Ocean's verse on that one track coming out of nowhere (even though i really liked that feature)). For every song with a good message, like New Slaves, there are 2 or 3 with shoddy production and post-ironic lyrics that, while offering some criticism of media perception, are honestly too irony-driven to ever have an honest message.
In all, the album shows Kanye at his most conceptual and artistic, but the album is held back by hit or miss production and weak lyrical content.
2/5
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