Yeezus

That was like a checklist for all the things I hate in music. Mainly the massive ego and all the talk about pussy and what he's gonna do to women. Shit music and about as catchy as a Sunderland beach ball. Didn't think there was a stand out track so it's not even a filler album. Just utter rubbish. I feel harsh on college dropout now because this is shitter and I gave that a 1.

Don’t tell Taylor

I loved this so much more than I thought I would. Shit, man Kanyes reputation is both very deserved in regards to numbers, but he does get more hate than he deserves, this album is so creative, and still just a great listen. The autotuned bits reminds me of Travis Scott and makes me wanna barf, but it's not too bad. My most unexpected 5

Say what you will about the man, Kanye produces great art. Interesting and captivating throughout. A great album to workout or to motivationally pump up to. One of the best albums I've listened to from this site.

Zero tolerance for Nazis. I don’t care if it’s only .11 cents per song, my money’s not going to support a self-proclaimed Nazi. Instead, I streamed Yo La Tengo’s “I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass” and “I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One” (As an aside, how is this record not on the list???? One of the greatest indie-rock albums of all time) I encourage you to do the same when a Kanye record gets generated for you: Find an album you love from a Jewish artist and stream that instead.

Cannot stand this clown. Total and utter knob who cannot handle fame or fortune very well. Bit shit at rapping too. He’s not exactly vanilla Ice

As Ye's most controversial album of all time, I think that it’s pretty cool. The first thing that I want to talk about is the production since it's such a mixed bag for me. On one hand, I do like the weird production on tracks like "New Slaves" and "On Sight". However, I hate th fact that on some tracks he just put these samples that are just so pointless. It was cool seeing Travis Scott working with Ye, I'll give the album that. This cover is up there with Ye's best ones. It looks like one of those kind of covers that people upload when the official album isn't even on streaming services. It's sad that this album didn't get an official vinyl release since it would be cool to see if they'd change the cover for it, but you should sadly just dream. I've heard some people complain about the lyrics on this track, mostly on "Black Skinhead" and "I'm In It", but I don't really see the problems with them. Sure, it’s annoying hearing him whine about not being accepted in the clothing industry and the Asian pussy line can give you a sour taste after (I'm so fucking funny), but I don't really think that Ye was trying to make the most lyrical album that he has ever made. Also, this definitely does not feel like an album. I'm not saying that 10 tracks is bad, since that is how many tracks I think an album should have. The thing is that My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy had this huge feeling about it, it literally felt like the album was made over an entire decade. So it feels like this was a mixtape just to have people not wait fucking 6 years for The Life Of Pablo, but I'm not complaining. Favourite track would have to be "Blood On The Leaves". The production is amazing, with the huge horns just blazing through the track. Ye just sounds hungry as a motherfucker, especially on the second verse. Least favourite track would have to be "Bound 2". It's not that it's sonically bad, I just don't think that the track fits the album. The entire album has very obnoxious production which can be good or bad, and this feels like a scrap over from an old Ye album. So, I really think that this album is the most underrated by Ye. 9/10

I'm not listening to this narcissistic waste human flesh, no matter how "influential" his music is. Kanye West in an influencer to the decline of civilized society and nothing more.

So incredibly ahead of its time it's insane. I understand why people dislike this album, and there are certainly low points for me: I do not like I'm In It, regardless of the fact that all the reasons I dislike it are why it was made in the first place, and c'mon, "I keep it 300, like the Romans" ??, but there aren't many albums that give the listener the experience that Yeezus does. The beats and samples are iconic (love me some Waluigi Pinball-type beat on Guilt Trip), and production is of course fantastic. Does listening to this narcissistic trip in 2022 make me more uncomfortable than I would've been listening in 2013, given recent happenings with Kanye? Maybe. Does it change how I feel about this album? 5. Already Saved: Black Skinhead; Blood On The Leaves; Guilt Trip; Bound 2 Saved After Listening: New Slaves, Hold My Liquor*

Nah, fuck off mate.

