by Nuruddin Qorane
@theinkyfootnote
Kanye West released the Life of Pablo over the weekend and I sat down to give the album a listen through and write down my immediate impressions after listening to each song. While only supposed to be 10 or 12 songs, Kanye ended up releasing 19! I'm working off a stream that doesn't credit any of the features so they will all be surprises. Pressing play:
Ultralight Beam
sweet and soulful
chance killed his verse
arthur the aardvark for the 90s babies
Father Stretch my Hands
I just zoned and forgot to write my impressions
Loving the Cudi on this
bleached assholes be the subject matter
pt.2
seamless transition, didn't even know a new song started
no he didn’t!!!
aaahhhh PANDA
that was awesome
Famous
riri
the drop in the beginning tho
trying to take back the notion ray j’s dick made his girl famous
dont really fuck with swiss beatz but this mix is proper
Feedback
This has banger written all over it
yeezus flow with the industrial
people didn’t like his last but I loved it cause it was just like this
Low Lights
Testimony of faith by an unknown vocalist
Highlights
Is that a Young Thug?
i think me and ray j would be friends too
This is the first banger on the album
Haha he just referenced Diddy punching out his son’s coach
Fruit of Islam thoo
Freestyle 9
whats going onn Kanye?
Is that you future?
ok not future just someone who sounds like him
I Love Kanye
this shoulda been freestyle 9
so meta, so dope, so kanye
So far my favourite song
like he took a break from making music address the kanye bullshit but still made an amamzing song
Waves
So far so good this sounds nothing like Max B
I know he’s screaming ‘turn me up’ but he’s saying it so fast it sounds like toenail
Chris Brown is meh
sounds like they reversed the beat
FML
somber keys opening it up
oh shit its Abel
this is very chill
VERY CHILL
now Kanye’s breaking the beat down
I liked that a lot
Real friends
TRUST ISSUESSS
classic Kanye killing it, we’ve heard this before
‘when was the last time i wasn’t in a hurry?’
The back and forth with Ty is great, has me wondering how long they were in the studio to perfect that
Wolves
wouldn’t be a Kanye album if Donda didn’t get a reference
the sandwich line got me
Mary in the club surrounded by wolves
Silver Surfer Intermission
Max B from prison interlude
just to clarify that Kanye didn’t steal the wave
stay wavy baby
30 Hours
sounds like a 60s funk sample
those 30 hour drives
HAHA Matt Barnes
this the bonus joint for the album
wasn’t this album only supposed to be 10 tracks long? Almost double that
No More Parties in LA
Another one that was released as part of GOOD fridays, lets see if anythings changed
Kendricks flow killer
instagram is the best way to promote some pussy
haha Kanye’s assistant who crashed his Maybach is a goof
FACTS (Charlie Heat version)
Opening is different
not a complete bite of jumpman
Ye’s verse is still bad tho
Fade
fade out the album
Ty Dolla is back
Paris catwalk tune to close it out
Very impressed after my first listen through. Seems like Kanye has learned from what people didn't like on Yeezus and refined that but still kept the aggression. The storytelling and one liners he delivers are so on point as well.
9/10