Speaker 1: Kanye finally drops his album God it's been you know
Speaker 1: that Universal made him drop it like they.
Speaker 2: Just did it in post.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was upset. Yeah, it's probably, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: the best thing that he's done in a decade, in
Speaker 1: a decade since My Beautiful, Dark, Twisted Fantasy.
Speaker 2: Really, I'm not going that quite that far. I did
Speaker 2: like it a lot.
Speaker 1: I loved it, and it's long.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very long.
Speaker 1: Twenty seven songs of heat. I mean the parts an
Speaker 1: hour fifty. It's an hour fifty. The park twos are
Speaker 1: basically the same as the part ones. But that's fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm okay.
Speaker 1: Is it just different lyrically?
Speaker 2: I think a few have like maybe an extra feature,
Speaker 2: so yeah.
Speaker 1: But there is a basketball angle to this. And the
Speaker 1: thing that I thought was interesting was this long ass
Speaker 1: production of Donda. It was supposed to drop a year ago.
Speaker 1: It had been in production before that for two years.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been in an out of mental facility,
Speaker 1: so I know it's hard to record when you're going
Speaker 1: through things, but it's been a long time coming. Divorce, divorce,
Speaker 1: mental breaks, all that. Yeah, just being around Kardashians in
Speaker 1: and out hard on the productivity.
Speaker 2: Scale.
Speaker 1: I would imagine your productivity plummets when you're.
Speaker 2: Around them unless you're Devin Booker.
Speaker 1: Unless you're Devin Booker, only him, only him. Kind But
Speaker 1: apparently the basketball angle is that Kanye reached out to
Speaker 1: none other than Kevin Durant for his seal of approval
Speaker 1: on Donda. What just Katie smoking weed listening to hour
Speaker 1: and fifty of Boom Boom, you know, it's such a
Speaker 1: great album, just discussing the Donda Donda chant, like that
Speaker 1: Donda chant. I had to get past like fifty seconds of.
Speaker 2: Donda Donda Donda.
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, I get it. That's and four
Speaker 1: seconds is enough for me to know what this is
Speaker 1: about to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just it's just an opener that just you're
Speaker 2: just always gonna skip. You're never going to listen to
Speaker 2: that other than the first listen.
Speaker 1: First listen, four seconds skip. Okay, this is my review
Speaker 1: of the album. I'd like to hear yours. It sounds
Speaker 1: like we're on the same page. My doorman fucking hated it.
Speaker 1: He was like, I expected it to be a lyrical masterpiece,
Speaker 1: the lyrics of Kanye from college drop out. I was like, listen, listen, fam.
Speaker 1: Let me just say this very clearly. The demarcation point
Speaker 1: of Kanye is his mother's passing away, and you're not
Speaker 1: getting the Kanye that was in existence before that.
Speaker 2: No, no, what, it's gone, He's dead.
Speaker 1: That person is gone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean absolutely one hundred percent. The people that
Speaker 2: like try to say that, like, oh, like I just
Speaker 2: want the bars. The bars aren't there. Like, it's time
Speaker 2: to stop thinking of Kanye like as that. He's more of,
Speaker 2: Like you've got to think of it as him more
Speaker 2: of just like a composer, correct, And like yeah, like
Speaker 2: the beats, the features that he put together and produced
Speaker 2: like all that, all of it culminates in one project,
Speaker 2: and that's what you have to look at it as
Speaker 2: think about Like it's not bar heavy.
Speaker 1: Correct, it's it's an orchestral masterpiece.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: The music on it was so good, the layers of
Speaker 1: how the music is so forward facing. It's complete opposite
Speaker 1: of normal rap records, right like it like usually the
Speaker 1: beat is sort of layered in with the vocals. This,
Speaker 1: the vocals were so far behind the music it felt
Speaker 1: like you were inside of Like have you ever been
Speaker 1: to one of those sensory deprivation tanks.
Speaker 2: No, but I kind of see what you mean, Like.
Speaker 1: That, right, and you get out of the sensory deprivation
Speaker 1: tank where they literally all the light and all the
Speaker 1: sound is gone for like an hour and fifteen minutes,
Speaker 1: and you get out of the tank and you're just
Speaker 1: like whoa, whoa. You know, everything smells heavier, everything is
Speaker 1: brighter colors. It's just like that was Donda, like it
Speaker 1: was felt it felt like you're inside of a tube
Speaker 1: of music. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, I just thought like it was the perfect
Speaker 2: blend of like like gospel music, which he clearly like
Speaker 2: wants to make and he did with the last album
Speaker 2: Jesus King. It's like a good mixture and that was
Speaker 2: just too Jesusy for me, Like I just tried to
Speaker 2: wasn't into that, but I considered it his first miss ever.
Speaker 2: But I think this was like the right blend of
Speaker 2: like secular music and that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I did not expect us to go into
Speaker 1: like a religious breakdown, but that's totally right. I think
Speaker 1: it's like I'm not looking for Kirk Franklin. I'm okay
Speaker 1: with like ge Sus Walks, that's fine, or like if
Speaker 1: you're looking for Jesus, I forget how this song broke
Speaker 1: broke down on this recent album. It's like fine, yeah, yep,
Speaker 1: that's like as long as I can get you could
Speaker 1: say anything murred, like it just is the music. It
Speaker 1: could be literally any word and that's fine. It's just
Speaker 1: you can't think about this lyrically in any way, Like
Speaker 1: it's just song. It's just a sonics. He's just like
Speaker 1: a sonical sonically. I don't know what I'm saying, but
Speaker 1: it's like a the sound of the music is all
Speaker 1: you're really looking for. The words don't matter at all,
Speaker 1: especially if you're not a religious person.
Speaker 2: Like sick lyrics. Sig bars on it too, like it's
Speaker 2: not to completely take away from that. And I love
Speaker 2: the Weekend features, Yes, like those are great. Hurricane was great,
Speaker 2: j Z feature great. Yeah, the song Moon You had
Speaker 2: Kid Cutty on it too, like that song.
Speaker 1: Kids song for Kid Cuddy.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Who got shaded? Chris Brown got shaded? Apparently he sent
Speaker 1: some vocals in. They didn't make the track Soldier Boy
Speaker 1: Rip Soldier Boy's career. He apparently sent some vocals in,
Speaker 1: didn't make didn't make the album Chances and on It
Speaker 1: Chances and on it. A lot of people hot because
Speaker 1: they sent their ship over and they thought it was
Speaker 1: gonna make it. But truthfully, the album's not really complete
Speaker 1: because Kanye didn't sign off on it. So maybe if
Speaker 1: it was up to him, those features would have made
Speaker 1: the thing. I think it's one of Kanye's best albums.
Speaker 1: It's it's the perfect to me, the perfect blend of
Speaker 1: ato eights and heartbreaks and my beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy.
Speaker 1: Like it's sort of like that orchestral but also techno,
Speaker 1: like a very electron on a heavy like some of
Speaker 1: the some of the old sounds. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I haven't heard this sound from Kanye in a minute. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think it was kind of more like more like
Speaker 2: Jesus and tlop. Yeah i'd had a child, yep. Yeah see.
Speaker 1: But it's like a mix of kind of all of those, yeah,
Speaker 1: in a beautiful way. And I'm proud of Kanye because
Speaker 1: when you've gone through as much as he's gone through
Speaker 1: and you put out twenty seven fucking songs that are
Speaker 1: a work of art like this dude, when he's fully healthy, unstoppable.
Speaker 2: Yeah,