Yeezus

ON SIGHT, i ain't giving this Nazi any attention

Shit samples ✅ bad rapping ✅ mysoginistic comments about what you'd like to do with your dick - ✅ Overinflated sense of ego - ✅ Yeah, I get the idea

Complete shit start to finish. How can this crap be on the list?

Not listening to a Nazi.

Cette semaine c'est un peu la traversée du désert. Hier j'ai mis 3 à Fifty Cent, plus par peur qu'il vienne toquer à ma porte que par attrait artistique. Aujourd'hui me voila confronté à Kanye le fou. Bon Flemme un peu. On notera quand même que les Daft Punk ont fait l'instru sur les trois premières chansons, les types en ont rien à faire.

Uh oh it's an objective classic by objectively one of the worst dudes. I separated art from the artist in these reviews before so will do so again and say that I think the production on this album was just mindblowing in 2013, that bit where he mashes up Frank Ocean and a Hungarian psych rock song from the 60s is craaaazy good. lyrics are absolutely mad rampant egoism and obviously problematic and uncomfortable in places but in a way that fits the extremity of the sound really well. FIVE STARS FUCKIT

Not listening to Kanye in 2026. There's no separating the art from the artist.

Es klingt oft eher wie ein unfertiger, überhitzter Mix aus Industrial‑Beats und provokanten Phrasen, der selten wirklich trägt. Die rohe Ästhetik soll kantig und avantgardistisch wirken, endet aber häufig in einer Art „besserer Wrap“: ein grob zusammengezurrtes Klangpaket, das zwar laut ist, aber wenig Tiefe entwickelt. Im Vergleich zu klassischem Retorten‑Rap, der oft vorhersehbar und glattgebügelt ist, versucht Yeezus zwar bewusst auszubrechen, scheitert jedoch daran, diesen Bruch überzeugend zu füllen.

The deliberate anti-pop record, and the music is impressive on its own terms. Kanye stripped everything back to abrasive industrial beats and distorted electronics, with Daft Punk, Rick Rubin, and Hudson Mohawke helping push the minimalism to its limit. The sampling jumps from Nina Simone to dancehall, and the harshness is a choice rather than an accident. “Black Skinhead” is the most immediate track, a pounding, tribal stomp, and “Bound 2” is the soul-sample outlier that sounds like it escaped from a different record. Impressive isn’t the same as engaging, though. The craft is audible, but it generates respect rather than pull, the same ceiling that has held electronic and abrasive records at three or below throughout this project. The lyrics are the other problem: cringe-worthy enough that they work against the production rather than with it, and that is a fair criticism of the record itself, separate from anything about the artist. A respectful three for a record that is bold and well made and not one to return to. The beliefs of the man behind it make for a complicated listen too, but the rating stands on the music: admired, not enjoyed.

Very solid Hip Hop. Kanye delivers. (Listened to it on Apple Music)

As expected. You can see the rating i gave this album.

A lot of people on this site will give Kanye West a bad rap, and understandably so. His actions have permanently left a stain on his reputation, and no amount of tours or goodwill can repair his image. But my God, is this album beautiful. You legitimately can't tell the story of modern hip-hop without Yeezus. It's 2026, and an album from 2013 still sounds like it'd fit in twenty years from now, much less today. There's a solid argument that this album's the best one Kanye's got on the list. I fully hear that argument out. It's such a shame Kanye died in that car crash in 2018.

I really liked this album, but I don't listen to Kanye anymore.

Particular sound. Remembered the parody of "Bound 2" (last song) with James Franco and Seth Rogen.

im gonna keep it 300 (like the romans). theres a lot to be said about kanye and how some of these lyrics seem like a precursor to what came later but im not a mental health professional so ill leave that alone. what i will say is this album was great. the production was not only well done but managed to stay interesting despite being very minimalistic. the lyrics alternate between fantastic socially conscious commentary and complete nonsense.

I wish he wasn't such a dick.

How unpleasant is Yeezus? That "Blood on the Leaves," which samples Billie Holiday's devastating song about lynching, feels like a respite. There may be no more joyless portrait of fame than Yeezus, where Kanye West has everything he wants yet sounds utterly miserable and aggrieved. I actually like the abrasive sounds and production, but Ye is so insufferable that it's hard to tolerate. And things were about to get a whole lot worse.

