Call it a manic weekend, we've been a touch slow today. Fear not, you can expect us back up to speed by later tonight and we'll have a full slate throughout the holiday week. Bradford Cox dropped a mixtape. A free mixtape . Kudos to Pitchfork for preventing any sort of holiday swoon after stamping My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy with a 10.0. Knowing P4K's methods I think it's more the spirit of the [...]
Noah Callahan-Bever flew out to Hawaii to spend some time with Yeezy and Co. as they recorded My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, which is in stores TODAY. head over to COMPLEX to read the spread before it hits newstands December 7th. exclusive behind-the-scenes photos and the best insight into the making of a classic. NCB and Complex are hands-down doing the best hip hop journalism right now and click here to read our review of MY BEAUTIFUL DARK TWISTED FANTASY Incoming search terms for [...]
Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is a modern masterpiece. It's very rare that we get to witness the release of something great, but here we are. With all the grandiosity and scope of the album, it should come to no surprise the packaging matches the music. Kanye has always been obsessed with high class art and fashion. And it really shows on this. The gold font pops out against the red, the font itself is stunning. The coolest aspect of this release is the picture frame on the front of the digipack that allows fans [...]
These past few weeks have a been a little surreal . When I'm not busy figuring out myself, I'm trying to figure out the people who follow me. I can't say all the hype has changed my point of view on the new Kanye record- I feel the way I feel, so sue me . But for me, watching the internet buzz unfold exposed some gears in the hype machine. Will we gain some kind of new focus from all the talk surrounding this album, or will our attention be snatched [...]
Now this is just my opinion and I know everyone is on this guy's dick right now but jeez man, Kanye West's album is the truth. The creativity of Prince mixed with the moxy of Jay-Z with the production of well......of Kanye West. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasty will do more for music today than any album that has came out in the past 10 years., let it be known. Kanye West- Hell of a Life
Words: Gareth O’Malley Kanye West is not exactly one to keep things to a minimum. He’s much more the kind of person who thinks, ‘Hmm, how many guest spots can I get on a single song?’. If ever there was a clear indicator of the lengths he’s prepared to go to, it’s that ‘All Of The Lights’ features a hell of a lot of other people - and we’re talking big names here: Rihanna , Fergie , Elton John, Elly Jackson ( La Roux )… oh, John Legend and [...]
What strikes me as interesting about Ryan Dombal's 10.0 review of Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy , isn't that the taste-making website gave out a rare 10.0, but that there's almost nothing in the review that would justify such a high score. What we get instead is a review that's couched within the context of Kanye's personal life and not necessarily indicative of the record's music. Sure, there's ample comparison's to Michael Jackson, but I don't get the sense just how good any of the music actually is, or why [...]
To say Kanye is extravagant, would be a cruel and colossal understatement. When he hasn't been hilariously disrupting award speeches, or having his entire bottom row of team replaced with diamonds, Mr West has been piecing together his fifth album release, the epically titled My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy . Now unless you're a Chilean Miner and have been living underground for the last two months, you will have heard of Good Fridays, Kanye's weekly track giveaway over at his official site. Massively generous or an excessive publicity stunt? Both I suppose, but there's no [...]
What else can be said about Kanye West's new album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy , which is out this week? Well, despite his releasing songs from the album on the Web in recent months, the tracks will be changed at least somewhat on the official release, according to this article in the New York Times . It's a good article, by the way. He samples Black Sabbath, Aphex Twins, Bon Iver and freakin' King Crimson ( 21st Century Schizoid Man ). Check out this post by Fake Shore Drive [...]
Kanye talks a lot about producing art. Not music. Not albums. Art. The way he frames it suggests something that can sit on a Dorian plinth and be labelled as such; something that could be played back- to-back with a Beethoven symphony in an ornate hall somewhere. Last time around, this distaste for previous glories resulted in the art-pop fetishising of 808s and Heartbreak . He sang. He ruminated about loves won and lost, existential crises and death. If it’s good enough for Shakespeare it’ll do for Kanye. Out went the sped-up R&B samples [...]
