This interesting compilation manages to be very ambitious about itself, showing a huge catalogue of performers and rappers, but it doesn’t have an initiative that drives forward the sound of this.
Making this from the fact that all of this is from the label, the project stands, somehow, by having some really highs like Clique, Mercy.1 or New God Flow.1, where the verses and flows of the rappers and the production of the beats are meant to go for the bigger room. Unfortunately, this does ... read more
This is a pretty interesting album, since it doesn’t follow any kind of concept or idea in general, it just flows with the beats and tries to recreate an “old vibe” with the samples they used, not that I’m a big fan of it but it works.
There is a lot of inconsistencies on very much half of the track list, it feels a lot the attempts of being like this big and cultural movement or force that is unstoppable or something like that, but in the end, it doesn’t, it ... read more
Over the top of it all, living during misery and tragedy, he decides to release this. This is an experience that you can only live twice every century.
With the idea in mind that 808s didn’t work at that time, this Twisted Fantasy of Kanye makes him seem like a god (no wonder why he proclaim himself as one later on). The production and the flow of the album itself its very consistent, embodying an ambitiousness on every aspect of the album that’s almost impossible to ... read more
The label of being one of the most influential albums for a generation is reasonable, but its content has a lot of stuff to talk about.
Production says what the title of the album implies, it includes an 808s and has some sad tones, but, and here’s where it becomes interesting, it constantly shifts between different moods, on one time its thoughtful, on the other, its hopeful, but on the next one, it’s just feelings being thrown on the ground. It would’ve been some ... read more
Now, I don’t say this album is bad, but it’s not the best one of “The College Trilogy”.
Most of these songs are really iconic and popular, many of them use synths, which makes this record completely different from the previous ones, having a style more outstanding than ever and feeling, for the first time, that Kanye is actually trying to do something more out of the hip hop box of that era.
There are some songs that didn’t click with me like Can’t Tell Me ... read more