Loved how Kanye flipped the sound from twisted completely and went with an almost industrial, digital feel for this album. It’s the hip hop version of what Nirvana did between Nevermind and In Utero. At points the beats are extremely minimal and also jarring - he has no fear in just switching it up mid track and throwing out jump cuts left right and centre. Daft Punk produced the first three tracks and what a difference to the DP sound on RAM that year. Lyrically this album is self aware but also you can see where “this” Kanye is heading. It’s cold and challenging in many parts too and you have to respect the sheer balls this guy has. “As soon as they like you, make em unlike you”

That was garbage. The music itself was mediocre, the rhymes and techniques were only occasionally engaging (I mean seriously, ending multiple back-to-back verses with the same word is like kindergarten-level prose) and the content of the lyrics was completely pointless. I honestly thought the album was meant to be self-satirizing, like some sort of commentary on how ludacris celebrity life has become, but alas I was just grasping for ways to give the album more credit than it really merits.

The only good thing I can say about this album is that I found the sampling of Bound 2 to be groovy. Everything else was really bad. Like, the 'I feel gross and should shower now' kinda bad. I regret listening to this.

Scientists are still working on determining the precise point Yeezy went from a genius disguised as an idiot to an idiot disguised as a genius, but Yeezus could very well be Kanye West at his most audacious—well, at least when it comes to his music and not being a general shithead. Between the aggressive electronic "oh shit, Death Grips is pretty good" sound and the conviction with which he delivers his rhymes (going all in whether it's frustration over bigotry or borderline moronic wordplay), it's hard not to be a captive audience to this record. He goes out swinging on more than one occasion (I'm In It is basically all of the album's lesser qualities congealed into a single track), but the rest is a reminder of how someone like Kanye could end up in his fucked-up position in the first place. Key Tracks: Hold My Liquor, Blood on the Leaves, Send It Up

unbelievable. fucking amazing.

This is a hard hitting album. It is super industrial, alternative, and even punk rap. This was different for Kanye. Every album he has made has a new feel. This one is a big example. The songs on this album that stand out are on sight, black skinhead, new slaves, blood on the leaves, and bound 2. One of his best to date.

Pure shit. I can't believe I'm forced to give it 1 star.

As much as I love hip-hop, this album doesn't deserve anything above 1. Utter garbage. Destroyed my hip-hop rating... Terrible.

Great production values for an artist who is a extreme narcissist and who lacks talent. This album is boring.

After the maximalism of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West released the minimalist Yeezus. The album opens with a jarring synth which sets the stage for the aggressive confrontational lyrics. This may not be my favorite Kanye album, but it’s definitely the last great album he released

It's a brilliant album Sure Kanye is a fucking nut case and the blatant misogyny is all over this album but I have to give him his due it a masterclass in breaking Hip-hop norm

I love how abrasive and aggressive it is, it almost sounds retro futuristic from an alternate universe. But man, bound 2 is just so bad that it spoils my enjoyment from the end of the album. Oh well.

What in the blue hell is this? Literally fucking terrible. This was the downturn in quality for Kanye and for me I don’t think he’s ever recovered. Ten years later and he and his music are still on some bullshit.

Holy Holy, what a pretentious fuckwit. I don't care what colour your dick is, stop trying to degrade women with it, regardless of their colour. Flying crucifixes, how did this uninventive hack get such airplay and somehow convince people to buy his crappy shoes. Some good bass lines - but Jesus weeping - what kind of world do we live in when this misogynistic, self-worshiping tool gets critical acclaim and a bankroll. By Zeus's beard this made me angry. Really, really, sad angry.

Interested music and production but very very stupid lyrics. 1 for the production. Never gonna listen to Kanye West again when if another one in this list

This is a lot worse than I thought it would be. Aggressively autotuned. Incredibly repetitive lyrics. Rape bitches

This is my 25th album and it's the second by this overrated tabloid fodder. Apparently his music changed with every album. Pity the lyrical content is still just as tawdry. He's either bragging or whining. I didn't have to listen to this. Nobody does.

Lyrics are garbage. I really wanted to give Kanye a fair go, but he just doesn't deserve the air-time.