It’s hard to listen to Kanye knowing what I know about him. Of all his albums, this one is second after life of Pablo.

Lowkey this is fire. Sounds crazy

I know Im supposed to think this is rap gold but I hated most of it. It's also super hard to compartmentalize artist from art when the art is doing nothing other than glorifying it's artist. I feel like Kanye also desecrated Strange Fruit. I hated what he did with the song.

I wish 0 stars was an option.

I'm conflicted about this one, and not the because of the artist in question's extracurricular activities. First thing's first: This is a very good album. It's bold and daring, completely breaks down the barriers of what we should expect from a mainstream superstar. The chaotic production actually suits Kanye's sloppy rapping pretty well, and lyrically we find him at his most manic and narcissistic, which would be better if it was all an act, but it isn't, although not really relevant to this review. The thing that bothers me about it, however, is that despite being hailed as some experimental Hip-Hop revelation, this album is just Death Grips. This is just a higher production value Death Grips with worse rapping and lyrics. Now, that doesn't make it a bad album, but for an inclusion in such a list, I'd expect going directly to the source would have been a better option. The most obvious choice would have been Death Grips' breakout modern classic The Money Store, release a year before Yeezus and the group's most accessible release. Maybe you should just listen to both. Key tracks: On Sight Black Skinhead I Am a God New Slaves Bound 2 (as was the case with other Kanye records, the people being intellectually dishonest in the reviews is pretty sad.)

I guess I should be thankful Hitler or Ted Bundy never put out an album, because it would probably be on this list too.

There's a reason why I rated this a 10/10 the first time I listened to it, that reason being the stellar production this album has. 40 minutes of the rawest production on an album I've ever seen, not to mention the iconic lyrics Kanye is spitting throughout this project. I'd go so far as to say it's his most underrated album with just how different it is from his previous works. My rating was a 10/10 before, and that has been sustained.

am i crazy for thinking the switch in the middle of on sight is really bad ? very good instrumentals but man with some of the lyrics i just cannot get over how goofy they are . i don't like the song I'm in it at all but the rest of the album is like really good so it kinda brings it up. put my fist in her like a civil rights sign?? are we serious man . i'm tired boss

It’s a five for sure. Not the best Kanye album but there are 4 classic songs on here that are in my top 500 or so.

America wanted a monster, and Kanye West gave them one. he was never an ingratiating presence, but he was charming and goofy and lovable in a way that was bolstered by his ego and ambition, the bravado making clunky lines land like knowingly bad jokes. the same bravado caught him in several early controversies, the two most notable of which have aged very well (george bush IS racist, taylor swift IS overrated). neither of these were, in my opinion, objective signs of an ego gone awry, but they were indications of one gone bigger than mainstream (white) america could handle. it probably felt good to take someone who tried so hard and so visibly down a peg, and to do so from a place of such ease and safety, in front of the television or behind a computer screen. so, you're Kanye West, and you're trapped. your ambition, wrapped up in your need for approval, has made you a laughingstock in a way that is tied directly to your art and its whole grandiose ethos. so what do you do? you make em unlike you. every trope of the era's hip-hop that white nerds have lauded you for sidestepping? presented and accounted for. your classic, straightforwardly beautiful production techniques? deployed twice, and once for a condescending seconds-long joke. the clunky one-liners people gave you a pass for? double down. they're all over this thing. this time they're Gross as Hell. yell them very loudly. your white audience? racist. the music industry? racist. alimony payments? racist. George Bush was just a warmup this is Kanye's make-em-unlike-you recipe, which, of course, didn't work. by my estimation, he made the best album of his career. it is almost certainly the best music he'll ever make. this is in large part because absolutely nothing sounds like this thing. i'll kind of give you Saul Williams & Trent Reznor, but there's a certain 2010s hip-hop zeitgeist here that makes it unique. brilliant as they are, i will Not give you Death Grips. regardless, neither artist has thrown this much money and this much talent at something so willfully ugly. almost anything potentially beautiful is blown out and distorted. one half of Daft Punk makes something that sounds like taking a shot of battery acid. Nina Simone is Pollock-painted over with autotune and disgusting canned rave horns. Bon Iver's Justin Vernon is recruited to deliver the line "i know your 'rents ain't be home" on a song about substance abuse and egomania. it is always doing its best to repel you. and yet. and Yet. it sounds Fucking Incredible. the low end is cavernous, primally satisfying. the moments where something breaks through the clouds - Frank Ocean on New Slaves, the hair-metal guitar on Hold My Liquor - are breathtaking. this is an album full of huge decisions, like Kanye and company made the absolute boldest choice they could 100% of the time. no bets hedged, nothing phoned in. and then....there are the lyrics. they are frequently totally repugnant. nasty, immature, misogynistic. these qualities went down more easily when monstrousness seemed like a switch Kanye could turn on and off at will for art's sake, and now it's hard to know how self-conscious some of these bars are, BUT. faced with the project as a whole, it feels like Kanye is playing off his own public perception and the larger racism within which that's tied up. on Black Skinhead, he self-describes as a spectacle of Blackness, a conduit for America's stereotypes and jealousies. he is taking everything thrown at him, his music genre, and his race and blowing it up, throwing it in the faces of the public. it is petulant, and shitty, and totally captivating. this only makes the record's more earnest moments better. there is a desperate vulnerability to I Am A God's horror-movie screams, a clarity of purpose to the bars about consumerism and spectacle in New Slaves and Black Skinhead, a nauseating emotionality to Blood On The Leaves. these aspects of the record can only achieve their real power alongside the vulgarity and noise, parts of a scary, conflicted, very human whole. individually, some moments are striking, some annoying. taken together, their alchemy is wonderful. a classic record, a purposeful piece of autofiction from The Musician of the 21st Century, in all the best and most horrible ways.

