I'd like to be the first, At Least I Think I'll Be, to Announce The February 10th release of Kanye West's "College Dropout" album.
This is going to mark a great day for music, especially Hip Hop. Why, 'cause fun and creativity are going to be able to be mentioned in the same breath. That pretty much hasn't been easy to come upon in quite awhile, A Tribe Called Quest hayday day's to be exact.....The Lower End Theory and Midnight M.....
Anywhohow, get Your can's ready.
And, NO, Drugs, Money, and "Hoes" aren't glorified or made the centerpieces for subject matter.....Hence, "SpaceShip".....A song about wanting to buy a spaceship and getting outta this little town We like to call Earth.
Thank You
Peace And Blessings
Dj R.thentic (U.F.O)

P.s

Max Fisher And Richie Tenenbaum Are Priceless.....


Edited by: djrthentic at: 1/31/04 6:40 am

whoa, just found this old post.. was this dude a spammer?

Anyway, Jon Brion has just finished producing Kanye's next album. SO does this mean I have to buy my first hip hop album?

Cananyoner say anythign good about Kanye to convince me? Apparently he is smart and a good producer. I just have abig roblem with this genre. I don't get it but I'm willing to give it a listen.. <p><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END-->there’s never any time to have too much self-doubt </p>

I don't have a problem with commercial rap in doses, Ludacris is sometimes funny, more often than not though he's just head ache inducing as is 50, Kanye's beats do nothing for me, his rhymes are so so, and he's so full of himself with no hint of irony (or maybe it's all there and I missed it) that I can't even begin to take him seriously. Jay Z however, I'll take him over nearly any rapper, I think the stuff he put together was far more exciting than any other commercial rapper or indie rapper (Anticon, Atmosphere, that stuff).

I think he is the pinnacle of hip hop at this stage. But I'm no real enthusiast on the genre, I do love that first Wu Tang album though, and their subsequent solo records up until the Ghostface record (but I like his second album Supreme Clientele so I don't know what I'm talking about).

Well, the main issue with a lot of the Hip Hop today is that no one has anything to say anymore. At least Kanye has the decency to put more into his songs than money and violence, and still trys to point out issues with society, although he does not make strong points. Old albums by The Roots are quite good to listen to for some good hip hop/jazz fills. Common and Mos Def (also in BlackStar) are two other rappers who still seem to have more concern for life than money. Otherwise one can always check out Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, The Message has to be the single greatest hip hop track ever produced, in my opinion.

I imagine the attraction between Jon and Kanye is the interest in creative production. I realize that this commets doesn't address those expressed above, but I appreciate them all the ame ;) <p><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END-->there’s never any time to have too much self-doubt </p>

kanye west is an overrated mofo. he's a good producer with cool tracks, but he's condescending as shit. I'm sick of this "middle class" hiphop that's supposedly heading the underground these days. it's a bunch of middle class kids shitting on other rappers and folks in the ghetto, while spouting generic rhetoric of community and unity. the only cool ones that emerge from this movement are talib kweli and mos def--who are fast getting contaminated by kanye west and his success. talib should totally distance himself away from kanye west.
this whole "positive rap" shit is getting on my nerves. for the most part, "positive" just means "shitting on the people in the ghetto and their broke asses."

there's way more to good contemporary hip hop than common and mos def: aesop rock, blackalicious, nas, dungeon family, mf doom and his new super villain side project...etc. they're all so different and non-condescending.

Edited by: pete at: 6/11/05 12:05 pm

I despise him...I think he thinks he's god's greatest gift to music and he's so over-the-top and corny. Then again, what rap star doesn't think and act that way? I do like Cody Chesnutt though, but he's more rock/rap than just rap. <p>------------------------------------
Rockin' the town like a moldy crouton </p>

The night I went to Largo, an unsassuming and quality music clb in LA, Kanye appeared as a special guest. Most of the audience is in jeans or casual duds, Jon is a kind of indy or college kid style shlubby-cool outfuit of t-shirt, blazer, cool running-type shoes etc...

Kanye comes in wearing a shiny suite, making an impressive entrance with his entourage, and strolled up to the mic in his own sweeeeet time. Jon set up a fun goovy loop for him and then kept waiting for Kanye to run with it.. but no dice. Maybethe weird crowd threw him (although it was not his first time there, I hear) as he was shy and apologetic, and quite frankly, not that impressive.

Sad, as David Garza was also there that night and blew the roof off the club... not to mention Jon's usualy magic.

SO, I just don't get kanye. Too slick, somehow. <p><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END-->there’s never any time to have too much self-doubt </p>Edited by: chelseagirl at: 7/8/05 6:14 am

There is this <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/7513389/kanyewest?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single1&rnd=1122927355974&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.1040" target="top">newish article in Rolling Sto</a><!--EZCODE LINK END-->ne, with nice quotes from Jon Brion and Kanye <p><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END--> "There’s never any time to have too much self-doubt" - Wes Anderson </p>Edited by: chelseagirl at: 8/30/05 4:57 pm

There are tracks and Hyperbole flying around. yes it's a richly textured album but he is still shouting over it all and I htink I need to listen to a LOT more hip hop to get what the buzz is about.

BUt my favourite line from all this nonsense is something to the effect that Jon Brion is Raps' favourite new white boy. Hee. <p><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END--> "There’s never any time to have too much self-doubt" - Wes Anderson </p>

anyone saw Kanye West at the RedCross Benefit thing? he totally ranted and caught Mike Myers and Chris Tucker completely off-guard.

For those that wish to see the rant:
<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://buttlands.net/kanye.avi">buttlands.net/kanye.avi</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END-->

I like how NBC is pussy-footing and editted it out of later broadcasts. "He didn't read what we wrote for him," they claim. Yes, but isn't America about free-speech? Is any American still convinced they live in a free country?

edit: The last couple seconds is just painful. How true, and how sad. <p>"Well I want to die." - Raleigh St Clair</p>Edited by: Raleigh St Clair at: 9/3/05 1:22 pm

Holy shit. Go kanye.

Woah.

Holy shit. GO Kanye is right. The labelling of photos is totally ridiculous and unfair. I hate print media.

I love MIke Myars' look. what the hell can he say? And I am furious that they would edit that for rebroadcast! <p><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END--> "There’s never any time to have too much self-doubt" - Wes Anderson </p>Edited by: chelseagirl at: 9/6/05 7:15 pm

For real. I don't know anything about him, and if I've heard any of his songs it was probably on pop radio and I didn't know it was him.

But what he said - dead on. Oh my gosh. I just wish I had seen it when it was broadcast because I've heard the reactions of the people with him (I think someone has already said it was Chris Tucker and Mike Meyers) were priceless.

Don't get me started. :soapbox