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Originally Posted by louder
Man College Dropout, Late Registration and yes even Graduation are amazing lyrically for me. 808s is not a rap album so whatever. Yeezus had its share of dumb lines but I thought they fitted the aesthetic of the album, it was so underground and raw.. and I thought he would bounce back from that on his next one too. Not to mention it also had some substance (like the lyrics I pointed out a while back, when I called them overlooked) which I can't find in TLOP at all.
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I stressed a bit about "dumb" lines on Yeezus at first too. But now I think it totally works. There are lines that can be viewed as "dumb" on every album. Especially hip hop albums. But what can I say, I don't actually believe Kanye's dumb in any way (except for socially). I think he knows how to sound profound (which he does, many times on this album... I don't know the lyrics well enough yet to quote A ton of examples but whatever), and I think he knows how to sound pigheaded and dumbassed, and I think it's all ALWAYS been part of Kanye's aesthetic.
Look at the chorus of Runaway, the best song he's ever done in my opinion.
Toast for the douchebags and assholes, really? Lyrics about sending dick picks to bitches? In a love song?! How does that even work? I don't know... I can't explain it. But it totally works!
His "dumb" lines are systematically linked to his most beautiful songs, his ugliest moments are what make his best moments so great. I think he's of particular significance to men becaus he reflects back at us feelings we can all relate to about how we've viewed women, mistreated women, been assholes to our girlfriends and wives, but he also reflects back the best of us. The instinct we have to provide and protect and love our wives and mothers and daughters.
His music is real in a way that assclowns like Future (no offense, Future, you had your moments bro) never will. He says the things we all think (not literally of course, but he says awful things just like we all think awful things and he says heartwrenchingly beautiful things just like we all think lovely things..) he says it, shouts it, expresses to the entire world what we keep bottled up.
The baser instincts of humanity are a huge part of Kanye's personal appeal for me. Love him or hate him, you can't really say he doesn't own his shit.