The College Dropoout 5/5
Late Registration 5/5
Graduation* 4/5
808s & Heartbreak 4/5
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 5/5
Yeezus 4/5
The Life of Pablo* 4/5
ye 2/5
Averages out as a 4, but then he did GOOD Fridays as a throwaway and that is all 5/5 stuff.
*was tempted to give these two albums a 3/5, but that’s only held to the standard of his other albums, which if any other artist released I’m sure I’d give it a 5/5… so I settled on a 4.
On Kanye samplingDrukqs ’ “Avril 14th” on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ’s “Blame Game”: “Is it a sample? I actually don’t know what it ended up being in the end, I’m so slack. I know that he tried to fucking rip me off and claim that he’d written it, and they tried to get away with not paying. I was really helpful, and when they first sent it to me, I was like, ‘Oh, I can re-do that for you, if you like,’ because they’d sampled it really badly and time-stretched it and there was loads of artifacts. I was like, ‘I’ll just replay it for you at that speed if you want.’ And they totally didn’t even say ‘hello’ or ‘thanks,’ they just replied with, ‘It’s not yours, it’s ours, and we’re not even asking you any more.’” [ laughs ]
(bear in mind (despite him being a bell end) that this is an album borne out of losing his mother as a direct consequence of his ascendancy to being one of the world’s biggest stars and his long-term relationship ending. Context colours everything with it)
It’s quite sad that people give Kanye a 1 without really knowing his music. Subconsciously I think there’s quite a dark reason for it, the same reason people complain about rappers headlining glastonbury and saying things like “but they don’t play real instruments”. David Bowie is number one ffs and has done way worse things than Kanye.