I am absolutely staggered about the extent of this, and all you hear on the news is migrants. This country is well and truly fucked.
We live in a world now where theyāve calculated that even if something does become a big news story - like Barnard Castle - that they just have to deny, ignore, play dumb for a few days until the next big thing comes along and changes public focus. And they are right, it works every time.
Suddenly remembered yesterday he was running for President, thought Iād check on how that was going
Great work
(Thankfully mostly minor states as well)
Given that the whole purpose of it is to get Trump re-elected it is a relief that he doesnāt seem to have qualified in any of the marginal states like Wisconsin and Ohio that he targeted.
Could still have an impact in Minnesota and possibly elsewhere unfortunately.
Kanye pissing on a Grammy award
Heās clearly having an episode at the moment - dozens and dozens of tweets today, veering between contract stuff (heās screencapped every page of his Universal contracts), comparing his contracts to slavery, talking about his sofas, tweeting scripture and sharing the phone number of a guy at Forbes
Regardless of my issues with him I hope he gets the help/medication he needs, because
Am I the only person who thinks, āOh fucking hell what nowā when I see new posts on the Kanye thread? Really hope he gets help.
Interesting section on this weekās This American Life following the Wisconsin Election Boards Commission discussing whether Kanyeās 1 minute late petition to appear on the state ballot was eligible.
Starts at about 32 minutes in if anyone interested:
Finally some sign of actual music. Beat sounds pretty good but rapping sounds half-arsed. Pretty much as expected then.
The problem with Kanye now is you just canāt trust him. Rap is so often all about shouting outlandish in the moment shit, but where a Danny Brown can take that right to the limit of obscenity and still come across as likeable, Ye always feels at best like a ticking time bomb. Like, if I nod my head along with this now, what am I gonna find out I tacitly endorsed next week?
Also, in very a short space of time, heās stacked up a lot of shit-average songs between him and his best stuff. I just think until he vanishes and crafts a real album I couldnāt care less, and thatās shocking for me because Dark Fantasy and Yeezus were two of my favourite musical moments ever.
Yeah not sure what would ever make me want to listen to this instead of just listening to Doo Wop instead
Drake did it better with Nice For What. And it hurts to say that.
Not sure how you can judge it from 30 seconds tbh. Not defending it either, just very little idea how good the track is or otherwise at this point. Also think Nice For What is a duffer and the sped up sample sounds really cheap tbh.
And slightly odd criticism to me when Ye made a career off not-so-subtle samples of massive/classic hits.
Well I agree the rapping sounds half-assed and lazy, so heās not adding anything to the sample - so why not just stick to the original. With something like Touch the Sky heās got great energy and I love the lyrics, so I always go to that over the MG track
No issue with a blatant sample, but not sure heās got it in him as a rapper anymore to elevate songs above their component parts
Sure, I guess I just didnāt really have strong reactions to the short clip as you guys. He could just as easily jump into the verse of his life from there (though, at this point, youād admittedly be surprised)
Iāve got a friend whoās (still) a super stan, so Iāve probably developed a more negative stance as a result tbf
Understandable. I mean, it is more than likely the music will be shit anyway, and even if it is a return to form, itāll only serve to distract from/enable him being a massive whopper.
Heās on the American presidential ballot, one of my work mates was doing her postal vote, and there he was.
So he can get in the sea.