May 25, 201312 yr The rapper's latest single 'New Slaves' was included on the 13-song list, which also featured songs titled 'Awake with the Dark', 'Lightning', 'Onsite', 'God (Interlude)', 'Chained', 'Perfect', 'Boxed Out', 'Black Skinhead', 'The Follower', 'Hyper Critical', 'In The Heavens' and 'Demon'. Read more: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a48...l#ixzz2UKrbOnSi
May 25, 201312 yr A shame we're not getting any pre-album singles, but I'll be interested to see how it effects his first-week sales. I think he'll still do well since he's got a big fanbase and is established now. A new, less known artist may not be able to do this though.
May 26, 201312 yr I'm quite glad he's not pushing any singles to begin. He's always screamed album artist to me anyway and since 808's especially the singles have been pretty useless on their own and just sound odd when away from their respective albums for the most part. The titles sound promising. Deliver please.
May 26, 201312 yr No pre-album singles is a big mistake. Watch it debut lower than "MBDTF". Hoping that tracklisting is incorrect, to an extent. I want the Azealia Banks collaboration to feature on what I'm sure will be another masterpiece.
June 8, 201312 yr Appearently this is the cd cover or better said, it doesn;t have a cover at all http://s.s-bol.com/imgbase0/imagebase/large/FC/4/4/8/9/9200000014659844.jpg WUT? Edited June 8, 201312 yr by *Tim
June 10, 201312 yr GIN5dVoJkzI & I Am God preview. "With this album, we ain't got no single to radio...We ain't even got no cover." 8 days and a bit of a mess release strategy for such a hyped album. Eeek.
June 10, 201312 yr Author The problem with this era is it all seems everything or nothing. Like for his next album, what happens if he releases cover art? Surely it defeats the whole point. The hype seems pretty big, and everyone saw the hype with Daft Punk and how well that worked.
June 10, 201312 yr But the man's a genius. I'm sure he knows what he's doing and I'm sure that the hype around Daft Punk was the same as well (although it was in a less attention-seeking way admittedly). I'm sure he'll come out with a massive tune like Power and release an incredible album to go with it. Although he might have been blinded by the way My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was received (and rightfully so), so he thinks that this one will do just as well as that album no matter what happens.
June 10, 201312 yr Author But the man's a genius. I'm sure he knows what he's doing and I'm sure that the hype around Daft Punk was the same as well (although it was in a less attention-seeking way admittedly). I'm sure he'll come out with a massive tune like Power and release an incredible album to go with it. Although he might have been blinded by the way My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was received (and rightfully so), so he thinks that this one will do just as well as that album no matter what happens. But it's an eggs in all your basket move. I know it's not quite the same but Hard-Fi did similar in 2007 with their sophomore effort. It performed decent though, but 90% of people hated the release strategy. Then for their 3rd album they released cover art again and rightly flopped. It's a different level, but especially in the day and age of the internet people remember stuff like this and use it against him.
June 11, 201312 yr well, I´m sure they will release a song in july, with a video and some performances on Tv, and this will help the album to sell somethig more.Anyways, I donñt think the strategy is not working, all his fans know the album is out soon
June 11, 201312 yr But it's an eggs in all your basket move. I know it's not quite the same but Hard-Fi did similar in 2007 with their sophomore effort. It performed decent though, but 90% of people hated the release strategy. Then for their 3rd album they released cover art again and rightly flopped. It's a different level, but especially in the day and age of the internet people remember stuff like this and use it against him. Hard-Fi are a beatle against Kanye's dinosaur though. No way this move will damage him in the future unless he releases tripe (which was pretty much Hard-Fi's case).
June 11, 201312 yr Yeezus is a dance album. He's rapping over it. But first two tracks feel very 80's club nouveau. #Yeezus This album is LOUD and AGGRESSIVE and REAL GOOD (so far) @kanyewest #YEEZUS #listeningparty #NOTFORSALE The bass is so intense right now. None of us will be able to hear for days @kanyewest #yeezus #listeningparty #IAMAGOD "This whole project is all about giving no ****s at all!" #Yeezus *music starts LOUDLY* Listening party in NYC last night was open to anyone. Potential leakage soon? Waaaahttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/075ee6d1.gifaa.
June 11, 201312 yr NEW YORK — The Yeezus album rollout has been highly unconventional, even by Kanye West's standards. So it's not surprising that on Monday night, 'Ye invited a wide range of media types, fashion mainstays and his closest friends to the Milk Studios loading dock on Manhattan's west side to get an open-air listen to 10 tracks off of his new LP. "I have an idea on how to sell more music — it's called make better music," West said to the crowd, which included Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Timbaland and New York Knicks star Tyson Chandler. West has made a living making "better music" and pushing hip-hop's envelope each time out, but whether or not Yeezus is his best work to date is still to be determined. While last night's loud and booming bass made it difficult to pick up on the smallest details of the surely labored LP, one listen was more than enough to establish that Yeezus is Kanye's most daring work. Chief Keef, Daft Punk and Bon Iver all make appearances, but Yeezus is 100 percent Kanye. "The monster about to come alive again," he boasts over boombastic drums on "Onsite," making reference to his 2010 single "Monster." 'Ye offered no titles or production credits, instead just letting the album play with pretty much no interruption. When it was all over, he played it back again. The entire LP screams creative freedom (sometimes literally, as Kanye wails over tracks like the punk-laced "Black Skinhead" and EDM-driven "I Am a God"). On the latter, Yeezy looks towards the King of Pop and declares himself "the only rapper compared to Michael." While Yeezus has a clear and distinct electro influence, Kanye also drew inspiration from reggae and dancehall for his latest. One unnamed track in particular features either a sampling, an interpolation or a total re-recording of Beenie Man's hit "Memories." There are more moments of familiarity, as Kanye blends Billie Holiday's classic "Strange Fruit" with C-Murder's 2000 favorite "Down for My N's." That record went over so well last night that West granted one special request for a playback. "Hov want me to bring that one back," he informed the crowd before hitting the rewind button. By the time the 10 tracks ended, the invited flock and the uninvited who braved the rain to take a listen just beyond the loading dock's barricades were left with more than a qualitative judgment on whether Yeezus was good, bad or somewhere in the middle. Instead they were left with a unique listening experience, one that may never be duplicated again — especially not by someone as inventive as Kanye West. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1708800/k...ing-party.jhtml He's also apparently shot an “American Psycho-inspired music video" for something and they assure that it is still definitely getting both a physical and digital release on the 18th.
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