Abe Beame still prefers street lights to all of the lights.  Let’s narrow it down to the last ten years. Plenty of rappers have dropped albums at the peak of their fame, but Kanye is the first to drop the “zenith” album, MAXIMIZING said fame. Right now, no one is not returning a phone call […]

Doc Zeus changed. As a default, my brain tends to naturally drift towards soul-crushing negativity when it comes to nearly all aspects of life. This manifests in a healthy cynicism when it comes to my attitude towards modern hip hop but when it comes to this new Kanye album, I’m pushing my entire stack of […]

I’d been avoiding getting caught up in the hype surrounding this thing in the goal to listen to it as a whole and to see how I feel about it as a complete album. Since dude thinks he’s a world-class artist making some genius shit, I figured I’d rate him to his desired standards: harshly […]

We needed a round table because this album is all angles. Admittedly, the world needs one more of these like My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy needs extra adjectives in its title. So let’s take it from there. Kanye West’s fifth album, a shoe-in for every year-end accolade and every Grammy, bears the same name as […]

  Zilla Rocca has never tried liquid cocaine, but he’s willing to give it a chance if it means he can record with Raekwon. Question: “Remember when Ye called this his “boom bap record”? It was all going according to plan….until Scott Mescudi pulled Kanye aside and asked him if he wanted to ride the […]

 Sach O thinks Kanye’s looking a little aggy in that picture. Words on Kanye’s coked-out opus to come eventually but in the meantime, here’s a spoiler: dude is batshit insane and shows a total lack of restraint but arguably manages to pull off this year’s great overblown pop album. It may not be the kind […]

Doc Zeus is different for the sake of being misanthropic.  Before we get started, I’d like to briefly summarize the plot of “Runaway:” Kanye West is driving in the woods (presumably because he wants to look at deer. There are a lot deer in the video) when he crashes his sports car into Selita Ebanks […]

Perhaps the first Good Friday track since “Monster” that I can co-sign wholeheartedly. Kanye and the original Curtis have been a winning combination since before Lupe was consistently a fiasco. The biggest whore since Horus kicks a few standard Yeezy verses which have become almost formulaic.  Clever puns breaking apart familiar words (planned parenthood) and […]

I imagine the reference point for this was “All About the Benjamins” as re-envisioned featuring a bearded white Wisconsite troubadour. There is truth to the rumor that Jay-Z’s verse was inspired by Bon Iver’s tale of his super-spooky night singing songs at the Hollywood Forever Cemetary. This is the first thing that Kanye has released […]

  I suppose it was naïve of me to think that Kanye West would return a little wiser after being Swift-boated. We’re talking about a man who probably considers his shoe collection an artistic statement on par with the works of Dostoyevsky. Clearly, he employs a guy in G&B shades and hip-huggers who walks around […]