Yeezus

Not his best but a couple hits

3.75

It's an interesting album. It combines Rap and Electronic music. It sounds really good! It's Kanye West's most experimental work. It was definitely one of his best albums and Bound 2 is definitely one of, if not the best Kanye West song!

Not a fan of Kanye. This album wasn’t as bad as I thought I would be.

Damn shame Kanye went from being one of the most prolific and groundbreaking rappers/artists of the 2010s, to a complete loser shouting "I LOOOVEEE HITLER" live for the world to see. No matter how hard I try to set all of his dumbfuckery aside to give this album a fair rating.. I just can't do it. This fucking guy, man. Damn shame.

The first kanye album i listen to. Black skinhead is great....few other bangers too. Not his best but solid effort from YE

Nowhere near his best Sample heavy, autotune heavy Very electronic sounding Other than 'Black Skinhead' its pretty skippable.

Rate: 8/10

genial, um dos meus favoritos dele

Ye at his most controversial. I hate him too, but all that aside as I’ve done for every album on here, this album has such an incredible energy that feels like only Kanye could create at that point in time. It’s not a 5 for me, but this album is one of my favorite experimental hip hop albums.

Unnecessarily filthy and tiring. Better still than some of the other stuff I've heard from him.

I tried. I really tried to give it a fair shake, but I dont think I can stand any Kanye after Graduation (maybe a couple off 808's and Heartbreak). This was just so loud, abrasive, and egocentric. There are some interesting beats here and there but overall this just seems like "Evil Kanye: The Album."

Angry, hateful, misogynistic, arrogant, delusional. And yet somehow it’s my favorite Kanye West album. The man had fully lost his mind to his worst urges by this point (which would only get worse as time went on) and it’s fascinating to experience his decline as a listener. Every note and line and scream is abrasive. 10/10 don’t change a thing.

If you give this album a 3 or lower, listen to the Dissect podcast about this album. It’s a masterpiece once you understand the narrative and what’s actually going on.

This was a great album. Divisive when it first came out, but the production is just so enjoyable. Something about the searing nine inch nails feel to some songs makes it feel like it isn’t a rap album. Bon iver cameos are all great

I'm terribly conflicted on this album, but really only because of Kanye's recent escapades. He's an incredible artist but he can't get out of his own way. He's not a good person, but he makes good music. This album, although not my favorite from him, is good and worthy of being on this list. It's a hard-hitting, thought-provoking work, even if its not his most listen-friendly.

Oh so THAT'S what the dog fart came from

really damn good album, kinda the first time he started to go off the rails. I cannot behind some of these instrumentals

I refuse to listen to Kanye

I refuse to listen to this Nazi

I can't, I won't.

As much as I want to hate the guy, he makes good music. And I'm not much of a modern hip hop guy. Never hewrd any of this before - could do without the crappy faked out vocals, but otherwise a head above anything else from the era.

Day 21 As an ex-avid Kanye fan, Yeezus doesn't hold up as much as I remember. Anyways, whoever's reading this, wanna get smth to drink? 😏 Fav track: New Slaves

This has been one hell of a week for me on this generator. Earlier in the week, I had an album credited to an objectively bad person, and now here we are again, in the same dilemma. Again, my question remains, do we separate the art from the artist? Better yet, does it matter this time around in regards to my rating? The artist(Nazi) in question is still alive, and still financially benefits from us, the people, listening to his music. I'll let you all fight about that one. Hell, even the title of this album reeks of arrogance, and narcissism. Really, that argument doesn't matter much anyway because this album is a pile of dogshit even if we disregard the artist who created it(I know Lou Reed was a legend, but his taste in albums is questionable at times). According to the Wikipedia page, I'm relieved that I'm finished with his albums in this generator(if any of you submitted one of his albums in the generator, shame on you). Favorite Track: "Bound 2".

of the various rap albums I have listened to this is not bad. Still don't like the genre, a solid 1 star

Interesting electronics but nothing else

Dificil catalogar este album. Arranca bien, se va pinchando. Al final no se entiende qué pasa. Como siempre, es un género en el que no saber las letras me limita. Aunque con este tipo quizás mejor ni saber bien lo que dice. Eso sí, tiene un flow increíble. 5/10

Inevitavelmente, esse disco um dia ia chegar… e chegou. Depois de mais de 15 escutas, posso dizer que Yeezus é daqueles álbuns que parecem melhorar a cada audição. Fui obrigado, no melhor sentido possível, a revisitá-lo por causa do desafio diário de ouvir os álbuns recomendados pelo site, e, a cada nova escuta, minha percepção só se expandia. É impossível não notar a produção desse disco. É algo absurdo, magistral. Ouvir Yeezus é como sentir a alma sair do corpo e flutuar do céu ao purgatório, do purgatório ao inferno e de volta, repetidamente, num loop psicodélico. Uma mistura de rap industrial, sonoridades futuristas e eletrônica experimental que parece ter sido concebida para desafiar qualquer ideia pré-concebida sobre o que um álbum de hip-hop poderia ser. E basta a introdução de “On Sight” para perceber que estamos diante de algo completamente diferente. Os primeiros segundos já anunciam uma experiência que parece não ter paralelo dentro do próprio gênero. Depois vêm “Black Skinhead”, “I Am a God” e toda uma sequência que transforma agressividade em estética e potência em linguagem. Ao mesmo tempo em que o disco proporciona essas viagens astrais, ele também empodera. As letras e a presença de Kanye transmitem uma sensação de força, soberba e pujança quase sobrenatural. Parece um álbum concebido por alguém no ápice absoluto de sua criatividade, e, naquele momento, Kanye estava justamente assim. Yeezus soa como se uma arma tivesse sido forjada pelos deuses, mas, em vez de metal, tivesse sido moldada com um instrumento musical nos próprios fogos do Olimpo. Na primeira escuta, talvez você fique indiferente. Na segunda, começa a gostar. Da terceira em diante, é difícil não embarcar completamente na viagem. Yeezus não pede apenas para ser ouvido; exige que você entre em sua lógica e aceite sua brutalidade sonora. Para mim, é o melhor álbum do Kanye West. E não é apenas um dos maiores discos de rap ou hip-hop já feitos: é um dos grandes álbuns do século XXI, um dos trabalhos mais importantes e revolucionários da música popular contemporânea. Um disco que expandiu os limites do gênero e mostrou que o rap ainda podia soar completamente alienígena, agressivo e futurista.

*2013. *Not mind-blowing, no stand out songs, consistently misogynistic, and the ego is out of control. But certainly an easy 40 minutes of listening because there was constantly something new and (sometimes) interesting happening. *Great production (I'm finally catching on to this after over a year of listening to albums here), and lots of energetic buildup (which oftentimes felt like it was bordering on unhinged or forced). *Wouldn't revisit and Kanye wouldn't have gotten far is this were his first album. But it made for an enjoyable ride to work. RATING - 6/10

Kanye I appreciate rapping that has lots of references and puns but Idk his lyrics are mostly pretty tasteless here for me. There was some interesting stuff with the production but mostly not as interesting as I hoped. 2

Rating based on music not personality lol. A lot of the production is really cool and experimental and original. Lyrics are horrible for the most part.

I don't know how to rate this. He's an ass. There are obviously cool parts, but I didn't love it regarless.

Well damn, Kanye made a cohesive, spectacular, and introspective album. Granted this was also probably the last moment he was fully coherent and lucid as a person and hadn't fully sold himself into his own delusions or narcissism. I have little bad to say about this, though I can't wholesale ride or die for it, since he still can't see the forest for the trees. But this is by far the best record he's made, and shows that deep in his inscrutable personality there's that flash of genius.

A tad too vulgar for me

A lot of reviews will (fairly and accurately) point out that this was the artistic beginning of descent into madness for Kanye. As for me, while I think I consider My Beautiful Twisted Fantasy Kanye’s magnum opus, I’ll not seriously argue with anyone calling this his best or even the greatest rap album of all time. It still sounds like the future. On Sight, raunchy as it is, does not sound like anything that came before or since. Black Skinhead sounds like a futuristic high school pep rally nightmare. I Am A God is one of the most audacious songs ever put on a record. New Slaves… when that Frank Ocean verse drops… my goodness. Then there’s Blood On The Leaves. Only Kanye would, and perhaps could, sample Strange Fruit in a song about his excesses. It’s an amazing song that you don’t exactly feel great about listening to, but it’s sonically incredible and obviously provocative as hell. Bound 2 is (I think?) a love song for Kim before things got weird/ugly. It’s another one of his best tracks. A brilliant, twisted project worthy of its praise.

