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

Album Review: Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign-Vultures 1

This album review is way overdue. I've had a long time to sit with the album....I really liked it at first but it hasn't really aged as well as other Kanye projects. Kanye's lyricism has taken a noticeable decline. I mean hes not horrible but alot of these bars are bad or tasteless. Ty Dolla $ign on the other hand does a great job on pretty much every track. The production though, as with most Kanye albums is really good. Some of it was reminiscent of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy or Yeezus. There are a few guest spots and most are well used. Hearing Kanye's daughter, North West, on "Talking"is cute. Freddie Gibbs steals the show on the hilarious "Back to Me". "Carnival" is a certified hit which features Playboi Carti & Rich the Kid. Overall most of these songs are good but I cant say this really adds much to Kanye's illustrious discography. Lyrics 19 Beats 23 Depth 22 Tilt 21 Verdict 85

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

Video Game Review: Jedi Survivor

About a week ago or so I beat Star Wars Jedi Survivor. Im so happy I got a chance to play it cause they put it on PS4....yes I sadly as of early 2025 do not have a PS5 yet. But anyways I thought the game was considerable improvement over Jedi Fallen Order in most ways. The game is set a few years after the end of the first game. One thing I like is you keep all your Jedi techniques from the first game Jedi Fallen Order. You can force push and pull and double jump right from the jump. Early in the game you also get access to a new lighstaber form dual wield. In this game there are 5 lightsaber forms. Single is good in any situation but not the best for ideal situations. I think double bladed has good defense but low range. Dual wield is fast but has low defense. Later on you get access to a blaster form which has great range. Then there's the Cross-guard which is Kylo Ren's lightsaber form...its slow in this game but has high damage and defense to it. The enemy variety in the...

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