This is what happens when you feed the Mogwai after midnight: a shitty artist creates shitty overindulgent narcissistic album.

this was actually terrible. i like some of kanye’s music, but this album literally had no redeeming qualities. it was literally just sending the same boring message but in somewhat different forms? it was just bad and literally anyone could do this, not impressive in any way.

What's the appeal? The music is abrasive and just terrible, the rapping is... mediocre at best when it's not shitty. The lyrics??? Holy hell.... unimaginative, utterly stupid and sophomoric and distasteful. I mean, other than that I loved it. WTactualF Again: what is the appeal? Anywhere. This should have been a perfect album for me since I'd never heard Kayne before, I was legitimately excited. For exactly one minute. Now I know. I never need to hear this again. Ever. E.V.E.R. One of the most painful and disgraceful albums I've ever listened to front to back if not *the* worst. 0/10 not worthy of anything close to a star.

2nd favourite Kanye album. After the luxury of Twisted Dark Fantasy, the decision to strip back the beats and make it more industrial was a great move and really moved things forward. The album drips with energy. It moves me. The level of arrogancy is great. God features on a track. French bakers wrote a letter because of this album. The pacing and shifts in energy of "Blood on the Leaves" is perfection.

On Sight - 10/10 Black Skinhead - 9/10 I Am A God - 9/10 New Slaves - 10/10 Hold My Liquor - 10/10 I'm In It - 8/10 Blood On The Leaves - 10/10 Guilt Trip - 8/10 Send It Up - 7/10 Bound 2 - 10/10 Final - 9/10

I mean I listened to this on repeat in college, one of my ALL time faves and great to revisit

I wasn't ready for how much I'd like this, so creative. Favorite track is Black Skinhead

It was a brave move to do a dark, industrial, electro album when all his previous albums sold so well. This was the first KW music I was exposed to, when it made the critic's lists upon release. I listened to Black Skinhead many times as I remember.

Interesting songs. Cutting edge and forward thinking.

I like it even more than when it came out. Love the beats

You hate Kanye West because he's *problematic*. I hate Kanye West because he's always fucking sucked. We are not the same. lol. At least one of the other albums on here had great production. This was unlistenable in pretty much every sense of the word. I couldn't even pretend it was performance art. Just utterly worthless garbage. At least it only went for 40min. 1/5.

It's hard to listen to this now and not see the mental health problems. It's like a sonic manifestation of his bipolar disorder. Couple that with his recent anti-semitic comments and listening to this album 10 years after it dropped feels more like listening to a cautionary tale rather than experiencing ground-breaking art.

At this point it hardly even matters whether the music or the album is any good, because kanye is SUCH a narcissist racist shithead asshole that nothing can ever get past that. 1/5

If there was a no star option, it would have earned it.

Appalling misogynistic bullcrap

I don’t know what to say except that he deserves to be in prison ! I didn’t listen to all the lyrics but some were disgraceful and I can’t understand why any women would contribute to his earnings by buying his “music” if you can call it that. I gave up !!

This is garbage. Someone needs to tell Kanye 'no'.

My first Kanye album of the list so should preface by saying, he is a racist scumbag and a very bad person. I'm judging on my own enjoyment though so with some guilt I gave Yeezus 5* It's really a creative behemoth.. a relatively short running time of 40 minutes has so much invention and ideas that it beggars belief. Really it's the greatest demonstration of West's range of talent, he's more than just a rapper. Some of the production is just visceral and drills into you, this album is an experience. It's a little disjointed with some songs having quite disparate sections, but he's a creative force Still a dickhead though

Tough to judge this one. If there were no lyrics then this would easily be a 4 and possibly a 5. There's even some great wordplay if you ignore the actual content. However, the lyrics range from inane to offensive and really brings the whole thing down. 2.5 stars.

How come this is a must listen...it's already 21 century open ears wide people

Man. I came into this album thinking I was going to listen to a magnum opus and begrudgingly admit Kanye's talent, but this album was not it for me. The samples and loops were often grating and unpleasant, the rap was alright in spots, and the autotune really has not aged well for me. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy had a much better showing in my opinion.