Not listening to this. Vile. 1/5

Liebe Kanye, han au vieli lieder scho kennt, absoluti bangers, ich find er hett aber besseri albums, han das übertriebe herte nöd so gern wie z.B in „On Sight“ (die softe parts mached s lied viel besser als de hauptteil) Es gitt chli „crazy“ vibes, als wür er wahnsinnig werde und mer merkts i sine lieder, sie sind nöd „schön“ aber trotzdem deepe text vorallem in so „liebeslieder“ und huere oft rappt er huere reali sache Irgwie find ich‘s komisch wie er sich im ganze album und au in einzelne lieder so mit Gott und Jesus verglicht. Oft macht de text au echt kei sinn sondern passt eif irgwie zum beat oder reimt sich, aber eig voll scheisse Es hett huere viel so bedrohlichi sound effekt, und so gschrei, aber de text isch au chli scary und mega sozialkritisch Mängisch hetts so churzi ischnitt vo huere schöne melodie, so wie sini musik am liebschte han, aber nacher gaats wieder zrugg zu dem schiss

Regrettably, I'm rating this on the music and not the artists actions. This is a masterpiece, but fuck Kanye. Rating: 10/10

Nope.

I'm really relieved that the overuse of autotune period is happily behind us. It's still very much present in this album (with the ho's, bitches and pussy of course) and it makes me want to push the skip button. Some good beats but generally it just sounds like rich rapper with god complex trying to maintain being relevant.

If lyrics are thought as rhythmic elements this is two star album. If lyrics are seen as something else this is pure minus level shit. Average means one star.

#505 / 1089 Heard before? ❌ Revisit? ❌ Utter shite. What a massive load of pretentious bollocks. This was all over the tracker community of the late 80's and 90's, but this mofo's just got more money to throw at his limp project. He is also quite a loon. I can't figure out a reason to give this an extra star and I can't figure out why his bars get praised so much either. I tried to make it two, but this is barely a 1/5

No going to waste my time on this crap

I can separate the art from the artist easily enough, but man his mental health was really starting to show here and caused this to get quite boring and repetitive after the first couple tracks

It wasn’t the worst

it’s just good

At least it tries to have some structure, unlike lot of albums and songs in this genre. Sadly it's still shallow and boring as can be. Why is the genre where lyrics are the main point, so stubborn on having bad lyrics with nothing interesting to say.

Mid

bagger

I FUCKING HATE KANYE WEST!!

