Shlebben

A Great Chaos was the first album that I listened to in this kind of genre. I knew about it before I listened to it but decided to finally listen after hearing the intro to Me N My Kup. I was intrigued, so I listened.

I like the sound of this album, largely because I really like loud music in general. The whole concept of the album being cluttered and chaotic works really well and it captures emotions that are very hard to do well.

My main criticism of AGC, although more of a massive nitpick, ... read more

It's interesting, looking at this solely as a demo and not as a finished product because it obviously isn't finished.

Something that caught me off-guard about this is how little the sound seems to flow with the first Donda album. I feel like this could be its own thing, and you really have to cherry-pick to find a consistent sound between the two, although there are tracks that sound very similar (Praise God and Pablo being a good example).

There are some gems here, and it's a ... read more

This isn't really a review, rather just a mess of opinions regarding individual tracks and my thoughts on some edits from this era.

First of all, I have to give credit to hc's Yeezus II comp - I feel like it starts fairly slow (When I See It is a really boring song and a part of me dies inside when I see it on a comp tracklist) but there are some fantastic edits on that comp, especially considering some of the original tracks and how little the leaks provide (Hummer is perhaps the ... read more

When I first listened to this comp, I hadn't really grasped the nature of yedits as a whole; all I wanted at that stage was to hear leaks of unreleased songs and earlier versions of the tracks I already knew and loved, and although I now understand that this comp is not that, I didn't quite grasp that at the time. Nevertheless, finding out about the existence of this was incredibly exciting, as Yeezus was my favourite album at the time and the fact that it was possible to get even a ... read more