I really love the album, i have been all over youtube listening to it all weekend! And i feel exactly where he is coming from on this cd! With relationships and friendships! good review angel! you gave an honest opinion…brian doesn’t always seem to give an opinion with his reviews…and doesnt always to the truth or tell it like it is! concreteloop…keep it up!

I definately will be coping this. I’m not afraid to see my fave artists taking risks, it’s all good.

everbody here are all dunbasses, the direction he is going in is putting hip-hop into new terrirory, this is a great idea for a musical genuies and his new genra- popart he is exploring his past and puttin is into something he loves………music. and if you cant see that go fuck yourself……………………..jump on the lil wayne bandwagon then.

WACK

I’ve had a chance to listen to the album and I gotta say I love it. Why is it that it’s so difficult to embrace some new shit?! Yes, he’s using autotune, but at least he’s not using it to spit shit like “She’s got those apple bottom jeans, boots with the fur…”

It’s not a “hip hop” record. Just categorize it as Music and give it a shot.

Im Sorry but i dont like kanye. i dont know what it is but he was just never as great as he thinks he is….i dont mean to be hating…now he coming out with some techno…..and whats up with tha peewee herman get up??? i think he should stick to producing…

Just listened to the whole album and its horrible. This is a bunch of crap and it shows how quickly this was put together. I feel bad for anyone that actually pays this garbage.

He’s wonderful and I love all of his insight and the way his music makes me feel. However, I think that Kanye needs time away for the lime light. He needs to figure out what’s real and what can keep him sane. I can’t wait for the album to drop!

I was thinking that this album is very emotional, and I LOVE IT! now this is an album that really makes you think and just feel Kanye as a person, very real album. Sometimes pain equals greatness.

I also really love the song he has with John Legend it’s over!!! hot.

OMG!!!!! Kanye West is coming hard on these tracks are you guys kiddin me? No one can know his pain or what he is goin thru. I hate the fact tht his so called fans are not standing behind him in this difficult time. Well some of you are. But saying I know his mama just died but… How could u even compare tht with what he is doing with his music. I feel Kanye has been affected from whats going on in his life and wants to make some changes with his music. Hes not gay, he is not goin “mental”, he is merely expressing himself a different way. I commend him for his ability to think outside the box, take the chance to try something new with his music. Yeah T-Pain murdered that auto-tune but I love it. And just like T-Pain, and I dnt care how much yall talk about it, has sold millions of copies of his records and many other singles with various artists so whats wrong with Kanye givin it a shot? Yall need to just sit back and enjoy the show!

BTW: Robocop, Heartless, Coldest Winter and Love Lockdown are my jams!!!!!

Ok Ok Ok…

to be continued!!!

as much as I wanna like the new cd..I cant lord knows Ive tried!
ive tried listening to it working out
ive tried listening to it at work
ive tried the traffic thing..

I cant get with it..Ill have stick to graduation =(

and kanye u my boy but i wont be buying the new cd..

p.s. I think he has to many “yes” ppl around him

TEAM SAVE KANYE!!!

this album will make kanye west a true legend. he talks about real stuff and not money, cars and shit. I like the album. its phi…

I dig what he’s trying to do as a artist,
It’s a new world, maybe it’s time to
switch things up?

check out this remake of Good Life
by Brooklyn “indietronica” band nite club
I think they hit it right on the money.

http://www.myspace.com/niteclubmusic

he looks like a black sylar from Heros o_O i just bought the album tho its hot something new

Album was TRASH. I COPPED it and TOOK IT BACK AS MOST PEOPLE I KNOW DID.

DUDE IS WACK AND LOSING IT. NEEDS TO GO BACK TO PRODUCING.

I think the album is cool depite what other people say. I mean its not the AVERAGE ALBUM but if you consider what he has gone through in the past year loosing his mothe an remamber she was really all he had anb loosing his fiance that would have somthing to do with your music to.

wonderful album…i looked forward to his brilliance and i am very pleased. I see Kanye’s intellect very clear…even in his heartbroken and Soul-less feeling state. He has been through a lot with loosing his mother. He is a true poet/lyricist/rapper/hip-hop. He is so amazing. I look forward to his albums because he pushes the envelope everytime. He is wearing his feelings not on his sleeve but in his work of art (his album) Only a true artist can see the art in this album.

An evolving artist can get up on stage and not have to thank anyone for his award ….just get up there and hit ppl with a speech to drive not just hip hop but all genres in the direct it needs to take to survive the corporate killers of music. Music artist aren’t much til they strive to be more than a “Music Artist” …until they strive to become something like/or Straight up a LEGEND….Most of you who can’t relate to Kanye’s album or see the art in it ” will never never never know enough until its over” til music is dead. Kanye wont keep Music LOCKDOWN…He wont Loose. SO dont worry about the wrong things….Hip HOp is Alive.

