Yeezus

I've never really been into hip-hop, but there are some songs here and there I do like a lot, and since a lot of people praised Kanye as a genius, I was ready to have my mind blown. But it didn't happen. I really couldn't find anything special here. And I tried. It's very likely because I'm not familiar with the style, but still. I found it boring. It was the usual yada, yada about being the best and all that. For me, it was a 5 out 10. mini0n 11/09/2025

You could have picked a lot better Kanye album

first signs of dementia

He's talented yes. But he's also a narcissistic and disturbed human being. Can't support it.

Genius or mental illness? Yes. There are a few interesting things here, but it is mostly an over-indulgent mess. I liked the beats and grooves in a lot of parts quite a bit, but Ye as an MC, not so much. I won't even get into the other baggage he brings along that makes me almost uncomfortable listening to his music. Yeesh. I think I understand why this is on the list and it probably belongs on the list, but I did not care for it.

Not really my preferred era of rap / hip hop, but it didn't strike me as offensive or bad, just not my cup of tea. I would give it three stars, but I know too much about Ye to do that.

Didn't stand out to me as much as the other Kanye album I've listened to on this list.

Not a patch on his first couple of albums 5/10

Not a fan of this.

Hmmm.... Started good. Became a bit messy, need to keep listening to see if it improves with time.

"Unhinged" would be the word to describe it

I stand by my previous comments on Kanye

I can see why this was critically acclaimed but I did not enjoy listening.

This album doesn’t date as I remembered it. Has more low points than hight. And I was a big Kanye fan

His music does nothing for me. At least he kept it relatively short compared to other hip hop albums

Was never a fan

Waaaay too much autotune. Only a few songs hit the spot for me. Not my music.

Kanye lost his mind and was coming off as interesting because he has previously done interesting things; if anyone else had made this they would've been laughed out of the mall they were playing in. This is a descent into madness if the person it was about had no personality and was just obsessed with how they see themselves. Other artists did what they could to make some of this stand out in some ways, but the vision here is awful. Everyone should watch this, it's my actual review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxIvg0y6vCY&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD

I had ducked way out by this point. I'm hearing this for the first time. This opening track is obnoxious. Still using the same formula and some of the tracks just lean in hard to that formula and feel forced. The chipmunked up vocal sample. There are still some interesting tracks, but as always not that strong of a vocalist or lyricist.

there are better kanye albums

2 - Man he's so up his own shit

No me gusta el hip hop

With lyrics this offensive, on so many levels, I can't imagine ever listening to this again.

Felt like Kanye still hadn’t brushed off the fish sticks joke when he made this album

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

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.

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

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.

ass weil kanye und so a nit so mega lol

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

Nup

C tier Kanye

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

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

Mwa

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

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.

Ok honestly the instrumental part is pretty cool

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

Not really for me. I prefer his early stuff.

Not my thing, really

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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

2/5

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Don't like the lyrics

Lace of musical content makes this - like most rap - low quality and uninspiring.

Kannski er maður of litaður af því sem hann stendur fyrir núna, en þetta er ekki fyrir mig.

He's so repugnant

A lot of people like this. I am not one of those people.

Where it all started going downhill for Ye. Someone get him those damn croissants, ffs.

Yeeeeeeeeeeah, no thanks. Daft Punk is my favourite artist, don't ask me about this.

Yeezus, more overproduced noise. Kanye rest.

When it came out I was at the peak of my Kanye and hip-hop enjoyment, but it grew off me massively over time, mostly due to the terrible lyrics and the production feeling like a bad imitation of more interesting artists. There's some good moments spread throughout, and I enjoy the production more than i used to now, but it's still a rough listen.

I appreciate the attempt at minimalist production and the short runtime but this album just sounds lacklustre and unfinished. A lot of the tracks sound like rough mixes. Nowhere near as good as earlier Kanye albums.

Thoughts before listening: This was about the point when I started ignoring Kanye. I like his earlier albums through My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy quite a bit, but this one was released around the time when Kanye the insufferable personality started to overshadow any enjoyment found in his music. I also find the title of this to be insulting and egotistical. Review: In general Kanye's sound on this album is less poppy with the backing tracks mainly using distorted, harsh, industrial sounding beats throughout. Also lots of autotune making Kanye's voice sound robotic and mechanical instead of organic. "Black Skinhead" is the best song here and also the only one I recognized on my listen through. I'll add that to the playlist, but I just don't have any interest in listening to most of these lyrics ever again. 2-stars

Kanye has good, and maybe great albums. This is not one of them.

Meh. This was the beginning of the end.

Not for me

I'm a little behind on my Christian literature, but if I'm not mistaken, you're not supposed to refer to yourself as a god while talking to Jesus. I don't really like any of the songs, but they were intriguing enough to keep me engaged. The styles change so much throughout a song that it keeps you on your toes. It's a very interesting experimental album, but I'm not going to listen to it again.

Yeezus. That was Yit.

