A classic rap album with Eminem's best lyricism and tracks ever, no doubt.
My criticisms for Pablo go doubly here. This album has some of Kanye's best peaks and also like 22 other songs on it. This album's consistency is actually downplayed pretty often given very few songs are distinctly bad, but that's why I'm giving it a 6/10 (mid+) instead of a 5/10 (mid). It's crazy to me that JPEGMAFIA said ye taught him how to reduce a tracklist when that quote came out after Pablo and Donda like buddy maybe teach it to yourself first god damn.
A wonderfully personal and concise effort by Kanye that has ended up underrated for how controversial he was at the time along with his discography simply having a ton of good product. I could listen to this album for hours, and I've cried to probably three different songs on it at different times in my life. The features are simple but ye gets a lot of mileage from their contributions and the production meshes well with everything going on even if it isn't the most progressive or ... read more
The Life of Pablo is an album with Kanye's greatest peaks and it also has like 14 other songs on it. When your album is about a third generational peaks, a third clearly below those peaks, and a third of bloat, you aren't in the running for a phenomenal album. It's still pretty dang good, but that is mostly because I'm remembering it for its peaks since the parts that arent its peaks are forgettable.
I don't get how someone could see this as Ye's best but it's definitely pretty good.
This album has some major consistency issues mostly because Barry Bonds and Drunk and Hot Girls fucking suck, Flashing Lights is overrated and Everything I Am is generally unimpressive compared to what the basis of quality for the album should be. Despite that, the first 6 tracks and the last 3 tracks are all phenomenal and deserve every bit of love they get even at the cost of inflating this ... read more
Jesus... Yeezus... jes = yeez... meaning jesy will be the sequel to this... i get it now
Yeezus is an album that defines part of why Kanye is so loved as an artist. This isn't any sort of death grips type production, it's palatable for how experimental it is, but that's the pull. Who else could've taken industrial hip hop and turned it into a mainstream hip album with huge songs like Bound 2 and Black Skinhead? Only K West. There are some flaws throughout but the album is ... read more
A phenomenal effort from Tyler that sees some of the best moments he has on any album of his. St. Chroma, Darling I, Take Your Mask Off, Tomorrow, Thought I Was Dead and Like Him see a variety of emotions and thoughts going through Tyler's head, and yet they all contribute in their own way to his overarching themes leading back to his own personal life and the fronts he had to put up around others. It has its flaws, but it manages to very well capture exactly what Tyler seemingly wanted on ... read more
THIS IS THE BEST DAVID BOWIE ALBUM. THIS IS PEAK RIGHT HERE.
Pinpointing Bowie's best is a real bitch of a task given he has one of the best discographies ever. Do you pick the ever hailed Ziggy Stardust, the preceding and wonderful Hunky Dory, the conceptual contributors that are "Heroes" and Low, the end of life masterpiece that is Blackstar, or a less common but still loved one like Aladdin Sane or Scary Monsters? The answer is fucking NONE of them bc it's right here ... read more
The most fringe 10/10 of fringe 10/10 albums ever to me.
MBDTF is a masterpiece within rap and Kanye West's catalogue, holding Dark Fantasy, Gorgeous, Power, Monster, Devil in a New Dress, Runaway and Lost in the World, all are in league with the best of the best rap songs you'll hear. Insane production, insane features, some of Kanye's best subject matter and approaches to said subject matter, I mean shit it sure sounds like a 10/10. Unfortunately, So Appalled is massively ... read more
The Beatles most perfect effort.
I know I said at some point Abbey Road was just as good and maybe more interesting, but I was lying. This album gets some of the weirdest Beatles songs (Love You To, Tomorrow Never Knows), some of the most emotionally captivating (Eleanor Rigby, For No One), some of the most beautiful (I'm Only Sleeping, Here There and Everywhere), and some of the best to jam to (Taxman, She Said She Said, Got to Get You Into My Life). There just isn't a bad spot on ... read more
Channel Orange is better and the best song on this album is the only one that doesn't have Frank on it. It's consistent, well written, and clearly cohesive, but depsite all that it fails to be as interesting as any one of his other albums.
My favorite rap album ever.
One of few albums I genuinely consider flawless and with some of the best peaks of any album ever, let alone rap, The Low End Theory is A Tribe Called Quest's magnum opus and functionally the capstone of Jazz Rap despite coming only 2 years after the genre truly debuted at the popular level with De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising. Phife and Tip trade some of the best bars in rap while obscuring which one of them is the better of the two the whole time, ... read more
The first Kendrick album that potentially leaves the good territory for me.
Firstly, reincarnated and heart pt. 6 are two of Kendrick's best songs ever undoubtedly. This album is overhated certainly, but it is also very clearly overrated by a lot of Kendrick fans. The features outside of SZA drag the album down, the production is far from bad but clearly worse than any other Kendrick album, and it generally comes off as annoying for every time it comes off as hype, and empty for every ... read more
Is saying S.80 > Mr. Morale asking to be annihilated? I hope not.
Mr. Morale is phenomenal from many standpoints, most identifiably in Kendrick's lyricism and the subject matter he approaches, but I think the album gets wrapped up in itself at times despite its peaks. It feels like a less consistent effort than any of his albums since S.80, and even though I have massive respect for how Kendrick approaches this album and is willing to be so vulnerable it's a departure from parts ... read more
Great album, bit overhated, but it definitely has its issues.
DAMN. would be a tricky album for anyone to make given you're following up what is hailed as the best rap album of all time, but Kendrick seemed up to the challenge. Similarly to Section.80, this album suffers a bit in its consistency while maintaining great peaks with the likes of ELEMENT., PRIDE., LUST., XXX., FEAR., and DUCKWORTH., but I think despite having a more consistent bottom line it also has a more uninteresting ... read more
I honestly really love this album.
Section.80 is very reflective of Kendrick's nature as an artist dropping their debut. It has its consistency issues, some uncertainties, but this album also has some of the best highs on any rap album between Fuck Your Ethnicity, A.D.H.D., Reagen Era, Rigamortus, Kush & Corinthians, Ab-Souls Outro and Hiiipower. There's a hunger here that I don't think he had following it even if it was because his focus became the influence he could have ... read more
Ok whatever maybe it's better than untitled unmastered, but only because it has more content, a realized concept, debatably higher peaks and some of the best production on any rap album ever... wait fuck that's everything.
Jokes aside, though I prefer the sound on untitled unmastered it is indisputable that this is one of the best rap albums of all time. There are tracks that I wouldn't call perfect, mostly the three songs between Alright and How Much a Dollar Cost (THEY ARE ... read more
A phenomenal album that is debatably held back by some songs that don't live up to the standard it sets.
Poetic Justice is just alright, and even though Real and Compton are overhated they are also clearly below the remaining 9 songs on the album. This album is honestly still borderline a 10 despite that, because Art of Peer Pressure, Money Trees, good kid, mad city, Swimming Pools and SAMIDOT are all fucking perfect, and the first 3 tracks on the album do well to set them up and ease ... read more
Kendricks best if we're deadass.
7 perfect songs, untitled 04 is an interlude, if he had a full and realized album in this style it'd easily be the best rap album ever.
As much as I can respect this album for what it is, it's definitely not for me.
I'm a known country hater, and I like this more than any modern country album I've heard, but that doesn't automatically make it good to me even if I can recognize that it most likely is good in a grander sense.
Big Iron is really cool though I fw that one.
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