The main thing Kanye is both loved and hated for is his outsized ego. It's not that egocentrism is unusual in rap, but here the guy outdid all his peers. And this ego is evident from the very title; you can reference the psalm "Ye are gods, all of you children of the Most High," but I think it's clear to everyone that Kanye literally named the album after himself. The music here also tramples on all the pillars of rap, with everything from acid house to children's gospel choir, Nina Simone's voice, soul, industrial... And it all sounds quite upbeat and dynamic, but after listening to it, you realize that this album's disparate mix of ingredients is nothing but these ingredients. Kanye dresses his woman according to the canons of Masonic initiation: neither naked nor closed, barefoot nor shod. It's the same with this album: it's not passé, but it's not the Bible either.

In the best way possible, this album feels like the ramblings of a madman at the point before the madness fully takes over. It’s abrasive and raw, and I kinda forgot how important this album is

Kanye the public figure is completely distasteful. Even though I know he is severely mentally ill, his antics and reckless and offensive speech can’t be excused. This album showcases his brilliance, which just makes the whole thing even sadder. It’s incredible - experimental, exciting, funny, sonically boundary-pushing. I find myself making bargains for liking it: was 2013 before or after he got really bad, and thus perhaps ok to appreciate? On merits alone, it’s a high 4. We’ll leave it there.

Ug. What a bunch of horrid shit.

That's a no for me dawg.

Eat shit Kanye

I'm just a swallower, not a dick, I fear. Occasional songs I might have enjoyed if it hadn't been for the artist, but this is one where I find the art to be inseparable

My typical response to a Kanye West album: the production quality is good, but I didn't like any of the raps.

Baustelle, Gerstetten, Deutschland. Den rechten Pisser höre ich nicht.

How do you follow an album as extravagant as Dark Fantasy? You strip everything back and go full minimalism. The beats are hard hitting with great production from Daft Punk and Gesaffelstein. Also shoutout Rick Rubin because I cannot imagine what the three hour cut of this album would have been like. Not my favorite Kanye album but an important and influential part of his discography. Never been a fan of Send It Up. Favorites are On Sight, New Slaves, Hold My Liquor, Blood On The Leaves, and Bound 2.

Not for me 1/5

08/16 Damn. Pretty good

hay que admitir, que este disco no tiene nada maravilloso y solo es aire inflado por hombres con superioridad moral que creen saber mucho de arte.

I'm still not sure how to feel about Kanye's good albums. I haven't listened to them since the Nazi controversy and all those other stunts. However, it is easy to give this album just one star, mainly for non-musical reasons.

I always wondered what an A&R person did for a record company. I think they made sure their artists didn't put out records like this. The lyrics are horrible, legitimately deplorable. At first the music sounded original but halfway through the album, I realized the cool keyboard sound in the first couple of tunes was going to be repeated across the entire album. And enough with the auto tune already! Ugh. Instead of creative vision we are provided a tunnel vision, staring down a spent toilet paper tube. Jesus, Yeezus sux! What a disappointment from such a promising talent. Instead of growing, his artistry appears to have metastisized. I wonder what his music would have grown into if he didn't get consumed by his own fame and further enabled and egged on by sycophants and fools. Go to any record store and in the corner there will be a huge pile of amazing records they can't give away, made by amazing artists who drove cabs and delivered mail for a living and who died in obscurity, probably too young and definitely completely broke. I wonder how Nina Simone and Billie Holliday would feel about their music being manipulated here to cosign Kanye's infantilism. So instead of raising the profile of the thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of musicians deserving wider recognition out there, the editors of this list let themselves down by deciding we needed this exploration of every repulsive impulse of an overindulged manchild urgently in need of psychiatric attention. What a bunch of lazy ass critics to celebrate this garbage. You should be ashamed of yourselves for squandering your platform. Fuck you!

It seems kind of weird, and unfortunate, that we get three Kanye West albums in this collection, and this seems like the second least interesting of the lot despite his constantly avowed self-proclaimed status as the GOAT artist. That's certainly been one of the best aspects of this project, though, as I can now confidently declare that while Kanye West has some good moments, he's not anywhere close to having produced an unquestionably great album, let alone the best of all time (at least for me). And I'll definitely say that this album is more interesting than "The College Dropout", so that's nice. The best of the lot for me were probably "Black Skinhead", "Hold my liquor" and "Send it up" (sort of), although West's determination to offend everyone with his lyrics makes it hard to enjoy much of this album. I was also disappointed that despite all the accolades that he had reinvented himself and hip-hop with this 2013 album, it sounded somehow more dated than his earlier "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy", or perhaps just a bit/lot more monotonic, and it felt like his social commentary (such as it is) is pretty shallow and disingenuous overall. It's pretty funny to read that he felt inspired by minimalist design/architecture aesthetics (to the extent that he visited the same Louvre furniture exhibit five times and obsessed over a single Le Corbusier lamp as his inspiration), given that I just got OMD's "Architecture And Morality" album, which probably could have given him better direction than his warped muses. Impressive, though, that this avowedly anti-commercial album sold as well as it did.

what a fucking whiner, like Morrissey. the only track that's any good is "Black Skinhead" which sounded wonderfully a little like what Gene Wilder begins muttering and then ends screaming as the kids in Willie Wonka are in the tunnel on that horrorshow boat ride.

So unfortunate that this guy is a nazy. His music is fire. This one isnt one of my favorite Kanye album but I still really like it. Its experimental and weird and fun. You never know were the songs goes. "I keep it 300, like the romans" come on man 😭 how come nobody has caught this mistake before the album got released ? That closer is great. Bouuuund to fall innn loooove/5

On June 26, 2013 (eight days after Yeezus), Run the Jewels released their debut album, combining El-P's hard-ass production and Killer Mike's epic bars (yes, El-P raps too and is no slouch, but we know who the real lyrical draw is). The synthesis of these two artists working together works so well it easily surpasses everything they had done separately. On their first album most of the lyrics find the duo announcing themselves to the world and engaging in some old school Braggadocio, but there are moments that hint at the uncompromising political rap the duo would embrace on their later albums: "The powers that be even offered up reprieves Told us they ain't take us out if we bow to our knees But they can give that to the kings and the queens And the worshipers of idols and followers of things 'Cause I would rather be in the jungle with the savages It's kill or be killed, and I'm working with the averages My professor emeritus Say we been cursed being brought to the AmeriKKKas" This is the album you should check out if you want the hear some of he best production and rapping of any artist in the last decade. Also, it was not recorded by a bootlicking fascist

3 - not his best work

Industrial hip hop and experimental rap built from abrasive synths, distorted samples, pounding drums, and confrontational vocals feels like being trapped inside a malfunctioning nightclub where every sound is deliberately designed to make you uncomfortable. The album is bold, chaotic, and undeniably distinctive, but its aggression often feels more exhausting than exciting to me. I can appreciate the willingness to strip away polish and embrace ugliness, yet the constant sonic assault makes it difficult for me to actually enjoy.

Rap. Num gosto

Yeah, this was bad. 1/5

Although I would personally include either 808s & heartbreak or the life of Pablo over this, it's still an undeniably classic album. Understandable that quite some people here dislike it, as his intent for this album was clear. While the whole fashion and music industry was telling him to stick to music and just make another album that people will love, he chose to go into a new path. Intentionally harsh, abrasive and confronting.

nie znam się na rapie ale sluchalo się w miare przyjemnie, jednak to nie moe klimaty

Difícil dar nota para álbums cujo estilo não se acompanha, nem se gosta. Alguns me cativam e dou notas melhores. Não é o caso deste.

A difficult listen--in the way that challenging art can be, but also in the way that cringe-worthy assholery can be. Kanye is all electronic abrasion, industrial, fragmented structures, and breathless manic delivery. Case in point: "Blood on the Leaves." It makes me kind of ill to hear this use of the "Strange Fruit" sample, but then the song is a killer of sadness, ruin, guilt. Broke in all kinds of ways. Kanye is a bad actor, a messy human, toxic as hell, but pretty interesting.

Meh, I think Kanye is already starting to go downhill on this one. Not a fan of his industrial turn, and he mostly just sounds angry. I really don’t like what he does to Billie Holiday on “Blood on the Leaves” either.

I remember when this album came out it was sort of a lit test between people who enjoyed Kanye as a cultural pop character, and the people who identified with the artistic direction. It’s hard to look at this album in a vacuum because it brings things to the table that already existed, but weren’t being platformed in the way that they did here. There’s some great tracks on here like the first track blood on the leaves, of course bound to. It’s really a 3 1/2 but since people are being predjudiced towards Kanye, I’m gonna bump it.