Not my Genre but some very interesting lyrics. I listened to this on headphones whilst mowing my lawn so I didn't piss off my neighbours twice 😅

Turning point where his music was getting worse. Production is cool but music should be nice to listen to and this isn’t

Not a fan of the man. My kids both love his stuff. I saw him open for U2 on his first tour, he was entertaining, just him, a mic and a boombox with backbeats circa 2000. I went in open minded so I could give this a listen in its entirety... Interesting electronic intro but then his unappealing voice kicks in and my open mindedness went out the window. He just sounds pissed and I listen to music to rock out, or get into a groove or chill, his voice makes the muscles in my neck tighten up. Maybe I'm too old, I just don't get him but apparently lots of people do, there are 600M listens to "Black Skinhead" and 1B for "Bound 2", wtf?! "I Am A God" speaks to his mentality and contributes to my unflattering view of him as a person. I know from college tailgates that he rules their airwaves but I'll never be a fan. I just find him angry and unenjoyable. Top 1001 for influence and pop culture maybe, but not cause it's good to listen to.

Loved Kanye for first 4 albums....then this....

not for me this one

Overproduced autotune shit but there is some inspiration in here. Stand-out: Hold My Liquor

Kanye has albums that deserve a spot on this list but I Yeezus ain’t one of them. What a sloppy mess this is. Black Skinhead is ridiculous but also great but every other track is a mess. So much random patois peppered in here with shit lines, this sucks. 2 stars

I once liked Kanye, but then when he became awful I removed all his music from my playlists. I think this album came out around the point I made a decision to stop listening to him so I haven't really heard it before. The thing is, while I don't like his lyrics or him at all, the music itself appeals to me so I'll give him a star for that. He's obviously already losing the plot in this album though. Rating: 2

Not bad despite the fact that I don’t like him as a person.

2 because I knew a few songs that were alright. 0 for referring to Asian lady bits as sweet and sour sauce

Every time a Kanye album comes up I'm now expecting to enjoy it more than I expected. This started the same way, fascinating audio, inventive production, but seriously drifted off halfway through and really hit the bricks on I'm In It. Blood on the Leaves doesn't land for me, a waste of the Nina sample. I do not like the autotune gubbins. Is he responsible for that whole movement of tuneless autotuned rambling hip hop that my neighbours insist on playing? That's a serious misdemeanor. Bound 2 is ok but it doesn't recapture the unexpected joy I found in his earlier albums' excellent sampling of old soul records. Ultimately, it starts off abrasive and interesting but gets oddly boring for me.

I like posh white girl music. But I don't think this album is his best work. I like his newer stuff better as it is less angry.

Way less bad than I thought... lyrics are horrible though

Did not like this 2 stars

Kanye is a shithead, and his music isn't as good as people give him credit for.

I remember this record being a massive departure from Kanye's previous work and I honestly didn't care for it much at the time. 11 years later and this is still a tough listen. I mean, right from the start you're greeted with electronic and industrial "beats" WILDLY differing from what you've heard in the Dropout Bear trilogy or even "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" just a few years prior. This continues all throughout and mix that with Kanye's extra-abrasive and brash lyrics, and it all becomes a bit too much sonically. Kanye was always one to strive for greatness and reach for the stars from a production standpoint, and he certainly reached some high highs in his first five studio albums (plus "Watch The Throne" if you wanna count that), but I was never into this one. Drill and trap music have never really been my thing and my tastes were certainly not swayed after this recent listen.

I don't think I'll ever understand the appeal of this guy

The first few songs were hard to listen to, then it got more experimental and thus interesting and more listenable. I don't like the excessive profanity and that it is such a vulgar album, though. Overall it's not something I would listen to again but I appreciate his talent and that he experimented a lot. Fun fact: In New Slaves's conclusion/outro, Kanye used a sample from one of the most iconic songs behind the Iron Curtain/in Eastern Europe, 'Pearl haired girl' (Gyöngyhajú lány) from 1969 by Hungarian band Omega. It is the highlight in New Slaves. Kanye didn't get the permission to use the simple so he got sued by the songwriter and they settled the case outside the court later. This is probably the closest we'll get to a Hungarian band on this list (my home country), it's a shame because this list hasn't contained any Eastern European bands so far even if there are tons of great albums from there.

Most influential rapper of the century. Reinvented rap + brought an entirely new audience into the genre. Most of the most famous rap/hiphop artists today influenced by him etc. etc. I don't like this album. Maybe because it's one of his least approachable, tho I do like other artists with aggressive, jagged beats like peggy and injury reserve.

I'm having a hard time putting into words my reaction to this album. It feels very much of its time. Kendrick Lamar's Good Kid, m.A.A.d City came out the year before and you can hear the impact it had. This is a super horny album. This is the first album after he started dating Kim Kardashian. I don't know if there's a connection but he can't stop talking about or making sex references. A lot of "noise music" on this album...not appealing. I like his earlier work much better. Kanye has gotten really weird.

i don’t care why this is supposed to be so good

This is my 2nd Kanye album on the list. I still fail to understand why this guy is popular. His rapping is mediocre at best. Lyrically it's all very silly, every song Kanye let's us know what he's going to do with his dick or what Kanye wants done to his dick. All the lyrics sound like they were written by a 7th grade boy who just started puberty.