Kanye West - Hell of A Life Kanye West - Blame Game (ft. John Legend) Kanye West - Devil in a New Dress (ft. Rick Ross) Kanye West - All of The Lights (ft. so many people) Well if it isn’t the man that the media loves to hate. Back again, with his fifth album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy , West had plenty to prove after the sappy, bleak collection of dark pop that was 808s and Heartbreaks and he [...]
(Mashed up with Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void ; NSFW strippers & sex) Here it is. " All of the Lights " from Kanye West 's soon-to-be-released record My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy . What can I say about this song? How can I wrap my mind around that stuttering beat and shouts wrapped around completely sick brass synth hits in perfect polyrhythm? How can you make a Fergie guest verse not only salvageable, but essential? How do you make Elton John in 2k10 sound truly alive? What do [...]
Here comes some brand new flavor in your ear. Yup. Time for new flavor in your ear.. After a long wait Kanye finally dishes us up some G.O.O.D .s and I couldn't be more excited. Ye' is personally responsible for everything he has done in his life. He hasn't had one easy step, back in 032 he was having a tough time convincing people he was more than a producer! And when someone has that much behind them, that much hard work and effort, only great things can happen. Whats going on here (and you might not realize it [...]
Am I the only one who forgot about this song? Looked over after G.O.O.D. Friday became a weekly holiday and actual album hype started snowballing, "See Me Now" was once a rumored single for something called G.O.O.D. Ass Job and has now been repackaged as an iTunes bonus track featuring B-I-G Sean. Notice I didn't even mention dude's name? At this point, it's unnecessary. Kanye West Feat. Beyonce, Charlie Wilson & Big Sean - "See Me Now"
In anticipation of Yeezy's My Dark Twisted Fantasy, why don't you partake in some of the music that helped shape what Rolling Stone is calling a classic album. Samples range from Smokey Robinson to Aphex Twin. Download: Kanye West - MBDTF: The Samples Related posts: Download: Mr. Hudson feat. Kanye West "Anyone But Him" Some time ago, Kanye West proclaimed that Mr. Hudson was... Download: Kanye West feat. [...]
Drew @ FSD felt compelled to gather up all the originals used for Kanye's latest. Don't ask me about the compilation's accuracy. All I plan to do is listen to the oldies and enjoy them, whether Kanye used them or not. 1. Mike Oldfield – “In High Places” (Dark Fantasy) 2. The Turtles – “You Showed Me” (Gorgeous) 3. Cold Grits – “It’s Your Thing” (Power) 4. King Crimson – “21st Century Schizoid Man” (Power) 5. Continent No. 6 – “Afromerica” (Power) 6. Manfred Mann’s Earth [...]
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Kanye makes records cause he absolutely has to. He has to do this. Any truly great singular artist, regardless of medium, ais driven by that quality of will. He makes records cause he has absolutely has to. "Lost in the World" feels in ways nothing on the self-styled self-conscious 808s and Heartbreak never could. The track for Lost in the World sounds, feels, bleeds like the work of an artist who absolutely had to create it. Kanye West - Lost in the World (Feat. Alicia Keys & Bon Iver) [...]
Over the course of the past handful of years, amidst omnipresent public faux-pas and the inflation of an ego now approximately the size of Mexico Kanye West has come up with enough obscenity to have Bizarre Magazine repenting its every lude remark. And with next to no audio output to obfuscate such ridiculed nonchalance, he's a figure irrevocably reviled, and reviled with reason. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, the fifth studio LP from Mr. West, extravagantly adorned with a series of sleeve artwork portraits (that seen above suitably the most grotesque) is, bemusingly, something of a return to [...]
TSURUFOTO Presents... Tyler & Meiko At Capital Motel (Alternate Edit & NSFW) from TSURUFOTO That's right Kanye! You aren't the only mammer-jammer who can make a sexy video! - First Edit without the driving scenes here! What a TSURUFOTO-tastic weekend! Holy crap! 4, count 'em, 4 photoshoots! Two with Tyler & Meiko (the results of the first one can be seen above in our first foray into videoeoeos). And then a 2nd shoot in the morning and [...]
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