This is Kanye trying to make an artistic statement and a cultural one but it comes off as trying too hard. The mega compressed samples and beats, the rapid schizo level beat swaps, the progressively louder vocals, etc. its almost formulaic despite not really sounding like anything else. I don’t think this was the start of mixing electronic music sounds with rapping but I bet for a lot of people this is the first time they heard something like this. I do have to commend him for the industrial sounding stuff actually working well when he isn’t boasting about fucking; the lyrical content takes me out of what is ultimately a powerful beat. I’m thinking particularly of “I’m in it”, where the features really match the song but he doesn’t. I don’t know. It’s not supposed to be pop style hip hop, it’s supposed to be aggressive and not easy to listen to. It only really half works. Everything around him as a person also taints the experience. It’s almost really good but it’s almost really shit too.

I’ve listened to this album so many times yet it never gets old. Easily Ye’s most experimental album with some elements working out better than others but it’s overall a super enjoyable album. The Chief Keef and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon assisted “Hold My Liquor” is my personal favourite song on here and for me maybe a top 10 song Kanye West ever made.

Ok so he’s creative I will give him that. There is an almost endearing way that he speaks. If it’s an act he’s brilliant. If he actually believes what he says he’s a prick. That aside, do I want to hear this again? Not really. 3/5

to com o amigo, esse é um dos mais chatos do kanye pra mim acho q fora bound 2, quero mais é que se foda

infelizmente SEPAREMOS O ARTISTA DA OBRA esse eh doideira, só beatzão maluco, minimalista e eletrônico. acho doideira ele lançando isso no mainstream. enfim, tem umas 4 músicas aí que eu acho PEDRADAÇAS (alô bound 2 e companhia). porém, não eh uma sonoridade que me agrada na maior parte do álbum não, acho dos mais meia boca dele dito isso, PAU NO CU DO KANYE WEST.

Kanye still gets zero stars, this album only gets 3 unlike My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. So that’s 2 stars overall.

No thanks, not even interested in pirating this

As with any Kanye album, it’s hard to separate the man from the art, but I’ll try here. This a cool mix of hip and industrial sounds. It makes for an epic sound that isn’t replicated elsewhere and it’s compelling.

243.

Well. Polarizing album clearly. Again full disclosure, I speak out of both sides of my mouth in regards to old Ye over here. But, congnisant of his mental disorder, past and the plight of the black man in America; this album is another iconic one. He really breaks complicated concepts of fame, wealth, race and mental illness all down in to a short 40 minute little banger. 90% of the tracks have a great beat structure and melodic elements to them (the nina simone sample was heinously over used and well on sight fucking SUCKS from a musical stand point). But obviously can't ignore the elephant in the room. Nazisim, egomania, yadda yadda. Look, when has a tortured artist been a good person? Van Gogh removed his ear, Shakespeare abandoned his family, and while I don't excuse it. You don't get great art without some controversy. If you look to artists and celebrities as a moral compass. You're at fault.

Played this a lot when it just came out, wouldn’t listen anymore, what a clown. 3 stars for sentimental reasons. “In a French-ass restaurant Hurry up with my damn croissants”

Ye? more like nah.

jj i'd rather hear serge gainsbourg

Hard to say. Not my favorite. Definitely Ye trying to change things up, and it is certainly a highly influential album.

I dutifully listened to this from beginning to end, probably at least partially in response to my project partner's absolutely incredible output in the past few days. I've heard it said that three kids is the easiest number to parent, but this is ridiculous (and provides me regular delightful happy moments when i get to see a new red number next my notifications every time I open this website). One thing about kanye you can't deny: he never really hid the kind of person that he is. So tainted with excrement that there honestly isn't really much this album can do to eliminate the odour.

I hated Kanye before it was cool

one of the most quotable albums of my generation. it's a shame. still the greatest artist of the time, until he became a nazi. smh

Dzeks ir mentals, bet vina muzika slaps hard

Es zinu, ka ši projekta ideja ir uzzināt par jaunu mūziku, bet ir forši dažreiz dabūt kādu ļoti zināmu albūmu

I feel like I’m not cool enough to listen to this album. I don’t know why this was so well acclaimed, when it feels quite lower quality than some of his previous albums. But I also don’t have a good ear for rap so what do I know. 2/5

It was clear when this album came out that it was a big step down from prior albums. While Kanye was always eccentric (at best) and egotistical, this album signaled the beginning of his megalomania. The first third or so of the album is punchy and energetic, even if the lyrics aren't what you've come to expect of Kanye and relies too heavily on shock value. The rest of the album is just sort of nothing. It seems like Kanye took the line famously sampled on his prior joint album "It's provocative, it gets the people going" as gospel. Unfortunately, this album fails on the latter. 2/5

Call me crazy but I have a no-Nazi policy

Not too bad.

not horrible

I don’t rate it in his political views, but Kanye had better albums. Some of the tracks hurt my ears done are really good, it’s a mixed bag.

fav songs: bound 2 abrasive, hostile, overrated 40/100

Kanye as a person is insane but his musical talents cannot be denied.

porn addict ye was legit less braindead than conservative ye

Kanye West: Yeezus (2013) I’m not thrilled that I’m listening to Kanye West. I still expected it to start with somethig better than On Sight. But damn I love Hold My Liquor. And the loss of footing in New Slaves does something to me, even if I don’t know that I’ll search for the song again. And fuck if Blood on the Leaves isn’t amazing. Fuck. I added it. I did it. Fuck. The “strange fruit” reference at least makes more sense than it’s really upsetting inclusion in 69 Love Songs. Bound 2 is also amazing. It’s not really something I want to listen to again (as with a lot of music it turns women into an object and I’m not an object of worth to most), but especially that “first step, eh eh” (AA) and the “aha honey” and “I know, you’re tired, of loving, with no one to love, so just grab somebody…” just, it’s really good. It’s poetry. I’m going to need to rely on someone else to tell me about who I can listen to without feeling like I’m aiding the … We Don’t Care and Otis came on as recommendations after this and I forgot how much I loved both of these. No, I’m not the Culture. No, I don’t get a lot of what’s here. But man, I can recognize something in this that comes from the angels. (and lots and lots of hard work and talent!)

Too many fucking bars

The fact that this isn't event in his top 3 says a lot

3.5

Could only make it halfway through, I prefer his earlier stuff

Not my style but good tunes thx

This hasn't aged that well lyrically, given who Kanye has become. But you can't knock the gravity and quality of this album. It sounds great and ahead of its time. Given that, lyrically its let down. Some great tunes on it still. You can definitely feel the anger in it, and it find of feels like where the mental crisis started happening.

Hard to comprehend now how radical the production was on this at the time, but I don't think it really stands up as well now. Obvious issues notwithstanding, it feels a bit dated and of its time to me. Still some songs here that are standout, but it feels uneven now.

Fuck Yeezus. Oh no, I did a blasphemy.

Troubled dude who has made some great art. This album has some good songs, but out of all his discography, not sure how this one made the cut over others.

This is alright, for a lot of the songs I enjoyed the samples more than what he contributed. Also -1 for a gross person

1 star (but also 5)

I found this album to be very aggressive and not palletteable.

In a nutshell: hold my drink. "For me as Kanye West, I got to fuck shit up... I'm going to take music and try to make it three dimensional... I'm not here to make easy listening, easily programmable music." Kanye West (NME, September 23rd 2013) I have raised this argument in some reviews: "Can you separate the art from the artist?" IMHO, there are three answers to this: "yes", "no" and "not anymore". Kanye is a great example of the "not anymore" argument. In context with his albums in the generator, I could say yes in retrospect for The College Dropout. Yes, but only just for MBDTF (but I'm due to revisit this album, so opinion subject to change). For Yeezus, it's a confident NO. Greg Kot from the Chicago Tribune summed it up perfectly. It's "hostile, abrasive and intentionally off-putting". Kanye West went from a producer/solo artist with ambition and swagger to a sanctimonious and self indulgent twat whose music emphasises his shortcomings. Oh how the mighty fall... Overall: 1/10 (1 star)

This album was released in 2013, but it sounds like it was supposed to be released in 2031 This is definitely my favorite experimental hip hop album I love the chaotic beat switches that still somehow make sense The mix makes this album feel 3d My fav track is new slaves with the majestic, heavenly outro (every track on yeezus is peak tho, literally 0 skips) My fav ye album (ik my glaze over this album is immaculate)

separate the artist from the art jk ts is ass 2 stars js cos bound 2 is on here

Why does it take at least a dozen people to write a song? And how do they mistake the Spartans for Romans’. And why can’t they come up with lyrics anyone would let their kids heat? And why can’t they write songs that aren’t misogynistic or blasphemous? 159 albums down and I have a new worst song: “I’m In It” is THE WORST song I’ve heard in the last 3 months. Period. Full stop. Oh, yeah: the album cover art sucks. 1.star

More scandals than substance. Vapid lyrics, lazy sound effects, subpar rapping, awful singing. Why is this dumpster fire so famous?

one hell of a producer her was

Better than I remember! Cool instrumentals. Iffy lyrics and vocal delivery. Strong 7.