Ehhhh… I liked his earlier stuff, I never got into this one. So narcissistic.

Of course I had to know this Kanye West album would appear at some point. Knowing that did not make it any easier to listen to. It is hard to know whether this is blunt, aggressive social commentary or just a reflection of who he is. While I do see the creative elements and hear the sound that crosses genres and pushes boundaries, this is still not my thing.

Maybe his 7th best album......his faith got in the way of his mental health.

There's some good instrumental potential here, yet there's also a lot of self-sabotage (mostly in Kanye's vocal performance) preventing certain tracks from being sonic masterpieces. The few times when singing is present, it's often heavily autotuned – to its detriment – and the synths, while great, are frequently interweaved nondescript rapping vocals and weak lyrics. I'm judging these lyrics on relatability and depth, and in general the lyrics on Yeezus have neither. On Sight: intense and reasonably catchy synths back a fairly nondescript rap vocal. Weird choral interlude makes the track a lot less accessible. This track definitely starts the album with something new and creative, but does it sound good? Not particularly. When the track ended, I found myself letting out a sigh of relief. Note the heavy use of very brief silences, which is also seen throughout the rest of the album. Black Skinhead: The percussive rhythm here is very strong. Consistent, brutal, paralysing. There's a sudden-mute sound that reminds me of the drumming on David Bowie's "Low", an album that was revered (in part) for its revolutionary drumming. Not a fan of the artificial clapping though, and I'd like to hear some more human-played instruments. Kanye's voice isn't that good, and incredibly non-distinct from contemporaries, so I'm interested to see if he varies his enunciation or maybe introduces more vocalists. I Am A God: A bit fever-dream-ish. Lots of little details to keep the listener engaged. I'm also noticing at this point that (possibly due to nearly 100% electric instrumentation) the textures are quite thin. The screaming towards the end is a bit off-putting, as is the narcissistic theme, but I'll let it slide. New Slaves: the melodic theme is good. Foreboding, impatient, menacing. Everything else about the track is pretty mediocre until the section with the radio-filter singing, which approaching soul territory (with just a hint of shoegaze). Here, the music quality drastically improves. I could listen to a whole album of the last 90 seconds of this song. Hold My Liquor: God, the synths behind Kanye's voice are so darn good in this track. Melty psychedelic electric guitars intermingling with one another over a restless, dronelike low synth line. Kanye's voice actually kind of gets in the way of an otherwise brilliant instrumental track. I'm In It: The lyrics here are pretty gross ("Eatin' Asian pussy, all I need was sweet and sour sauce"? Seriously?), and there isn't much else going on. At least we're introduced to a different vocalist/rapper, this time with a solid and distinctive voice, but that doesn't improve the track much. And, in contrast to the previous track, the instrumental never settles on anything convincing. Generally a weaker song. Blood On The Leaves: It takes some guts to sample Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit. It had better justify itself with good music. In fact, the track starts off promising, with some (ridiculously) intense horn-synths punctuating some fun electronic harmonising. I can't even tell if the female vocal in the chorus is a human or not. Unfortunately, the track is severely tarnished by the autotune on Kanye's singing. Guilt Trip: the retro video game noises get old really quickly, leaving us with nonsensical lyrics and repetitive electronic percussion. Somehow the "dem a gwaan" section is the strongest and most memorable part of the song, and it's not particularly appealing. A throwaway track. Send It Up: The vocals here, while being monotone, match reasonably well with the chord in the synths, making them stronger than most other tracks. The "security breach" noise that defines the track is a little grating, and substantially took away from my enjoyment. Bound 2: the (texturally) thickest and most musical backing of any of the tracks. I feel that singing, rather than rapping, would've meshed much better with the childlike multipart harmonies. Still, this was a pretty good way to end the album. The singing breaks are clearly rooted strongly in soul-pop, and they serve as fun interludes. One of the strongest tracks. 2/5 Key tracks: Black Skinhead, New Slaves (second half), Bound 2

The second song, Black Skinhead, has a nice relatively catchy tune, but the rest are a bit meh. Nothing really happens in the songs.

I do enjoy some Kanye, but not this one. I try to separate the art from the artist and I don't really think of myself as a prude but I found a lot of his lyrics really offputting on this album. It's not helped that it just doesn't have beats that I can really get into. It's not exactly terrible but I don't see myself returning.

Keen on the beats not so much the vocals and lyrics.

Rating: 5/10 Mixed bag album. There are three great songs on here as well as a handful of interesting ideas, the rest of the album I find incredibly annoying and obnoxious, which is exactly the point since Kanye is flexing his ego to the maximum here. The songs that work incorporate electronic elements mostly while sounding different and catchy. Most of the other songs feel too experimental in nature without sounding musical, and with Kanye's awful lyrics it becomes a nuisance to listen to. Favorite songs: Black Skinhead, the end of New Slaves, Blood On The Leaves, Bound 2. Worst songs: I Am A God, I'm In It, Send It Up.

