Yeezus

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Nothing here contributes to an overall theme, and while that dissapoints me, this isn't a concept album like MBDTF was. The work I do is designed to be a reference, to add to the knowledge base and remain relevant forever. This would be followed with the premiere of “New Slaves” on May 17, 2013, displayed in 66 locations that screened the track.

He didn’t waste a single bar and he practiced for this concise style in the 60 weeks prior to the album. One of the most fascinating aspects of Yeezus' arrival is the discursive crisis it's caused, produced by a fast-react culture colliding with a work of art so confounding", wrote The Atlantic 's columnist Jack Hamilton. West made several last-minute alterations to Yeezus, enlisting the co-founder of Def Jam Recordings, Rick Rubin, as an executive producer for additional recording mere days before its release; changes included re-recording whole songs and rewriting entire verses.Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Only 2 Chainz’s “Birthday Song” made an impact on the charts, hitting 47 on the Hot 100 and achieving double platinum status.

However it isn't deep, aside from new slaves most of the songs are just songs to jam to and enjoy the sonic style of and the lyrics complement that. The atmosphere in the studio was described by contributor Evian Christ as "very focused", and West once again brought in several close collaborators. But mostly, West is just plain mad — angry at naysayers,“The Man” censoring his art, and even at his own celeb status. The sonic chaos behind the words seems very precisely rendered, it's an album that's clearly been tightly edited: it clocks in at 40 minutes, which by the standards of your average hip-hop album, makes it the very model of brevity.If My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was Kanye’s attempt at his most accessible album, the release structure prior to Yeezus shows a conscious move towards inaccessibility. I'm In It" contains samples of "Lately", written by Vidal Davis, Carvin Haggins, Andre Harris, Kenny Lattimore, and Jill Scott, and performed by Lattimore.

It is the most coherent distillation of his creative mindset that West has offered all shaky-ass year. And, as always, the data exists to prove this was Kanye’s least listenable album, and can be used to track the process he went through prior to releasing it. Ye was the lead artist on “Don’t Like”, “Clique”, “The Morning”, “To The World” and “The One”, and only provided 9 hook words, all ad-libs on “The Morning”.If Kanye withheld beats and delivered them instead to his own labels, he was limiting the sonic potential in enlisting a more diverse feature list, and indulging in the production budgets of major labels. Kanye has previously created a portmanteau of his nickname (Ye) with the name of an important historical figure that resonates with him. Still, it wasn’t until this week that Kanye did something common for any other artist with an album on deck: he hosted a listening session. Hart, performed by Capleton; and samples of "Are Zindagi Hai Khel", written by Anand Bakshi and Rahul Burman, performed by Burman, Manna Dey and Asha Bhosle.