But Pablo is also a gospel album by less obvious means. There are parts that are readily comprehensible as part of that genre: the choir who pad out opener ‘Ultralight Beam’ and the leads sung by Kelly Price, Terius “The-Dream” Nash and gospel icon Kirk Franklin the four-year old rebuking the devil sampled from Instagram elemental lifts from Chicago pastor T.L Barrett’s ‘Father I Stretch My Hands’. “As much as the public cares to judge him, Kanye is always inspecting himself under an even stronger microscope.”īefore its release, West proclaimed this a gospel album. But despite how much of it is predicated on Kanye Talking About Kanye, it is also supposed to act as a credo that guides his listener to see themselves the way he sees himself.
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His seventh studio album The Life of Pablo is once more an album full of self-awareness. He’s the same man who issued an enormous public apology with My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, after becoming public enemy number one in the wake of his mother’s death. ‘Can’t Tell Me Nothing’, the lead single from Graduation, felt patently un-Kanye in the context of his first two albums, but foretold the man we’ve seen unfold over the past ten years. He vetted his place on The College Dropout with a makeshift résumé on ‘Spaceship’ (“Lock yourself in a room doing nine beats a day for three summers”) and slammed the notion that rapping about faith was a foolish idea on ‘Jesus Walks’. He has been hammering home that understanding his beliefs has been paramount to him from the very start. His interest is not as shallow as this sounds. The highs are more, so it's a 7.2/10 for me.Since his 2004 debut, there has been no one else more concerned with the public perception of Kanye West than Kanye West. This is just an album with the highs being very high and the lows being very low.
This is not a Pitchfork 9, nor a Rolling Stone 9. A mixed bag is something I hate, but Kanye makes the term seem a bit more positive. There are underwhelming cuts such as Father Stretch My Hands (even though that beat drop is insane), Waves, and 30 Hours (punchlines on point though). However, sometimes the album goes down in quality with tracks like Highlights, Freestyle 4, and Fade (I didn't mention Facts because that beat is impressive), However, it regains its momentum back with more better produced tracks like Ultralight Beam, Famous, Feedback, FML, Real Friends, Wolves, No More Parties In LA, and Saint Pablo. Therer's glossy produced tracks like Famous, then there's gospel-influenced tracks like Ultralight Beam, and what more! I love the messy, kaleidoscopic, Tumblr-like aesthetic. The whole album is like a compilation album of everything Kanye has done, except with new material. Then came TLOP, and I was quite impressed that Kanye didn't make it as underwhelming as Yeezus. I liked 808s, but Yeezus was just a continuation of the sound with a tinge of brashness (which was the reason why I didn't like it, not because of the lyrics or the instrumentals or anything like that). I heard MBDTF and was pleased with it, although I find his debut and sophomore album way better. I heard MBDTF and was pleased with it, although I find his debut and sophomore album way Okay, this is not as bad as many people suggested me.
Okay, this is not as bad as many people suggested me.
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