This album is ok. I don't think I'll ever be a Kanye fan, but there were a few decent tracks on here. Not sure I'd choose to listen to it again though, so that puts it in the 2/5 territory.

Not his best work

Oh, my god, he's lost it, he's totally lost it.

Maybe it’s because I grew up around this era of Kanye forming, but this album feels so horrendously outdated already. Much like very generic pop, rap music can age the worst especially when it’s as commercial as this. The leather jeans and Pyrex references are as dated as the beat selection. Kanye for me is at his best when he combines his egocentrism with some humour such as on life of pablo, however there’s no real humour to be found here. Kanye isn’t really saying much and when he does such as on “new slaves” it’s instantly thrown away by lines like “I’d rather be a d*** than a swallower”. Kanye works best when he’s rapping over some crazy sample or some beautifully made beat but that’s not present here with the exception of “bound 2”, which is slightly more humourless and has aged somewhat better. Despite all this the rapping is relatively solid, I think musically it’s just aged badly.

Just not a Kanye fan. Not my thing.

Ugh this guy. The music is good! Can’t question his creativity. When he wrote some of these songs he was clearly in a manic phase. The song “I Am a God” could be used in medical schools to help teach what mania is (I am a healthcare provider and have treated patients with bipolar disease). But as a woman, his misogyny is so off-putting that it dramatically impairs my enjoyment of this album. Actually makes it a difficult listen. Going to take some time to think how to rate this one tomorrow!

I was kind of hesitant to listen to this due to Kanye being just an all around terrible person. The production on this album is insane. The instrumentals are so unconventional for hip hop and honestly it works so well. I really don't love the lyrics on this album and they're even worse due to how bad of a person Kanye is. They're very misogynistic and egotistical which I don't care for at all. It's hard to give this album a score because the instrumentals are amazing and the production is amazing but I very much dislike Kanye and his lyrics in this record.

The words and rapping are dreadful but the music and production are interesting.

2024-03-21...

Not his best album

-needs to be stated I don’t believe you can seperate art from artist and I’m listening in 2024 -there just isn’t depth on the music beyond the lyrics -Listening back, it’s kinda blaring he def is either bipolar or BPD -2 stars for the 2 songs I didn’t absolutely hate

Jezelf zowel God alsook Yeezus noemen en dan zulke troep uitbrengen. Stuitend

"I bet it'll sell even if I put out some weird shit" - Kanye I feel like this album was the first major hint on where Ye was headed mentally.

40 minutes of a man saying gross shit about women. Tiring.

2/7/24. Even after listening again years later, I think this is a big step down from Kanye's work before this one. The production is good, but believe it's a bit abrasive and a little all over the place. Still a couple songs I'll revisit like Black Skinhead and Blood On The Leaves.

Felt like just listening to this I'm supporting his narcissism. There's a few lyrics on this which will live rent free in my head. "I'd rather be a leader than a follower, a dick than a swallower" for example

Manages to be abrasive and heavy, while sounding thin with no richness of sound. With the exception of Black Skinhead it is devoid of bangers. Some of the worst lyrics and melodies I have heard on this list.

Not a fan of his music or his ego, but the industrial vibe this album has going is better than the last one we had to listen of his.

Sometimes you just get tired of constantly hearing : bitches, pussy, titties. I really like Frank Ocean but even he couldn’t save New Slaves for me - I’d rather be a dick than a swallower? Very clever, but Kanye has gone on to prove that he’s a total dick. Musically, this is very inventive. I just can’t take the bullshit lyrics.

Kanye. What to say? I believe he is a true artist, and a fearless one. He absolutely does not believe in censoring his true thoughts, but, wow that is ugly. his willingness to be unlikable extends way beyond provocative trolling, and I believe is a clear representation of his thoughts. And his success has meant that he hasn't felt the need to moderate his expression at all. true artistic freedom! And this is what that looks like; ugly sexism, rampant egotism, and anger (some of it righteous, much of it unfocussed). While I often debate whether the art can justify the artist, Kanye deliberately makes no distinction. And this album was just the beginning. Since then, he has spiraled down into MAGA-craziness, antisemitism, and bonkers behaviour. It's cost him a lot, and I fear he is nearly at the point of flushing his career completely down the toilet (although I have found think pieces extending back earlier than this album that ask the same question about 'How much further can he go?" Let me put it this way, if I read a headline tomorrow that Kayne had murdered someone, I wouldn't be surprised.) I think, for me, he has just gone too far. I admire elements of his production skills (although this record is deliberately difficult to listen to), but, frankly, he is that great of a rapper. Love his first four or five albums (not represented on this list, I notice), but this is the album where he has gone too far for me.

Not for me. Didn't find any of the tracks engaging except Black Skinhead.

Didn’t care for most of this. The one song that sampled Strange Fruit was the highlight.

Been a while. Have a lot of these on my gym playlist.

Worst Kanye album of his earlier years lol

The beats are pretty interesting. This album is unlistenable because of the lyrics. Can Kanye rap about anything aside from how great he is?

