Yeezus

4.5/5

Pablo is awesome but this was Kanye’s peak. Also, I love all the sanctimonious Pearl clutching from listeners who give Kanye albums a 1 and then turn around and throw 5 stars to all the classic rock rapists and pedophiles lol.

Ugh, fuck Kanye & all, but this still slaps. Such an absolute disappointment of a human.

Sorry, couldn't even finish it. It was below mid

I honestly think this was one Kanye album too far. I am not a big Kanye fan, but on albums before this, it has been hard to ignore the craft, and pure storytelling poured into the product. This is an unpleasant listen, and lyrics that looking back seem to indicate more than just a big ego.

This is alright

Naw....I won't listen to this Nazi's bullshit today...

Hurry up with my damn croissants! I too yell at the bakery staff when I have to wait for bread. I hold to my standards to judging the music and not the person because we all know Kanye is, at best, having a prolonged and extremely public mental health crisis. Musically, this is, in my opinion, the last great Kanye album. The cracks are definitely showing by 2013, but his talent is still present. It’s a shame he’s gone down the road he’s gone down because he was, at one time, the greatest in the game.

I do not listen to nazi music. Skipping this.

Fuck Kanye, only albums I don't even bother trying to stomach through. Separate the art from the artist until they become Nazis.....

Basically if it wasn't for the word "um"....profanity and sampling this would be an instrumental album. Not 1 original idea. Since My beautiful, which I thought was great, it all sounds the same. Like finding a piece of rabbit sh*t on a hillside ...nothing new here.

Man, this is probably the worst time to become a Kanye fan, but I never realized what a great composer he was. This album is banger after banger.

Raw and biting. I love the way every track sounds, the unconventional metallic sampling and the unkempt energy it brings. The slower more mellow tracks would probably be fantastic while high. That being said, the whole album is quite vile, the lyrical content is often incredibly womanising and full of ego. Its bad enough to the point that it probably should knock it down to a 2*, but I'm gonna keep it at 3 for now

FOUL.

Love how this guy thinks he is a lyrical genius and comes up with garbage like this album Beat was ok i guess

It was fine

ew

Beats were good. Some lyrics were funny, some were kind of dumb or repetitive and got annoying

Kanye is completely of the rails in 2025, but I can understand why he got as big as he did. His music style is like no other, his rapping is less impressive.

Will not be listening to this.

Album fort créatif, même si je suis incapable d’adhérer à aucun propos à peu près que cet homme véhicule sur l’album

This was the point I gave up on Kanye West, I wasn't a fan fan but I like his first few albums, and I remember listening to this the day it got released and promptly never listened to it again until today. It remains as abrasive today as it did then and just gives me a tension headache to listen to it.

thought this was amazing when i first listened, but its lost some of its power as i kept discovering other industrial/abrasive/experimental rap (and as kanye kept spiraling). still very good though. actually nevermind this really is amazing

Nope. 1/5

I can't stand Kanye West. I think he is a tit. But this album is bold and in your face and definitely deserves to be on the list. I strangely enjoyed it.

Awful

I will not listen to him and his garbage. There should be an option for 0. He’s not worth the time it took me to write this.

ass weil kanye und so a nit so mega lol

Uhhhh..don't really want to review Kanye since he is a terrible person who desperately needs help (swastika shirts).....3.5/5.....

Almost forgot about this guy. Tried listening and didn’t hear a thing.

Apparently Lou Reed is a big fan, but I’ve always hated Yeezys

We all know what a huge piece of shit Kanye is, but I’ll be damned if this isn’t a great album.

# 510 : Yeezus I hate Rap. I hate him even more. But I listened to the whole thing and this really doesn't sound great for a hyped up "genius producer". Terrible lyrics too. Favourite Track : Black Skinhead Listened: 25/06/2025

This album is definitely polarizing. Some nights I listen to the album of the day on the balcony with my wife enjoying some beer and THC. Last night was one of those nights. I figured she's always been a fan of rap, so she'd probably enjoy this one. She did not. I, however, did. I enjoyed it quite a lot. The verses are stupid a lot of the time. Childish a lot of the time as well, but they're done with such earnestness that it still hits hard. The beats are great when they're great, but sometimes the songs have very strange arrangement choices. I don't know that I'd listen to this album again, I definitely wouldn't want to support Kanye any more than I have to, that said, I really enjoyed my time with this album.

One of my favourite lines from any Kanye song is "Keep it 300, like the Romans", because it just says a lot about Kanye. Given this is Kanye, I went in with pretty low expectations. Especially because his recent music has been.... less than ideal. Some would say straight up bad, and I would agree. Something I respect from Kanye is that he doesn't just create music, he creates his art. He is his own sound, his own style, and does whatever the hell he wants with his music. Some of it is good (Black Skinhead, Bound 2) some of it, strange (some of the lyrical choices, the beat switches in On Sight are so drastic). Whether it works or not, I always appreciate trying to push music forward.

1,1/5

This is the 147th album I’m rating. Surprisingly I haven't listened to a lot of Kanye before. For my first album I'd rather have his debut but Yeezus is fine. Adding to my Playlist - On Sight, Black Skinhead, New Slaves, Hold my Liquor, I'm in it, and Bound 2. Not Adding to my Playlist - I am a God, Blood on the Leaves, and Guilt Trip. All in all I liked 7/10 songs. It was pretty weird but sometimes that weird was really good. Not bad for my first Kanye album.

This is a really interesting case study on he mental decline of Mr West. I understand and apricate that the majority or modern hip hop needs some dick swinging arrogance, but obviously Mr West is now the king of that. You compare this album to his earlier stuff (collage drop out) and its night and day on the themes and arrogance displayed...I mean for fucks sake this album has a song on it called I am God where he is chilling with the big J talking about "stacking his millions"...which honestly I don't think "our lord and saviour" would give a single fuck about. Then you move onto My Twisted Dark Beautiful fantasy and that's a real show of how bi-polar and mentally unwell he is, and honestly is a fascinating listen Anyways, is the album good? Yes, in spite of the how awful a person Mr West is, the production is as to be expected, phenomenal . The lyrics are fine if not reeking of I am 17 years old and this sounds edgy/cool. Its the weakest album of his on this list and I have to score it according to that.

Fuck Kanye West's nazi ass. When this album dropped, I was blown away. Definitely an early adopter, none of my friends liked this one and I remember trying to convince them how good it was. Of course by now folks have come around, but this album was not well-received by the fans at the time. The production was so left-field and raw; a stark contrast to the highly polished discography before it. I will say at the time I felt that the lyrics and rapping were starting to decline in quality. It felt like at this point in his career, he was truly drinking his own Kool-Aid and shut out any outside influence, to the detriment of the lyrical quality (a trend that would continue downwards through Life of Pablo, Ye, JiK, etc). I'm not going to listen to this again and give him any streaming revenue (fractions of pennies though they are), but going off my last listen to this thing (6+ years ago), this was a very good album and contains a lot of interesting, unique material.

D Beats sind no spannend, aber alles andere spricht mich null a.

Nup

Not a Kanye so I was not looking forward to this album. His earlier music I could tolerate, but once a came to this album, I was just waiting for it to be over. I think his music definitely changed after the loss of his mother as well as his life.

<<<<<<The Beatles Fuck this guy. I try to leave politics and scandal out of my reviews but Nazis will not be tolerated.

Made by a nazi, so hell no

Lawaaierige beats: check Misogyne songteksten: check Geschreeuw: check Typisch Kanye West album dus. Ik zou graag punten aftrekken omdat het een nazi is, maar ik kan geen negatieve punten geven op deze site. 0.0

3.5 So I finally got a Kanye. It’s hard, because I don’t want to be hypocritical - there are many artists on this list who are racists, rapists, pedophiles, murderers, etc. Bowie, one of my favorite artists of all time, certainly had sex with underage women and at points was known to wear a Nazi uniform on stage! So I’m going to try to rate this fairly; it’s just harder when it’s all currently happening. And harder after that when you’re seeing how far a once great artists has fallen. I was a huge Kanye fan till like 2016. I think this is probably his last “great” album. But it’s showing signs of decline. His politics here are kinda “correct”, but there’s seams showing in his fabric. He’s trending towards losing it just a bit. I never fucked with this album like I did MBDTF, but I appreciate it now as sort of the antithesis of that album. This is way shorter and stripped back, with hardly any guests or features. While MBDTF is fun, this is intense. Still, great beats and production, which is where Ye always fared best. I cannot like that this was immediately a fun listen. And indeed, it made me miss the old Kanye.