You're alright, no thanks.

It is interesting, his music stands out. Not my style but I see creativeness. 5/10

Gross. I don’t mind separating the art from the artist. I liked one of his albums that I was assigned but this one is lyrically gross.

Not sure what to do with this one

Not down with Ye.

ON SIGHT

I hate Kanye. An awful, awful human who’s done many unforgivable things. But begrudgingly it’s impossible to not recognise his genius for sampling and song construction. Just a brilliant album and so wholly unique

I really hate rap.

Only got through a couple songs, won't be finishing this. All kinds of red flags of future problems.

This is a tough one. I thought I'd have to give it a decent score because there are a lot of interesting musical choices in the first couple songs (Kanye has always made some unique and cool production decisions). But the lyrical content is oppressively bad on this one, and you can really tie that to exactly the time period where this motherfucker really revealed himself. I think this is worth about two stars on the merits, but I'm going lower because seriously, fuck this guy.

Hahahah bon bon bon . 3.5 Déjà trop controversé ce gars. Après j’avoue que j’ai écouté cet album au lycée. Ça change du rap qu’on a l’habitude d’écouter comme 50 cents. Il arrive a rendre le rap plus moderne dans le sens qu'il melange les instrus, il y a des morceaux ou il chante donc plus simple a ecouter. Par contre le site ne s’est pas mélangé les genres correctement. Les instrus sont interessantes, chaque chanson a une instru tres differente - c'est cool. Des chansons qui denoncent. Bon quand il dit "I am a God" doucement loulou.

Nope. Truly an "artist" who has had diminishing returns ever since his first album. He just keeps getting worse. Would be 0 stars if I could.

I tried, I really tried to get through this. I couldn't - had to go switch to De La Soul and cleanse the palate....

Still. It going to listen to Nazis

Even though he's a Nazi I figured I'd give some tracks a listen since I'm so intentionally unfamiliar with his work. If you took cuss words and any references to his dick or any bitches, there really wouldn't be much left here. Fuck this Nazi and fuck his shitty-ass "music".

2/5

his last good album

The sampling is interesting, but most of the lyrics and the entirety of his personality are off-putting.

Electronica and rap from someone with such low self-esteem that he has to constantly state how great he is while denigrating others; one stop shopping for all the worst things that can still be called music.

An album so brash, offensive, and egomaniacal, that the genuine moments of tenderness and social critique shine through all the brighter.

What a weird and wacky album, in a good way. The samples clash really hard with the songs they are put in, almost funny at times. The other soundscapes Kanye creates are really bizarre too, from Lion roars to whatever random skeet sound there is. It was always a surprise to hear what the next track was going to be, really couldn't predict it. I like this over his generic and more Pop Rap-esque albums. Can hear that a lot of artists took inspiration from it. Still not entirely my thing though, wouldn't really revisit it more than once.

i really only enjoyed bound 2.. so this is bound to get a 2

Musically this exceeded my expectations, but lyrically I just find it all so unnecessary. Maybe I don't understand the culture but it seems needlessly aggressive, especially towards women. I'm at the point in my life where it just immediately turns me off.

01) On Sight - 7,0 02) Black Skinhead - 9,0 03) I Am a God - 7,0 04) New Slaves - 8,5 05) Hold My Liquor - 9,0 06) I'm in It - 7,0 07) Blood on the Leaves - 7,0 08) Guilt Trip - 6,5 09) Send It Up - 6,5 10) Bound 2 - 8,5 TOTAL: 7,60 (76/100) Current ranking: 400/1053 Nazi piece of shit.

Sorry. Way too vulgar for me

not my genre, but interesting mixes

this is good but not as compelling for whatever reason as his earlier albums for me. maybe i need to relisten with headphones so i can hear the details more. but i think i miss the chipmunk soul elements from his earlier work, whereas this opts for a more militant sound, which feels really mid-2010s to me and of its time in a way that isn't its fault. it works really well in a lot of these songs so i think it's just a personal preference. the word play is still excellent. Obligatory comment about how many of these songs in particular aged really poorly given his trajectory. "I am a god" reminded me that it was around this time that people started to really take issue with his arrogance and oh boy don't i wish we could go back to that being his biggest offense. Fav tracks: Black Skinhead; I Am A God;

What did I say about no streaming revenue for bigots? Boo this man.