“Mayonnaise colored Benz, I push Miracle Whips”

I was a bit apprehensive at first, hearing the entire album was done in autotune..BUT after listening to the CD in its entirety..I can say that I LOVE this album. I think people just need to be a bit more open-minded and more accepting to change. I love the direction that he went with this album, he’s growing as an artist and I’m going along with him for the ride. Kanye, if your reading this..JOB WELL DONE, I LOVE THE ALBUM AND I LOVE YOU. That is all.

Kanye is that dude. Almost everything that he gets his hands on is great. The album is def different but what if Wayne made it? Everybody would be on his nuts.

This has to be a black site because they always associate “being gay” or “looking gay” in a negative way. I dont care that you dislike his music but come on. Its a shame how some people can be so prejudice when they know good and well that they have a gay brother, uncle, cousin, father and sometimes friend. Grow up black people expand your mind its almost 2009.

The album is not that bad as people say..Definitely not the old Kanye we used to know but still lovable.. Check out my review here..
http://tshirtjunkieindian...8s-heartbreak-review.html

Stop Hating on Kanye Tudda. U dont gotta cop his album, he AiNt gonna cop yours neither…OooOps! My bad,,, You don’t have one to COP!!!

Here’s my Theory from greatest to least…..

GRADUATION>College Dropout> 808′S> Late Registration

liked your blog very much……… can we share links……….????
http://www.jdodyssey.blogspot.com

I LOVE every single song on that album. His lyrics are so unique and original. GENIUS!!!! sums it up 4 me.

Ye is the truth

I LOVE THE ALBUM..AT FIRST I WAS SKEPTICAL ABOTU THE NEW SOUND BUT HE KNOWS WHAT HES DOING & IT SOUNDS GREAT ON ALL THE SONGS

HE ALWAYS BRINGS SUTTIN NEW TO THE TABLE I RESPECT HIM FOR IT!!\\

idk but A lot of u ppl on here just don’t know how to admire creativity… this album is more then words can put together… but anyways if you heard kanYe west & richie rich - class in sesion (idk this dude is A new artist from the west and already being compared to weezy and jay z) kanye is still the same kanye from his last albums he is killin a lot of ppl out

I absolutely love this album! This is Kanye’s best work since College Dropout. Only since that album have I been able to instantly connect with his work. His other two CDs, while excellent, took a listen or two to really feel. This album is all about Kanye’s raw emotion. He lays it all out there. I like music that makes me feel something, and this album does that as soon as the first beat drops.

What’s so great about Kanye, and this work in particular, is that it’s great on many levels. It’s sonically fascinating and powerful (the autotune actually adds to the effect) but it’s also meaningul by being both symbolic and a representation of his real life crisis.

It’s symbolic because of what he uses to express his feelings. One with the drums. As I listened to the whole CD (and to really crtique the album you’ve gotta hear the whole thing; it makes no sense to judge something based on one or two songs), I kept thinking about how much the drums reminded me of a heart beating–changing pace with whatever emotion was being expressed in the song, and I have no doubt this is the effect Kanye was going for. The auto tune also resonates symbolically. It really highlights the loneliness he’s expressing in his lyrics. And I might add he doesn’t sound off key or awkward by singing. It works very well the album.

Also, if you have an ecclectic taste in music, you won’t be turned off by this creative turn. I like everything from alterantive to Latin jazz, as well as electronica/techno, so I really dig this album. It kind of reminds me of modern-day Simon and Garfunkel because it’s melancholic but pleasing to listen to.

If you look at Kanye as an ARTIST, first, and a rapper second, you will no doubt like, if not love, this album. As an artist, he uses atypical and creative production, takes risks, has meaningful and symbolic lyrics, freely expresses his emotion and successfully does so in his music, and on top of that, it all sounds great together.

The man, quite simply, is a genius. But he’s a genius you can connect with. Which makes this album that more valuable.

hmm… a love-hate relationship has been simmering for some time… but Kanye is officially a bird. I feel bad for him, but he needs to take a break to contemplate, reflect, and recover (to whatever extent that is possible); then introduce something worthy to be purchased. The only thing I commend is his bravery–but every one is already familiar with his risky (excessive) brazenness. He was hasty with this album…needed to double check some of the concepts, i.e. singing…

I dont usually post but after reading some of this mess i just have to say something. i know im late but i just got the album and i love it. for people who dont like the singing there is something you can do. try listening to the lyrics instead. try to open your mind for once in your life. i mean you should really be applauding kanye for putting something fresh on the radio instead of the same bs we are use to listening to from rap artists. if you dont like his album after listening to the lyrics then fine, but dont judge someones artistic ability just by there singing voice alone. try listening to what he is really saying, imagine how he must feel. take it as one whole thing not just bits and pieces.

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