Nope

I decided I'm no longer going to listen to records by problematic artists, and will replace them instead with recently released albums from female artists. The 1/5 rating is for Ye, and below is my review for today's album. ~~~ Kelela - new avatar 4/5 I really enjoyed listening to this album. There is perhaps a little bit too much happening in the first track, which made it difficult for me to dive into the record. I think I preferred the following tracks, where the rhythm and melodies settle down a bit. Great discovery overall, I will definitely listen to it again! Favorite tracks : point blank, outta time, the bridge ~~~

#420/1001. File under "egoistic assholes who make experimental music but manage to make it popular". But I guess if he would have put out metal machine music or would have sold gold. No wonder Lou Reed was jealous. Maybe experimental, but I got bored - by the music, of course the lyrics are horrible sexploitation and ego boost.

Huh. I actually thought I liked this album more than I do. I think Bound 2 is one of the highlights of Kanye's career but the rest of this is kind of the worst. Not even looking to start in on Kanye himself.

I've heard people say when this album came out, it was universally hated. But now, almost a decade later, they've gotten used it, even grown it like it. So I think I'll follow their footsteps and come back in a decade. Well see how I feel then.

Ok, taking the man out of the equation for the moment for this review. Overall, this is just a dumpster fire of ultimate cringe and edginess. The music, whilst not terrible, isn't great. The lyrics just scream I'm an edgy 13 year old. And there is no flow at all. It's like Ye was given some simple mixing sounds and pressed random buttons repetitively. As a hip hop fan, I really don't get why he's so highly rated.

Honestly just didn't want to stream this

I tried, I really did. This sounded interesting on paper - experimental electronica with input from Daft Punk should be just my thing and releasing it on an unlabelled cd with a clear case is a nice touch. However it was less than a minute before the first “bitch” and “hoe” which was an immediate nope from me. Fuck that guy.

In five years, "New Slaves" transmuted into "slavery was a choice". Hard to separate the art from the artist.

While I have grown to tolerate and even dare say like some Kayne, this isn’t it. There are one or two other albums omitted from the list that should be on ahead of this one.

That's blasphemous!

i’m not giving a nazi money. did not listen.

Separating the art from the artist here. I don't usually like rap because the production is usually boring and the flow is boring and I don't really listen to lyrics. I think the production value on this album is actually incredible and therefore this is a very enjoyable album. 4/5.

Don’t like it quite as much as other Kanye stuff but I have to give points for creativity

The ego of Kanye is almost unbelievable, so I was already primed to dislike this from his public persona. Turns out this narcissism comes through all the songs from the lyrics to the titles (I am a God - really???). He samples some really good (and surprising) stuff - Omega and King Crimson! Some of the least bad songs are I am a God, Guilt Trip, and Bound 2.

first off, fuck kanye. second, this album is very good. i don’t think i had ever heard an album like this when it came out and i don’t think i have since.

Ye - naw - fuck this nazi arsehole

This one is so polarising. I sort of hated it in the most part when it came out, despite being a big Kanye fan, having all of his albums on CD, seeing him on tour for his second album and regularly bumping his music. However, with time, this album became the tipping point for when Ye really started to lose the plot and show his dark and insidious sides more in his music, and it proves to be an amazing study into the impact of fame, success and overinflated ego on the human psyche. Kanye had only released his absolute masterpiece in his previous release 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' 2-3 years prior. It commercially flopped in comparison to all of his previous records despite the enormous roster of artists, the beautiful CD case with alternate cover inserts, the accompanying DVD with a host of music videos, and most importantly his best ever work at that point and still to this day. What was maddening though, especially to him, is that it wasn't what the people wanted. So he went the complete opposite way and said 'Well fuck y'all' you get a blank case, a slimmer amount of tracks and features, a simpler set of production, knocked it out much quicker. Critics absolutely loved it, and it received similar commercial praise. Give me 'MBDTF' any day over this, but as a reaction to the relative disappointment of his literal masterpiece not being duly recognised for what it was, I find it fascinating.

Très grand petit con.

J'avais oublié de dire avec College Drop-Out. Une des seules choses que je trouve hautement irritantes de Kanye West c'est son utilisation de ce que j'ai appelé les 'voix de bébés'. Son truc d'accélérer les voix ça me plaît pas du tout. bon, encore une fois j'ai un gros biais ici, j'aime beaucoup la persona de Kanye West, l'iconoclaste, la provocation, ça me parle. Son flow est bon, et ses thèmes sont comme à l'habitude audacieux et sortent du créneau rap habituel, j'aime aussi. 5 - 1 pour les voix de bébé = 4.

I have very little patience for Kanye. I'll admit the production on this is quite good, but each time his voice came in, I was out.

Curse you 1001 Generator ... You Giveth (with the Slits) then you Taketh away (with Conway West)

Boy. Does this take me back to a good time. Black skinhead had to have been one of my most played songs from 7-10th grade. I’ll always remember Kanye this way. This isn’t his best, but it’s got some real bangers and some of the lines are hilariously outlandish and fucked up. It was a great time to be alive. Like I said, not his best and would like to see something else of his on here, much of this score goes for nostalgia points.

Holy Yeezus! This album is Divine. Uh-huh Honey… 5/5

Nope.

Gross

What an album this is. It’s so raucous and left of centre musically that nobody else could have made Yeezus and get away with it. I love that he could have played safe but chose to go this route following Twisted Fantasy, and I love that this album challenged his listeners. Of course many who slated it at the time now praise it… There are so many great moments on this. 5 all day long.

It’s messy and a horny mess. Not his best.

Kayne West is 10/10 a**hole but he's doing (or was doing) good music

No. When you're as big as Kanye and you use your platform for this? No.

12/1001 Longe de ser um dos seus melhores trabalhos mas tem seus momentos On Sight - 75 Black Skinhead - 80 I Am a God - 75 New Slaves - 75 Hold My Liquor - 70 I'm in It - 75 Blood on the Leaves - 75 Guilt Trip - 75 Send It Up - 75 Bound 2 - 80 Media: 75.5

Liked this much more than I expected. 3.5/5

i hope you find god

“He’ll give us what we need, it may not be what we want.” A few years ago I used to listen to sooooo much Kayne, I think he’s still my most listened to artist by a lot. The last release of his I heard was Donda, which was a little bit ago now. All of the stuff surrounding him has really turned me off from listening to him and his recent stuff. That being said, I hadn’t listened to this front to back in a few years and holy shit 😭 it’s still unbelievable. These songs are insane, especially for the time they came out. The only kinda weak one would be guilt trip imo. And I already had a feeling this would be low rated on here (people don’t like Kanye, or rap, or this album specifically) but damn 😅 Anyway great, great album! And Melodrama + this is probably the best back to back I’ll get on this whole thing

I despise this man and prefer his old music, but I actually kinda liked this the longer it went on. Huh. 3.5

You fucking kidding me? Kanye West can burn in hell. Fuck off and die, bitch. You will receive no streaming royalties from me.

What a dickhead.

In many ways better than gangster rap. Better use of samples, more variety, some interesting takes on genres (most notably the afrobeat sample on Black Skinhead). But I can’t get away from firstly his obvious insane god complex, the fucking dreadful and continuous use of auto-tune throughout the album and the excessive attempts to shock with the language and tone of the lyrics. I toyed with a 2, but only briefly. Hated it.

Oo, an album (that I don’t know) by a person who has become Very Difficult since it was released. Maybe I should just listen and only react to what I hear? I’ll read a little first. The album was inspired by Le Corbusier and the movie Holy Mountain? And it could have been called Thank God For Drugs? I start listening, I don't mind the abrasive sound, I'm open to the prominence of the rap/vocal interplay, I don't mind the tone of the delivery - but disrespect of women is prominent and off-putting to me. I listen and listen, don't really enjoy, it has me on edge and not in a good way. For me, being a little bit generous, it's Mix of Good and Bad, 5/10.

One of Kanye's better album. The beats are creative and have this industrial sound to them that I like. Rapping was hit or miss though. It's a shame this album doesn't have a really great pop hit like "Power" or "Gold Digger". "Black Skinhead" sorta fulfills that role (title aged horribly btw), but it doesn't quite get there. I don't have a favorite track, but I did like the sampled song on "I am a God" a lot ("Forward Inna Dem Clothes" by Capleton). Props to whoever came up with it. Very nice pull.

Experimental masterpiece with terrible reviews that I’m assuming come from his personal life.