Didn't listen. No residuals for nazis. Listened instead to a great album by Jewish rapper Action Bronson.

I listened, but this self-indulgent, arrogant, onanistic plonker really does not deserve any more of my time.

nope. next.

No one should listen to Kanye. Having said that, this was the album that got me into hip-hop. I mean, I'd liked a few songs here and there. I was obsessed with Grandmaster Flash back in 4th grade, but mostly, I didn't care for the genre. But then I read so many great things about Yeezus from guys like Pete Townsend and Paul McCartney and Lou Reed, and I was like, "Kanye's good? That ass clown? Come on, now." But I decided to check it out. This album blew my mind. I didn't know hip-hop could do that. And then hip-hop became the only genre I listened to for several years, so this was an incredible gateway drug for me. But don't listen to it or any other album by Kanye anymore. It's a shame because he was truly gifted, but there are plenty of other artists out there.

i get why david loves him so much

C tier Kanye

GOAT

1. zight - 1.5 2. black - 1.5 3. god - 2 4. zlavez - 1.5 5. liquor - 2 6. in - 1.5 7. blood - 2 8. guilt - 1 9. up - 0 10. bound - 1.5

The guy is insane, but separating the man from the art, this is a legitimately exceptional record. The production is left-field and at times quite challenging. Not a massive fan of the lyrics in places, but for me this is definitely his best record. Love it. Favourite tracks: everything.

However you feel about Kanye, he is still a musical genius.

Not as good as his previous offerings. 3.2

Black skinhead was foreshadowing, huh?

To repeat my review of The College Dropout: Eat shit, Ye.

Sounds so good. Don’t love the offensive and immature lyrics. Too bad all of his albums aren’t Christian-based. I’d be more likely to listen.

Highlight Song/s: New Slaves and Bound 2 I haven't listened to Kanye at all, so this is from completely fresh ears. The production is absolutely amazing, my god. I'm really unsure if I like the rapping style he has, but it's catchy in some parts. It really is a shame how much talent was lost; way before he started spreading hate.

This isn't Kanye at his peak, but this is potentially him in his most innovative era. I remember the hype around this album before it released, then finally getting a hold of the leaked files and liking it so much that I still went and bought it at FYE. The influence this album had is insane. It sucks this album came out when Kanye was in a self-destructive period that just kept on spiraling to where he is today.

Hate the man, but love his music :/ Started really good, middle kinda stunk, ends well. 3/5

Not giving that guy any stars

"Bound 2" is actually half decent and saves this from a lower score.

Ye at his creative peak. A wildly engrossing take on punk & industrial music, the energy on this is crazy: the breathless antagonism of New Slaves, the horns on Blood on the Leaves, and for my money an all time closer in Bound 2 - all beautiful. And Kanye's distinct sense of humour is out in force here, perhaps the last true glimpse of it we ever got before Kanye stopped being in on the joke (to borrow a phrase from Boyd). But there's an attitude that runs all the way through, even on lesser tracks like Send It, that really brings this together into a cohesive musical statement, something Lou Reed described as 'supreme beauty' in his review of the record, one of my favourites. Then there's the meta: after putting out one of the most commercially and critically successful hip hop albums ever in MBDTF, itself an olive branch to the mainstream after his Taylor Swift fiasco, it took a lot of balls to follow it up with something as abrasive and uncommercial as this - something the album is self-aware about and plays on for great effect ("first you make them like you then make them unlike you" and the terrific "he'll give us what we need, it may not be what we want" choir lift - a textbook Kanye sample amid Daft Punk's production). Yet it has stood the test of time as one of the most raw, unfiltered and well realized hip hop projects of the 21st century. It's remarkable how clear of a peak this is for Kanye: unless you count the transcendent Kids See Ghosts, it's the last time we got a cohesive, fully formed project from him - which isn't to disparage all of his later stuff, but none of it - not even Pablo - received the same care and attention that Yeezus did.

There’s this split second towards the end of the opening track, On Sight, that tells me everything I need to know about Ye on this record. At 1:50 Ye sings, “I put my dick in her mouth,” dragging out that last word in such punishing style; you can hear him break at the last moment just before the mask goes back on. Ye knows full well that it’s obscene. That moment where the pretense of ‘the greatest artist ever to have lived’ drops gives me the assurance I need when I listen to his music that he’s not completely deranged (at least at the time of recording). Ye’s music carries all the subtlety of an atomic bomb. But he’s a straight shooter and he’s not afraid to speak his truth. I can’t say I approve of everything here, but Ye had an important voice when he made this record and boy does he know his way around the studio. The production is excellent and even innovative. The samples while often clunky are still somehow catchy and inspired; there’s real creativity going on here in the composition of these songs that is to be applauded. I love Black Skinhead, Bound 2, and pretty much clicked with everything in between. Blood on the Leaves, another showstopper. The electronic beats on some of these tracks also have this amazing cold, industrial feel to them - it’s weird and unfriendly, and I love it. For me to rate this anything less than a five would be clear virtue signalling to others that I couldn’t possibly have a high opinion of the music of someone so utterly compromised as a human. The truth is that this is simply a modern classic, and a high watermark for the genre. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Se me escapa, muy viejo, muy blanco y...

And here is where the spiral manifests itself. Yeezus, at the moment and in hindsight, is Kanye approaching the cliff and preparing for the jump. His focus had gotten scattershot, dabbling in fashion and spending less time on what got him to the dance and his abrasive personality was dipping its toes in waters so deep that it served to redefine the public's already set perceptions of him while it was constantly shifting. Yeezus marked the moment where Kanye burned the bridge of his connections to what was then and never looked back. One had to be there in regards to what it was like. What was maximalist was now minimalist, no features boosting up the track-list and, if there were, there wasn't any trumpets blaring out about it. Staring down double standards and doubling down on increasingly raunchy lyricism that bordered on clever and dumb, Yeezus is a unflinching portrait of what was and what would never be again. Things can only go downward from here.

Nazi

Almost 500 albums into this project, and there have been albums pop up that I didn't want to listen to. Some of them ended up surprising me and I really liked them. Others justified my aversion. But I've always given them a chance. Until now. This is where I draw the line. This guy is a clown show, and his genre is one I just don't care for. Not gonna do it. Hard pass.

Firstly, I appreciate how controversial Kanye is and how disgusting his recent comments have been. However, I have chosen to review this album based on the music alone. There are some real career highs on this album (“Blood on the Leaves”, “Bound 2” and “Black Skinhead”). The production on the album was arguably ahead of its time and there is a real cohesive throughline that pulls the full album together sonically. The samples on this album are next level, especially the Nina Simone sample from “Strange Fruit”. I like that this album isn’t afraid to try something new but not everything hits the mark and it does scream of ego at times.

I just can't even

Quite a change up from College dropout. The songs lean more toward conventional hip-hop/rap. Still an enjoyable album for me.

Wherez the uuuh, hip hop? All I hear is edgy industrial wanking

Prefer earlier stuff and even Life of Pablo

This was probably the last Ye album I took much interest in, and for me it's nowhere as enjoyable as some of his previous efforts. That said, I give points for some of the legitimate innovation here.

Mwa

what a tragic fall this person had

Didn't love Kanye before he was a Nazi, certainly don't like him any better now.

Not my favorite Kanye album, really doesn't hit. I can separate him from when this album, or any, was released. Not my jam.

Feel like I could analyze this one for a week, which is a credit to the album. When you throw music on at the house, this isn’t what you’re playing, but it’s perfect for this exercise. I’ve thought a lot about this album. When this came out a friend played Bound 2 for me and I just thought it was Kanye being intentionally provocative and it wasn’t “real” music. My friend’s response was that I was talking about it, which I think was my point. Over time though that song specifically has really stood out as a great song on its own. In the context of the entire album it’s even better. I don’t know what KW is doing these days and I don’t support etc etc but the dude is a genius. I think he might be our Bowie? A mentally ill Bowie. One of the cooler music moments I’ve heard is on the first track. You’re immediately on your heels with that dissonant aggressive beat, and it cuts to a “sample” (which I’ve learned was recreated because they couldn’t get the rights) that sounds like the best thing you’ve ever heard “he’ll give us what we need, it may not be what we want” How it sounds sonically is an accomplishment, not sure I’ve ever heard that kind of contrast before, but him saying “yea I know this is fucking insane, it’s not the hit you want but it’s what you need to hear” is pretty fucking sick. He can make beautiful music if he wants but that’s not what we “need”. Not sure that we “need” it but I greatly prefer to be challenged that to hear recycled shit we’ve heard a million times. I’ll continue thinking about Yeezus for a while. More music that pushes boundaries please.

