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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
okay
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Mhmm... Yeah, I know that was kind of a rambling mess of incomplete thoughts and answers to unasked questions... Sorry about dat. All I was trying to say was that if Tetsuo & Youth is your cup o' tea, then I'm not sure why you're not a Kanye fan.
(I'm not sure you're
not a Kanye fan, but I feel like we would have had a seriously bromantic bonding session over it long ago if you were.)
I think Tetsuo & Youth is most sonically reminiscent of Late Registration, which was Ye's "baroque pop" album... Filled with strings and chamber instruments, jazz and gospel influences, morose minor key orchestrations, and some seriously dramatic choruses. Tetsuo... isn't Baroque, but it's Jazzy... Sounds like Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" and Miles Davis's take on "Porgy & Bess," set against a more singular concept than LR.
The conceptual elements are closer to My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Tetsuo also reminds me of MBDTF because of the song lengths, the story arc, and the very deliberate combination of samples, arrangements, beats, cover art and video design that all have the same feel and mood.
Also, it's Lupe's biggest and most ambitious, daring project to date, and it follows what many consider his weakest release... Just like MBDTF, only nobody's daft enough to think 808's is weak anymore.
Ahh, Kanye talk.
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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
which is your "#1" so far?
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Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A M*****F****N' Butterfly, of course.
Seriously, one of the best hip-hop albums I've heard this decade. I still think I prefer good kid, mAAd city... but that's almost as unbeatable a record as MBDTF.
Anyway, we're talking about one of the best albums in recent memory here. Nothing else can even compete.
But that will change when So Help Me God comes out. Yikes!!