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Originally Posted by pepper_green
"FML", "Waves", "Real Friends","30 Hours" and "No more Parties" are the best songs. some songs don't even sound like Kanye. like he's copying somebody else. even "Real Friends" sounds like Drake. too many typical hip hop beats that's very unlike him.
all in all. have to agree with louder. the first half is not that great and it's not growing on me.
so that leaves "FML" as the best song for me. well, at least it's weird.
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To be fair, Yeezus didn't sound like Kanye either. Neither did MBDTF. Cruel Summer and WTT fit pretty well with MBDTF, but both of those albums sucked compared to MBDTF even though they were dope as hell.
And Graduation didn't sound like it even came from the same genre as LR, which was already an absolute restructuring of the College Dropout's aesthetic.
So yeah, it doesn't sound like Kanye, but that kinda means it sounds like Kanye, doesn't it?
And hey, don't say Real Friends sounds like Drake. I hate to go back to that Rolking Stone article, but Kanye invented Drake. Kanye invented Future. Kanye invented fucking Young Thug, and Kendrick Lamar, and every modern rapper making even the slightest impact. That Rolling Stone article said as much, and it's true. So with nothing but Kanyes everywhere you look, hip-hop is essentially a Kanye West product at this point. How can you fault him for sounding like popular hip-hop when popular hip-hop was built on him?
I respect your opinion, but this is a battle Kanye can't win if you hold him to insanely high expectations. It means that if he EVER stops makes a "good" album instead of a "great" album, you're going to look at him like he's a failure!
He's not trying to reinvent shit here. He's just being Kanye. And if any of you (except for the folks who genuinely hate Kanye and always have) try to tell me that this is a truly "bad" album, I'm gonna call bulkshit on you. It may not be your favorite Kanye album, but I've got all the year's big new hip-hop releases. I've heard them. And TLOP makes each and every one of them sound boring and fucking castrated by comparison.
I'll agree right now that this is not as good as MBDTF, but when is anything in hip-hop ever going to be that good again?
The last Beatles album sounded very much like a traditional rock record. There were a lot of bands that were making music in that scruffy, cusp of the 70's vein by that point. But are you going to tell me "Let it Be" isn't a brilliant song?
Did you bitch that Free As A Bird sounded like an Oasis ripoff? Come on. Be reasonable.