Kanye is an antisemite/10

4/10 he can’t be fucking serious 💀 this feels like a shitpost

34/100

Interessante, ambitionierte (elektronische) Ansätze irgendwo zwischen Genie und Wahnsinn. Ist mir aber schon zuviel Ego-Trip auf dem Teil.

Soundin väkivaltaisuus ei tarjoa syvyyttä eikä pintaa - vain fantasian, jolla on tiukat rajat. Lisäksi ne elementit, joista levy hakee melodisuutensa, ovat joko kuullun oloisia (lofi-äänentoistolla esitetyt samplet, joista tosin luodaan vikassa biisissä jotain loistavaa), tai sitten ärsyttäviä (esim. Hold My Liquor-kertosäe). 2+

Kanye’s ego coming through strong on this one. Some nice production throughout, always good to hear JV on a Kayne track. But it almost feels satirical, the fact that it isn’t makes it hard to get past.

His earlier stuff is better. Black Skinhead was the only song I'd listen to again. Too many songs were about how great he is. Ugh. 2/5

The mixing is superb and the lyrics are channeling big Mr Yuck face energy.

this was my first time listening to an album by kanye west. i can understand the allure, the music is pretty catchy. but the lyrics? he comes across as an angry sex obsessed narcissist. and that’s in EVERY song. case in point: in the song “blood on the leaves”, there is a song with a repetitive sample of nina simone’s rendition of “strange fruit”. “strange fruit” is a very powerful song, yet somehow kanye makes the song about himself and starts rapping about some beef he has with jay-z? it was just weird. also, it seems as if he keeps saying the “n word” and “bitch” just for the sake of saying them. i know some people consider him a genius, but if this is an example to point to for that, count me out. i don’t get it. there’s just no “there” there.

Really enjoy Kanye's earlier albums so I had high hopes. The background tracks are outstanding. The producing was top notch up until the moment that he put lyrics on the beat. At times this is up there with the worst rapping I've heard. I went back and listened to College Dropout to see if it was just me misremembering how good Kanye was. He actually contradicts his own song Jesus Walks with Yeezus. This album's lyrics lack passion and direction and are just another lazy attempt at a cash grab. He literally rhymes the same word 7 or 8 times, how is this considered good?

I thought this was meme music 2/5

This is just all over the place with wild mood swings between terrible noise and some decent, interesting rhymes. I guess this album is not long before Kanye's full meltdown into the Trump world Swamp. It should be a 1 because it is really awful but I'll round up because of my new grading rubric and it had a few good rhymes

He's a good rapper, IMHO. The clarity of the lyrics considering the speed of his voice is really remarkable. Unfortunately, that just means you can really clearly hear all the sexism, self-aggrandisement and so on. I'd say I'm not angry about this one, just disappointed. Wins marks for some great sampling, but couldn't quite rescue it. Maybe it's harsh to look back on this after Ye has gone full nut-nut, as you hear songs like I Am A God and realise that he genuinely means it, rather than appreciating it for (probably) the best song on the record.

Ik had het slechter verwacht. Maar toch sijpelt het goed door dat Kanye net iets te vol van zichzelf is

Someone needs to tell him that 300 wasn't the Romans... I didn't dislike this as much as the last one. But meh overall. Plus he's just so angry all the time! There were some catchy tunes on this one though. So I would say 2 - 2.5. I'll stick with 2 because fuck Kanye.

Rap. De praat-stem van deze meneer is niet heel aangenaam. De beats zijn soms wel leuk, dus toch 2 sterren. **

Not my thing

Hip hop

I'll be honest I have very little patience for this Ye era. Even before all the anti-Semitic shit became more widely known, as much as I appreciate the production and the blending of genres and musical ideas that go into his tracks, the lyrics and POV are a big turn off for me.

Definitely not my taste. Too misogynistic and violent.

Groot fan van zijn album Dark Twisted Fantasy, maar van al dit geblieb word ik niet vrolijk.

Muziekaal zitten er best was slimme en mooie dingen tussen, maar ik kan deze man niet meer los zien van al zijn bullshit en haatzaaiende ideeen. Creativiteit en geestesziekte heeft in dit geval een heel dunne scheidingslijn.

Ik vond dit al geen feest, maar nadat ik een paar dagen geleden een docu over Kanyes verderfelijke ideeen heb gezien, kon ik dit al helemaal niet meer neutraal beluisteren.

El rap de los 2000 empezó a perder interés para mí y nunca me ha convencido casi nada nuevo. Con este me ha pasado igual, excepto "Black skinhead" nada.

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Pretentious, hiding behind arty beats

I really like what he's doing musically here, but some of the lyrics are just atrocious, so much so that it completely ruins it for me. I can respect Kanye West - I've given multiple albums of his fives on here, but knowing how things have played out in his life, this just sounds like a man starting to slowly go insane. On "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" that seemed exciting, but this is the dark flipside to that coin, and it makes me kinda sad.

I wants to hate everything about this…but I found out it wasn’t completely trash. My most surprising 2 star rating so far!