This is littered with psychosis but the man knows how to write a quality album. Bound 2 such a banger

So I decided a long time ago when I got a Kanye album I wouldn’t listen to it. There’s no way I can without actually funding a fucking nutjob Nazi. This after more than 750 albums is my first one which is crazy since I have at least 2 others. I do remember listening to it when it was released. It was peak Kanye is a genius time. I remember thinking this album fucking sucked. And that he was overrated at best, and a fucking talentless hack at worst. Bound 2 is the only track I have any fondness for and that’s because it kinda sucks in a way I dig. Any I’m going to listen to an album that is not on this list or at time of writing the user list but I’ve wanted to listen to for a while. I’ve tried listening to Geordie Greep’s The New Sound and I always stop after track one. The problem is I love the first song. The character he’s describing sucks so bad in a good way. But I’ve never gone farther. And so here we go. Really enjoy it. Inventive music about horrible scumbags, like YOU the listener. 4.5/5

Wow. I did not expect to like this as much as I did. Because I detest the man. But I can't deny, this was a great listen. Don't care for a lot of his lyrics but, musically it was an awesome, surprisingly experimental experience.

1.5

Honestly the first few tracks of this musically I kind of liked. I think the industrial mixed with rap actually works as a sound . Kind of trails off once it gets into the string of songs that are basically just auto-tuned ballads. But what really brings me down on this record is the lyrics which quite frankly most of it is just typical braggadocious my dick's bigger than yours, I can fuck your girl better than you... Which leads me to the whole juvenile sexually misogynistic themes of the album. He sounds like a 12 year old who just learned what sex was. Barely any turn of phrase or imagery. Notable exceptions were "New Slaves", which I did like, and "Blood on the Leaves" but the auto tune on him and for cripes sake Nina's too. Ugh Wasn't horrible but wasnt great. (5.8) ★★½

Too harsh and industrial sounding. 2 stars

3.5/5

I think this album is a bit of a step down from *My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy*, but it's still pretty cool. I think this is around the time that Kanye started getting a little questionable as a person and his lyrics are a little cringey at times here, but the production still sounds like a million bucks, and there are some cool ideas here, for sure. Highlights for me are "Black Skinhead", "New Slaves", and "Bound 2". 4 stars.

3.5

More like Poozus. Graduation should definitely be on here instead as it’s poppier and has more enduring hit songs whereas this hot pile of electrogarbage seemed a bit blazing when it came out but now sounds crappier and more cringe with each passing year.

Shocked to see this album make the list but in a good way. Peak production from Kanye and Mike Dean and so many iconic songs. Some not-so-great songs and cringe bars but the personal connection I have with this album warrants a four star.

This thing kinda sucks and that’s why I love it. The beats are abrasive, the lyrics are QUESTIONABLE, and it all comes together to form something beautiful. Shame he died in that car crash back in 2021.

First the Louvin Brothers and then Kanye West with "Yezzus"—it's like someone's trying to send me to hell. This MAGA-gangsta combo is really hard to stomach; for me, as someone who relies on immunosuppressants, it's simply unpalatable. Perhaps these two genres even have their place. I know nothing about the brothers themselves; what I do know about West is just disgusting. Oh hell, there are the titles of his songs: "Black Skinhead," "I Am A God"... I really don't know what the point is. The music is very electronic, but not really good. I always feel sick when I read the production list on albums like this—unbelievable. So, to make it perfectly clear in the end, I don't like the album, and I see no reason why it should be on any "best of" list.

I think I’ve given Kanye enough of my attention in this life.

Leave it to Kanye to make some BULLSHIT sound so fuckin beautiful. Not my favorite Kanye album because this is when the coonery started to come in full effect but this is still some good shit. I definitely think Graduation deserved to be on the list instead of this, but still good stuff

A: Wow visste int att Kanye West ha producera 80% av coola-Arcane-edits-låtar. Hatar att medge att jag gillar hans ljudlandskap väldigt mycket men som tur är hans lyrics helt skit. Hans politiska stance är "rather be a dick than a swallower" vilket säger mycket om allt möjligt. Jee jee. Sämre än Twisted Fantasy 3/5 D: Han är ju tyvärr ett geni. Horror fact: börjar förstå varför folk ännu lyssnar på honom. Gillade Bound 2. 4/5

I had never listened to this album from Kanye, and it would have stayed that way if I hadn’t ripped the CD I found recently at the thrift store to my NAS. Since I knew I wasn’t giving any money to him I decided to check it out. It’s honestly really good, and it’s sad that someone with his musical vision went off the deep end that is deeply troubling, and sadly isn’t getting the help he needs.

This guy is so unbearably self-centred that it's hard to take anything he does seriously. But even when trying to leave my prejudgement at the door, it's just unpleasant to listen to. His rapping style has a kind of aggression that feels extremely performative, the lyrics are imbecilic, the repurposing of old civil rights slogans to be about sex is in extremely poor taste. Beyond this the sound is abrasive - reading the Wikipedia page for the album it seems that he got it into his head that making something that sounds bad on purpose had artistic merit??? Also this album has like 7 producers, how did nobody tell him it was shit?

Didn’t listen but at one point I thought this was incredible. The minimalist production performed in a maximalist style was striking, nothing else sounded like this. However, just like Kanye this has aged horribly. Fuck Nazis. Stop listening to Kanye and stop falling over yourself to accept his transparent “apologies” he wheels out whenever he has new music to promote.

I bought Yeezus the day it came out without ever having heard a Kanye album before. Why, you ask? Daft Punk. They were part of the production, which piqued my interest, and also explains my seemingly spontaneous purchase. Not only was I floored by the musical creativity of Yeezus (the sampling is 10/10), the raw, sometimes crude, but always sharp delivery of Kanye West proved to be the main attraction. I think it's one of the all-time great rap albums because it pushes the envelope in ways that few big time artists would be willing to risk.

Nice. This already has two songs in my liked list. Black skinhead is just awesome - looking forward to listening to the whole thing. I had higher expectations. Maybe needs a couple more listens - maybe will later. First reaction is 3.5 stars rounding down to 3

The lyrics are dog shit. Misogynistic dog shit. I'm good, dude. I feel evil listening to this - there's some evil ass energy here. Some of the music was absolutely very cool and some of it was fucking chaotic and stupid. The production is wonderful but I wish it was just an instrumental album honestly lmao. I won't talk about him as a person - we all know. So many bad people are fans of Kanye as well. He draws in bad, evil energy and I can feel it when I listen to the music he made passed 2008. No way. Hold My Liquor was the worst song I've heard in weeks or even years?? Blood On The Leaves ??? holy fuck can a song be more excruciating then this? Poor Billie Holiday - she didn't deserve that. fuck this album it's bad! it's not good. One of the worst albums I've heard on this list so far. Sack of shit. 2 stars for the instrumentals only.

This album was hard for me to rank after only a listen or two. Although I'm not in a position to assess a rap album from a critical perspective I know Kanye's production is often very unique and original. Maybe with time I would have rated this much higher, but 3 is where I am at the moment.

I don't love it. I remember hearing "Bound 2" on the radio and thinking, nah, and just never bothering. But past me was wrong on writing the whole thing off. There's some really, really solid stuff here. "Hold My Liquor" is amazing. And, well, I really love "Bound 2" now, haha. I am not a fan of experimental electronic Kanye, though. Never was a fan of 808s and Heartbreaks. For me, this is alright.

First impression is that he made this album for himself, not for the enjoyment of others. Hold my liquor is a nice mellow groove. Strange Fruit sample oh Lady Day had a hard enough life without seeing how this turned out.

A lot of people love this album, and it does have a certain level of sonic impact that’s appealing. But it’s so grim-sounding, with most of the lyrics being about fashion, money and sex. Many eye-roll-worthy one-liners. To me, this was the beginning of the Decline of Ye. I never go back to it. During this listen, I did get pretty into “New Slaves” and “I’m In It.” It has some stuff going for it, but it’s a slapdash album that pretends to be an art piece. That bothers me.

Kan rimeligt godt li' det. I hvert fald inden for den genre. Noget mod min vilje.

This is so shitty I was wishing it had been another Kid Rock album.

nazi

I knew it was only a matter of time before Ye appeared. Yeezus is a mixed bag for me, personally. His talent is on full display on this album. Between his lyricism and flow, you get an interesting picture into the soul of a deeply flawed man. Love, sex, loss, and regret eke through on every track. Then comes a song where he repeatedly says that he is God. It’s not a surprise where his persona went. But, enough about Kanye and his non-music life. This album is good, but I definitely didn’t find it as great as many others do. The mixing was interesting, and I found his use of 16-bit audio amusing. Some of it was a little annoying, though. Every lyric felt so self serving but dripping with personal disdain; like every song was about how much he hated how much he loved himself. It felt weirdly masturbatory. Maybe I just don’t get it fully, but this was not an album that I think deserves an all time accolade, though it does deserve respect.

pretty chill for an experimental record. fav track new slaves 8/10

*this review is for the music and the music only, absolutely nothing related to this man other than the music.

production is packed with great collaborators and it shows, the album is produced amazingly. but kanye's lyrics are kinda lazy and oftentimes repulsive, and that really brings the whole album experience down

Kanye always feels like he's on the verge of saying something meaningful or interesting and then ruins it with shit like "I be speaking Swaghili" He's also a massive piece of shit so that doesn't help either

Not my music, sry.

