Major Jammie of the Day

In vein of the last post how about some throwback Kanye for Jammie of the day. This right here is "We Major" my favorite track from Late Registration this joint is pretty epic.

...Yeezy Taught Me...

**pixelated cover art FTW!**
Over the past two weeks I have intensely and repeatedly listened to Kanye's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and here is my take on it.
I have always had a love/hate with Kanye (as have a lot of people). I always respected his music and his vision but his attitude was always so off putting to me. My feelings changed for him however around the time 808s and Heartbreak came out. This had a lot to do with a change in his demeanor due to the tragic passing of his mother and him becoming more of a humble human being. Also the fact that I LOVED 808s because it was more than just rappity-rap. To clarify I am a hip hop head and always will be but I do love me some melodies. Anyways now getting to MBDTF. I do not get excited by music much these days but I was heavily anticipating this album. I have not been this excited about a record since Kid Cudi's Man On the Moon... album last year. And although more than half of the album have been floating around the internets for the better half of this year thanks to G.O.O.D. fridays and some good ol album leakage, this album did not disappoint. This album is the culmination of all Kanye's albums. It has the sped up sample straight hip hop vibe of College Dropout, the orchestration of Late Registration, the meticulous and grandiose production of Graduation, and the emotion of 808. All that packed into 13 songs with out sounding forced or getting boring. MBDTF (also known as my really obnoxiously long album title but i can get away with it cause this album is effing amazing) has the rare no skippage where you can start from "Dark Fantasy" and not stop until the last drum beat in "Who Will Survive In America". You can listen to individual album cuts but the record as a whole just melts from one track to another, the sequencing in my opinion is excellent. My favorite track has to be "Hell of A Life" and "Lost in the World" is seriously one of the best songs of all time. ALL TIME! It's emotional, its urgent but its also a bit jubilant. Conflicting emotions for the last song on the album which kind of feels like a cliffhanger or a deceptive cadence but it really is masterfully crafted song (although I have a bone to pick with the additional drums added to the final mix :-/) I guess what I'm trying to say is this album is quite the masterpiece and Kanye worked his tail off to make sure it was so. And for someone to truly put their all into something because they truly care for the music, how could you not love that!?

Runaway with me Baybah

After much anticipation Kanye West's short film Runaway debuted last night. I have to say I rather enjoyed it, although on television it annoyed me because of the commercials made it so disjointed. So upon 2nd viewing I appreciated it more. I thought Selita Ebanks who played the Phoenix was stunning. The cinematography was awesmazing. The musical placement was spot on and I think I have a crush on Kanye, he was like adorable in this. The only bone I had to pick was for the "Runaway" clip it was ballerina overkill. I get what he was trying to do. There were so many visuals up to this point and this song is supposed to be the climax of the film and I just wish there was more to look at. Then again he probably meant for it to come out that way. All in all this was very impressive not only visually but it made me excited for the album. Well played Kanye.

The Great Hangover Tour. Great Indeed.

