Kanye West - Runaway (Film Preview)/Dark Fantasy (preview)
Oh God.. Kanye x RZA is so much more amazing that I could’ve ever expected. So much head I woke up in Sleepy Hollow.. Ye’s killing this shit.
Runaway premieres tonight on every music channel that matters, as well as VH1.com
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Artwork x Tracklist)
1. Dark Fantasy
2. Gorgeous (feat. Raekwon & Kid Cudi)
3. POWER
4. All Of The Lights
5. Monster (feat. Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj & Bon Iver)
6. So Appalled (feat. Jay-Z, Pusha T, Prynce CyHi & Swizz Beatz)
7. Devil In a New Dress
8. Runaway (feat. Pusha T)
9. Hell Of a Life
10. Blame Game (feat. John Legend & Pusha T)
11. Lost In The World
12. See Me Now
November 22nd.
There’s a part of me that’s highly upset about 3 G.O.O.D. Friday tracks finding there way onto here, but thankfully they’re three of the best ones. Like what happens with most albums these days, half (or more) of it has already been listened to repeatedly by the masses, the good thing here being that most of the songs we heard were unmastered, so they’ll get new life on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. I have no doubt that this album will be as least as good as Graduation.
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Kanye West (feat. Keri Hilson, Pusha T & CyHi Da Prynce) - Take One For The Team (Def Jam, 2010)
You may’ve (not) noticed that I didn’t post last week’s G.O.O.D. Friday, from the trio known as CRS. Now, I love Yeezy (pause) and Pharrell, and I like Lupe in spurts - but there was just something that rubbed me completely wrong about that song. Aside from the fact that it was close to three years old, the beat was weak, and Lupe’s verse was just attrocious, claiming he was from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles generation and that he looked like Jack Sparrow. Probably one of the most irritating attempts at nerd-bait I’ve ever seen in hip-hop. This song (which was posted early Saturday morning, you really need to make a more accurate title for this series Ye) makes up for that - oh God, does it make up for it.
Upon first listen to Take One For the Team, you may think that your ears are being assaulted by a John Carpenter-inspired nuclear explosion of synths and beatboxing; and you’d be completely correct. I had no idea what I’d gotten myself into, but once you get past the eardrum-punturing introduction, this song becomes something quite different than the previous efforts in the G.O.O.D. Friday installments. Make no mistake about it, this is a club banger, and Tudda brings along his two lyrical assassins Pusha T and CyHi Da Prynce along for the ride (unfortunately, nothing on CyHi’s recent Royal Flush mixtape was anywhere near as sonically appealing as this). Keri Hilson comes in for a short verse mid song, and Kanye ends the song repeating the chorus from Touch The Sky and adlibbing parts of All Falls Down (pretty sure he was drunk).
Taking one for the team never sounded like such a brilliant idea, Kanye; this song honestly sounds like the spiritual successor to Drunk & Hot Girls (which is probably one of my favorite Kanye songs ever, despite the fact that everyone else hates it, or, in spite of), and I couldn’t be any happier.
My Beatiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (phew) November 22nd.
Kanye West - Runaway (Chopped & Screwed) (youtube, 2010)
the homie Drobitusin (heh) makes Kanye’s newest single extra throwed. The keys in this song were just waiting to be screwed; I don’t think any version has met the full potential of screwing this song, but of the few (surpsingingly) I’ve found, this is the best. Am I the only person who still has this song on a constant rotation by the way? I suppose it’s obligatory for an asshole.
Kanye West Finally Reveals Album Title (which is longer than we thought)
I think I’ll still refer to this as Dark Twisted Fantasy because I don’t like the idea of an album title with five words (or at least, I don’t like to type it out). That’s why I always abreviated The State Vs. Radric Davis, but at least that album had less syllables. Regardless, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (see, that was a work out) drops November 22nd. I’m excited.
Also, the title track (shortened, that is) is going to be produced by RZA. #swag.
Kanye West (feat. RZA, Jay-Z, Pusha T, Swizz Beatz & Cyhi Da Prynce) - So Appalled (Def Jam, 2010)
I was ecstatic when I saw Kanye post this on my Facebook stream, however I didn’t think it’d actually release this early in the day (most G.O.O.D. Friday’s actually fall on Saturday for Tudda). The idea of having Kanye and RZA on a track together brought out all the Wu/Ye fanboyisms I’ve had for the last 6 years. A snippet (which sounded nothing like this) of So Appalled, featuring Kanye only, leaked late last year, not long after the VMA’s incident, so this has been one of the most anticipated tracks thus far. This is also the first time that Hov and a member of the Clipse have shared a track, as Pusha and Jigga both find their verses side by side here, despite all the rumors of subliminal disses between the two parties.
Neither Swizz nor RZA rap, which is probably for the best all things considered; however, I can’t deny that I marked out when I heard Bobby Digital’s voice delivery that next to the last chorus. Kanye, Jay, and Pusha all deliver, especially Jay, who borrows a line from Harvey Dent in a manner that is quite appropriate considering Jay’s status among heads in 2010. Cyhi’s verse is impressive, but he kinda irks me. I’ve heard his mixtapes, and he bored me on those, but here he’s saying things in a genuinely interesting way. I still find it odd that he’s from the A-Town, as he shares no qualities (not even drawl) with his brethren from Georgia. He sounds like he’d be more fitting in Chicago.
Nearly clocking in at the seven minute mark, this is the second longest cut from the G.O.O.D. Friday series thus far. Remember last year when everyone was saying the posse cut is dead? Kanye single-handedly brought it back. I don’t know if I agree with every cut being a group-gathering, though. I’m a big fan of Tudda, and I’d rather listen to him than anyone else on this song - as great as this is, I’m hoping that this smorgasbord of posse cuts doesn’t make up the entirety of Dark Twisted Fantasy. Which makes me ask; where are all these songs going? Are these all outtakes from his upcoming album, having been cut from it already? Are these songs going on that five track EP with Ye and Hov? The two confirmed songs from Dark Twisted Fantasy (Power and Runaway) are both far smaller in terms of cast - Power being his only solo outing since his return and Runaway featuring no one else but Pusha Ton. A song like So Appalled is far too epic not to include on Dark Twisted Fantasy, however songs like See Me Now and the eponymous G.O.O.D. Friday could easily be left off the album. Also, that song with the Chef and the gay chipmunk.
Either way, yeah, So Appalled - download it today, and put that shit on loop. I mean that shit is - fucking ridiculous.
Kanye West - Devil In A New Dress (Def Jam, 2010)
This new track, produced by Hov’s old favorite producer, Bink!, is really hard to capture with words. The production here is beautiful; the drums sound ethereal amidst that elegantly-plucked sample, creating an atmosphere that makes those “real hip-hop heads” cream their pants. Kanye’s back to his slurry, syrupy shit-talking here, addressing a bitch with her mind on green and her face screwed-up. There really isn’t a chorus on here, although the track does come off as unfinished. Even it this isn’t the final version that’ll appear on Dark Twisted Fantasy, it’s fantastic in it’s incomplete form, and makes me even more excited for that album to drop, hopefully in November like it’s been reported. At this rate, Kanye’s gonna leak the whole thing himself before it lands in stores. Can you blame Yeezy though? This G.O.O.D. Friday marketing-scheme has him more relevant than he’s been since 808s.
(Source: basedjay)
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