Just heard Graduation... pretty underwhelming. It's so commercial and he hardly raps... so without many guests there's too much Yeezy. Flashing Lights is the best song. Lil Wayne's appearance is atrocious, so I'm still yet to hear anything close to good come from him. Still baffled by the love.
What it did do was give me a much greater appreciation for Dark Twisted Fantasy. That blows it clean out of the water, Watch the Throne too.
I hope College Dropout and Late Rego are better.
Going back to Weezy (what came first by the way? Yeezy or Weezy?) for a minute (and to go all IWB on your asses), I looked up some info. It appears Tha Carter 3 was hugely successful, commercially and critically. So I checked out Lollipop on youtube, given it was such a big single. Awful! Beat is cringeworthy (and unfortunately led to many imitations since), Lil Wayne sounds fucking awful, all shrill and shit (is he intentionally joking with the "best rapper" thing?), the song goes nowhere, the chorus, while marginally better than the verses, is nothing to write home about, and he looks like what a good satirist would dress himself as to ape a shit mainstream rapper. I know I focus way too much on what I don't like, but maybe Lemel or someone can explain to me the appeal? Ryan Dumbass unconditionally loves him - he sounds depressed in the review for Carter 4 that he has to give it a 6 or whatever it got - have I just heard, by some amazing coincidence, like 15 really shit songs by him or featuring him?
Pavement thread.
