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The day music died.

I wish he made a few longer tracks again, I hate the tendency these day’s to have lots of 2 min tracks. Or in Kanye’s case, not that many tracks but still 2 mins.

Had a listen, enjoyed it, felt about the right length as well to me. I'm honestly much more likely to listen to a Kanye album if it's 30 mins or under. Enjoyed the albums he was involved in last year as well which were also around the same length.

I wish he made a few longer tracks again, I hate the tendency these day’s to have lots of 2 min tracks. Or in Kanye’s case, not that many tracks but still 2 mins.

 

This is a big problem for me. The lengths make some of the songs feel a bit inconsequential. It's very listenable but a wasted opportunity — there are the foundations here for something far more epic.

Exactly that blacksquare! I really like the idea of a Kanye gospel album and I did enjoy listening to it but some ideas just feel like they haven’t been fully developed, it could and should have been so much more than it’s ended up being.

The rest of the album needs to click but I am absolutely addicted to Follow God. I think I'm coming up to the 30th play of the night. Last time this happened it was Sheena is a T-Shirt Salesman by Future of the Left. Think my personal chat is finally getting its first straight-in-at-#1! This definitely puts mumble rap into perspective.

Edited October 27, 20195 yr by Hiyaluv

Jesus Is King finds West fumbling around like a sleepy Sunday morning churchgoer desperately searching through their trouser pockets for coins when the collection plate unexpectedly arrives.

 

A perfect description of this tbh

He clearly doesn't have the ability to concentrate for even one interview let alone creating good songs so here we are with 11 snippets of a song.

 

It's pretty sad, really, considering the epicness of his best work.

Well... I don't think this is going down as anyone's favourite Kanye album or even close to it :P but just had a listen through now and I enjoyed it more than I expected to based on reviews/reactions I've read. There are definitely a few tracks here that are just a little too overtly God God God for me as a non-religious person to get into which was the main thing that worried me about this album but he has proven before with 'Jesus Walks' that he can make religious songs that are still great and there are three strong highlights on here that I think strike that balance well - 'Follow God', 'On God' (dodgy lyrics about taxes aside x) and my favourite 'Use This Gospel' which is probably the only song on here that actually sounds fully formed and not like a half finished demo, loving the hums and the sax solo. 'Everything We Need' and 'Hands On' were pretty good too (though not really feeling the need to return to them) and the intro and outro tracks are both nice for what they are. The rest I really don't need to ever hear again x but I'm glad this album did eventually materialise if only for 'Use This Gospel'.

I certainly agree that Use This Gospel is the clear highlight from this album. I love Pusha's verse and what song isn't improved by a Kenny G sax solo? Follow God is the other massive high point so it's great to see that doing well. Water would be my third favourite and, despite it's corniness, I can't deny the catchiness of Closed On Sunday.

 

 

My first listen of this album I had Genius open and followed along with the lyrics and was not impressed at all. But since then I've just ignored the lyrics and listened to the album every day. I think it just shows how much I love the production and samples on this that I can just ignore the base-level 'Christianity is cool' lyrics.

I can't get into this, the lyrical content is just too offputting. The production I can appreciate but the content just makes this my least favourite Kanye album.

Edited November 1, 20195 yr by Tombo

The music video for 'Follow God':

 

 

 

Which features his Dad.