Is Kanye the only muscial genius of the 21st century? I'm not even really a fan (even before the Nazi stuff, always found him annoying) but this album is so clearly on another level from everything else going on at the time. It's abrasive and strange and unlike anything else, yet still works on its own. Kanye is a madman who delivers his bizarre, unsettling vision with such conviction, you start to feel a little crazy too.

After reading through the wiki, I kept thinking that it would be cool to get a cut of this album before they stripped it down to a minimalist style and made it more “abrasive”. Not that I don’t appreciate it stylistically (although I think some songs go a little far - New Slaves, Send it up), it would just be cool to hear chiller versions of these with some bonus instruments. Black Skinhead and Bound 2 are bangers.

This album surprised me...I didn't really like it when it came out, but in hindsight seeing this as right around the time when the wheels started to fall off for Kanye, I'm kinda into it. Now that we've seen the wheels come all the way off, the lines that used to strike me (and probably most people) as arrogance and bravado now just feel like clinical delusions of grandeur, which for some reason is much more interesting and fun. Get em, you crazy bastard Musically, the production on this album is pretty nuts. Such huge sounds on some tracks, some minimalist production on others Hold My Liquor fucking slaps, Blood on the Leaves is sick, Bound 2 is unique. There's no one like Kanye

For some reason I keep thinking this is the kind of cohesive album Queen was trying to make with Night at the Opera. Songs about Croissants > Songs about Cars. Haven’t listened to that much Kanye overall, but this is better with each listen.

I am left wondering what many of these songs would be like with something other than Kanye West with minimal vocal effects on them. The production on this album is sooooo cool - everyone was going EDM at this point, but no one was going for a gritty, dark, sometimes minimal electronic sound. Yeezus has a dream list of production support. The lyrical content and man in focus, on the other hand, is a different story. It feels like Kanye begins to lean too far into the anti-hero narrative with this project. I've always thought that after his mom passed, you could hear a marked tone shift in his music. "I Am A God" is the first good example of how lofty the production is, and how starkly different the dry, sometimes goofy vocals are. I dont need all the lines to be serious, but it feels like there are points where Kanye is just exercising verbal free-will more than actually saying anything. "New Slaves" has a total dancefloor synth hit, it was just decontextualized to something a bit more 'deconstructed' for lack of a better genre term. I LOVE the sample at the end - what a find! A Hungarian rockestra song! That's insane work. Shoutout to the trap beat that is so clearly Hudson Mohawke from the horn sound. I cant namedrop anymore producers or this would become a small book. "Bound 2" is by far the best song on here, one of the only times the hard cut production style succeeds. Something about this song is just soooo fun. Maybe part of it is the "Runaway" effect, where it's the closest you get to Kanye talking about something in his personal life that has substance and matters to him. Mixed feelings, it's always complicated with Kanye. A lineup of hall of fame producers creating some compelling, cutting-edge art. And Kanye kinda just...being Kanye on top of it all. Another step down the tragic spiral that guy took. 3/5

A long 40 mins of egotistical slop.

I’m not an expert but this seems like just about the point where Kanye the ego(massive) & overall trash human overtook Kanye the musical talent (also massive). Still pretty good here but with the benefit of hindsight you can clearly see where he’s unfortunately headed.

Ezmoney 10/10 100/100 wish he wasnt doing this shit

Yitler

kanye west, even with his seemingly infinite number of controversies is no stranger to creating genre-defying and original hip hop music. compared to his last album, he's switched from orchestrated aesthetics to polarizing industrial sounds. album consists of critiques of consumerist culture, fashion trends, racial identity and his own sins. it's artistic and has a lot of messages to the masses, but it's buried under his messy little egotistical brain. kanye was always a bit strange, but this was absolutely the time in his career where he was spiraling. it's an awesome, intense album. he's very skilled but he needs to genuinely find god. or a therapist. or both. if john lennon was still alive the two would be... friends. of some sort.

go away

I can't believe that the fella who put out one of the most aggressively misogynistic albums of all time would turn out to be a massive wrongun

it was all right, started and ended strong/

Kanye is always creative and inventive. This album is no exception. It is also the beginning of the end for his career. Highlight Track: “Bound 2” The beat is ridiculous

Ганье кений 8/10

rather be a dick than a sucker

First 4 songs have some iconic sound samples, then the album fades drastically in the middle, and picks up with the last 3 songs. Solid but I don’t think it’s his best

its a solid 4, not a 5. It could be better, but its not. zbut there are some good songs.

Bound 2, New Slaves, Black Skinhead are all Kanye at his best. I love On Sight + Blood on the Leaves too argue with a wall. Not a perfect album but so creative, nothing really sounds like Yeezus Shame Kanye retired on the day Donda dropped and we never heard from the guy again 😢

Some good songs but some were so ass

Started decent got worse

I respect the art of this album. Otherwise, I'm not of fan of the punk rap / industrial sound or the harshness. To me Kanye is a guy's rapper. Doesn't get me going.

Glimpses of something enjoyable, but mostly just nonsense to me on this album. The last song is probably the best.

Kanye has lost it. He will go on as one of the greatest music makers ever. But after losing his mother, being in the media sphere of a family that has made a living on being televised (Kardashians), and having no living artists who are in a position to humble him, Kanye has his ego and mental health unchecked. This album is produced extremely well, but his vulgarity and themes are becoming more simple and juvenile. Funny he uses Justin Vernon who also seems to have achieved the status to be the arrogant indie king. Separate the art from the artist. I do not give a shit about his controversial/political/bigoted beliefs. I would enjoy this album more if the first 5 albums weren't already perfect.

100 years from now, historians will ask themselves when kanye started losing his mind - and i will rise from the grave holding a copy of this album. yeezus is undeniably where it all started going downhill. 1 star and unlike college dropout, i don't even feel bad about it either.

Had some good moments musically but I can’t justify any more than one star for lyrics so repulsively misogynistic that I genuinely felt sick

Even if there weren't lyrics, it's still a 1.

Ok honestly the instrumental part is pretty cool

Actual lines from this album: "We get this bitch shaking like Parkinson's" "I keep it 300, like the Romans" "I'd rather be a dick than a swallower" "Pussy had me floatin'/Feel like Deepak Chopra" "Eatin' Asian pussy, all I need was sweet and sour sauce" "Put my fist in her like a civil rights sign" "Uh, I be speakin' Swaghili" "I hit her with Jamaican dick, I'm the new Shabba" "Star Wars fur, yeah, I'm rockin' Chewbacca"

Not listening to this. A trash human being.

It’s good. Too bad Kanye became an even bigger asshole

I liked this musically more than I expected. That said, he's still a world class jerk.

I really didn't want to give Kanye air time on my Spotify, but I gave in. Some good songs on this album but it's not one of my favourites of his.

Kanyen viimeinen oikeasti hyvä levy. Tummempisävyinen ja entistä elektronisempi eikä paljon mitään turhaa. 4/5

Fuck Kanye

And continuing my current trend of 1 and 2 star albums, I get my 3rd Kanye album before getting any Beatles albums. The constant barrage of delusions of grandeur and self adulation was insufferable even before he became a Nazi. Mercifully, it was relatively short.

Ill be reviewing this album on its own merits, and not the actions of its shitastic creator. If i judged music on its artists then thered be nearly no music to enjoy. Ill be leaving my personal opinions of how disgusting and awful of a human being that kanye is. This album sucks. Idk why people shove their head so far up kanyes unwiped asshole and claim how good it is. The guys done some good songs and his early work is definitely his best, but this aint it. I think the only semi enjoyable song here is black skinhead but its the only positive thing going here Also, kanye is a nazi and hates black people. Go listen to kendrik or joyner instead of this dickhead. Kanye isnt worth your time

Alot more electronica then I expected. Some cool bars, but nothing really stuck with me. Black Skinhead was really the only song I would come back to.