This was terrible. As someone who really dislikes Kanye, I was surprised by how much more I hated this album than I thought I would. Just terrible.

First look at the "artwork" - Emperor's New Clothes init?! Yeezus Christ, when will these zealots tell him that Ye's not the Messiah, Ye's a very naughty boy!

Hip hop was a mistake, and is likely the cause of most of society's ills

If you have 45 minutes to kill and want someone to scream in your ear how they are a god and the best thing ever and how much you hate him even though you don't know him at all. Then this album is for you.

For as much as Kanye gets hyped up as this genius producer, this really doesn't sound great. The lyrics are largely awful too.

the only good thing that ever came out of Kanye's mouth was "George Bush hates black people."

I really liked Beatiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, the other Kanye West album we had so far.-This one I absolutely hate. Probably Kanye would say something like the unenlightened not understanding the genius vision. Be that as it may, the vision sounds horrendous. I'm hating both the bad rap as well as the minimalist techno - both styles I'm not generally a fan of to begin with - and couldn't finish a single song.

I couldn't listen properly listen to most of the songs. I just don't see the appeal. The only ones I could listen to were Blood On The Leaves and Bound 2, with the latter being the only one I really enjoyed. 1/5 stars.

Life-changer alert. I wrote in my review of Channel Orange how that album changed my life, and mentioned Yeezus - this album is the yang to the yin, the second in the one-two punch of 2013 that made me reevaluate my relationship with music entirely. Even more important, this one gave me a curiosity and appetite for hip hop like no other. An odd album to make that occur, but hear me out. Prior to 2013, I was a casual fan of rap music, I had a taste for guys like Ludacris, TI, and G-Unit when I was younger, and near the end of high school I was getting into Drake, B.o.B and Kid Cudi. All fine artists, but I wasn't really invested in the culture of hip hop. Then, on May 18, 2013, a weekend where I was home from college, I tuned into to SNL to see Kanye West as the musical guest, and he performed two new songs, "New Slaves" and "Black Skinhead." I was floored. Electrifying performances, aggressive lyrics, it all seemed so punk or metal or I don't know what. But my first thought was: he makes music like THIS? Hip hop can do THIS? I had no idea. It made me embarassed that I hadn't listened to Kanye's catalog, and that I really hadn't taken time to dive into hip hop in a serious manner. The album dropped not too long after that performance (I remember even listening to a leak on youtube), and it was just as electrifying. Rage, noise, vitriol. I hadn't heard anything like it, and when it comes to artists of his stature and fame, I haven't since. Some call it a ripoff of Death Grips, but I disagree - it's more melodic, more Kanye if you will - and whether that works for you may depend on what you like about their music. For me, it's perfect and brilliant. Will always be one of my favorites from Kanye. Favorite tracks: All of them, but songs like New Slaves, Blood on the Leaves, On Sight, Send It Up are forever seared in my mind. Album art: Billed as the "open casket funeral" for the CD format by Kanye and Virgil Abloh. Again, it's aggressive, it's brilliant. Truly iconic. 5/5

Listening to Yeezus was an extraordinary rendition to a Bosch landscape remade as a Looney Tunes cartoon, but run through a distortion pedal. I hadn’t knowingly heard West’s work apart from the video with Will Oldham and Zack G, and I know enough about him to have readied the sick bucket over this record, but from the first sound this took me. The sex lyrics are always puerile, but many lines - including the dumb ones - will stay with me. This almost made me fall off my bike: “I am a God So hurry up with my damn massage In a French-ass restaurant Hurry up with my damn croissants” He’s said some horrible things and is a jerk. But he isn’t well, and parts of this might support that. Will Oldham, a decent fellow, recently recommended an early Kanye record, adding “I will not engage, in this post, with the horrors of mental illness.”

I've sat through some real Kanye dreck already on this list, but surprised myself by quite enjoying this. A bit harsh and experimental but so fast moving that it's always interesting and unsettling. Can't decide if "Blood On The Leaves' is a post-modern masterpiece or self-centered travesty, which sums up what little I know of Mr West quite well. I remember Lou Reed evangelizing this, and who am I to argue?

