Kanye West discussion

[LemonMelon]

He really has an awesome voice, and he can sing live just as well as studio. Glad he had a little more to do in the live take.

 

[nielsgov]

That was awesome. Better than the album version for sure.

 

[LMP]

Do you remember where we first met?
I don't remember where we first met.

 

[cobl04]

Kinda ridiculous how quotable Yeezus is, hey.

I think my personal favourite line is

Soon as I pull up and park the Benz
We get this bitch shakin' like Parkinson's

ON SIGHT

 

[Imperor]

So it looks like the portion of GA closest to the floor is for VIP package buyers, which is almost certainly an exorbitant amount.

Not that any of this matters to me with the Dallas date not even having an on sale yet.

 

[Imperor]

Did a practice run with the Miami presale and pulled two GAs, but lololol they're $170 a piece.

 

[LemonMelon]

Got shut out of the Chicago presale because I wasn't sure what I wanted. The price is ridiculous. I pulled some tickets, but they blew. I'll try again tomorrow in the general sale.

Worse comes to worst, I'll pay a visit to my ticket oak.

 

[LMP]

Jeez, not even gonna try pre-saling at this point. Contributions to the Church of YEEZUS are too steep.

 

[BoMac]

Not sure how many have seen this, but I just did and found it hilarious:

Aziz Ansari on his time with Kanye West - YouTube

 

[LemonMelon]

kanye on jools - YouTube

This version has Charlie Wilson singing all the way through it.

 

[Imperor]

Joss Stone once wrote "Less is More." Charlie Wilson had never heard that song.

 

[cobl04]

I like Wilson (Why I Love You is one of my favourite tracks on Watch the Throne) but the sha-ba-da-da-da-twee-twee-tweets are a bit much.

That clip tops the Fallon performance though. Excellent.

 

[Imperor]

Kanye West To Produce 'Uncle' Charlie Wilson's Next Record - Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV.com

SHABBA DABBA TWEE TWEE TWEE

 

[cobl04]

I think my favourite moment on all of Yeezus might come in On Sight. Just after "how much do I not give a fuck / let me show you right now 'fore you give it up" when he samples this track.

"He'll give us what we need / it may not be what we want..."

Holy Name of Mary Choral Family - He'll Give Us What We Really Need - YouTube

It sounds fucking astonishing, lumped in the middle of these aggressive, distorted Daft Punk beats. And it surprised me to learn, it's not pitched up or anything. That original is actually pretty impressive in its own right, I'd never heard it, but it's got this really imposing, paranoid, god-fearing vibe that is not at all found in typical gospel songs.

The sheer arrogance of Kanye sampling that line should not be lost on anyone, and I think it's a pretty accurate reflection of how the album has been received overall. Yes, scroll just a few pages back and I'm shitting all over Yeezus, but now I'm thoroughly loving it, and it has been great for hip-hop. He could have put out MBDTF 2, or gone back to a more radio-friendly sound, but instead he put out a 35-minute polarising "I'll do what the fuck I want" record. Love it.

 

[Imperor]

Dallas GAs shake out to $165 per, which is tough to justify along with taking time off work and driving round trip. Think I'ma just hope he plays Coachella or another fest.

Forgive me, Yeezus.

 

[LemonMelon]

I've got tickets but they're terrible. Ashley can't go, so if I do end up going I'll probably sell both and see if I can pick up a better spot. The prices are ludicrous, but at least I'm iiin it. This tour is nuts.

 

[cobl04]

Twitter rant alert

 

[Von Schloopen]

Twitter rant alert

It's hysterical.

He's the world's biggest asshole.

http://gawker.com/kanye-west-is-currently-attacking-jimmy-kimmel-on-twitt-1406544989

 

[LemonMelon]

JIMMY KIMMEL PUT YOURSELF IN MY SHOES … OH NO THAT MEANS YOU WOULD HAVE GOTTEN TOO MUCH GOOD PUSSY IN YOUR LIFE…

 

[LMP]

Between "Bound 2" on Fallon and this Kimmel rant, Yeezy is crushing the late night circuit right now. Can he steal one of Leno's muscle cars and run over Craig Ferguson?

 

[cobl04]

He made fucking memes!! Kinda lame ones! But cos they're Kanye it's hilarious!

 

[Jive Turkey]

I just saw this on twitter because Patton Oswalt retweeted the pussy thing. Kanye West is a fucking baby and his jokes are about as funny as a 10 year old's

 

[bono_212]

Jimmy Kimmel Responds to Kanye: "Finally I'm in a Rap Feud"

Kimmel responds

 

[LemonMelon]

Fishsticks.

 

[deep]

could this be a spoof



let this make the news and talk shows for a week and then


Jimmy Kimmel Reveals "Worst Twerk Fail EVER - Girl Catches Fire" Prank - YouTube

 

[bono_212]

I liked that in his tweets, Kimmel had to say words to the extent of, this is real, I swear. Once you do shit like the Twerking video, people are never going to quite trust you again.

 

[deep]

so this first interview is real

On making music that’s confrontational
“So I’m gonna take music and I’m going to try to make it three-dimensional, like [long pause], like in Star Wars, and the hologram’ll pop up out of R2-D2. I’ma try to make something that jumps up, and affects you, in a good or bad way.”

On not intending puns
“Everybody is like, bound to these—no pun intended, they’re bound to…”
“I’m gonna try to push Pusha T—no pun intended once again. This keeps happening to me.”

On radio
“I was talking to Frank Ocean about this and said, like, my mom got arrested for the sit-ins, and now we’re more like the sit-outs, like sit off of radio, and say, ‘Hey, radio, come to us.’ We need to find something new because it’s being controlled in a way and manufactured in a way that really awesome artists can make amazing music and not break as far past as something that’s very formulaic.”

On race and being marginalized
“I’ve reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting. And I’ve got to a point that Michael Jackson did not break down. I have reached the glass ceiling. As a creative person, as a celebrity. When I say that, it means, I want to do product, I am a product person. Not just clothing, but water bottle design, architecture, everything, you know, that you could think about. And I’ve been at it for 10 years, and I look around, and I say, wait a second, there’s no one in this space that looks like me, and if they are, they’re quiet as fuck. So that means, wait a second, now we’re seriously, like, in a civil rights movement.”

On fashion
“Me and Virgil [Abloh] are in Rome, giving designs to Fendi, over and over, and getting our designs knocked down … [We] brought the leather jogging pants six years ago to Fendi, and they said ‘no.’ How many motherfuckers you done seen with a leather jogging pant?”

On hip-hop’s cultural dominance
“When I see Hedi Slimane, and it’s all like, okay, this is my take on the world. Yeah, he’s got some nice $5,000 jeans in there. It’s some nice ones here and there, some good shit here and there. But we culture. Rap the new rock and roll. We culture. Rap is the new rock and roll. We the rock stars. [Zane Lowe: “It’s been like that now for a minute.”] It’s been like that now for a minute, Hedi Slimane! It’s been like that now for a minute. We the rock stars, and I’m the biggest of all of them.”

i've been wearing those leather jogging pants for years and I never knew I had kanye to thank for it.

 

[Imperor]

Ye should be more offended by how unfunny the bit was than anything else.

 

[LemonMelon]

It was ignorant commentary to begin with. Yeah, rappers are the rock stars of today and yeah, rappers have to be their own hype men these days as the notion of hype men/rap groups in general has become quite outdated. But I don't expect Jimmy fucking Kimmel to know the first thing about hip hop, so it's cool. Kanye flew off the handle over quite literally nothing.

 

[Imperor]

Cue Laz calling Kimmel a "toad" again: