Hey, in case you live in Burma or some shit, Kanye West is coming out with a new album this month. And I’ve been thinking. Everyone is raving about the dope production, but c’mon. It’s still Ye Ye, so you know the rhymes make you cringe.
So I propose that we roll things back to the “Through the Wire” days. Wire Kanye’s shit closed, and give us an album we can all be proud of.
Top 10 arguments:
1. Graduation would be the hottest album ever, if we didn’t have to listen to Kanye’s bullshit. Couldn’t he have given the rhymes to Common? That brother is fine, and he spits like Barry White with a conscience.
2. This.
3. We here at Morebounce Publications are really sorry that Jay-Z didn’t say “Hi” to you that one time, but is a whole song about it necessary? “I told Jay I did a song with Coldplay/Next thing I know, he got a song with Coldplay?” I think I read that shit in my high school burn book.
4.
5. Seriously. Chess King called, and you owe them $9.99 for those broke-ass sunglasses.
6. Barry Bonds is the most slammin’ cut on Graduation. Kanye, can you please stop rapping?
7. In today’s hip hop landscape, there honestly isn’t much market for Carlton-Rap.
8. Kanye, you really are such a talented producer. Graduation is multi-faceted: it draws on a wide range of styles, and it’s the anti-this, for which we’re grateful. But “You should be honored by my lateness/ That I would even show up for this fake shit?” Boy, stop.
9. We get it. You like Louis Vuitton. And yours looks so real!
10. I need to go lie down.
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whoa whoa whoa, back it up. you said he should give the beats to Common? not only does ‘Ye produce the majority of Common’s material these days, but Kanye offered Common some of the “Graduation” beats, he passed on ‘em. Kanye even sings about it in the opening of “Everything I Am”. Did you hear “Finding Forever”? Or are you one of those people clutching your 12″ of “I Still Love H.E.R.” and thinking he’s going to return the Sense to his title?
have you seen the video for Justice vs. Simian’s “We Are Your Friends”? it’s terrible. sure, the song itself blows “Touch the Sky” out of the water, but video to video, is it any wonder why drunk Kanye blew up on stage? A performer famous for his ego trips, sitting backstage, on an awards show on a channel people in his target audience don’t even get? You would’nt even have seen it if it wasn’t for YouTube.
You want to call him on that Rolling Stone cover, you might as well point a finger at David LaChappelle too. Unless you’ve got your head too far up your ass to take a joke, or realize that publications like Rolling Stone love to take lines out of context and make performers look like jackasses, you’d realize how ridiculous that is.
did you really say “Barry Bonds” was the hottest track on the album? Weezy’s verse is god-awful. I’m not saying the flow on this album is anything mind-blowing, but from a guy who’s obviously running the game in mixtapes in guest spots, a pathetic verse on a release this widely anticipated is inexcusable. sounds like the only reason Kanye didn’t pass on it and demand a re-write is because it makes his rhymes better by comparison.
is ten even a reason?
and if you think those Jeremy Scott shades came from a place like Chess King, who would give a fuck about your music opinion on taste anyways?
hi taylor -
i owned sunglasses like that in the early ’80s in purple. i will concede that they weren’t from chess king, but they were from cunningham drugs.
these are just my opinions. i think kanye’s a horse’s ass who happens to be a talented producer.
and for what it’s worth, yes, i do listen to current hip hop. and i’m not one of those people who whines about the horrible hip hop these days, and how everything was better back in the day. i just can’t handle hearing anything kanye has to say.
Wait! Wait! Kanye’s a genius. Just ask him - he’ll tell you…
Clearly someone gives a fuck about your music opinion to write all that.
Hilarious post. This is one of my favorite blogs. Great work with the whole thing.
you could have stopped at 5. kanye is a joke.
and David LaChappelle ?? seriously??? shut them both down!!
This post made me laugh, Kanye needs to stop thinking his shit doens’t stink, because it does, his flow is horrible and he is beyond over rated now it’s not funny, I couldn’t care any less about Graduation or the Gimps Curtis albums, I refuse to listen to wackness and pure BS.
