Album Rating: 4.5

now, hypothetically speaking, if I fucked this model..

Album Rating: 3.5

I’ll clarify: this album and TLOP are distinct from each other, Yeezus def has more of a heavy sound but both albums do rap/pop in a way that jumps from different sounds and ideas in unconventional and in-your-face ways

Album Rating: 4.0

that doesn't mean they have the same style though

Album Rating: 3.5

Sure that’s fair, i misused the word style then. Perhaps the word ‘approach’ would have fit better

Album Rating: 5.0

I wouldn't really call Yeezus pop rap. Not saying it's the most abrasive thing ever or anything, but it's very clearly not pop rap.



TLOP is like a little bit of everything in his career up to that point. There's a few new sounds, but I'd say that that and Ye are his two albums that focused on sounding good and vibes rather than push the envelope with a cohesive vision

Album Rating: 4.5

tlop was the sign of his decline tbh, half great but the other half i dont rly wanna ever hear again

Album Rating: 3.5

Agreed Odal, Kanye is often making a style of his own but pop/rap is the easiest way to describe it i guess



Re your other point that’s the thing i just don’t find this cohesive. Same with kids see ghosts. Lots of interesting ideas and a few cool songs but not really fleshed out. Took the music world by storm each time though so kudos are due for that! Pushing art forward isn’t always done with perfect albums



And ryus i felt the same way for years and then gave it another chance, still in my top 3 of his. To this day sometimes i jam it and go ‘the fuck is this?’ and turn it off. Sometimes it’s just not the day for it

Album Rating: 4.0

hmm I feel like this is mostly pretty cohesive aside from 2 or 3 tracks, but I guess for a 10 track album it’s fair to say it’s not super cohesive as a whole

Album Rating: 4.5

idk i think this is like his most cohesive album tbh. except bound 2 lol but that totally works in this albums favor

Album Rating: 5.0

That's interesting, because I find Yeezus to be probably be his most cohesive outside of 808's and Jesus Is King lol Jesus is King is objectively his worst album, but can't deny that it all sounds of a piece.



Yeezus was such a stark contrast to the maximalist bombast of Dark Fantasy. Like, his eyes were definitely glancing at Death Grips' paper, but it still sounds distinctly like its own thing. I kinda loved that the lyrics were messy and crass and concise and the music itself being pretty minimalist. The whole thing being fairly short made it ridiculously replayable too

Album Rating: 4.0

yeah I would agree it's his most cohesive as well. it sounds like it could have been made in one session

Album Rating: 3.5

Definitely see that Odal. I think I’m probably nitpicking ‘cohesion’ a bit too much. The sound is focused but it doesn’t feel like a whole album to me, rather, half of one

Album Rating: 3.5

He took a hard turn in his music kind of for the sake of taking a hard turn (‘out of my coma’ etc) so while i think there was a lot of energy in this record it’s more style over substance

Album Rating: 5.0

Oh, I think that's valid.



KSG and Ye for me feel like they abbreviated experiences to the point where I think it actually works much better artistically if you just treat them as a whole, but I did feel the same sort of wanting for Yeezus when it dropped, especially since it's nearly half the length of Dark Fantasy. Maybe I'm giving him too much credit, but in time I felt like that was sort of the point of the album? It's not there for clarification or anything, just a cathartic burst of energy that is mean, messy, and dark. It being called Yeezus and ending with Bound 2 felt like punchlines to me, and good ones at that.



Could also be Stockholm Syndrome though. This was legitimately basically the only thing I listened to in the summer of 2013 other than Trophy Scars lmao

Album Rating: 3.5

Great insights