I didn’t even listen to Donda 2 or the Vultures albums.
If I am being honest, I think I stopped listening to Donda at the last of the part 1 tracks. The beat on “Believe what I say” and Kendrick’s cousin’s verse were the only highlights.
He doesn’t produce his own tracks anymore, on most of his songs in the last 10 years, his contribution is a 16 bar verse, unfinished, and not even written by him.
There is very little point in listening to low quality music that he had almost no hand, especially now that it’s only selling point is he wants Nazis to listen to it.
I liked the Weeknd version of whatever the 80 degrees leak ended up being called. The Ant Clemons version was better but it was nice to have a more polished sounding version too, and I was glad the song finally made it on an album.
The song before that one with Fivio was cool.
Come to life was nice.
Anyway, these are my opinions from before the “white lives matter” “fashion show”. I already heard about the “DJ Khaled’s son” stuff by that point, so idk why I gave him the benefit of the doubt. But it all ended after that for me. I was still exposed to his later stuff through work, peers, review/reaction video channels etc. And from that perspective, it wasn’t that he as someone of genuine artistic merit had less of a hand in his music and therefore that it was bad. Rather it was that the swifties were right: he fell off.
To be honest I stopped listening to the guy a while back and have forgotten a lot of it, but disagree based on what I remember.
I’m not here to stick up for Kanye by any means, but Vultures/Vultures 2 is bottom of the barrel shit. There’s just no comparison.
I didn’t even listen to Donda 2 or the Vultures albums.
If I am being honest, I think I stopped listening to Donda at the last of the part 1 tracks. The beat on “Believe what I say” and Kendrick’s cousin’s verse were the only highlights.
He doesn’t produce his own tracks anymore, on most of his songs in the last 10 years, his contribution is a 16 bar verse, unfinished, and not even written by him.
There is very little point in listening to low quality music that he had almost no hand, especially now that it’s only selling point is he wants Nazis to listen to it.
I liked the Weeknd version of whatever the 80 degrees leak ended up being called. The Ant Clemons version was better but it was nice to have a more polished sounding version too, and I was glad the song finally made it on an album.
The song before that one with Fivio was cool.
Come to life was nice.
Anyway, these are my opinions from before the “white lives matter” “fashion show”. I already heard about the “DJ Khaled’s son” stuff by that point, so idk why I gave him the benefit of the doubt. But it all ended after that for me. I was still exposed to his later stuff through work, peers, review/reaction video channels etc. And from that perspective, it wasn’t that he as someone of genuine artistic merit had less of a hand in his music and therefore that it was bad. Rather it was that the swifties were right: he fell off.