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Track by Track Review(for those of u wanting more) Kanye West-The Life of Pablo

Kanye West: The Life of Pablo
Track by Track Review
Ultralightbeam-This is an excellent opening track. It’s a gospel rap hybrid featuring Chance the Rapper and Kirk Franklin. The beat is nice too….Epic win. 9.5/10
Father Stretch My Hands Pt.1- The first part of a 2 part song. The first is better with an awesome hook from Kid Cudi. 9/10
Father Stretch My Hands Pt.2- Kanye is accompanied by a Future clone, Desiigner. Good lord hes a knock off. Nice song tho. Its more fast paced than part 1. 8.5/10
Famous-Rihanna accompanies Kanye on this banger. Swizz Beatz ad libs it; I’m assuming he did the beat. “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex….i  made that b*tch famous” raps Kanye. The end of the song with the sample is fire. 9.5/10
Feedback-This sounds like a song off of Yeezus. It has a chilling beat, and a choppy flow from Kanye. The end is so funny; I wont spoil it here. 8/10
Low Lights- The gospel theme continues here. This lady just talks the whole time. The beat is cool tho, and Its nice to see Kanye get back to skits. 7/10
High Lights- Okay so u see Young Thug on this track,and think…it’s going to suck ass, but no its hot. Kanye delivers here, even if the punchlines are really silly. I think the Dream is on this song too. 8.5/10
Freestyle 4-This song is fire. It sounds like it could be on Yeezus or the Dark Fantasy beat wise, but lyrically its just silly. However this works for Mr. West and his Future clone Desiigner. 8.5/10
I Love Kanye-Kanye addressed his haters here, even if it is subliminally. 7/10
Waves-This is a majestic sounding song featuring a lot of Chris Brown and not enough Kanye. The beat is fire. 9/10
FML-An interesting song featuring the Weekn’d. It sounds like a 808’s and Heartbreak song..sort of…The album seems to have something for all Kanye fans. 9/10
Real Friends-One of the best songs here. Ty Dolla $ign lends his talents. It’s a mellow song but the verses and hook are strong. 9.5/10
Wolves- A strange and chilling song. The beat is hot but Kanye’s verses don’t really make much sense. The Frank Ocean vesrse at the end is dope .8/10
Silver Surfer Intermission- A stupid interlude. 5.5/10
30 Hours-The first half of this song is dope…but the 2nd half is just Kanye rambling. There should have been a fire verse from 3stacks…ah well. The song is still really moving tho. 9/10
No More Parties in LA-My personal favorite track…NMPiLA is fire. Its got Kendrick Lamar on it. I’ve always wanted to hear the young juggernaut on the track with an all time great. Kanye raps up a storm here. I wonder why he didn’t bring this intensity to other tracks…10/10
Facts- Facts is a nice freestyle track…He sounds like Drake here, but honestly it works. The new beat is pretty dope as well. 8.5/10

Fade-A dope track with Ty again and Post Malone. Its just a classic club sounding song. The beat is so cool. 9/10


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