That’s why his Twitter personality can so easily vacillate between charming insight and outright misogyny. In the rollout to Fantasy, Kanye offered a behind-the-scenes look at a finished product, but with Pablo the final product seems to be irrelevant-and surprisingly enough it makes Kanye as captivating as he’s ever been.Ī “38-year-old 8-year-old with rich nigga problems,” as he raps on “Real Friends,” New Kanye’s a walking heat-check of a human being: willing to toss out any idea that comes into his head and deal with the repercussions later.

The star-studded list of collaborators is here, though the guiding principle “What Would Mobb Deep Do?” has been replaced with flame emojis. Fantasy is an album on which Kanye not-so-secretly assembled an all-star cross-section of the pop music landscape, asked them “ What would Mobb Deep do?” and created the best rap album of the modern era.Īt times, Pablo walks a similar path.

It’s this transparency that makes Pablo more closely resemble My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy than it does any of Kanye’s other solo efforts. With Pablo, unlike any rap album before it, Kanye’s pulling back the curtain to show us how the sausage is made. There’s an operational aesthetic at work here (like a restaurant with an open kitchen, or that see-through Clarissa Explains It All phone we all wanted in the '90s), and the way Pablo came to be is just as important as the album itself. The Life of Pablo was once Waves, and Waves was once Swish, and that’s important to remember when listening to the album. Kanye’s been telling us for years that this one would be a work in progress.

Sia and Vic Mensa might have returned to “Wolves,” Andre 3000 might have submitted a verse for “30 Hours,” and Yeezy might have created yet another version of “Facts.” Basically, if you’re reading this it’s too late. 11 at Madison Square Garden (Getty Images)īy the time you’re reading this, Kanye West still might not have released a final version of The Life of Pablo, his seventh and most ambitious solo effort to date. Kanye at the album release party for 'The Life of Pablo' on Feb.

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