It's not up there with his, let's say, Education Trilogy (College Dropout, Late Registration, Graduation), but highly listenable with smooth beats and some hooks that will grip you and not let go. He's still a fucking Black Nazi cunt though.

No skips

As insufferable as he is

Ei yhtään mun juttua.

Levy on lähinnä kaikennäkösistä ränkingeistä tuttu, musiikki bängää ja toimii hyvin. Ite artisti on vaan sen verta pelle jätkä, että menee automaattisesti ykköseks.

Al principio sonaba bien, tiene cosas interesantes pero es muy raro. No creo que sea de sus mejores álbumes y aparte es muy oscuro. Mi puntaje es mas que nada porque aparece Rihanna y a ella la amamos.

I like it more than I thought, but I was coming in with very low expectations. Psychoanalyzing pop culture figures is dicey, but mostly what I heard was an untreated bipolar manic episode.

It has taken 175 albums but I've finally encountered one that I won't be listening to. I have absolutely no interest in supporting this Nazi loser.

Even if I thought this weren’t trash you can’t separate the art from the artist anyways

This is not really my genre, and I don't love Kanye, but there were moments in this album that I enjoyed. Three stars.

Interesting mix between electronic music and rap, but still don’t get what all the fuss is about 🤷‍♂️

Just no

When it comes to Kanye, I can separate the art from the artist (and some of the lyrics). This goes too hard for me to lowball it.

Fuck this guy.

saw him on this tour, probably one of the most bat shit shows ive ever been to. this album is flawless by a very flawed human.

A couple interesting tracks but mostly dumb ⭐⭐⭐

Favourite Songs: On Sight I Am A God Send It Up

Brilliant artistic statement exploring the highs and lows of narcissism.

Ok, I went into this fully expecting to hand out a 1 or 2 star rating at the end...but I liked this. I am not sure I will ever listen to it again, but it was pretty darn good while I was listening to it this time.

I can see how polarizing Kanye is, so the aggressiveness of the lyrics is "Bound To" elicit a visceral response from many. I would say it's more than just typical hard-core rap bravado and machismo, though, and that he's just setting up a persona—until you look at how mentally unstable the artist actually is, so maybe these roles he's set up have claimed him. Kanye is somewhat adept at turning a phrase, but a messianic figure he is not. Also, after listening to some of the hard core and thrash metal on this list, my shockability is somewhat diminished.

I refuse to listen to music by a strongly suspected sexual predator, a peddler of absurd conspiracy theories, an anti-Semite, a racist and an admirer of Hitler, who would actually make money from it.

Album 90 Top 3 favorites off the album: Hold My Liquor, Black Skinhead, I Am A God "I just talked to Jesus. He said, 'What up, Yeezus?'" I've largely avoided him for so long. It appears that time has come to an end. We know I'm not the biggest rap fan.  I didn't hate it. I liked the production. I'm a sucker for a big, sweeping sound like that. (I write these as I listen, so I'm almost done as I write this: I can't stress enough how much I like the production. *It's really good.*) I liked the sampling across the album. Lyrically... a lot of interesting material. Sometimes bad interesting. Sometimes thought provoking interesting. Sometimes just interesting in the same way as watching someone drive the wrong way up a one way street is interesting. Won't be coming back to it I don't think, but it was alright. At least now I know for sure how to pronounce Ye.

I saw Kanye live in 2015; Yeezus was at the time already in the rearview mirror. Me and my friends loved The Life of Pablo, and we -loved- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, but our opinion towards Yeezus was: yeah, that has some funny songs. (According to the invaluable archivism of setlist.fm, at that Oct. 15, 2016 show, we saw these songs off of Yeezus: Black Skinhead, Blood on the Leaves). This album, to me, was the miss sandwiched in between two direct hits. I knew Daft Punk was involved with the record. I thought the Black Skinhead performance on SNL and thought, oh my god, this is the future. And I knew a lot of the lines made me go 'oooohhhh can you even say that?!?' Listening to it now, it's clear to me that the two absolute titanic songs - New Slaves and Black Skinhead - are still as good as they were the first time I heard them. "On New Slaves, "You throwing contracts at me/you know that fellas can't read?" is still an unbelievably funny thing to hear. And then you go straight into that extraordinary, beautiful Frank Ocean outro? What are you supposed to say to that? And that's saying nothing of the vulgarities of Hold My Liquor or I'm In It. Re: Hold My Liquor - I still can't understand how this is one of the critical darlings of the record! This song is insane! And hearing Justin Vernon's voice in I'm In In... dog, did you realize what you were signing up for? Much has been made by the subsequent lyric, but what did he mean by "black girl sipping white wine"? These are the questions 2013 Kanye West asks us to contemplate. Pop the wheelie on the zietgiest, baby!!! Star Wars fur, I'm rocking Chewbacca. What am I supposed to say about this? When I was (checks note) 17 years old, Bound 2 hit. I'm sorry! I wish that wasn't the case!

before Jesus is King released, this was one of my least favorite Kanye albums. and my 4-star opinion on it has not changed that much. which is kinda crazy, because this is where the cracks start to form and the path to the nazi shit starts. i guess the souring from that has been offset by my love increasing for the absolutely insane energy on this album. Yeezus is at 110% the entire time. it feels like going off your meds, fittingly. listened to this after reading a review that mentioned how the guys from Daft Punk spoke about the sessions working on this going well, but being mildly perturbed by the constant porn in the background. goddamnit Ye. deserves to be one of the 1001? mmmm. well. ok, naziism and allegations aside i would swap this for like. 2 different ones. ditch this for two of the following: TLoP, Graduation, and 808s. or keep it in too. Kanye West regrettably is in the tier of artists that you can add 5 albums from and it not be gratuitous. this is a really inspired addition I gotta admit, super abrasive and uncompromising. but im leaning no. toss on something industrial that informed this, like The Money Store or From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots

Immediate no.

Dude is human garbage. I'm nearly 350 albums in and finally found one I will skip. I'll listen to Napalm Death 100 more times before I listen to KW.

I remember when I listened to this album when it came out, I hated it. Now I don't, listening to it several years later, you see the guy was a visionary, but still, I prefer his previous style. I prefer The College Dropout anyday. But respect for being innovative, although his disgusting, and pathetic for being so obsessed with himself.

This is certainly not my jam. I don’t enjoy the language and vulgarity. Another album that I question being on this list.

He has way better albums

I don’t understand why people think this fool is some sort of artist or special in any way. All he talks about is his dick and how many chicks he’s banged or going to bang or wants to bang. One track mind and I’m actually mad I had to listen to this AND I’m mad that people think this is worth spending any time paying attention to or worth anything. Pathetic.

When Kanye wasn’t speaking, the music was enjoyable. His voice is annoying & lyrics are rubbish

Is Ye a good musician? As a self-declared Nazi, does he find Hitler a good painter? Really hard to get past some of his antisemitic and generally racist language and just rate his music. He has musical talent for sure. His lyrics are superbly immature, daft and cliché. I'll go for a 2.

This album has some jams.

His best album. In your face beats, distortion, and arrogance. He pushes every envelope and steps over every line and it all works. Genius art from a truly disturbed person.

perhaps the last ok Kanye album before he lost it, still does not age well

interesting how dry this is produced

The beats are great, and Kanye actually has good flow. But his whiny voice and his perceived sexual prowess (as evidence by almost every song being about sex) really killed the vibe.

So Yeezus by Kanye West wasn’t reallyyy my thing but there were a couple alright songs there. This guy really loves his bass because it is super prominent. It’s was okay, mostly just a bit meh and I hope if he comes up again it’s a bit better because if I’m honest I had higher expectations. Top three: On Sight, Bound 2, Hold My Liquor

fun game to play: read the comment section on every kanye album on this site and see who's the closest to dropping a hard r

10 songs Musically cool (except for Bound 2, that shit blows), but unfortunately I found kanye's lyrics to be pretty trash on this album. If you ignore the actual lyrical content, the vibe is pretty good, probably would have been a 4/5.

