Just when you thought Jordan and Pippen were Chicago’s lone superstar duo, Common and Kanye entered the conversation when the former released his 2005 album, Be. Clocking in at 42 minutes, West laid down the foundation, serving as the project’s executive producer, allowing Common to glide ...
Lady Gaga and Kanye West entered the world of high art, while Arcade Fire made statements in chalk. And Daft Punk got fans so excited about "Get Lucky" that they created a 10-hour remix that we can only hope got someone lucky. All of these acts — excluding the heady electronica of B...
But really, it’s that her music teems with the sincerity of a young woman finding herself in a collapsing hellscape, seeking solace in making K-Pop fan edits, investigating reddit forums, and grafting reasons to live from her notebook to the bedroom mic. It’s imbued with a sense of pr...
“My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” by Kanye West “Led Zeppelin II” by Led Zeppelin “The Dark Side of the Moon” by Pink Floyd “The Low End Theory” by A Tribe Called Quest “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” by Billie Elish “Jagged Little Pill” by Alanis Morissette...
Water Made Us by Jamila Woods Baril - For You, Forever Jun 23rd / Intercept Baril’s music came on my radar through a Reddit recommendation and it was instant love. Not only because it checks everything I look for when it comes to chill electronica, but because the record has a very ...
41. Kanye West, ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ (2010) Image Credit: Courtesy Photo After a handful of album covers featuring the Dropout Bear and a simple, Kaws-designed image for808s & Heartbreak, Kanye West transitioned into high-concept art forMy Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Team...
The first in a series of hyper-condensed albums produced by Kanye West at a remote Wyoming ranch and released in a five-week promotional blitz,Daytonais in many ways the most immediate in its appeal: just seven sinewy tracks of Pusha T’s patented coke-rap, over samples so jagged it soun...
and clever rhymes set him up as a deserving carrier of Kanye West’s torch. In melding traditional hip-hop form with just the right amount of modern trap verve,Limbomakes the case for Aminé, if not as the next great rapper, then as a pop-rap workhorse. The album proves that he can...
“Contemporary Christian Music Album” category at the Grammys last night. That’s right, Kanye West took home the top prize in that category for his album“Jesus Is King”. It’s a tough thing for any artist to break into an industry/music scene that isn’t of the same comf...
In all of the debate over Kanye West’s place in our current cultural climate, no one has gotten to the point as quickly as RXK Nephew: “Jay-Z don’t even like you,”“the whole G.O.O.D. Music made bad music,” and most damningly, “you signed Big Sean.” The latest in th...