Really hate to be listening to this again because this art is really hard to separate from the artist. A lot of his projects that people and critics have loved have fallen flat for me, but damn does this album slap. It is objectively killer and proof of how complex people's inner worlds are. It kind of sounds like this "old Kanye's" last fleeting attempt to grapple with the fact that his ego and mental health are both nuclear-powered freight trains going Mach 10 towards each other on the same tracks. Beats are all abstract yet extremely high impact and the bars are caliber. This album even works almost as Ye's "Villian monologue" in a movie. It's an inflated narcissistic diatribe that is seething and unnerving in it's zealousness. If you're a movie protagonist and this is the villian you're up against, God help you.

One of the last worthwhile albums from this artist. Despite his recent buffoonery and off-his-meds behavior, this one still holds up as a departure from his initial sound and is a wild exploration into experimental sounds. Production from Daft Punk is always a plus for any album. Fav tracks: On Sight, Blood on the Leaves, New Slaves, Bound 2

Utterly crude, hilariously so, in places, but also such a weird soundscape and unmistakably Kanye. I know he's a bit of a dick now, but this is just so fucking out-there and ballsy that it's hard not to be impressed.

Das Album Yeezus wurde unter anderem in den Shangri-La Studios in Malibu, den Henson Recording Studios in Los Angeles sowie im No Name Hotel in Paris aufgenommen. Kanye West ist ein US-amerikanischer Rapper und Produzent. Das Album zählt zur Hip-Hop-Sparte, integriert jedoch stark elektronische Elemente sowie Einflüsse aus Industrial, Acid House und Minimalismus. Zu den markantesten Stücken des Albums zählen „Black Skinhead“, „New Slaves“ und „Bound 2“. Diese Titel zeigen sowohl experimentelle Ansätze in der Produktion als auch thematische Auseinandersetzungen mit Gesellschaft, Rassismus und persönlicher Identität. Yeezus stellt eine bewusste Abkehr von klassischen Hip-Hop-Strukturen dar. Die reduzierte Instrumentierung und die provokante Klanggestaltung machen das Album zu einer auffälligen Zäsur in Kanye Wests Diskografie. Es erscheint konfrontativ und zugleich kalkuliert roh.

Shame the Spotify version doesn't have his cover of Horst-Wessel-Lied. A million times NO

I was surprised by the unexpected minimalism of this album, but I can't find much beauty in this type of creative chaos especially when it's matched with lyrics about aggressive blowjobs (even if it's all a joke). Then there's the sample of Nina Simone mixed in with the warbling noise of autotune—it's a bad sound!

By the time of this album it is so obvious how much he doesn't like women.

MY GOAT KANYE.

Favorite track: Bound 2. Overall score: 3.2/10

Nope. Too much sexual content for my liking.

I am not giving this cretin a third go

29th most popular artist on Spotify at time of writing. Last I've seen, he recently showed up to an interview in a KKK robe and on a different occasion posed with a diamond studded swastika around his neck next to white supremacist Nick Fuentes. And do I need to mention the nazi salute live on Twitch? (Then again, which billionaire hasn't done that lately?) We need to stop giving these leeches a stage.

Rap … nö

A few of the songs have pretty good beats but this is quintessential egotistical Kanye. The themes for several songs and the lyrics for most songs are frankly ridiculous and flat out bad. Pair that with Kanye's horrendous public persona and it's really hard for me to get into this album. Also, he's a black Nazi somehow? Excuse my French but fuck that and fuck Nazis. 0/5

not even once

trip out rap

I've listened to 877 of 878 albums presented to me on this site. The one I didn't listen to was Kanye. I'm not going to give this fuckwad a second of my time. I'll add two albums of my own to round out the thousand.

I wish the guy was not so absolutely fucking nuts. I hope he gets help.

Even Kanye’s middle school level lyrics can’t dissuade me from loving that production.

Not really for me. I prefer his early stuff.

Kanye really is the litmus test of your ability to separate art from artist, and in these reviews one can plainly see that the Reddit crowd that makes up a large part of this project's audience is unable to do so, even doing so willfully and defiantly. Were you this smugly judgmental when Public Enemy's album popped up here? Is it really less absurd to support the utterly racist Nation of Islam? Kanye has obviously had some kind of mental breakdown or general mental health issue. The views he has uttered are so over the top that they have become comical - I can't begin to understand how people can (still) take him seriously and work themselves up in such a rage about the inclusion of his albums. Speaking of, I am biased towards this album. Being a metalhead in my youth, this album was what made 19 year-old me start appreciating rap music; from here on, I went on to discover a world I had willfully ignored in my teens. I still mostly dislike Kanye's earlier and later albums, but Yeezus has a collection of bombastic, heavy, viscerally memorable beats which have stuck with me. I don't care about lyrics that much - not being a native speaker helps tuning them out, I think - but whenever I pay attention to them, they are either smart, funny, disgusting or just absurd. Still, the production clearly is what matters here, and the art of Kanye's sampling, beats and composition make this a 5/5 album for me - if only barely.

Decent

It’s a shame what Kanye has become. I can’t give this a good rating because given all of his antics and the fact that they’re only getting worse, separating the art from the artist is impossible.

This is when he should have had an intervention.

Not my thing, really

Bit of a mix but still very enjoyable. New slaves, hold my liquor, blood on the leaves, guilt trip and ofc bound 2 the best tracks. Some shit ones though like I'm in it and I am a God. 3 and a half stars.

When "Ye" ran for president we all should have seen it coming after he revealed his god complex on this disc - and here we thought it was all a front! Delusional. Anyway, this is probably pretty good, but SO not my genre.

Terrible rapper and he’s slipped as a producer

That dark electro-industrial sound is pretty great. Too bad Ye is such an asshat.

Production, and sound is great albeit the lyrics can be off putting. This is the artist intent, to make you look at these things. What I cannot reconcile is the absolute abhorrent behaviour this person exhibits. You may make good music, but can be garbage.

Nope. Nazi rappers can fuck off, too. He's no good.

Nem sequer ouvi este álbum! Hip hop e rap são uma perda de tempo. Isto não é nem nunca será música.

Not sure this is 1001 material

Looking back it seems like this is where Kanye flipped over into trying to be an edgelord, though what I've heard of his later records are far worse than this. I liked both 808 & Heartbreak and MBDTF previously and the music and beat making is still inventive here. However taking an emotive Nina Simone sample of a song about lynching to then rap about your relationship and money problems over the top is tasteless and ill-judged.

Brilliant

jesus christ

Exciting album to check out for me as I did not understand the hype around Kanye's music when I first heard it about 2 decades ago. The initial songs had me thinking the album was Marilyn Manson inspired.

Would never give his music my time. I would rate zero if I could

Boy, that song "black skinhead" is starting to make a lot more sense in 2025...

First half kept me engaged, but after a while it was samey without a change. Hurry up with the goddamned croissants 4/10

MUSICALLY I am super ambivalent on Kanye. I loved a lot of the production and instrumentation. There's no way that knowing the lyrics will improve this for me so I am happy in my ignorance. ADDENDUM: I will look into the lyrics one day. Happy 420 Easter everybody.

5/10 A really interesting artifact in the man’s career, a record that stands as one of the most important and influential, being a significant ingnition for the prominence of artists like Arca and Travis Scott, as well as possibly being a great influence on the grand mass of weirdo abrasive SoundCloud rappers in the late 2010s (and JPEGMAFIA, fuck you JPEGMAFIA, I love you). It’s also the beginning of Kanye’s contrarian era, the more blatant attempt to be provocative in the most literal sense, which in retrospect, is completely pathetic in comparison to the high school white kid antics he’s been on recently. The songwriting on this album is abysmal, and not in the “haha it’s supposed to be bad” way that it thinks it is, what we see now are bars that Kanye post-ironically thinks are hard, while laughing at you for taking them seriously, but pissing into your own mouth in retrospect only really works when you don’t take yourself seriously, which Kanye very much does, it’s the difference between Jackass and a Charlie Kaufman film. The production has its moments, I can’t help but get chills when I hear the buzzing synths of On Sight, but it also pales in comparison to some of the best Experimental and Industrial Hip Hop production from the 2010s and even Kanye’s later music. Also, ΛΛ Λ Y Λ by M.I.A. created Yeezus, not Death Grips, I will tinfoil hat this theory till the day I die.

