Kanye West - The Life of Pablo (album out now)

[Shaun]

https://soundcloud.com/kanyewest/facts-explicit

Last year, Kanye West dropped "Only One" on New Year's Eve in the closing hours of 2014. This year, he's struck again with another new song to close out 2015. It's called "FACTS", and it's produced by Metro Boomin and Southside.

West has shared very few of his own songs in 2015. Prior to "FACTS", he had officially released just "All Day" and "FourFiveSeconds", a collaboration with Rihanna and Paul McCartney. He also debuted "Wolves" at a fashion show. Most recently, he posted a new version of 2008's "Say You Will" and a reinterpretation of the Weeknd's "Tell Your Friends" to his SoundCloud. There is no word on when West will release his forthcoming album SWISH.

[Brother Leon]

It's no "All Day"..

[Shaun]

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As promised, Kanye West has released new music today. The release of the track "Real Friends" comes accompanied by a snippet of "No More Parties in LA," which features Kendrick Lamar.

According to since-deleted Tweets from Kanye, "No More Parties in LA" was produced by Madlib, with the intro produced by Kanye. "Real Friends" was produced by Kanye, with "sample by Frank Dukes and Boi-1da" and drum programming by Havoc. "No More Parties in LA" appears to feature the same sample from Ghostface Killah's "Mighty Healthy" that Kanye used on "New God Flow" with Pusha T.

This follows "FACTS," which dropped on New Year's Eve.

If Kim Kardashian's Tweet from this morning is to be believed, this may herald a return to "G.O.O.D. Fridays," the 2010 series in which Kanye released a new track every Friday in advance of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

https://soundcloud.com/kanyewest/real-friends-no-more-parties-in-la-snipped

[Ashsleigh]

It's no "All Day"..

Can it be any worse?? That song was basically just a sentence which made no sense with the awful "n" word plonked on the end of it for pointless effect. Sometimes I wonder how he can love himself so much.

[Shaun]

kanye west's yeezus follow-up, swish (formerly so help me god), has a release date: February 11, 2016.

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[Brother Leon]

Can it be any worse?? That song was basically just a sentence which made no sense with the awful "n" word plonked on the end of it for pointless effect. Sometimes I wonder how he can love himself so much.

All Day bangs hard tbh. It just needs to be performed at the right place. Aka..not the Brit Awards

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Being in that crowd was my 2015 music highlight tbh :laugh:

[Shaun]

Real Friends is nice. https://soundcloud.com/kanyewest/real-friends-no-more-parties-in-la-snipped

[Shaun]

https://soundcloud.com/kanyewest/nomorepartiesinla

I am liking this campaign more and more

[Jake.]

oh wow :flutter: wasn't expecting anything like this, has a real "old rap" style to it

[Iceman]

I can't ****ing wait for this.

[Iceman]

This is actually brilliant. If this is the build up tracks I don't know what to expect from the album.

[Locke.]

Now called Waves. Started with the promo on twitter over the past few days

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[Marsh.]

What's with the new craze of people promoting their new albums by showing us how awful their handwriting is on twitter? :suspect:

[Iceman]

The album is being live streamed globally Along with Yeezus Season 3

I'm all about Waves can't ****ing wait now. I'm perched for the album of all time.

[Iceman]

T.L.O.P. Is the new album name.

[Jake.]

What

[reece(:]

How many album names welp

[MB.]

F.L.O.P. y/n

[Locke.]

Is it still coming out tomorrow? Doesn't feel like it. I bet T.L.O.P won't even be the title if it does.

[Iceman]

Funniest one I've read was 'Tidal Lost Our Profits'

[Iceman]

He just tweeted saying not to ask for anything till Monday or text him till then either.

[Drew.]

The Life Of Pablo

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[Locke.]

Great title, I see Kanye has been watching Narcos

[Shaun]

it is rather amazing how just playing around with proposed album titles has given this more promo than Rihanna could muster in 3 years

[Iceman]

Yeezus Christ

[Iceman]

9PM tonight and you guessed it you can stream it on Tidal.

[Drew.]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ca9XF0EWEAApIbG.jpg

[Jessica.]

Who is Pablo?