I didn’t care for this at all. Super abrasive. I do wonder what I would have thought if I had heard this album prior to everything that’s happened with Kanye over the last several years, because in a vacuum, I think the content of this album would still make me think Kanye was an aggrieved megalomaniac. It m giving this an extra star only because I was impressed by some of the arrangements.

He has some ideas and things to say, but there’s little follow-through. The beats are lazy. Even when the raps open with a strong thesis, the rhymes and construction fall flat. Overall, lazy compared to even his least-inspired previous work. He’s better than this.

5/10

Pros: alternative/industrial sounds are kinda neat, as well as the samples used Cons: lyrics, the fact that I've grown to dislike Kanye's voice, the fact that I've grown to dislike Kanye as a person

I hate Kanye West. I love Kanye West's music. I hate this album. Black Skinhead and Bound 2 are two of the most unique and appealing songs Kanye West has ever made. I also like New Slaves and Blood on the Leaves. Hold My Liquor can be okay in a certain mood. IMO the rest of the record can be skipped.

Probably the most overrated album of all time

“My mind moves like a Tron bike, pop a wheelie on the zeitgeist” Every track sounds so good, production and construction. And he has flashes of lyrical brilliance and interesting commentary. But his words and personality are inseparable from the music and they’re mostly insufferable.

Mostly nonsense with the occassional decent moment

Notable for being the exact moment Ye lost his mind and very little else. Load of bollocks.

I can't rate Kanye objectively anymore. It's a shame and I hope he gets help.

Mira, a este socio le celebraban hasta los peos. Este disco tiene unas canciones buenas, pero el resto es un desperdicio.

Is Yeezus a character or persona that Kanye is taking on, ala Bowie's Ziggy Stardust or Thin White Duke? There seem to be conflicting reports. But either way, it is strange to think about such personas in light of Ye's mental health struggles. Regardless, "Yeezus" was a brash attempt by West to defy expectations and genres and yadda yadda yadda... "On Sight" grabs you right away. It's different. It's interesting. Kanye's flow is great as always. But the content disturbs. The interlude is weird. And then the novelty of the blips wears out at the end. "Black Skinhead" is another attention-grabber, another fresh sound. And while it may at first seem like it's just brash and doesn't really mean much, in the context of Ye's recent antics I wondered the whole time why it was called "Black Skinhead" and whether hints of his coming anti-semitism would be found in the song. People thought it was brilliant at the time though. Jack White even covered it (which is weird). "I Am a God" then launches the concept into a new stratusphere. It's a good thing I read about the Yeezus character/persona/whatever before getting to this track, because listening to this in 2023 after the year West has had would make me uncomforta... actually no wait this still makes me uncomfortable. But it's actually just supposed to be empowering for people? That everyone is a god, not just Kanye/Yeezus/Ye? "New Slaves" then follows up the god complex with some brilliant commentary, and all of this writing and unique sound and production leaves you a little in awe of what West is attempting here, at the very least. Then again, it seems each track has around 10 listed writers and 4+ producers, so how much of it is actually West and how much is the assembled team? It just goes downhill in a mess of production from there, and the album combined with the Wikipedia page breaking it down left me with a headache. The tracks descend into excessive lewdness and seem like a scattered patchwork, with several songs suddenly transforming or interjecting randomness that doesn't fit. And that totally tracks with the description of how this album was produced. But that didn't stop critics from throwing themselves at it with hilarious attempts to explain it's brilliance. Analyses of the album as a whole and individual songs are all over the place but for their common refrains of brilliant, opus, gripping, and even "high-art." But most amusingly, Pitchfork readers voted it both Most Overrated Album of 2013 as well as Most Underrated Album of 2013. My vote is for overrated.

Vapid low-effort rapping with reasonably good production, lightly inflected by industrial music (which apparently enough for people to convince themselves this is groundbreaking). I wish Kanye would talk about his dick and his ego a bit more, because there are at least three lines that don't mention these things. 2* unfocused boring shite.

Urgg

a disclaimer: kanye is antisemitic. i don't believe in separating the art from the artist because the artist creates art from their worldview. but i did listen to this album, which was my third of his so far, because i want to be thorough. some of this album could be catchy. some of it could also be too repetitive for me to enjoy. it wasn't as long as the other two albums i've heard; kanye was able to be succinct while still getting his message across. and he made some very good choices--using a "strange fruit" sample in "blood on the leaves" is brilliant. his use of electronic separates this album from the other two, and i wasn't surprised to see daft punk's name all over. i'm not a fan of the racism in his lyrics, either. i find it hard to vote for this. i've given him a 1 before on the basis of who he is. he's lucky he isn't getting a solid 1 from me.

I can’t separate the art from the artist here. I like some of his older stuff (Graduation and 808s era) but I can’t with this narcissistic, antisemitic clown. He’s mentally ill and I hope some day will see the errors of his ways. Until then, I can’t take his music seriously.

Huh, tämä levy taas muistutti miksi en ole koskaan digannut Kanyen musasta. Paska!

Muutama vekkuli kipale

Disappointed. Although I prefer to not have to think about Kanye at all, I hope for some catchy beats. This album did not do that for me. Maybe two fleeting moments of "Ah, here we go. ... Oh, guess not."

