This is the funniest Twitter nonsense I've ever seen. That @MartinShkreli guy says some person named Daquan took 15 million dollars in "bitcoins" to "own" Kanye's new album. And scammed him.

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Today Kanye is on Twitter whining about how he took a hit for his Tan Couture Hefty Bag Sweatpants Collection and is out 53 million. Maybe this is why he had to plug in a ridiculous, hilariously sad commercial for his wife's outdated sex tape on his latest single?

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SNL performance was f'n weird - what is this song a musical blog post? They were like in a moving Tardis singing on top of each other in those weird Mad Max flesh tone clothes. El Debarge was there for some reason. Kelly Price looked stuffed into that outfit and confused as to why she was there too.

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Someone said this album could be relevant for weeks, months, even years.

JKOOLMUSIC said:

This is the funniest Twitter nonsense I've ever seen. That @MartinShkreli guy says some person named Daquan took 15 million dollars in "bitcoins" to "own" Kanye's new album. And scammed him.

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Today Kanye is on Twitter whining about how he took a hit for his Tan Couture Hefty Bag Sweatpants Collection and is out 53 million. Maybe this is why he had to plug in a ridiculous, hilariously sad commercial for his wife's outdated sex tape on his latest single?

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SNL performance was f'n weird - what is this song a musical blog post? They were like in a moving Tardis singing on top of each other in those weird Mad Max flesh tone clothes. El Debarge was there for some reason. Kelly Price looked stuffed into that outfit and confused as to why she was there too.

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Someone said this album could be relevant for weeks, months, even years.

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This is what I don't understand about people with money.

If he were serious about fashion design he would've used a fraction of that money and enrolled at Parsons for a few years. Antonio Banderas enrolled at a prestigious fashion design school recently.

Instead this dude was paid to speak to kids who pay to go there SMH.

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If Kanye could design plain white men's t-shirt that cost 3 dollars to make, sold for six, and were made in America he'd be a freakin working class hero. Instead he is designing Mad Max costumes for who?

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Co-sign on Miley's dead fish: Most famous Pablo of the Teens.

JKOOLMUSIC said:

This is the funniest Twitter nonsense I've ever seen. That @MartinShkreli guy says some person named Daquan took 15 million dollars in "bitcoins" to "own" Kanye's new album. And scammed him.

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Today Kanye is on Twitter whining about how he took a hit for his Tan Couture Hefty Bag Sweatpants Collection and is out 53 million. Maybe this is why he had to plug in a ridiculous, hilariously sad commercial for his wife's outdated sex tape on his latest single?

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SNL performance was f'n weird - what is this song a musical blog post? They were like in a moving Tardis singing on top of each other in those weird Mad Max flesh tone clothes. El Debarge was there for some reason. Kelly Price looked stuffed into that outfit and confused as to why she was there too.

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Someone said this album could be relevant for weeks, months, even years.

it's all but fact that kanye has released some of the best music of the past decade

CynicKill said:

This is what I don't understand about people with money.

If he were serious about fashion design he would've used a fraction of that money and enrolled at Parsons for a few years. Antonio Banderas enrolled at a prestigious fashion design school recently.

Antonio Banderas enrolled at Central Saint Martins.
Here is Kanye (about 1:00) talking about CSM's Louise Martin:

Azz said:

it's all but fact that kanye has released some of the best music of the past decade

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Well consider me deprived of such quality. Whenever I see him live its screaming nonsense. Whenever I hear his records they sound the same. If he's the best musician out there its a sad state of affairs for music.

JKOOLMUSIC said:

Azz said:

it's all but fact that kanye has released some of the best music of the past decade

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Well consider me deprived of such quality. Whenever I see him live its screaming nonsense. Whenever I hear his records they sound the same. If he's the best musician out there its a sad state of affairs for music.

This couldn't be further from the truth. I think it best that you took the time to actually listen to one of his albums (preferrably My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy) before you make such claims about music in general. Otherwise, you come off ignorant and prejudiced in favour of the music you grew up with (like almost every other person born in the 80s and before - sigh... what a cliche).

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Azz said:

This couldn't be further from the truth. I think it best that you took the time to actually listen to one of his albums (preferrably My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy) before you make such claims about music in general. Otherwise, you come off ignorant and prejudiced in favour of the music you grew up with (like almost every other person born in the 80s and before - sigh... what a cliche).