[Smithy]

His dad I think

[Iceman]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ca9XF0EWEAApIbG.jpg

:worship:

[Smithy]

http://40.media.tumblr.com/81f9a830ef00f0d807f8a6ad739e5976/tumblr_inline_o12mmsw35F1r89a0z_1280.jpg

[Iceman]

http://40.media.tumblr.com/81f9a830ef00f0d807f8a6ad739e5976/tumblr_inline_o12mmsw35F1r89a0z_1280.jpg

Iconic

[Locke.]

Who is Pablo?

Escobar and Picasso, reflecting on the two sides of him. Supposedly.

[Iceman]

Making Taylor famous and wanting to shag her, him and Ray J potentially being friends. Token Rihanna collab.

I'm ****ing sold. Yeezus Walks :love:

The internet reaction is gonna be gold. He's done it again.

[Locke.]

finally

[Pete.]

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http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/16/06/480x480/gallery-1455237557-madonna.jpg

http://www.digitalspy.com/music/news/a783258/did-kanye-west-rip-off-the-cover-art-for-the-life-of-pablo-from-madonna-some-of-the-pop-queens-fans-think-so/

[reece(:]

I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex
Why? I made that bitch famous
God damn
I made that bitch famous


Mess.

[Z]

Mess.

:joker: I ****ing love him, he's a complete wanker but he's charming with it (most of the time)

[Z]

http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/16/06/480x480/gallery-1455222059-kanye1.jpg
http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/16/06/480x480/gallery-1455237557-madonna.jpg

http://www.digitalspy.com/music/news/a783258/did-kanye-west-rip-off-the-cover-art-for-the-life-of-pablo-from-madonna-some-of-the-pop-queens-fans-think-so/

So what they're saying is both have a background, some text and a picture on them??? I think everyone has been plagiarising Madonna for years, even before she existed!!!!!!!

[Drew.]

7 new songs!!

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[Iceman]

He just released 30 hours for free :love:

[Iceman]

Sorry drew that didn't load for me a minute ago.

[Jake.]

I'm so excited to listen to this

[Pete.]

So what they're saying is both have a background, some text and a picture on them??? I think everyone has been plagiarising Madonna for years, even before she existed!!!!!!!
All reductive artists look to Nothing Fails for inspiration. Taylor's career was simply because of that track

[Pete.]

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[Iceman]

So the bitch was in on it.

[Jake.]

it's dropped ~

I can't wait to listen to this, Real Friends is already my favourite song of his from the past 4 or so years

[EspeonBB]

I'm perched for this

[Jake.]

downloaded, I'm excited to blast this out this afternoon

[Shaun]

I'm excited to blast this out this afternoon

what you do with your valentine's day is your own business smh

[Drew.]

Finally got round to listening to it. I don't know what to think of it really. A couple of the songs are great but overall the album was good but not amazing. 50% good, 50% forgettable. Bit disappointed really.

Ultralight Beam, Famous, Feedback, Highlights, Waves, Real Friends. No More Parties In LA, FML & Father Stretch My Hands are probably the only ones i'll be keeping.

[Jake.]

gonna listen whilst I iron my shirts

[Shaun]

probably should've kept it to 10 tracks after all

[Jake.]

okay well lowlights can go

[Jake.]

waves is good

[Locke.]

5 or 6 quality songs, need to listen to the rest again really to make my mind up on them.

Better than Yeezus anyway.

[Jake.]

yeah I was gonna say I already prefer this to Yeezus, it's a really short album though

[Jake.]

Lowlights/I Love Kanye are tragic

[Jake.]

Yeah so I've finished it/don't know what to make of it. Half seems genius, half seems hit and miss and for 17 songs it doesn't last all that long. Better than Yeezus but yeah.

[Shaun]

17? I have 18 :suspect:

[Shaun]

(also Yeezus > this :worry: )

[Locke.]

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[Shaun]

They can't complain about none of their stuff charting then can they :idc: but they will

[Brother Leon]

**** Kanye and **** Tidal smh.

[reece(:]

A mess @ Tidal exclusive

[Dominic]

TLOP is like Tidal + Flop

[Ashsleigh]

How is only putting it on Tidal going to make people want to pay for it, surely it's just going to mean people aren't going to bother listening to the album? I wouldn't pay for Tidal just to listen to one album.