I was making a cringey face through much of it but there are a couple of tracks that are incredibly catchy and I enjoyed them despite myself. I especially appreciated the vocal delivery on some of the rap tracks --- an intensity in West's voice and the intake of breath that made the stakes seem high even as the words themselves seemed pretty banal at times. I had to look at the lyrics to blood on the leaves to make sure that I was hearing correctly that the main thrust of West's lyrics are about partying and doing Molly against the sample of Nina Simone's Strange Fruit. But again, the song is hella catchy and I listened several times. I don't want to hear much of this again but I thought about it a lot today.

I just don't like his music

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As someone who doesn't like Kanye I found this interesting musically. I don't like his style or persona but found the people he brought to make this for him came up with a hard edged sound i liked. Unfortunately I just cannot stand him at all so found the whole experience uncomfortable.

I like Kanye but I don’t find his albums very consistent. This is quite interesting given what happens to him later!

Oh boy, Kanye West, he has had quite a tumultuous and controversial public life these past couple of years. It's getting harder and harder be able to separate the artist from the music. He is a narcissistic massive piece of shit who needs mental help and to be out of the spotlight for a while. His views are reprehensible and way out of line. I enjoyed his early work, the first couple of albums. This album is really awful and it just shows how much he has fallen off professionally and personally. Garbage person, garbage album.

nao curti muito, pouco agradavel os fadinho

The album is alright. The beats are good. The lyrics and rapping are unremarkable. It is better than a 2, but not really a 3. I'll round down

I guess it's fine as far as rap goes.

Very angry guy A lot about sex and money Nice beats

Save for a few hits, pretty mid kanye album imo Bound 2

Non mi piace l'hip hop e non è certo un disco Kanye West che mi farà cambiare idea. Tuttavia alcuni pezzi erano orecchiabili, ma il "cantato" (in mancanza di altri termini) rovina tutto. Due stelle di incoraggiamento.

I dislike his bragadociousness and misogyny, but he has good samples and flow. I want to either like this more or hate it, but I'm honestly struggling to do either with much emotion.

1/10, 10%

Dåååligt. Sättet Kanye skriver låtarna på denna skiva känns väldigt lamt jämfört med tidigare skivor, lyricsen suger och själva ljuden är i allmänhet ganska tråkiga. Folk talar om att denna skiva låter futuristisk och väldigt annorlunda, men själva ljuden är oftast inte särskilt spännande, varierade, har ganska tråkig konsistens jämfört med bra musik i alla stilar.. Dessa problem hjälps inte av att alla låtar utom Bound 2 tappar sin drive halvvägs igenom. Vet ni vad som är ett bra album? Atomizer av Big Black.

There is a school of people who think anything Kanye does deserves attention. I never attended such a school.

Not an amazing album.

Hur otroligt det än kan låta, så har jag sett karln live. Än mer otroligt, så är det inte katastrofalt dåligt. Tro nu inte att jag gillar det här men några låtar har ju någon form av melodi vilket gör att han undviker lägsta betyg.

After the success of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy KW decided to piss off his fans by putting out an intentionally abrasive and off-putting album. He's quoted as "I got to fuck shit up" and "I'm gonna take my ball home". There's no doubt that this egotistic narcissist is brilliant, but does the emperor have no clothes? He's so full of contempt for his fans that it's really hard to like this guy. This album is seriously over-produced, with literally 4-8 producers on EACH song. I view this album like how I view his forays into fashion where he intentionally puts out really fugly clothing and sells it at exorbitant prices to his gullible fans. I'm not gonna bite.

Impressive beats and production. What really drags down the album is Kanye West. I never really liked his style of rapping and I find Kanye uneven. Sometimes he's great but other times I think there's so many better rappers than Kanye and that's even when ignoring his personality. I think I'm sticking to other hip-hop artists instead of Kanye as I've never found anything he made that's interesting.

The lyrics are a bit much, though I did enjoy the beats and sampling.

Not a fan.

I enjoyed the beats more than the lyrics. Strange Fruit was an odd choice of sample. There's a sense of drama that builds up. This may have been amplified as I listened to the album whilst a workman was drilling up the road outside. The Daft Punk contribution added a little humour. I couldn't hear Rik Rubin's efforts.

Yeah nah.

Don’t like it sorry. This kind of aggressive hip hop, never my cup of tea

There were a couple of songs here which I knew from being huge, and they were ok. But otherwise I didn’t enjoy this.

he's always been mentally ill and a mediocre artist on his best days

A hip-hop album that seems to want to be an industrial or noise rock album. The bombastic rhymes are well matched by the bombastic samples and the “more is more” production choices, sound effects and beats. Its popularity is what it is, one supposes, but this fails to land for me.

Some very nice and creative sounds in there, but then the singing starts and I just can't stand hip-hop (sorry).

I thought I'd like this more, but other than blackskinhead which was cool and the bound 2 hook which was fun I really couldn't get around it and was waiting for the album to end. 3/10

a while back I had to google why people love him - it actually made me appreciate his music talent. but i can't get myself to support the art of a character like his.

terrible lyrics, raunchy. sounds behind were good.