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This couldn't be further from the truth. I think it best that you took the time to actually listen to one of the albums (from the 80s and before - sigh) before you make such claims about music in general. Otherwise, you come off ignorant and conditioned by tepid, derivative egomaniacs disguised as talented artists (like almost every other person who claims that "Yeezus" is more than clever marketing that is not producing its intended returns).

To be fair, like any person with ears, I loved "The College Dropout" as a time capsule for the end of the packaged recorded music era and I enjoyed Kanye as a producer for a few years.

JKOOLMUSIC said:

Azz said:

This couldn't be further from the truth. I think it best that you took the time to actually listen to one of his albums (preferrably My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy) before you make such claims about music in general. Otherwise, you come off ignorant and prejudiced in favour of the music you grew up with (like almost every other person born in the 80s and before - sigh... what a cliche).

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This couldn't be further from the truth. I think it best that you took the time to actually listen to one of the albums (from the 80s and before - sigh) before you make such claims about music in general. Otherwise, you come off ignorant and conditioned by tepid, derivative egomaniacs disguised as talented artists (like almost every other person who claims that "Yeezus" is more than clever marketing that is not producing its intended returns).

I didn't make any generalisations about music?

As for Yeezus - whilst I don't think it's his best, the record was almost universally acclaimed by critics. The album has some exceptional songs on it - New Slaves, I Am a God, Black Skinhead... etc.

And for the record... I wouldn't be on a prince forum if I don't listen to albums from the 80s lol.

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I thought MBDTW was brilliant, and his best work yet. I haven't enjoyed much since. This new record sounds very unfocused. A couple of interesting ideas are floating amongst too much pointless dreck.

I will say that it does sound like a musical representation of what it might be like to be inside that scatterbrained, megalomaniacal head of is, but it's just too exhaustingly self-important to be interesting.

I was just fuckin with your robo "you're awful for not liking Kanye's garbage" TMZ reply. I don't blame folks for buying into his "legend" and his stuff but to compare this to any decent musician and their best offerings is just flawed. Also sidebar I completely forgot "Yeezus" was a product of his, not just a silly codename.

JKOOLMUSIC said:

I was just fuckin with your robo "you're awful for not liking Kanye's garbage" TMZ reply. I don't blame folks for buying into his "legend" and his stuff but to compare this to any decent musician and their best offerings is just flawed. Also sidebar I completely forgot "Yeezus" was a product of his, not just a silly codename.

because i'm serious about this. if you could see how conceited u sound.

oh well

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Its just another facet of Kanye West's undeniable talent that he can inspire his fanatics to declare opposition to his uprising as "conceited". This is a man who named his daughter North, nicknamed himself "Yeezus", sells a "fashion" line of oversized nets and sacks, and married America's biggest reality whore.

remember, we toast to the assholes and the douchebags

but this isn't just about kanye... its about the "sad state of affairs for music" or some bs like that

I toast to those deserving a toast. I hope his new streaming rules for his new streaming album give him more things to brag about..? And wish you the best with your new music.

I still say for poetic beauty you can't beat Frank Ocean!

Cinny said:

CynicKill said:

This is what I don't understand about people with money.

If he were serious about fashion design he would've used a fraction of that money and enrolled at Parsons for a few years. Antonio Banderas enrolled at a prestigious fashion design school recently.

Antonio Banderas enrolled at Central Saint Martins.
Here is Kanye (about 1:00) talking about CSM's Louise Martin:

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He should've enrolled.

Listened to this once yesterday, and FWIW I found it to be nowhere near as bad as I was expecting. Given all the weird shit that happened in the run up to its release I was kinda anticipating a complete trainwreck, but I think he's managed to avoid that. It's still probably the worst album of his that I've listened to, all the others (College Dropout, Late Registration and MBDTF) have been pretty damn great actually, so this definitely pales in comparison to those but in its own weird fragmented and fucked up way it has its charms. There are some really lovely moments here, the opener Ultralight Beam is quite beautiful but naturally Kanye kinda completely ruins the moments of beauty with all those really jarring misogynist fucked up lyrics that are littered throughout the album. Overall not something I'll probably play a lot, but I can understand some of the praise even if I don't agree.