In my opinion, the last truly groundbreaking album by one of the worst guys in the industry. There are some great tracks on here and it helped usher in that wave of experimental hip-hop production to more mainstream acts and listeners, but is inconsistent as hell (I’m In It is my least favourite Kanye song by some way) and, where on MBDTF he seemed self-aware in places, on Yeezus he just comes across as an ass

I don't know Kanye West or Ye, or whatever his name is now, personally, but I've always thought he was a complete bell-end. But I put that aside in order to listen to this album. I actually really enjoyed the first 4 tracks I thought they were really interesting musically. And then it started to get a bit annoying. I still think he's a bell-end.

The decline of Kanye is so apparent here. Some of the good stuff is great, but man, there’s some garbage on here.

Some interesting beats, some terrible lyrics with even worse delivery. The chorus on 'Hold My Liquor' is one of the most embarrassing things I've heard. If Ye actually was a genius, he'd get someone else to do the rapping.

I want to like this album but I can't separate the art from the artist on this one.

If I had to rate this album with one word, it would be: "grating". I have actually known about and enjoyed Black Skinhead for quite a while now. But honestly, most of the rest of the album just didn't do it for me. The sounds are incredibly experimental, especially in the hip hop space, but I just didn't find myself particularly wowed. While I was intrigued and wanted to like it more, I just felt like I was being forced to listen to nails on a chalkboard. Not to mention, Kanye's obvious arrogance and ego pours over into his music and it just makes it really hard to look past them. Honestly, this album is probably the point where Kanye really started letting his ego show -- everything with Kanye is downhill from here. I can see why this album might be on the project for its heavy and experimental use of an industrial soundscape. But while it's an interesting experiment, it's still kind of a failed one, if you're asking me.

He's lost his mind since this was recorded and released, to the point that I wasn't sure whether to listen to it. He's clearly not well, and maybe this album, with him framing himself as as deity, could be seen as the start of it. It is not a great album, full of auto-tune and glitchy beats, and with only a couple of memorable songs. Probably the biggest drop from his early work of any artist I have listened to.

gonna just sit with a 2 on this one, i know there are some great ones on here but not sure i can give it a listen front to back at this point

This isnt Kanye's best album, quite far from. It has maybe 2 good songs the rest is pretty meh. I dont like the overuse of autotune

The least listenable Kanye album. It shows genius, but I won’t be listening to it again

2, very underwhelming considering how much it is held in high esteem

Well a quick glance at the reviews on give it either 1 or 5 stars so theres quite a lot of polarization. I remember the music press gave it 4s and 5s... here goes...Ok...I like a lot of the beats and dark electronica that backs lot of the tracks...it gives it a sense of urgency...however I I can't get past the 'pussy, dick, nigga" lyrics that permeate 90% of the album and the nauseating ego on tracks like 'I am a god" 2 star for the backing tracks.

While honestly there are some great beats on this album, and this album should be on this list, I do think that it is completely overrated, as is the conceited artist who made it.

Delving into one of the two most overrated figures in hip-hop of the last twenty years, we get Yeezus, an album inexplicably on this list when Death Grips doesn't even get a footnote. Death Grips are the most influential act of the 2010s - indisputably. The barriers they lowered between bedroom acts and professional musicians, the relationship they cultivated with the internet, the approach to abrasive textures that led to a resurgence of interest in industrial and noise influences on everything from metal to pop. Death Grips changed the game, and Kanye casually cribbed their notes three years later in a messy facsimile. Is this a bad album? No. But it isn't original and it has some of Kanye's worst lyrics on it. So why is it on here?

