Nah, I love Yeezus as is. Love the beats, love the lyrics. Love this too, but they're very different albums. Kind of getting sick of people making silly comparisons with every piece of murky hip hop.
I don't understand your criticism of Heard em Say or Crack Music feeling dated because of the artists they feature. Heard em Say just sounds great, period. If he wasn't singing well it'd be one thing, but Levine fits the song. As for Crack Music, Game is hardly on the track. He literally says 9 words. How can his presence be a negative?
As for the rest of graduation, it has some really good tracks and a handful of great ones, but that puts it low on the Ye totum poll, to me. I don't feel Big Brother at all; straight cornball. Champion has a terrible beat, and The Glory/Everything I am are pretty dull in 2014. (Homecoming is too, tbh)
To me, Illmatic is definitely the best rap album of it's time and really of the mid 90s, but the best albums of today are just as good in different ways. Yeah, there are some guys that are fully going after that Illmatic sound, but for the most part Hip Hop is constantly changing and expanding in exciting ways. If "Illmatic" is synonymous with hip hop perfection, then I know a couple albums that could use it as a subtitle.
Wait... People are mad at Drake for clearing this up and being real about it? Dude is totally right. They should have moved his cover story to a different time instead of what they did. I'm not a fan of dude at all, but he's not being illogical. They wasted his time, and when you're big like him, time is lots of money.
Favorite track is always changing, but for now it's Last Call. The punchlines, the long ass story, everything about it is brilliant.
Favorite line's gotta be from Through the Wire:
Unbreakable, what you thought, they'd call me Mr. Glass?
Look back on my life like the Ghost of Christmas Past
Toys "R" Us where I used to spend that Christmas cash
There's not really a punch through all of it but I always like that part.
Uneducated probably isn't the best word to use when what he said has merit in statistics about jews in america compared to blacks. Is it insensitive to their history? Yes. Is it totally false in the context he uses it? Not at all.
I think the content in both more than lives up to the hype, especially in Ken's case. It's unbelievable how good a lot of the tracks are individually, and how much more they elevate in the big picture of the album. Plus, I can't stop saying ya bish.
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