Yet another classic I heard already, one of Kanye's most underrated projects more than a decade after its first release, beyond all the memes and sound clips this album will stand the test of time for its innovation

Production is good. Just can’t get past Kanye’s somewhat mid writing. Maybe I’m listening through a 2026 lens. Can’t help it. 2.8/5.0

trash

I can’t quit you Kanye! 😭

Kanye's a bit of an idiot, but he's also not all there mentally. Whatever, this album was a pleasant surprise. Had long stopped listening to rap by the time this came out so I missed it...but this was really good. Yeah, some of the lyrics aren't the best but whatever. Somewhere between a 3 and a 4 for me, I might return to this again.

Album #103, Kanye West, Yeezus ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I have a gripe with this album. It has less to do with Kanye West or the music on it, and more to do with the reception and reputation around it. People at the time were acting like this album was unbelievably groundbreaking because Kanye moved into a more experimental, electronic and aggressive direction. And to be fair to him, I commend him for doing that. I think it was a really bold move. But I don’t think this album is groundbreaking at all. There was loads of experimental hip hop around at the time already, and honestly, a lot of it was more interesting to me. Artists like Death Grips were already doing this kind of abrasive industrial hip hop sound. They explored this kind of thing in much stranger and more challenging ways. So I don’t really see Yeezus as revolutionary. It feels more like a mainstream artist taking influence from more underground scenes and filtering it into a huge pop record. With that out of the way, I do think this is a great album. It’s arguably my favourite Kanye West album. I don’t think it’s as experimental or as heavy duty as it thinks it is, but it is still very catchy. Kanye is an amazing producer. He’s able to get massive hooks out of the simplest sounds and synths, for example ,On Sight. He’s a pop star through and through in that regard. As for his rapping, he’s not the greatest rapper of all time technically, but his lyrics on this album are fucking outrageous. Some of the lines on this thing are just nuts. As I said, it’s a really bold album in every regard. My favourite thing are vocal contributions from Justin Vernon and Frank Ocean, especially the latter on New Slaves. That’s probably the peak of the album for me. There’s only a couple of songs I don’t really like, such as Hold My Liquor. I also think it sags a little bit towards the end. Blood on the Leaves kind of takes a bit of momentum out of it, even though I still think it’s a good song. But the first half of this album is exceptional. So yeah, not groundbreaking. probably overrated, but still a good album.

I like his earlier stuff better. Wasn’t a huge fan of the electronic sounds on here.

Very good boundary-pushing hip hop album. Despite the innovation I feel it's a little too stylistically sporadic (unsurprising from Kanye), but there is a lot to appreciate and enjoy here. Overall solid. Top tracks: Black Skinhead, New Slaves, Blood on the Leaves

Nah. Musically, probably ranks higher.

Nope. 1

Can I separate the art from the artist? Well, I didn’t like the art very much. But not as much as I dislike the artist.

I refuse to listen to even a single second of an album made by a Nazi.

A solid 7.2 from ye good songs already familiar with some of the songs not his best album but it good

4.6

So conflicted. Hate the man and hate the lyrics bc they are so misogynistic and narcissistic but the sound isn’t bad

Great production. Way too many lyrics about pussy.

Even diep inademen, neus dichtknijpen en dit veertig minuten uitzitten. Weer vier krachttermen in de eerste tien seconden. Muzikaal klinkt het bij vlagen soort-van interessant, maar het is nogal vervelend dat er zo'n gast doorheen zit te wauwelen met wat zijn zieke geest nodig vindt zoal aan onderwerpen aan de orde te stellen. Ik ben d'r al snel weer klaar mee. Overigens, wel grappig bedacht om dit op de markt te brengen als een kale cd zonder hoesje, maar merkwaardig dat er vervolgens dertien mensen worden opgevoerd als verantwoordelijk voor het 'artwork', inclusief de artiest zelve. Maar goed, ik ga weer door met m'n leven.

Voordat ik het aanzet ben ik wel bezorgd. We kennen het karakter van meneer West en tot welke tekstuele uitspattingen dat vaak leidt. Het eerste album dat we voorgeschoteld noemde ik al matig. En nu meldt Wiki dat meneer dit album zelf omschreef als een protest tegen muziek. Aan de andere kant: hoe serieus moete je deze wiki-pagina nemen als ze bijvoorbeeld in zin schrijven dat de lanceringscampagne met wereldwijde video-projecties en optredens minimalistisch was. Wiki lijkt de ironie van meneer slecht opgepakt te hebben. Maar tja, wie kan nu wel goed inschatten in welke fase meneer zit. En wiki schrijft ook over interessante producers en een stevige house / dubstepbasis. Dat nodigt mij wel weer uit. Dus laat ik maar ophouden met de voorstudie en gaan luisteren. Die digitale basis is overduidelijk. Dat is zelfs vrij sterk gedaan. De teksten, die kan ik normaal vrij goed negeren. Maar zelfs ik ontkom niet aan de informatie wie er neerkijkt op de mensheid en welk lichaamsdeel van deze grootheid het meest van belang is. Het is echt jammer, want zonder de puber-compensatie-grappen kan ik erg fijn naar dit album luisteren. Het is zelfs het beste van ik van deze meneer heb gehoord.

Dingen waar ik me aan stoor: - Kanye die denkt dat hij zowel God, Yeezus als de Heilige Geest zelf is - het standaard kinderachtige taalgebruik als p*ssy, b*tches, en n**** - overmatige autotune (al is 1x al overmatig, dit slaat soms echt alles) Wat meneer West wel goed kan: - gebruik van samples (wat hij hier meer had mogen doen) - dikke beats droppen - lekker rappen in de flow - inventief gebruik van gitaren, elektronica, etc We kennen inmiddels de reputatie van de beste man wat betreft zijn ideeen. Maar we kennen ook zijn muzikale reputatie en die mag er stiekem best zijn. En we mogen hier vrolijk de bingokaarten weer afstrepen. Ook dit kan ik best waarderen, al mag het af en toe wel wat meer loskomen. Het blijft een soort opbouw naar een climax, die er maar niet wil komen. Positief puntje is dat hij het bij 40 minuutjes houdt en niet meer dan een uur lang oreert. Ik dacht in eerste instantie nog aan iets van een 3,5, maar op het 2e gedeelte van het album is het zo ontiegelijk veel autotune dat het per nummer een half punt daalde. Al veren we nog even op bij het laatste nummer, omdat we die sample kennen. Blijkt dit gewoon een keer het origineel haha. Ik was eigenlijk alweer gedaald naar 2 sterretjes, maar ik moet wel toegeven dat Kanye wel talent heeft en vernieuwend durft te zijn. Ik strijk over mijn hart door dat laatste nummer.

Didn't do a re-listen because I've listened a bunch. It's fine.

Ahhh, vanskelig. Lyst på en 4er her, men er noe ooordentlig tvilsomt klemt innimellom. Og den mest spilte låta treffer meg midt i brunøyet.

It’s pretty gross that the album was good, and I have to acknowledge that

Everyone has artists they can separate from their art and some they can't. Kanye comes down ever so slightly on the side of the former for me. "Black Skinhead" and "New Slaves" are fucking bangers, and "On Sight" and "Bound 2" are great as well. The album gets a little meandering in the back half for me though.

Nazi

I’m not proud of loving his music but here we are

Nope…

I may like this more now than I did when it came out.

Trying to disconnect the music from the artist and realising, this artist must be so disconnected from himself as well making music for people who don't feel themselves just like he does. Low values and shallow thoughts packed in decent rhymes. Sometimes i feel like this as well, therefore he catches a feeling i know. But i never like it to feel like this...

Not a big lover of rap. The first couple of tracks were OK however it steadily got worse to the point of wishing it would end.

Uh-huh, honey

One song in and I can just tell it’s not going to be something I enjoy too much. I can absolutely see why it’s got such a name for itself like the backing tracks are so good to be fair and I don’t actually mind his voice, it’s just not a genre of music I like. Although, the second track is sitting a lot better for me, I still don’t think I’d revisit but it’s not a bad listen. I feel like it doesn’t help that I already have a negative opinion about Kanye in general, so I’m not totally open minded to his music but I’m trying to be as open minded as possible. This album is giving such gym bro energy or like workout montage core. I am intrigued to listen to his earlier stuff at some point, cause he released a lot in the early 2000s, I’d be curious to see if it’s classic 2000s vibes or more like unique to him. Sorry the screaming in I Am A God is giving like Drew Barrymore in Scream it’s too funny. Okay so I didn’t even notice the transition into New Slaves, very smooth. The singing part in New Slaves honestly slaps. Lowkey some of the lyrics in Hold My Liquor make me uncomfy but the sound of the song overall I actually like, I just can’t get behind some of the stuff he’s saying and I’m such a lyrics gal. Who’s the old lady on Blood On The Leaves I can’t cope. Why did I forget the Bound 2 song was Kanye. Anyways overall, wasn’t as terrible as I’d thought it would be. I genuinely think if some of the lyrics weren’t so vulgar I’d actually like these songs more because I like the backing tracks and I quite like his voice surprisingly. 35/100

A horrible person makes horrible music. Also the lyrics are comically stupid. The only time this guy is capable of self-reflection is when he is standing in front of a mirror. That this is considered "work of a genius" says a lot in which world we live today. quite depressing...