Also on a semi-related note, I started the free trial of Tidal to listen to the album and was really annoyed to learn they don't have The Rainbow Children on it, wtf is up with that? It's a great album but I don't actually have a copy so I would have loved to have it on a streaming service but it isn't up there sorry, I'm sure this has been discussed to death on the main forum but I needed to vent.

I think it's funny how Prince drops an album on tidal and people go crazy on Prince and Kanye streams it on Tidal a week before it drops and not one person anywhere on twitter is going crazy on him or complaining. And not one fan is telling Kanye Tidal sucks and is a terrible platform etc etc etc. Funny how shit works

bluegangsta said:

---NOW STREAMING ON TIDAL---

I'm a big fan of his first 5 albums, Late Registration being a favourite. After Yeesus, I thought that was it for me, but this new one is surprisingly good!

With that said, I think the album could have benefited slightly with the early configuration...

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Waves is a must IMO so I'm not this configuration but it's cool sounding together

Polo1026 said:

I think it's funny how Prince drops an album on tidal and people go crazy on Prince and Kanye streams it on Tidal a week before it drops and not one person anywhere on twitter is going crazy on him or complaining. And not one fan is telling Kanye Tidal sucks and is a terrible platform etc etc etc. Funny how shit works

I've seen quite a few people complain about being forced to sign up for Tidal to listen and say how shit it is, certainly on a Kanye fan forum and possibly on Twitter as well (although the replies under Kanye tweets are frequently some of the dumbest shit ever so I don't spend too long looking over them lol.)

Btw what do you dislike about Tidal? Is it just it or do you dislike streaming sites as a whole? IDK I'm trying the free trial and certainly won't subscribe as my family has a Spotify subscription already, but I'm not really finding it particularly horrible, doesn't seem to be hugely deficient compared to Spotify from what I've observed.

Polo1026 said:

I think it's funny how Prince drops an album on tidal and people go crazy on Prince and Kanye streams it on Tidal a week before it drops and not one person anywhere on twitter is going crazy on him or complaining. And not one fan is telling Kanye Tidal sucks and is a terrible platform etc etc etc. Funny how shit works

Maybe people care so much about Prince that they care what he does and doesn't do, and couldn't care less about Kanye.

RaspBerryGirlFriend said:

Polo1026 said:

I think it's funny how Prince drops an album on tidal and people go crazy on Prince and Kanye streams it on Tidal a week before it drops and not one person anywhere on twitter is going crazy on him or complaining. And not one fan is telling Kanye Tidal sucks and is a terrible platform etc etc etc. Funny how shit works

I've seen quite a few people complain about being forced to sign up for Tidal to listen and say how shit it is, certainly on a Kanye fan forum and possibly on Twitter as well (although the replies under Kanye tweets are frequently some of the dumbest shit ever so I don't spend too long looking over them lol.)

Btw what do you dislike about Tidal? Is it just it or do you dislike streaming sites as a whole? IDK I'm trying the free trial and certainly won't subscribe as my family has a Spotify subscription already, but I'm not really finding it particularly horrible, doesn't seem to be hugely deficient compared to Spotify from what I've observed.

I've looked at Kanye's timeline and no kind of criticism is being tossed his way that was tossed at Prince by Prince fans. Like that you have no career that's why you're giving your music away on the only platform that will pay you type of stuff aimed at Prince. BTW I love tidal and mostly all streaming services, mainly because if you're joe schmo in your home studio working hard trying to be a musician and put a project out, you don't need a label or to travel the country with CD's in your trunk anymore. THATS GOOD for musicans and music lovers.

1contessa said:

Polo1026 said:

I think it's funny how Prince drops an album on tidal and people go crazy on Prince and Kanye streams it on Tidal a week before it drops and not one person anywhere on twitter is going crazy on him or complaining. And not one fan is telling Kanye Tidal sucks and is a terrible platform etc etc etc. Funny how shit works

Maybe people care so much about Prince that they care what he does and doesn't do, and couldn't care less about Kanye.

LMAO clever but so wrong

Polo1026 said:

I was going to ignore this thread but this happened...

http://www.xxlmag.com/new...uckerberg/