Dear disciples if you had told me this time last year that I would be nominating Kanye West for "Album Of The Year " I would have said thee was as much chance of that happening asSpurs qualifying for The Champions League !
However both events have come to pass ...Spurs courtesy of another gift from the mighty Saints,Gareth Balle. Kanye West through his magnificent,epic " My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy " album.
After 2 exceptional albums - Graduation and Late Registration his behaviour became increasingly egocentric and bizarre and his last album ,808's and Heartbreak was a piece of shit. Coupled with his pathetic behaviour at The Grammy's I had him definitely listed under " Past Sell-By Date ".
However over the past 3 months or so via www.kanyewest.com he instigated Good Fridays - and every Friday he would make a track from the album available as a free download. Curious as ever I startede downloading the tracks ...and gradually like an amazing sonic jigsaw this incredible album took shape . It is awesome,arrogant,ambitious and amazing ... a collection of tracks that sit together brilliantly featuring collaborations from long-time friends of Kanye like Jay-Z and Kid Cudi as well as Raekwon and in an inspired collaboration with Bon-Iver.
A lot of people say they " hate rap " as if it were a type of cheese or something.....how can anyone hate a whole genre of great new Music With Soul ,it's a bit of a generalization I think ,but mind you I hate all Pompey fans !
Anyway the album comes complete with a 34 minute movie called Runaway starring the unbelievably hot Selita Ebanks as a Phoenix that has fallen to earth ....a lot of journalists have derided this as " pretentious crap " ....and it may be but the sequences with the ballet dancers dancing to his beats is breathtaking,beautiful and deeply moving
Kanye West...........welcome back
TSG x
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