First Kanye album I've listened to... Music = 5 stars Kanye = makes me hate rap. Insufferable. 0 stars

It’s hard to separate Kanye’s music from his batsh*t behavior to give a fair evaluation. Even when you succeed, you can’t help but feel this album is wildly anti-women and there is much less irony to I Am A God than we’d like to believe.

Just not interested anymore. Someone has forgotten about beats and melody and having a sense of humour

Not my cup of tea... Entertaining but not much else.

Hi: On Sight, I Am A God, Hold My Liquor Lo: I'm In It, Blood On The Leaves Kanye experiments with a variety of musical textures, which the variety of are truly the highlight of this album. Lyrically, West also makes some pointed social commentary (New Slaves, Hold My Liquor), through some well-crafted rhymes and verses that paint a vivid word picture. A running theme throughout is the \"oh wait i\" gag where Kanye would reflect on the previous verse and try to change the narrative, which got old quick. Any musical prowess displayed is ruined by use of autotuned vocals, an aesthetic choice that just grates on my nerves. And at the end of the day, Kanye just sounds like an edgelord, interspersing overly offensive & racist lyrics that distract and do a disservice to the whole message. 2 stars.

I just don't care man. Really don't.

Not as good as the others. 2/5

Not a big fan of Kanye, album was meh

Nope

Nie moja bajka

I just don't see the appeal. Really not a fan of the autotune stuff. 2 stars.

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

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.

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

1.5

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Just no

Fuck this guy.

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.

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.

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

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.

trash

Nah. Musically, probably ranks higher.

Nope. 1

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

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...

Yawn more cock-rap

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

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

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.

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.

I tried....I really did. Must be getting old but all this misogyny, racism, egoism, and terrible rhyming is just not appealing at all.

Nah I'm not listening to this

Nah.

I try as best as I can to be diplomatic when it comes Kanye. When it comes to him as a human he's a egotistical megalomaniac. On the music side I can't deny he's produced some great tracks over his career. I thought this album started off quite well with On Sight and even Black Skinhead, however I Am God started and suddenly the megalomania was bursting out at the seams. I get rappers love to brag about their statuses but soldiering through this until Blood on the Leaves, I felt like I was being tied to a chair being forced to indulge in the biggest messiah complex in hip hop. Great producer but yeah the wheels fell off greatly on this.

I like the album but ugh

Did not listen out of protest and giving 1 star to drag down rating.

Trying to separate the art from the artist because he is such a giant piece of shit. I know that he is well regarded as a producer and I agree he does build unique samples. But then he proceeds to do nothing with them other than to just to repeat them over and over and rap nonsense. And when I say over and over, it gets so ridiculously repetitive that it drives me insane. There is no variation.

No nazi.

Junk

I don't feel like listening to anything from that black Nazi. He doesn't make music, and I don't want to hear his slogans and political rants. 1/5

I know that rock music is full of misogyny, but it’s so out in the open on this record plus I have a hard time not thinking of Kanye West as the Kanye West from the past four or five years I like the electronic music sections and I don’t in general mind the way this record sounds, but I’m tired of people bragging about wealth and I don’t really care if you slept with lots of girls

Didn’t want to give any $ or listens to this artist. Sampled a few 15-20 second clips to get the general vibe- I may have appreciated the electronic, sci-fi-influenced, mood if not for the histrionics of said artist. And I’m not referencing his bipolar although this also sounded immensely manic (“I am Jesus”).

Mysogynistic hateful shite. I lasted 120 seconds.

Like his other album I’ve listened to for this list, I like the music and samples well enough, but the lyrics are too egotistical and misogynistic for me. Also, and more importantly, he’s a terrible person.

Sorry, I cant listen to Nazis.

Not My kind and I don't like rap

Started to listen out of curiousity and didn't enjoy it - not worth continuing given the type of person he has become. I also didn't find the rap that appealing, perhaps spoilt by more complex rap from other rappers/bands.

Kanye är arg. Oklart varför. Det är också oklart varför jag ska lägga tid på detta elände. Beatsen är bombastiska och trista. Texterna är kassa. Visst finns är fina samplingar, men jag lyssnar hellre på originalen. I Kanyes händer blir det en trist soppa på rostig spik.

This album came out when I was in high school, and somehow I completely avoided it. And if this is what it's like to listen to Kanye West without nostalgia, then I'm really glad I listened to some of his older stuff when I was young, because this was roooooough. The mix is loud, noisier than musical. And as much as you could call it ahead of its time or some other cliche, it couldn't help but feel like it's trying way too hard to be. The samples didn't work for me like prior Kanye albums, and ultimately I think it really is one of the very few albums where I found myself desperately wanting to skip songs. Yikes.

Just awful

I didn't vibe with this at all. Kanye is a crazy egotistic person. This album just proves that he is mediocre.

Minus 3 stars for being a nazi

NOPE.

Kanye is a stupid narcissist no talent useless excuse for a musician