E.L. wrote:
New Kanye. Yeezus' production was damn near perfect, in my opinion, so The Life of Pablo feels like a bit of a letdown. Some great tracks on it, though. Solid post-trifecta era Kanye, who has lost something in the rapping department but still knows how to put together a solid tune.
I agree. This new one is in rotation for me as well. FML is the only track that jumps out at me and Ultralight Beam is well done but the album overall feels hurried and rushed. Perhaps Kanye was preoccupied with his new family as some of the stuff on the album should have been cut. "I Love Kanye" is a narcissist's dream. And the Charly Wingate piece is bizarre (Silver Surfer). The last 3 songs on the album feel like void fillers.
Kanye historically is not the best lyricist but he seems to have digressed even further on this album with lines like:
Quote:
Sometimes I'm wishin' that my dick had GoPro
So I could play that shit back in slo-mo
or
Quote:
Now if I fuck this model
And she just bleached her asshole
And I get bleach on my T-shirt
I'mma feel like an asshole
Not to mention his continuing hard on for Taylor Swift (play let it go here).
Lyrics like this are all over the album. It just seems unnecessary and at some point i'd like to see Yeezy mature lyrically but maybe that day will never come.
Overall its ok and in keeping with his "every other album is damn good" track record (Yeezus being much better than this new one).