Setting aside that Kanye West is just a terrible human being with mental health issues and needs serious help, this album is just so bad. Good thing I just pirated it. I feel like I should be paid for being assaulted by this noise. I'd give it a negative score if I could. My other 1/5s are at least somewhat listenable. 1/5

So so good. Come back kanye. Stop all your foolishness and make amazing music again!

4/5

I love how original this sounded and it still stands its place. I would probably rate it a 5, but I don't think it's as good as MBDTF, so I'm gonna keep it a hiiigh 4. Love this one. Get the volume up, set the bass high and just enjoy it!!

My opinion about West in his life outside music aside, I never vibed with him. His rap style always seems so basic, and this album shows it yet again. Reliance on auto-tune, nonsensical lyrics, mid cadence and rhytemn and he is so full of himself. Annoying. The one saving grace is that the beats, as always, are exceptional.

The exact turning point when Kanye's mental illness overtook his musical ability and consumed him completely. An abrasive, often unlistenable descent into madness. The minimalistic production does him zero favours here, discarding all of his strengths only to emphasize his biggest weaknesses: abysmal lyrics and weak flow. Utter dog shit. Easily the worst album in his discography.

Perfect album!

3.75

Decent listen.

I didn't enjoy this as much as 'The College Dropout'. Nowhere near. It seems to me that on this album, Kanye decided to do less and less of what he does best which is rapping clever lyrics over clever samples and cool beats, and more of whatever the hell this is. The opening two tracks are good. 'On Sight' is heavy and electronic and 'Black Skinhead' is very intense and threatening and Kanye sounds great on it. A lot of the rest of this album though is really obnoxious. It's filled with these screechy parts that are more irritating than they are interesting or captivating. The two singles are the aforementioned 'Black Skinhead' and the closer 'Bound 2' which I also really like and have done since it first came out. It's weird though, how these two singles, which for me are the two best tracks, sound like they don't belong on this album. They're the standouts in quality and also in sound. It sounds like he wanted to sound bigger and grander but to me it just sounds a bit pompous. I'm hoping the final album of his on this list is better.

This fails on every possible level. The rapping is poor. The lyrics are hate-filled. The "lo-fi" arrangements are spoiled by excessive use of autotune for effect. The music is crap. And to cap it all, West is an obnoxious piece of shit who is taking up space better left empty. The other albums I've rated one star here are all wonderful by comparison. This might be the very worst thing described as music that I've ever heard. I can only think it's included here as a dire warning.

Didn't listen to that album, don't want to support the artist.

listening to nazis letsgoo (not) Separating the dude from the art here Hes a good rapper. Thats a good album. Lyrics are superficial but sounds sound good. Like good good. Can't give more than 3 though tbh he really is nazi

with an album this contentious, the REAL controversial take is giving it the 3/5 it deserves

If I could give the nazi 0 stars I would

nah on sight- 5. its interesting at least. black skin head- essentially what kanye is atp. also, my mom did know a black skin head at one point. 6 i am a god- 4. okay, "in a french ass restaurant, hurry up with my damn croissants" is a funny bar new slaves- 4. "id rather be a dick than a swallower." huh. hold my liquor- 4. WAIT THIS IS BITCH IM BACK OUT MY COMA??? okay im sorry.... 6. did i just like a kanye song.... okay only that part. the rest sucks. 5, final answer im in it- i dislike this. 2 blood on the leaves- insane thing to sample. its really weird to sample a song about lynchings and make it about a relationship? 1 guilt trip- 2 send it up- 4 bound 2- 4 i dont know what to do with this

positiivinen asenne, persoona.. olen jumala.. mitä tämä tarkotitata.. Sen sijaan, että olisin suoratoistanut Yo La Tengon "I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass" ja "I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One" (onneksi miksei tämä albumi ole listalla????) suoratoistin tämän! this motherfucker sampled Gyöngyhajú Lány ok on pakko antaa plussaa siitä... haters gonna hate hate hate hate players gonna play play play play im gonna shake shake shake shake shake shake shake shake shake shake shake shake shake sheke it off.. shek it off uu oo... seksija ja huumeja new slaves

Fuck Nazis though

Nah

Hate to support kanye given his recent antics. But he is iconic and legendary for a reason. I remember when this came out in college and not liking it at all. Wanted the old soulful sounds and this was so abrasive. And I hadn't really gotten into electronic music myself. But years later I keep coming back to this album (pre most recent antics). He delivers some of his best verses over some hard beats. And there are still snippets of the soul sounds throughout the record. Love Yeezus the album hate kanye the person

Zero tolerance for nazis

Not really sure what to make of it - contextually it is seen as a culturally groundbreaking album. For me personally, I found it a bit disjointed and difficult to listen to. Maybe that's the point.

I didn’t hate this, but didn’t like it enough for a 3. With Illmatic probably the best hip hop album so far.

Hate the guy these days but the man is talented.

Kanye is crazy. Period. The music is fun to listen to though. Hip-Hop is usually not my thing, but this is interesting.

I’ll keep it 300 (perhaps, akin to the Romans), I don’t wanna talk anymore about the guy who made this, so I won’t. The songs however, I could gush for hours, how the hell do you gather all of these eclectic musicians and influences together into something extremely abrasive, hype, and beautiful?? Those are three adjectives that probably shouldn’t all be on the same album. Also daft punk worked on it, so even if you ignore everything else I said, automatic 5 stars.

27/03/25 I hate how little I didn't like this album. It's not even the worst thing I have heard, I just hate Kanye.

Lunatic

This music is equivalent to overfilled lip plumpers for me. The initial musical skills are over-tweaked until they're unattractive.

This fucking sucked!

Didn't expect this to be in here over some of his earlier shiz but yeh it still slaps no doubt. Mid 5.

Noooope. Not sending money his way.

Surprisingly enjoyable. Some proper sick beats throughout, and lyrically really good.

Not my cup of tea. I get that it's supposed to be sparse, but as a result it doesn't have anything to grab attention.