Ok so for a while now I was looking forward to going to see the great hangover tour featuring Asher Roth and Kid Cudi, but due to lack of finances I was not able to buy tickets. My homie from way back from the WVRU days now works at Z104 and got me and my brother the hook up to a meet and greet monday. So we make our way out to Va Beach ( in record time i might add) in the hopes of meeting Kid Cudi. So we get there and wait in the room where all this is happening and long story short Kid Cudi decided not to show for reason unknown. NOT COOL. So because of this the locals favorite Shaggy got record exec to give us free tickets. VERY COOL. So by the time all this ended it 3p and doors to the norva would not open till 6:30 so not wanting to go all the way back to hampton just to drive back to norfolk my brother and I needed to kill some time. We killed about 2 hours with an hour and a half to go. So we wound up just posting outside of the Norva. We saw Kid Cudi pass by a few times but he did not stop for pics or anything. He and I had an exchage of a head nod and a 'What up!?", that makes him slightly less of a douche SLIGHT, and he's really hot :sigh: but short, I cant do nothing with that HA! Anyways the doors open and the show begins. From the start this show is designed as a HIP-HOP show with the warm-up dj playing hip-hop classics. Something that my brother and I enjoyed very much. First up was 88 keys which we saw outside as well. Me and brother exchanged a "Stay Up" with 88 making him our new favorite. His set was solid very basic he went through much of his album The Death of Adam and was very entertaining and funny doing so.
Next up was B.O.B. which we were surprised/happy that he was performing that night. We were under the impression only 88 keys was going to be there. His set was great! This dude is super super talented, very impressed. After him Asher Roth came out. I am not an Asher fan by any means but this kid put on an awesome performance. Dude they danced to "Candy Rain"! I have a video floating around hampton somewhere of me singing and dancing to that song *Note to self: find that video and destroy it!* Anyways he had a great set and his set also marked the beginning of trees floating in the air. After that Cudi took his sweet a$$ time getting to the stage. My brother was hating on him the whole time. He lost a lot of respect for the Kid that day, resulting in him not wanting to buy his album when it comes out. I dont blame him, I see where he's coming from but...I cant give up on Kid Cudi like that, cause regardless of douchbagness that took place, I am a fan of the music ya know? So he finally comes out and I have to say the light is bonkers very very cool. He played a lot of the mixtape stuff and some cuts from the upcoming album which I dug. But from the records he did perform I can tell this album is going to be a downer which I dont mind, just dont know how people are going to dig it. So the highlight of the show was when Kid Cudi performed "Make Her Say" and he friggin brought out Kanye West!!!! The Norva went BUCK. To have an artist like Kanye in a club venue like the Norva is mind blowing to say the least, absolute classic moment. After that he performed "Day N Nite" to which me and my brother left to avoid the stampede of getting out. When we went to go leave, who was at the merch booth? 88 keys! He was real cool, daped him up had a small convo and took a pic, great guy. So overall I give the show a B+. It went smoothly until Cudi decided to take some sweet time but made up for it huge by bringing Kanye out. And although showing up for the meet and greet was soooo not cool, im quite sure he has some good reason like he did not want to deal with people that day cause you know sometimes you dont feel like dealing. I wish I can completely write him off but its not this often that I really believe in a person's music, I feel like a battered girlfriend lol 'But guuurl I luh him and he luh me too, he just got a funny way of showin it'. Plus he's hot uggggh.

...born in '88, how old is that? Old enough

HA! Best line in the song to me. So this is the new video for my boyfri---*ahem* Kid Cudi's new single "Make Her Say" ft Kanye and Common. Now this is not my favorite Kid Cudi song but it seems like it will get radio airplay as well as video play. I can't wait for the album Man on the Moon:The End of Day, it sounds like its going to be pretty epic. Originally slated for August 25th just last week it got pushed back to Sept 15th boooo, anyways check out the vid, it has a cool, breezy, monochromatic look, and Cudi looks tasty ;)

Kid Cudi - New Music - More Music Videos

Eat shit die: Electric bugaloo

So remember how a while ago all the blog were posting a clip of some concert where Kanye but a fan on blast and told him to "Eat shit die" autotune style? Well I found this clip that makes the whole thing make a little more sense. Sure im late, but im not absent. ESD!

Down but not out Jammie

This was my sooong back in the day. If you don't know I am closet Dipset(RIP) fan and this was when Cam came back skinny with hey Ma and all that. So this Down and Out with Camron and Kanye.

I woke up with this song in my head Jammie

No I literally woke up with this song in my head, and apparently the best way to get a song out of your head is to listen to it again. I think I just made it worse.

Recant

So previously a number of posts ago I wrote about Kanye West being a douchebag, well I didnt write Kanye being a douchebag but I wrote about someone else writing about about why Kanye is a douchebag thus me linking the story thus agreeing with this person. Well I Tylia recant my assumed agreenessness of someone calling Kanye a douchbag. Here's the thing, I've always admired Kanye's vision and talent I have enjoyed his first 3 albums I think he's a great musician. I was never a fan of Kanye the person because at times he just seemed unlikeable like he seemed to wound up. After reading this article that I spotted over at his blog I have a new respect for him now. Especially after I got 808's and Heartbreaks which I LOVE, such a great album. Not a great rap album, not a great hip-hop album, not a great pop album, just a great album. Period. So that's that I'm sorry Kanye I'm the douchebag, hardbody. So I leave you with a live video performance of my favorite song off the new album "Paranoid"

Do you have any douche inside you? Would you like some

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This will go into the "I hate that I love you" file. Kanye West is another man that I hate to love. I have absolute respect for this man music and musicianship. You can NOT deny this man's talent, but I can't stand his personality it erks. I totally get about believing in yourself cause aint the end of the day that all you have, yourself. But I think we can all agree that he takes it quite off the deep end sometimes. So searching across the internets I came across this little ditty. Maybe you will find this a nice read.