Not as strong as MBDTF.

More noodling from the hip hop Morrissey. As much as I hate the man, some of his tunes are great

Yawn more cock-rap

One of the all time best albums

I'd rather scoop my eyes out with a rusty spoon

Meh

I was so excited for this after loving Dark and Twisted Fantasy. Alas, I struggled to enjoy anything about this one. Not even Lou Reed’s review could convince me. I added “Bound 2” to my playlist.

Some good stuff, but this is probably the album where I was kind of done with Kanye. By this point he had a substantial catalog that I could lean into if I wanted to, so never listened to this release at the time, and listening now kind of reaffirms that decision.

Nope. Not my taste at all. There are those who will enjoy this, and it may be a classic of its genre, but there's nothing I enjoyed in this. Personally, it's the audio "Emperor's New Clothes."

The strong tracks are some of his best. This definitely is his most cohesive album in terms of its texture. It still sounds fresh and unique like a war is going on in a marble room. Putting Bound 2 at the end does remind me of Motion Picture Soundtrack at the end of Kid A. Maybe not my favorite of his, but it raises my heart rate every time. Rating: 4.2

Black skinhead was a great track but otherwise pretty mid and man, that guy is obsessed with trying to get his dick sucked. He needs to chill.

I know Kanye is, and will be, remembered for his opulence. The huge, hour-plus slabs of music like Dark Fantasy or Life of Pablo, but this is probably his most interesting album. Yeah, you can say it's Death Grips lite, but there's a lot more to this album than that. The modular sounding distorted synths, the influences from everything from Marilyn Manson to dancehall, everything here combines with Kanye at his most combatively megalomaniacal to produce an album that could only have been made by this man at this point in his career. Maybe this came out at the right time for me, sandwiched between my two favourite of his records, but maybe this is actually the Kanye album that people will one day acknowledge for the classic it is.

Nazi rappers fuck off. Too bad as some of these beats are great. Thanks for dragging down my hip hop scores, asshole.

overall pretty good. good beats. obviously not the best Kanye album tho. ending with Bound 2 is amazing.

Lets start with the fact that Kanye is a terrible, terrible human being. In this process i've struggled to separate the art from the artist: see Morrisey and Van Morrision review, but also given Michael Jackson a 5. I'm an inconsistent human. Having enjoyed Kanyes college trilogy, this is where i lost him first time around. A relisten shows that i was at fault as this did show the way forward for a lot of rap. Very dense and aggressively produced with lots ideas. The lyrics have turned the corner from witty to unhinged.

perfect experimental album

Man what do I even say here. I'm not even that big on Kanye and I felt that way before he imploded his career in the past few years, but if there's one record from him I particularly enjoy, it's this one.

I’m not sure how much I’d like this album without the context of Kanye’s career but with that context it’s a fascinating album. The screeching, industrial sound is such a departure from his trademark soul sample background and the lyrics are so overtly depraved that it sounds more like a horror movie than a Kanye album, that is until the last song that’s back to old school Kanye soul. A popular reading of the album is the first 11 songs are supposed to represent the person the music industry has turned Ye into and the last song is his salvation due to his relationship with Kim Kardashian. That may have been his intent but now knowing how that relationship and Kanye’s career/life turned out it now just feels like a descent into madness with a tragically misguided Hail Mary at the end.

4.7 One of my favorite albums. Remember the SNL performance hitting pretty hard. I never used to like Bound 2 but it has grown on me over the years (a billion streams on spotify that was kinda surprising)

Kuraa! ⭐️

Man this was almost completely unbearable outside of Hold my Liquor and the latter half of new slaves. I still haven’t listened to his earlier stuff outside of dark twisted fantasy, so hopefully that stuff is better because i’m failing to see why he’s popular from this.

This is trash. The beats/"music" is giving me seizures, and his rapping isn't even that good. Playlisted: Hold My Liquor.

The most apt comparison has been the beginning of the downhill on a roller coaster. MBDTF was his zenith. A perfect album, this is that skill distilled down to punk nature with the Kanye tongue-in-cheek prose. Kanye has been disappointing as of late in both music and general persona. However there is an argument for mental illness, car crash leading to nitrous addiction, and the loss of his motor and guiding light. He is at worst, no worse than many troubled musical geniuses. If you can’t separate that from the art, then most art is going to be inaccessible. Kanye’s last real great album. Production and lyrics paving the way for a decade of rap and hip hop to follow.

As much as it sucks that "Late Registration" and "Graduation" aren't on this list, I can kinda see why this album was chosen over them. It's more revolutionary in the hip hop scene and it definitely helped introduce lots of people to industrial rap. Kanye is awful of course, but his run from 2004-2013 is one of the greatest in hip hop history and nothing can change that. Favorite track: Blood On The Leaves

I am not into hip hop and rap. But what Kanye does with the genre is amazing. There are are a couple of great tracks on this, but for a non hip hop fan, there are a couple of his other albums that I enjoy more - oh btw I have to rate it for the music and not his terrible, sick persona

Bound 2 is the greatest song ever made, period. No exceptions

This is hands down the most polarizing Kanye album. I'm a fan of experimental rap, but this is just not for me. Almost every famous experimental rap artist to come after this, I enjoy. (Danny Brown, jpegmafia, clipping, injury reserve) But not this. I respect it because it influenced artists that I love, but I just can't enjoy this at all.

The wildest Kanye has ever been (musically at least). He’s angry, then he’s depressed, then he’s a total goofball. Every single track has something to offer, whether it’s insane rage-filled industrial rap beats (first 3) or laugh-out-loud one-liners (Send it up, Bound 2), out-of-body-bliss outros (New Slaves, Hold My Liquor), or potentially I’ll-advised samples of Nina Simone songs while rapping about a breakup (Blood on the Leaves). Whether it’s good or bad, you can tell Kanye put 110% of his self into this album and the results are incredible. There’s really no other album, rap or otherwise, that you can compare this one to. Disclaimer: I do not support Kanye’s actions or words from about 2020-2025+

niggaaaaaaaaaa

It's a weird, disjointed album that thrives on chaos just as much as it suffers from it. That feels like a trite summary, partly because the same thing could be said about most of Kanye's career, but it's really exemplified on this album. Most of the tracks on this album have at least one really abrupt shift in tone or tempo, which I don't normally like, but Kanye at least always does something interesting with it. Any Kanye work after this album really isn't worth caring about and part of what makes this album interesting is that he was clearly starting to step into that next era when he made it. If MBDTF was when the roller coaster was at the peak of the hill, this is when you're staring down and speed's staying to pick up but you haven't fully dropped yet. This should go without saying but Kanye is a bad person and he doesn't deserve your money.

man, I remember buying this the day it came out and being absolutely sucker punched by Blood on the Leaves this one has some real high highs but even before we knew about the whole Kanye Loves Nazis thing it was obvious this was where things were going downhill. I don't love this one the way I loved MBDTF or 808s but I do find it fascinating. giving this a four with some reservations. I was hovering around a three but the highs on this one won't let me. now back to not listening to Kanye; we've done the three list albums, I'm mad all over again he had to ruin his legacy, and I am ready to leave him buried in the past

abrasive, electronic soundscape with distorted drum machines and synthesizers. It draws from genres including industrial, acid house, electro, punk, Black skinhead

7/10

I hate this

OK but not my thing

Kanye's a nazi with a God complex. The album is FULL of explicit language. It may be pivotal or influential, or creatively a rap masterpiece. I listened to it and I have no love. There are a few songs that could be interesting, but I refuse to spend more time. Pitchfork: 9.5 Rolling Stone: Top 500 Albums #269

It sucks that I like this album, because Kanye is a POS individual. But, he's very talented creatively and his manias create albums that appear to be new and different from what he has created before. There are 10 tracks and it never overstays its welcome. It does get a bit dreary towards the middle of the album but picks up again towards the end. I don't know if this is Kanye's best album, but man, at least when he puts an album out you know he's going to probably try something different. My favorite tracks: On Sight Black Skinhead I Am a God (somehow the song lyrics are less humble than the song title) New Slaves Send It Up Bound 2

Oh great this idiot again. Never liked him and most likely never will. I dunno this is unlistenable, 0 stars.

Wow, the ramblings of a narcissist that is like listening to a pub bore flow over well produced beats. Just shit

I have looked the other way before in separating the artist from the art. I don’t feel I can do this here. I couldn’t bring myself to listen to this.