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– You have to be okay with Kanye’s obsessive tinkering.– You have to be okay with subscribing to Tidal.Even those publications that saw past his horseshit still couldn’t review it as glowingly as Kanye could himself…Įven putting all of the above aside, when finally sitting down and actually listening to The Life of Pablo there’s still so much you have to be ‘okay with’ in order to appreciate it… let alone actively enjoy it. On the run-up to the release of The Life of Pablo it felt like nothing could undo the damage of his current press cycle. It’s getting harder to separate ‘public Kanye’ from ‘creative Kanye’. Over the last 10 years you could happily separate the man from the music, ultimately because his music was just so damn good, and for all intents and purposes every album wiped the slate clean.īut lately? Holy hell, Kanye is testing the patience of the most ardent Kanye apologist.įorgetting the farcically botched release of his new album The Life of Pablo, this is what you’ve had to put up with over just the last few weeks: a proclamation that Bill Cosby is innocent, begging Mark Zuckerberg to spot him $1 billion so he can become this generation’s Disney, deriding San Francisco entrepreneurs for building schools in Africa instead of supporting his schemes, telling white people they can’t talk about his music anymore, positing that ‘bitch’ is an endearing term in hip-hop… It’s just a shame he’s the person on Earth most fully aware of this fact. Love him or hate him, the world would be a much less interesting place without Kanye. My favourite quote: “My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.” His most brilliant moment: standing next to Mike Myers and straight-up saying “George Bush doesn’t like black people.” His worst moments: where to even begin? The Taylor Swift interruption, telling a music critic to kill himself, countless 10-minue long tirades that grind almost every single one of his gigs to a halt. The man has made some of the most interesting, vulnerable and crowd-pleasing records of this century.Īnd in life outside the recording studio, Kanye has never been anything less then entertaining.
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Delivering soulful production on Jay-Z’s best work and mastering solid-gold seductive hip-hop on his own records before moving on to the way-ahead-of-its-time electro-pop of 808s & Heartbreak, the peerless majesty of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and the abrasive anti-pop of Yeezus.
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On record Kanye has never been less than brilliant. And it’s not just you putting up with him, his presence is so pervasive that it’s the whole world and your mum who has to sit and listen to his various stupid comments and form their own understandably negative opinion of him whether they’ve listened to any of his music or not. It’s getting harder and harder to remain a Kanye West fan.