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 2^nd 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

Nas Albums Worst to Best

20) Nastradamus (75)- It really shouldn’t be a surprise to see this one ranked so low. The lyricism isn’t abysmal but everything is pretty average. How does a song like “Big Girl” make it to a Nas album?? It’s just a boring album plain and simple….I don’t really have a lot to say about it. 19) Street’s Disciple (82) -I hate having this one so low. I honestly like a lot of the songs on this double disc. Unfortunately there’s quite a bit of filler here just like with Jay-z’s Blueprint 2. Disc one has hits like “Nazareth Savage”, “American Way”, “ Just a Moment” and “ You Know My Style”. Disc 2 has some heat on it too: “Suicide Bounce”, the title track, “Virgo”, “Bridging the Gap” and “Thiefs Theme”. 18) T he Lost Tapes 2 (86) -This one I admit I haven’t heard that much…but its pretty decent. It gets off to a good start with songs like “Vernon Family” and “Jarreau of Rap (Skatt Attack)”. A lot of these songs are ok….but not muc...

Album Review: Kid Cudi-Insano (regular version)

I gotta admit I didn't like this album that much when I first heard it over half a year ago. I've heard that Kid Cudi doesn't exactly play to his strengths....that's partly true. I do like his rapping here tho. Honestly most songs here kinda blend together....."Keep Bouncin'" is really hype....and it gets the album off to a good start. "At The Party" with Pharrell Williams and Travis Scott may be my favorite song. "Wow" with A$AP Rocky is another highlight. Overall tho I feel this album tries too hard to be trendy. Cudi needed to put more of his pain into it. I mean a happy Cudi album isn't a bad thing but it really seems odd to me. You're not getting alot of singing or hums here know what I mean? However the production I found to be very good. Cudi is one of my favorite rappers like top 20 and I guess this will do for 2024. Lyrics 20 Beats 23 Depth 21 Tilt 21 Verdict 85

Album Review: Lupe Fiasco's Tetsuo & Youth

Lupe has come back, and with a classic album. He seemed to be back on tracks with Food and Liquor II, but F&L2 wasn’t as fun to listen to as his earlier albums. Even LASERS was more fun. This album however, is very complex and fun to listen to. It’s also incredibly well produced. Lupe proves he’s still a top lyricist in the game. Check out his lyrical showcase on Mural, or storytelling on Prisoner 1 & 2. He’s got a really long song called Chopper which features a lot of guests but its all good. The last song might be the weakest which features Ab-Soul. No Scratches feat. Nikki Jean is one of my favorite songs here. The interludes are pretty intersing, but ultimately skippable. This album is already up for album of the year, and honestly it will be hard for anyone to match this effort. The verdict... its 10/10 for me. This is a great album

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