Why so many people get brainwashed is a puzzle to me.
ok ok, just because his immense production steals the show, he doesnt have an infectious voice like dre and isnt as poetic as the likes of common, it doesnt mean his lyrcics and flow are both bollocks. I mean this is all just a backlash cos of hype around Graduation. I wasnt hearing any of this when College Dropout came out.
You gotta appreciate his lyrics and flow on Slow Jamz, new workout plan and All Falls Down. I like to sing a long to lines like (off top of my head)
“got a light skinned friend look like michael jackson/ got a dark skinned freind look like michael jackson” - u know u liked that 1
“so insecure…i cant even go to the grocery store without some ones thats clean and a shirt witha team”
“cover your mouth up like you got sars” - was lovin the topicalness of that one
So he’s not amazingly deep - neither is 50. Graduation sounds like shit i can dance to and enjoy. The boy isnt always tryna make minds move - sometimes just tryna make feet move and give people a few smiles - cut him some slack and take that, HATERS!
Bobby M
good lord you be killin it! long live weezy!
HAHAHAHHAHA…..that was some funny shit AND the ‘Ye fan boys catch some feelings over it is an added bonus.
My feelings are about the same as yours. I like most of his beats. I’d rather hear his stuff on the radio more so than 95% of the so called “rap music” that is on there now (well maybe not that godawful “Stronger” joint)….but this isn’t the next “classic”. I like better than the last album, which I probably listened to twice, which is one more time than I should have. It’s a decent album, that will get some play from me for a couple weeks then be forgotten…hey, thats better than most of the stuff out there these days…
Damn “golden age old foggies”….
Oh, and fuck that Lil’ Wayne verse as well. I love the beat, I just wish someone different was spittin’ over it
hey all - thanks for your comments.
travis: who you callin a “fogie?” i prefer “dusty geezer.”
i agree with you about the li’l wayne verse. the beat is hot though.
hahaha
So true
Great producer but as a rapper …
And whatever happend to stay (at least a little) humble?
When your telling everybody :’I'm the number 1 human being in music’, I think you’r in outer space
THIS IS THE REASON WHY kANYE SOLD A LOT OF ALBUMS IN THE FIRST PLACE, ITS HATERS LIKE Y’ALL THAT GIVE FUEL TO HIS INNER CREATIVITY, HE’S A GENIUS, WROTE AND PRODUCE GRADUATION BY HIMSELF, HOW MANY OF YOUR DUMB ARTIST CAN BRAG ABOUT THAT. HE NEVER GETS THE CREDIT HE DESERVES, WHEREAS MONOTONIC BUMS LIKE LIL-WAYNE, WHO MAKE IGNORAMUS LINES AND CHEESE LYRICS GET TO SUPER STARDOM. THIS IS AMERICA WHERE TRUE HARD WORK IS NEVER APPRECIATED, RATHER FLUKES LIKE SOLDIER BOI ARE APPRECIATED EVEN THOUGH THEY MIGHT BE TALENTLESS. WHEN JAYZ CALLS HIMSELF NUMBER 1 NO ONE HAS A PROBLEM WITH THAT HUH, JAYZ WOULDN’T EVEN BATTLE EMINEM AND HE WALKED OUT ON A PERFORMANCE OF RENEGADE BECAUSE EMINEM WAS GETTING MORE APPLAUD THAN HE WAS. KANYE MIGHT BE THE BEST PRODUCT LYRICALLY IN THE POP/R&B/HIP HOP, IN THE LAST 3-4 YEARS. HE’S BEEN CONSISTENT AND I BELIEVE THERE’S STILL GREATER THINGS TO COME FROM THIS GUY, SO FUCKING CUT HIM SOME SLACK HOMOS
^^^^ that is seriously the most awesome comment i’ve ever gotten. right down to the last word.
so what’s the final word on his shades? and do you know if they’re available to the general public?
i don’t really have to elaborate or add anything. Just adding to the tally. Kanye’s rapping sucks. And if anyone who calls themselves an emcee has an opportunity to battle him, they will indubitably bomb on his ass.
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