#there are few things better than kanye’s existential crises

Kanye reacts to a B+ review of his tour in Entertainment Weekly. He understands that artists can be their own media outlets these days. So things like magazines are not as important anymore — certainly not so important that you have to always play nice with them.

I love how his personality is all over the place, like a disappointed teacher and also like a prima donna. “You’ll never gain credibility at this rate. You’re fucking trash! I make art. You can’t rate this”

via Paul.

(via jakelodwick)

"Obviously Kanye and Jay rap a lot about their money and the stuff they’ve bought with it on this album, and obviously the names they’re dropping are high-end and/or highfalutin’ enough to stand out to critics under deadline pressure. (I bet the Museum of Modern Art didn’t expect to have almost as much of a role on this record as Frank Ocean does.) But you’d almost have to purposefully ignore the rest of the lyrics, and most importantly the sound of the thing, to think that’s all there is to it, to characterize this album as a less forceful-sounding Rick Ross record. The music is foreboding and paranoid, minor-key prog samples, witch house synths, and soul legends chopped and pitch-shifted into demon shouts and banshee wails. The lyrics describe difficulties — from Jay-Z copping to depression, to Kanye’s R. Crumb-like dissections of his sexuality and misogyny, to overcoming the obstacles of a racist society to “make it in America” only to discover that the higher they go, the fewer people like them they find — that go a lot deeper than the usual litany of complaints about haters and biters. Both aspects of the record are embodied by those repetitions — that cycling, recurring, uncomfortable theme music; “watch the throne, watch the throne, watch the throne,” over and over again. If they were comfortable on the damn thing, they wouldn’t constantly be telling themselves and everyone else not to take their eyes off it for a second."  -

Music Time: Jay-Z and Kanye West – Watch the Throne

Sean T. Collins on the paranoia on Watch the Throne.

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