Bon, on va poser les couilles sur la table deux minutes car on s’attaque à l’album qui a fait chialer les puristes et mouiller les critiques en manque de sensations fortes. Yeezus. Le disque où Kanye West a décidé qu’il en avait officiellement plus rien à foutre de tes oreilles, de ta radio préférée et de ton confort acoustique. En 2013, le mec était au sommet et il aurait pu nous sortir un My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy bis, avec des violons, des refrains de stade et du champagne à tous les étages. Mais non. Le mec a préféré s'enfermer dans un loft à Paris pour accoucher d'un monstre. Un truc qui ressemble à un mixeur en train de s'enculer un synthétiseur Moog dans une cave berlinoise. Ce qui me frappe dès la première écoute, c'est cette absence totale de politesse. Habituellement, un album de ce calibre cherche à te séduire, à te brosser dans le sens du poil avec des refrains accrocheurs et une production léchée. Ici, on est dans l'épuration totale, dans une sorte de minimalisme punitif qui te hurle au visage. On sent la main de Rick Rubin qui est passé par là avec une tronçonneuse pour élaguer tout ce qui ressemblait de près ou de loin à de la complaisance. Le résultat ? Une espèce de carcasse métallique, froide et abrasive, qui ne laisse aucune place au doute. Une agression sonore qui te force à sortir de ta zone de confort, que tu le veuilles ou non. Musicalement, on est sur un terrain vague électro-industriel. Les synthés sont saturés jusqu'à la moelle, les rythmes sont déstructurés et les samples sont balancés avec la subtilité d'un pavé dans une vitrine. J'aime cette radicalité, j'aime quand un artiste prend le risque de déplaire souverainement. Kanye explore ici des sonorités qui grincent, des textures qui rappellent plus les usines de Détroit que les studios de Los Angeles. On est dans le hip-hop de combat, celui qui ne cherche pas à faire bouger les culs en boîte de nuit, mais qui cherche à faire vibrer les tripes de manière inconfortable. C'est strident, c'est parfois insupportable, mais c'est d'une puissance créative assez phénoménale. On sent que l'expérimentation est le seul maître à bord. Kanye se fout de la structure couplet-refrain-couplet. Il s'amuse à briser le rythme, à insérer des silences oppressants ou des cris primaux qui te glacent le sang. C'est une oeuvre qui respire la noirceur, une sorte de cauchemar éveillé où la technologie semble se retourner contre son créateur. Les samples audacieux, souvent déformés au point d'être méconnaissables, ajoutent une couche de mystère et d'agressivité. C'est un travail de design sonore avant d'être un album de rap. On est dans l'art brut, dans la matière sonore travaillée au burin et à la masse. Parlons-en, de l'ego. "I am a God", qu'il dit. On pourrait lever les yeux au ciel et passer à autre chose, mais c'est justement cette arrogance qui donne à Yeezus sa colonne vertébrale. C'est le cri d'un homme qui se sent enfermé dans une cage dorée et qui décide de cogner contre les barreaux jusqu'à ce que ses mains saignent. Les paroles sont crues, souvent agressives, parfois vulgaires, mais elles reflètent un malaise profond. Kanye y balance ses frustrations sur la célébrité, sur le racisme insidieux qui persiste même au sommet, et sur cette société de consommation qui veut le réduire à un simple produit. C'est sombre, c'est provocateur, et c'est surtout d'une honnêteté brutale, même si cette honnêteté est enveloppée dans une couche épaisse de mégalomanie. Il y a une colère noire qui traverse chaque piste. Ce n'est pas une colère feinte pour faire genre "rebelle de salon". C'est une rage viscérale qui transparaît dans le grain de sa voix, dans la violence des mots choisis. Il ne cherche pas à se faire aimer, il cherche à être entendu. Et pour être entendu dans ce brouhaha médiatique permanent, il a choisi de hurler plus fort que tout le monde sur des tapis de distorsion. C'est une démarche presque punk dans l'esprit : faire table rase du passé, cracher sur les attentes et imposer sa propre vision du chaos, quitte à se mettre tout le monde à dos. Évidemment, les réactions ont été contrastées. Comment pourrait-il en être autrement ? On ne sort pas un tel disque sans s'attendre à ce qu'une partie du public crie au génie pendant que l'autre hurle à l'escroquerie. Certains ont fustigé cette production "inaudible", d'autres ont salué une vision futuriste qui allait changer la face du genre. Et c'est là que réside la force de Yeezus car un album qui laisse indifférent est un album mort. Yeezus, lui, est une bête bien vivante qui continue de griffer et de mordre plus de dix ans après sa sortie. Il a ouvert des portes à toute une génération d'artistes qui ont compris qu'on pouvait être expérimental tout en restant au centre du jeu. C'est un disque complexe, souvent contradictoire, à l'image de son auteur. Il y a des moments de fulgurance pure et d'autres qui confinent au ridicule, mais l'ensemble forme un bloc monolithique qu'on ne peut pas ignorer. C'est une pièce maîtresse pour comprendre l'évolution de la musique populaire de cette décennie. On est passé du divertissement pur à une forme d'expression artistique qui n'a plus peur de la laideur, du bruit et du malaise. C'est une décharge électrique nécessaire dans un paysage trop souvent lissé par les algorithmes et les attentes des maisons de disques. Au final, si je dois poser un verdict sur cette expérience, ce sera un 4 sur 5. Ce n'est pas la note de la perfection mélodique, mais celle de l'audace brute et de l'impact culturel. Ce n'est pas un album qu'on écoute tous les matins en prenant son café, c'est un disque qu'on affronte quand on a besoin de se sentir bousculé. C'est imparfait, c'est parfois agaçant, mais c'est d'une vitalité rare. Kanye a réussi l'exploit de transformer son propre délire narcissique en un manifeste sonore qui résonne encore aujourd'hui comme une alerte incendie dans une bibliothèque. C'est complexe, c'est controversé, et c'est exactement pour ça qu'il faut l'avoir entendu au moins une fois avant de passer l'arme à gauche. On peut détester le personnage, on peut critiquer la forme, mais on ne peut pas nier que Yeezus a marqué une rupture définitive. C'est le son d'un monde qui craque, et c'est foutrement fascinant à écouter.

American dog shit

I heard some Kanye songs throughout my life. Decided to listen to a rip of this album on Youtube instead. I will be honest with you, I never understood why music bros put Kanye's albums on their best albums of all time lists. Listening to this one feels like this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SRiVWYrnNo Also, "I keep it 300 like the Romans"? They weren't even Romans 1/5

Very highly regarded? I don’t get it.

Well, we can narrow down when Kanye went crazy between when he released College Dropout and this album.

I 100% refuse to listen to this album. The artist and the art cannot be separated.

No streams for Nazis.

Creative and interesting, trendsetting.

Fucking love him.

9.5/10

God fucking damn it, Kanye. All you had to do was not become a nazi. This album is another example of his magical touch as a producer. Kanye the producer is good enough that he makes Kanye the rapper seem passable. This album has tons of variation in the sound, but it always hits hard. However, it's hard to sit here and think of ways to praise this album because Kanye decided to go around telling everyone how much he loves Hitler. Honestly, fuck this dude. Great musician, but I wouldn't ever want to be seen buying one of his albums 4/5. Fucker.

Nearly broke my first car's speakers with this album

Probably my favourite of his

Nostalgic as all fuck especially Bound 2. I'd listen again.

Honestly really good, it feels nostalgic. I would relisten (politics aside)

Kyllä se on 2/5. Pari hyvää kappaletta, muuten ei ole omaan makuun. Tästä se alamäki sitten alkoi.

College Dropout is my favorite Kanye West album, and there are several great songs on Late Registration and Graduation. I don't think I've ever heard any of the songs from Yeezus though. Well, its....weird. Kanye is a good rapper, but the songs just have weird sounds all through the background. Straight off the bat we have On Sight which is just annoying. Black Skinhead is fairly intersting, good rap. The rest is all a lot of the same. Good rap, but annoying background music. I'm In It has some good rap lines. Blood On The Leaves and Guilt Trip hit pretty nicely. Ends with the nice Bound 2. All in all its just ok, would have preferred any of his first three albums instead. Best song: Bound 2

1 - Por que no se le puede poner menos...

A lot going on with this album to the extent that it's exhausting to listen to. The over- production is the point here, and it's a tour de force, a calculated assault on the senses. Still not as enjoyable as it might be for me, but interesting for sure, there's so much to hear in this album.

God, really? I did try to listen to it. Astonishingly unpleasant.

Album of pure genius. The changes throughout songs are glorious and the production is INSANE. Albums like this make me understand why Kanye still got hardcore defenders no matter how bad it gets 😂 This is incredible

Okay. How the hell did Kanye get even more irredeemable in the two months it's been since I listened to The College Dropout? I didn't think it was possible for him to get worse, but here we are! Anyways, just check that review for my take on the whole art vs. artist thing. However, there is something different to think about here. This is not The College Dropout we're talking about right now. This is a review for his 2013 album Yeezus. By this point, Kanye was definitely a bit of an ass, but he certainly wasn't evil at this point in time. Still, he was a somewhat controversial figure at this time. However, perhaps even more controversial than Kanye himself in 2013 was the album he released that year, Yeezus. This is a very interesting album. Going from The College Dropout to this probably wasn't the most ideal experience for my Kanye journey, but what am I gonna do about it? Yeezus is (from what it seems) a pretty polarizing album. You have some people claiming that it's Kanye's best album, while other people are out here giving the album a 5/10 or lower. What are my thoughts on the album? Well, it's no College Dropout, but I'd say I liked Yeezus for the most part? I think? It's a flawed record for sure, but the best parts of this album are quite great. Let's start with those best parts, shall we? I cannot stress enough the importance of the fact that this album does not overstay its welcome. Yeezus is a tight 40 minutes, which is perfect. Apparently this album was supposed to be longer, but it was cut down in length thanks to the legend himself, Rick Rubin. I always knew he had good ideas. Speaking of Rubin, the production is my other favorite part of this album. It's quite abrasive at times and is very different from that of an album like The College Dropout, but I still enjoyed it, just in a different way. The beat on "On Sight" makes me feel things that I don't know how to explain. I'm not sure if it's actually good or not, but I still can't help but smile hearing it. I really like the production. Now, let's talk about the big problem with this album for many... the writing. Look. I'm not going to say that this album has no good lines at all. That simply isn't true. Songs like "New Slaves" and "Blood on the Leaves" have plenty of great lines. However, there's also some stinkers on here. "Black Skinhead" is a pretty good song, but I can't help but feel disappointed in Kanye when I hear the line "I keep it 300 like the Romans." I mean, there's lots of things Kanye does that disappoint me, but that's just something I have to point out. Other songs like "I'm In It" just don't work for me. I respect the willingness to exude some of the less desirable parts of his personality, but I can't help but cringe a little with some of these lines. This is an album with some high highs, low lows, and some other things that fall in between. There's plenty of other things I could talk about. The features are okay. Kanye's rapping does the job well. "Bound 2" is cool. The cultural impact is certainly there. I can see why this was considered for a third Kanye album on the list. I don't know if it's the one I'd choose, but I can understand the choice. Overall, Yeezus is a fascinating album that has plenty of things to like and dislike. While I absolutely understand why someone would dislike this album (even including separation of art and artist), I found myself having a pretty good time with this one for the most part. It's not perfect, but it certainly tries something unique and pays off. Light 4/5.