Hardest album to rate yet. Immediate reaction was not good. 1 star. But it grew on me after a couple of listens. 2 stars. A couple more listens and I was noticing some over-arching narratives and 3 stars. I had to come back to it later in the day as it was nagging at me. Could it get even more stars? No. On a refreshed listen I was back toward my initial reaction. Best be done with it and give it a 2 but I feel like it may pull me back in.... Highlights: Hold My Liquor and Bound2

When you copy Death Grips' homework poorly and then ask Rick Rubin to go over it before handing it over

Nope. Didn't listen. Won't ever listen. It's really disturbing to me that EVEN AFTER Kanye West exposed himself as a conspiratorial anti-semitic dipshit, he goes on a tour and releases new stuff and remains popular. I hate it. Can't figure it out. I think he learned about how to con his loyal followers from the former president. Just wrote about mental illness and how maybe Captain Beefheart was toying with that line between madness and genius (myth by the way, but hey, popular music, right?). Kanye West has the more sociopathic version of this, where he feels okay exploiting his fans. "Yeah, look how CRAZY I AM!! {That'll be $250, please.}" This dude has a lot of problems, always has, and I'm kind of sick of using brain cycles thinking about it.

Not going to listen to Kanye

Never. Fuck this Nazi.

Fuck Kanye. Also, the album just sucks. Like, hurts my ears bad. I don't understand the boner everyone gets for this stuff.

Another recommended album from Kanye broke my listening habits for a while. I took a break from listening to recommendations from 1001 albums for four solidweeks to build up enough stamina to get through this album. Sonically, there are some electronic sounds and beats that can draw in my attention for a minute, but I can't get past the content. I don't want to listen to the lyrics and I could never repeat them. The album falls firmly in the 1 star range. I do NOT want to listen to this album ever again, and I wish I had NEVER listened to the album in the first place. I've got better things to do with my time. Yeesh(us).

The exact same vocal style/intonation/inflection in every track is extremely boring and unimaginative. There were no musical hooks here either. This guy is the equivalent of a bowel movement with an ego and a clothing line. How many stars is less than zero? Yeezus wept.

Have not yet finished the album, but nearly done. How can anyone listen to this without wanting it to end the entire time? The vocals are mostly over-the-top and heavily autotuned, the whole album sounds like an Imagine Dragons type beat, and the bars range from okay? to wtf is this? Not a fan of this album, and honestly not sure how anyone who's listened to other Kanye (or any rap at all tbh) could either.

I'm nearly 900 albums in at this point and there have been TWO albums that I just could not listen through in their entirety. This is one of them. I tried. I really did. But I only made it about halfway through before the bloated, misogynistic, false-martyr, ego-tirade become so oppressive that I turned it off. Every song is either juvenile in subject matter or delivery... or both. I don't care about your clothes, Ye. I don't care about your dick. I don't care about how much of a genius you think you are. I don't want to hear it and I don't have time for this level of garbage. Grow up, get over yourself, and elevate your game. Kanye's an overrated hack and the industry that enabled his delusions can burn to the ground for all I care. This will be the last time I give him any of my time and attention.

For 2013, both the rap and the electronica/industrial aspects are a bit pathetic. The misogyny is rampant, but that kind of comes with the territory. I think there was some valid social commentary somewhere in there, but I could not pay attention to the lyrics because the song was so boring. Maybe I don't understand the point of samples, but if you put a piece of a good song into a bad one, I will just wish I was listening to the good song. I was sad about "Gyöngyhajú lány"; first, Scorpions did their awkward cover, and now this.

Fck Kanye

This man is a mentally ill, hate filled, ego driven monster. His music should not be celebrated.

Dogshit from an insane white supremacist

This is the third Kanye album that has come up. I really hope this is the last. Probably some interesting music in there somewhere, but the ego and denigration makes me too irritated to care. No more please.