Kanye West is a pedophile who raped his 7 year old cousin who he was 4 years older and this album is too all over the place to be higher than a 1

No, just no

rym 3.86 Experimental Hip Hop/Industrial Hip Hop Ye!一上来就吓我一大跳，这工业电子的感觉。噢这狂傲又充满着爆发力的感觉，让我这个不是那么喜爱嘻哈的人都不由自主地循环专辑。 pick: Black Skinhead, New Slaves, Blood on the Leaves

Very tired of music degrading women. There is nothing new or revolutionary about it.

That God feature go crazy! Favourite Songs: On Sight, Black Skinhead, New Slaves, Hold My Liquor, Bound 2. Least Favourite Songs: Send It Up.

Death Grips is a cool band

My couple of years doing this list have lined up pretty closely with the fall of Kanye West. Right now, it seems like they’re trying to rehab him and get him out there again. I guess someone figures they can still make money off of Kanye West t-shirts, as long as they don’t give him the keys to the website so he can put swastikas on em again. Fool me once.

F ye

I saw him live once. Waited so long for him to come out the drink I had pregamed with wore off. Show wasn't bad though. I used to enjoy his stuff, good lyrics, flow and beat. Then he started talking all Hitler was a good guy and went on Alex Jones with a white supremacist. I hope he gets the help he needs, but I'm not giving him anymore of my money. This would be a 4-5 star album. I can't give it that though.

Wow has this guy really declined! His first two albums were amazing, but this album is more of the same decline that he shown up to this point.

Nope. Why is this guy popular?

Ma KanYE legenda. Vrlo dobar album. Bas fluidno idu pjesme i sve su vrh.

Refuse to listen

Tener que escuchar a este tipo... Me jode. No es un artista que se acerque ni lo más mínimo a mis valores o ideales. Me parece irrespetuoso, ególatra y misógino. Lo de Bon Iver participando en varias de las canciones no me lo esperaba, casi hasta desconcertante. Entre las canciones que más me han podido gustar: Black Skinhead, Blood On The Leaves (a pesar del auto tune, que hasta le sienta bien) y Bound 2.

Terrible.

Awful

Kanye dig it? No!

There’s undoubtedly something appealing about his music but that is more than outweighed by the lyrics and the man himself. I would only hate this more if it was performed by Hitler, Putin or Trump

Songs of a c@nt.

garbage

This album is so overproduced it gives the impression that the good moments are more luck than judgement.

I didnt listen to the whole thing bc Kanye was dropping the N word way too much for my 5 year old not to pick up on it so I switched it over to yesterdays album from common who used the same word a little bit more sparingly. Suffice to say I really liked the common album and what I heard from the Kanye album. I have some conflicts about giving his material my energy but he’s Flippin talented.

Strong start all the way through to New Slaves. Hold My Liquor a weaker track. I’m In It is like 2 tracks in one, could do without the first half. I like the electronica, slightly jarring sounds and distorted vocals throughout - makes it an interesting album and unexpected (not explored him in any depth before). 4 for me.

Aside from most of the dick lyrics and ignoring the king dickhead himself, I was very impressed with the sounds and samples and innovation on this album. Tracks 2-5 in particular will be saved and played.

Won me over a bit around Blood on the Leaves but I'm generally not in the mood for hip hop this industrial/abrasive - and if I am I think I will be sticking with Brown's Atrocity Exhibition.

An interesting departure, but too industrial for my my taste and lacking both the depth and the quality his previous album contained.

Scandals noted but I enjoyed this wackos music on this listen, never listened to it before

Really hard to separate the man from the music so I can’t look at this objectively at all

Never let it be said there weren’t signs of how crazy he would get. Yes it a strong album from him, stripped back and harsh instead of his rich orchestral parts. But his lyrics really demonstrate how much he’s losing it even then. If he would have stopped at Dropout or MBDTF or Throne, absolutely greatest of all time, but the decline begins here. Blood on the leaves is legitimately insane

Muy bien canie, buenos beats. NO le doy bola a las letras pero seguro están bien.