great production, great lyrical themes, good rapping, nice sound variation, one of the best opening tracks i ever listened to, and cool album cover lol
After I found “Goblin” really awful, I was really surprised how much I liked Wolf after all. Although the lyrics are still mostly cringe for me, I like the beats and the basic tonality much more than before.
Good album. For some reason I don't like the pop elements that much, but I can't deny that a lot of the songs are just incredibly good.
What Kanye was always able to do was to be ahead of the scene. College Dropout and Late Registration were unique in their sound and revolutionary in the topics they dealt with for rap, which was 99% pure gangster rap.
With Graduation he took a risk and perfected this poppy rap sound to perfection. With 808s & Heartbreak, he created a wave of sound that would redefine an entire genre. With My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy he showed that he was a level above the whole scene, with Yeezus he ... read more