No thanks

The history of the music industry is full of assholes who produced great music. This asshole produced this shit. Scale: 5 - My absolute favorites. 4 - Albums I like. 3 - I enjoyed listening to it but wouldn't seek it out. 2 - Didn't like. 1 - Absolute shit.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME TWO KANYE ALBUMS IN A ROW?!! I see much more negative reviews on this one than My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, yet this has the same issues that one seemed to have for me, so I suppose we'll see. Okay, just listened, and man this is a step down, at least for me. I will say the pros is songs still get you enjoying them in the moment, so he still succeeds there, but nothing here sticks with me, and the production has not increased, in fact I'd say stuff like rather than clever samples and an orchestral sound we have this screech-y electronic sound with way too much autotune. Can I hear modern rap in this album? Absolutely, but not a compliment. It also feels worse as we go. Some of these lyrics are also pretty hilariously bad. This is Eminem's level of pun cheesiness for some of these. Just as self indulgent, but I don't see why this album gets that critique and not his other albums. I just don't know what to say. This is alright at best, aggravating at worst, but at the end of the day this was just unnotable. Perhaps if I was very into rap at the time of this release I would of seen the revolution being played, but all I hear is songs made out of dog barks are the drills in the car repair shop while a sex obsessed narcissist knows he can say whatever and will get a perfect score and millions of sales. Yet, I struggle to give this a 1 star. Truly an anomaly. I think it will indeed fall into that 1 star category though. I think fleeting memories of Kanye's work I do like will suffice for me.

Urgh. This is October 18th, 2022. I received this album on the generator on Sunday, October 2nd, 2022. I initially paused the generator because I wasn't that familiar with Kanye West's work, so I thought I should spare some time to acquaint myself with his ouevre and give him a more considered take. The next day, Kanye paraded around in a jumper saying WHITE LIVES MATTER. I immediately lost all enthusiasm for writing this review, and indeed just the basic capacity for trudge. He then followed it up with extremely ugly anti-Semitic posts on Instagram and Twitter. I'm not including every event over the last fortnight where Kanye proved himself both nasty and moronic, but the principal effect on me was to deter my review of Yeezus. Every time I tried to write this, I would just stare at the screen, not typing but constantly grimacing. I was worried this album would break me, and I'd quit the generator because Kanye West was an imbecilic cunt. Still, that which does not kill me blah blah blah (by the by, the context of that quote from Nietzsche always gets dropped: he actually says that military view of life is "That which does not kill me blah blah blah"). And I'm reviewing an album, not the person who made it, so perhaps I should swallow up my grievances and just assess the music. Apparently, this is Kanye's dark, challenging album, his raised middle digit to a world that just wants him to perform nice songs for people to dance to. But wehat nobody told me was how slight, how superficial and how meagre this album really is. The music, despite all the advertised influences of early 90s industrial metal (which was never that transgressive in actuality), is just a bit of electronica. It's acceptable, but it's hardly inspired. But that's not the fatal symptom of the album. The album's tubercular cough is (wait for it...) Kanye West, or more specifically the fact that the stances he expresses are incoherent, confused and, in summation, boring. Yes, one can point to his willingness to pick at the scab of affluent segregation in New Slaves (actually, is that especially resonant to the poor, that salesmen try to sell Kanye high-end goods?), but such outrage becomes distinctly undercut by lines like "Eatin' Asian pussy, all I need was sweet and sour sauce". Indeed, there's a vicious misogyny throughout this whole album, but there's none of the illicit thrill of saying the unsayable that, say, Eminem or Ice Cube were able to muster in their best work. It's just Kanye trying to sound like what he thinks a rapper should sound like. It's the sound of a limited man, of a wimpy schoolboy trying to impersonate the bigger boys in a doomed attempt to become popular. And it stings that a work this mediocre is what ruined my fortnight. Anyway, that's the album out the way. I hope Kanye will find it apposite if I review him as a person in the form of a poem. Kanye West is a cunt. A cunt is what he is. He possesses labia majora and he evolved to imbibe jizz. Once a month he menstruates. For his clitoris you may hunt. I know the term is ugly, but the cunt is just a cunt.

This is a weird listen in light of his recent comments. It's hard for me to separate the art from the artist. I'm just annoyed by West boasting for 60 minutes.

Mi piace il genere ma questo album mi annoia totalmente. Due stelle le metto quando nell'album ci sono brani che ri-ascolterei ma qui...

È il massimo che possa dare a Kanye West. Un 1 di fiducia.

It amazes me how many people it took to write a bunch of crap songs. And the guy is an a total dick.

He said it… terrible

Awful

No cliche, musical or lyrical, is too tired for this album. I knew it would be awful but even I wasn’t prepared for this bad.