Is it possible to separate the artist from the art? Because the artist is as trash as they come - a literal self-professed nazi. Which makes the song Black Skinhead hit differently. My thought on this album has always been that it's my favorite Kanye album - but I liked it better when Saul Williams and Trent Reznor did it with The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust. I love the experimental, industrial soundscape, and I actually think musically, it's his bravest and most creative album. Lyrically, however, it's kind of dogshit. It's mostly juvenile braggadocio referencing sex and the female anatomy. Which, fine, right? But on an album that has the song Blood on the Leaves, which talks about the history of lynching black people in the US, it just comes across as lazy and boring. This is a tough one, because I despise Kanye, and I've always felt he was massively overrated. But while I haven't listened to this album a ton because of my antipathy for Kanye, I have always liked it and, overall, liked it this listen. Kanye sucks, but this album, sadly, does not.

Very few people know how much input Houmous & Chutney had on this album. Pretty much all the writing and producing. It was only when Kim came along during the recording, Kanye changed. We warned him. He didn’t listen. The rest is history! 1.7

‘What’s this song about, Ye?’ ‘I’m just so fuckin’ steamed about not having any CROISSANTS!’ Fucking dog shit.

hmmmmmmm....I mean I'll give it a try. Okay this isn't half bad honestly. Totally unique sounds and mix of genres. ooooh I'm in it is pretty sexy. mmmmI was tempted to give it 4 stars but I'm saying 3.

Sometimes I worry about rating foreign language albums very highly on here without having done the work to find lyric translations and look up bibliographical details of artists I've never really heard of and their political histories and cultual contexts that I haven't been experiencing first-hand. Because I could really like the way something *sounds* and unwittingly give Yeezus by Kanye West a really high grade, you know?

a troublesome exercise in attempting to separate the art from the artist

I certainly risk overestimating my own prescience when I look back at this album's release with everything we know about West today (he recently tweeted that he has dominion over his wife and has repeatedly posted Nazi imagery). What I remember is really enjoying the sound and production of this album but really not being able to listen to it a lot because it all felt like it chafed and I was starting to lose belief in the idea that this was all critical genius, to do things like sample "Strange Fruit" and rap over it about consumption and cheating. (To borrow from wikipedia: Jody Rosen of Vulture stated that: "[West is] well aware how audacious to interpolate that sacred song into a monstrously self-pitying ... a melodrama about what a drag it is when your side-piece won't abort your love child.") We'd already had MBDTF and it had some similar production tricks and similar lyrics, and 2013 for me personally had a lot of scales falling from my eyes about dudes who were like "no one can understand my dark and twisted psyche >:)) anyone who could see in my mind....ehhehe...well....they would go crazy >:]" and the idea that the reddit/4chan style of using slurs because free speech is important. The beat for Black Skinhead was incredible but listening to it at the gym I'd just think about how Genius annotations on it would be like "actually! West here says 'keep it 300, like the Romans' but 300 is a Spartan army reference as seen in the comic and movie!! however, this is lyrical genius to twist the reference to rhyme with '300 bitches, where's the Trojans' !!" and I just was getting sick of it. A bunch of the "zingers" in here, whether critics loved them or not, feel to me like Hot Topic t-shirt slogans or Facebook statuses from the worst guy you know in your hometown. ("I'd rather be a dick than a swallower" .... "in a world of dicks and assholes I'd rather be a dick" you see where I'm going here?) Daft Punk did incredible work on this and it's unfortunate that Kanye West is who he is. Jesus certainly wept.

Es un trap inbancable. No puedo escuchar esto lamentablemente, aunque sea mucho más pasable que otros.

yeah no f this guy

I miss the old Kan ... yeah never mind man where did my goat go

Pretty hard to get through. Has some compelling moments but in general really abrasive and hard to get into. Lyrics get exhausting after a while. 2

Not gonna listen but I obv know it’s gas

fuck. this sucks because the production is genuinely mind blowing like the synths are making my head spin. But he sucks and also so does “I’m in it” so can’t give this a 5

Nope not listening to this anymore.

Great album, terrible person

Nazi fuck

Conflicted about this one as Kanye continues to be a total piece of shit, self proclaimed Nazi. However, from a musical standpoint, this album is very good. When it first came out I listened to it regularly for over a year. This was my first Kanye album I listened to. Aggressive album, well produced, certainly harder to listen to in hindsight without tainted thoughts. I feel compelled to give it a 1 simply bc of who Kanye is, but I’ll grade based on music.

Well, this was certainly an interesting time to get Yeezus considering that Kanye is going through his little X crash out but regardless of the kind of person he is, This album is terrible. I can certainly see the idea they were going with in the production, having Daft Punk produce a lot of these tracks, but it kinda gets so overkill that it makes the instrumentals annoying and directionless. But even if the instrumentals are bad, that can be forgiven since hip hop is a more lyric-driven genre right? Wrong! The lyrics here are also incredibly horrendous with Kanye clearly prioritizing wordplay over actually making the lyrics make sense. It's a shame i have to give this album a 1 considering The College Dropout was incredibly good but i have to do it. Best Song: I'm In It Worst Song: Bound 2

Annoying to be getting this one like a week after he put himself in the headlines (again) with his nazi shit. Anyway, I respect how different it sounds from previous stuff of his, but it's not as good as Twisted Fantasy was

I gotta do it man

I don't listen to albums by Nazis

no era el mejor momento para un álbum de kanye perooooo Hurry up with my dammn croisant

2/5

No.

What a wild ride of decent to shrapnel

Very cool.

I promised myself I’d seperate the artist from the art after I gave the last KW record a 1 despite it being great. He makes it really fucking difficult though doesnt he? This album came up the week he launched a swastika range and lauded praise on Hitler. So aye, this album is very very good, some incredible beats and feel it goes beyond a lot of rap, but he’s also one of the biggest cunts going

There were some quite interesting beats on this and he delivered some of it in an engagingly angry way. I don't think he was ever as good as the hype but there was something about his music. You can really feel Kanye starting to become unhinged on this, which was an interesting precursor to the horrendous prick he was becoming but a bit uncomfortable to listen to. Musically it was the okay but no desire to repeat it.

Does Kanye West think he is Jesus? Yes. Does his album suggest he is Jesus? Yes. He set out to make an album where he considered himself as God, and it largely works. Excellent use of samples and his lyrics are strong here. Hold My Liquor and Blood on the Leaves are my favourite tracks, but Black Skinhead and Send It Up are also great. This is definitely the point though where he went off the boil - 808s and Heartbreak, and MBDTF are superb. Is Kanye West a bit mad? Yes, but no more so than other controversial artists on this list. 5 stars, not even a bad boy boost. This album is cracking.

Never heard this album before. He's clearly well in his phase of believing his own hype here (I am a god). Nowhere near as good as college dropout we had before. He is much more crass here too and falls back on the old misogynistic rap tropes too much. Really don't like the whole auto tune sound which is throughout the album either. There is something about it in parts though... Something I can't help but appreciate. He can definitely rap and has good flow, but often what he is rapping about is utter nonsense (I still think they're is something wrong with him mentally). Honourable mention to "speaking swaghili" and "put my fist in her like a civil rights sign". I think my favourites were new slaves and hold my liquor, but I'm not sure I actually like them that much.....I do quite like the patois that features every now and again. I think 2.5 but it's interesting enough for 3. Doubt I'll be back though

Not 5 stars because MBDTF

Not interested

Just no.

What a load of tripe. Angry man being rude about women.

This must've been about the time he lost his silly ass mind. One of the worst albums I've ever suffered through. Beats suck, lyrics suck, and nothing worth listening to again on the whole album. I've got lots of Kanye songs from earlier albums in my library that I love, but this is just garbage and basically everything after he did The Throne with Jay-Z is too as far as I can tell.

