Kanye west new album review

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And it gets to the terror and chaos of 2018—a year defined by mass shootings, unruly men with god complexes West included , and absurd ideas. At that time, West's public persona had begun to unravel, with the infamous VMAs incident, which was followed by high-profile break from music. There are plenty of imbalanced moments.

That sentence in itself would have seemed like something out of a dystopian piece back in 2010, when West released My Dark Twisted Beautiful Fantasy. It's both about Kanye being unable to make mistakes, but also about the public's mistakes about him. At 23 minutes in length and with a brisk 7-song tracklist, it feels purpose-built to avoid room for euphemisms, too. Piece has said he was diagnosed with at age 40. A nice thought, but more of an inspirational tweet than a piece of poetry. He's a man who always thinksand on this track he does—spilling out both ego and love.

These two tracks are a dangerous opening to an album that arrives at a time when popular music—specifically emerging trends in rap—has been so depressed it's been fatal. His production skills are matched by his gift for self-promotion. The hook doesn't stick around for long though, as we move into a chopped-up beat that reminds me of TLOP's 'Famous'.

Kanye West’s ‘Ye’ Album Reviews: What the Critics Are Saying - Ye gets to the terror and chaos of 2018—a year defined by mass shootings, unruly men with god complexes, and absurd ideas.

Hours before he gathered the most famous people in music to to listen to his new album, Kanye West's wife Kim Kardashian met with President Donald Trump. That sentence in itself would have seemed like something out of a dystopian nightmare back in 2010, when West released My Dark Twisted Beautiful Fantasy. At that time, West's public persona had begun to unravel, with the infamous VMAs incident, which was followed by high-profile break from music. When he returned with MDTBF, West was much different than the artist we had come to know. Today, the darkness that West inhabits is reflected in both the world around us, in his persona, and in his music. Ye, at its heart, is a cry for help. And it gets to the terror and chaos of 2018—a year defined by mass shootings, unruly men with god complexes West included , and absurd ideas. The darkest and most twisted thoughts in our society have been activated and motivated—in politics and popular culture. The mood is terrifying, coming from a man who's said he developed an opioid addiction following plastic surgery. These two tracks are a dangerous opening to an album that arrives at a time when popular music—specifically emerging trends in rap—has been so depressed it's been fatal. Late last year, Lil Peep, a promising young rapper on the forefront of this trend,. His music—much like this new West album—was filled with these fatalist cries for help. Those messages weren't subtle, much like the broad strokes on Ye. And while Peep's death woke up the industry from a Xanex slumber, the sound is still very much in right now, with the likes of Juice WRLD and Lil Xan making big moves this spring. Ye gets to the terror and chaos of 2018—a year defined by mass shootings, unruly men with god complexes, and absurd ideas. As , 2017 marked a year in which young artists opened up about their challenges with substance abuse and depression in their music. And the election of Donald Trump—along with an unstable country—has marked an extreme anxiety in popular music. Kanye West represents this confusion and anxiety better than any other artist currently making music at his level—for good and for bad. The elephant in the room on Ye is, of course, West's own politics, which are as absurd and demented as America as a whole. It's a subtle and breezy tribute to the Pablo gospel, on which he starts to reflect on everything that went down leading up to Ye. It's about as close as we're going to get to an apology from Kanye West. It's both about Kanye being unable to make mistakes, but also about the public's mistakes about him. He's a man who always thinks , and on this track he does—spilling out both ego and love. It's a childlike sort of wonder. The album ends with a somber piano ballad that considers the inherent inescapable violent nature of humans. No one is innocent, no one can be fully protected from evil. And if we've learned anything in these last few years, it's that even our heroes are capable of falling from great heights, that evil is everywhere around us.