0.0

Witty and filthy and coming unglued. Portrait of a genius descending and ascending simultaneously. I loved reading about the diverse influences on this album.

I love you ye

I don't listen to Nazis

Fuck off, Nazi.

These albums are hard to rate. He’s talented, the sound is solid, but he sucks as a person and the lyrics are not for me

ебанутый легендарный релиз

The guy isn’t half as good as he thinks he is. There are many that are much better. Beats are decent, that’s about it. 2.5

Fuck this guy. This might be good, but I'll never listen to it.

Enjoyed it more than expected but struggle to take Kanye West seriously. Favourite tracks: On Sight, Black Skinhead & New Slaves. 2/5

Dissect season on this is a great recommendation

fuck you kanye west

класека

this was awful the only good thing are the beats and samples.

4/5. I am sure half the people who listen to this album do not listen to this album because of the artist. And look, you don't have to listen to any album because of any reason but you should always give something a chance. To say this album is not creative and innovative especially with its release time. This album inspired a lot of our electronic based popular music today and yet it doesn't feel old. I know it's not that old but it could have been released today and will probably feel the same 10 years from now as well. The lyrics are definitely cringe but this album, like most of Kanye's later albums, whether intentional or not, there is a pity with all this ego talk, this man is one of the most insecure people in the world. It does not excuse his personality or actions but it does make the music more complex than just the surface level, which is already well-made. The last few songs on the second side, especially the last song, are not great compared to the rest of the album, so it's not a masterpiece. Best Song: Black Skinhead, On Sight, I'm In It

Black skinhead is worth saving. Otherwise this would be a 1*. There's nothing else just enjoy here, it's just a vehicle to hear what he has to say, which isn't anything particularly profound

The guy is an absolute narcissist. Makes it hard to enjoy the music, though admittedly it's not bad.

nah

The other two Kanye albums on this list are MUCH better

An awful person singing about awful things. The lyrics on this album are genuinely awful and repressive. It’s a 0/5 score if that was possible!!

Okay

Don't mind a couple of the songs (Black Skinhead) but some of the lyrics made me so uncomfortable (I'm In It was so gross). There's also much autotune and i wasn't a huge fan of some of the experimental elements or sampling.

*No music. Loud screaming and noises. RAP. And synithizers of voices and instruments

Kakvo dno od "glazbe" i još veće dno od čovjeka. I'm in it pjesma je valjda najniže gdje možeš doći kao glazbenik i ljudsko biće, što drugo reći na to. Neću uopće trošiti energiju više, da mogu dati nulu, dala bih nulu. 1/5, 1/10

0/10 Kao prvo, Kanye mentalno nije dobro niti je zdrav. Kao drugo, oduvijek je bio jedna od tupijih olovaka u pernici pa mu ni to ne ide u korist. Uz ta dva navedena hendikepa, jos je i neonacist (ili bi to htio biti, sto je svejedno paradoksalno s obzirom na ocito), a i nisam vidio nikad nekog s vecim egom od njega u showbusinessu. Znao sam si upaliti na yt neke njegove izjave i momente da me zabave umjesto south parka, ali mi je uvijek ostavilo gorak okus u ustima. Uspio je eto biti jedan od najplacenijih artista i osoba koju su svi htjeli imati u kolaboracijama (danas se to malo stisalo jer objavljuje svastike i ponasa se neuračunljivo), a i svi artisti koji ga hvale su defaultno namjesteni da kazu da je jedan od najvecih genija u muzici, bez obzira na sve, jer ka-ching! Meni je osobno sve sto sam od njega cuo u najmanju ruku stupidno i iritantno, i zbog muzike i njegove groteskne pojave. Yeezus je album posvecen sebi, svom liku i djelu, kao prikaz svojevrsne reinkarnacije isusa, a inovativni glazbeni momenti, ako ih i ima, me u ovom slucaju uopce ne zanimaju. Uz svu muku, htio sam ovaj album pustiti od pocetka do kraja, ali bi zauvijek zalio sto sam potrosio sat vremena svog zivota na njega. Sto god on napravio u glazbi, koji god (cak i meni dragi) artisti imali rijeci hvale za njega, koliko god mu produkcija moze biti na najvecem mogucem levelu s obzirom na lovu koju ima i s tehnologijom kojom raspolaze, pa cak i talent koji neki vide a drugi ne; njegova persona, stavovi i ponasanje ce mi uvijek zasjeniti ono sto je napravio do sad. That being said, ovaj album ne moze dobiti vise od nule. Odjebi kanye.

I don't understand it well. Very out there and experimental. It has big moments. I don't want to listen to it again except for the intro and the outro. Craziest line: eating out an Asian chick need that sweet and sour sauce

I listened to this years ago when industrial hip hop was a relatively new concept and I thought it was super messy. These days, while not being a perfect album, and paling in comparison to it's predecessors/contemporaries (The Money Store or Exmilitary by Death Grips should really be on this list) it really has grown on me. This album really feels like the transition into the unstable side of his career, rapidly expanding from the structured themes of power and excess expored on MBDTF into chaotic godhood on this record - a chaos that would continue to affect and eventually plague later releases in his catalog and his personal life. The record starts incredibly strong with On Sight, Black Skinhead, I Am a God, New Slaves (many of my favorite tracks on the album). Things dip a bit for Hold My Liquor through Guilt Trip, then pick up again for Send It Up and Bound 2. Pretty impressive though it certainly has its flaws. 3.8/5 -> 4/5

p935. 2013. 2 stars. Rap, so wrong audience. Bonus points for the quality production. Point deducted to balance out the size of his ego.

Day366 - it’s not edgy or provocative it’s just dumb

Album 645 of 1001 Kanye West - Yeezus (2013) Rating : 1 / 5 This sucks. I'll just quote a review I ran across. This album is "ultimately most repugnant in how it heedlessly collapses all the value dichotomies that Kanye has mined so fruitfully over the years into one bottomless cesspool of narcissism". Simple trash.

nazi :(

He has his head so far up his own ass that he started thinking he's a god. Why do people even like this misogynistic piece of shit is lost to me. I'd rather not hearing this before I die.

89/100. My second favorite Kanye album. Yeezus is stacked with great tracks from start to finish, with some of my personal favorites from him featured on this record.

this is a great website for its concept, but it has terrible taste, this should be so much well respected, the character of kanye is pushed to the max and the production is harsh, precise and genius

Whoa great music - urgent and strong but Kanye’s bullshit shines through here lyrically. It’s a shame - he’s a master producer and he was interesting lyrically earlier on. Here he’s just a born again weirdo with an unironic god complex - and you now know what’s next in hindsight.

Amazing production. This album is one of the first "noise" style albums I've ever enjoyed. Some of the lyrics are kind of insane (sweet and sour sauce for example, iykyk), but this is a no skip album for me.

Possibly Kanye at his best. Grimy beats juxtaposed with beautiful choirs. The wordplay here is classic Kanye. Since I had an Eninem album the other day, he's fresh in my mind. Like Eninem, Kanye's lyrics are transgressive and seek to offend but often it seems like Kanye has (had?) a lot more self awareness and is in on the joke. The lyrics are shocking in order to bring awareness to social issues that have been plaguing this country since before it existed. Black Skinhead sampling the Black Lodge Singers fits so well in a song about racial injustice. African Americans and Native Americans have been working together through struggles for centuries now. Daft Punks production on this song give it a massive boost as well. Just a 5/5 song, easy. Overall, this is an excellent album. Kanye is advocating for marginalized people everywhere to recognize where we're at and realize that help is not coming. We can only help ourselves and by extension, our community. 4.5/5

✅✅ I Am A God ✅✅ Hold My Liquor Per Last Call, the man's bread and butter is mixing beats. Much different than College Dropout, but still puts me in a groove.

One of my favourite ye albums. I love how Experimental it is

I hated it. The songs are boring

Ugh

I find this very hard to rate, because there were aspects to it that were absolutely fantastic - I loved a lot of the production - but so much of it was so relentlessly misogynistic. Giving it a two on balance, but there were bits of this that were four or five stars

The first four tracks bode well but after that it becomes a bit of a disjointed ans irritating mess. Not keen on the production style either

No va

Fantastic

all the daft punks and gesaffelsteins and arcas and bon ivers and frank oceans in the world cannot hide the fact that this dude is NOT spittin.

He’ll give us what we need It may not be what we want