Albums Kanye West - DONDA Deluxe (Discussion Thread)

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Man I enjoyed the album off first listen but the second listen is hitting different, this shyt is spiritual man :to: 24 man :to::to::to: dropping this on Sunday was perfect. On paper the features looked like a DJ Khaled album but the difference is they all actually brought their A game:russ: . I still wish he cut it down about 30 mins and I’d have no hesitation in saying this is AOTY. As of right now it’s neck and neck with KD2, Off Season & House is Burning. It’s basically Jesus is King executed properly
 
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ThirdAct said:
Snap judgment continued...

18. New Again - Synths on this remind of some late-00's Kanye or 00's Neptunes. This is cool.

19. Tell The Vision - Why have a piano like this with no beat behind it. This is weak, guess it's just an interlude though.

20. Lord I Need You - A lot of these beats got this kind of muted, relaxing, "watery" vibe to them. It's a vibe but the problem is a lot of the songs start blending together. Still a pretty good song.

21. Pure Souls - I'm kinda getting sick of the church organs tbh. I get this is a gospel album but it makes all the songs sound the same.

22. Come to Life - This sounds exactly like the last song lol. Okay now it's switching up with some nice piano. Beautiful piano actually. Still not a fan of Kanye singing but that piano damn near saves the song. Second half of the song is def better than the first half.

23. No Child Left Behind - And another drumless organ song. Give me a banger Ye.

24. Jail Pt 2 - Ok here we go with the "controversial" song. Ye got some balls putting a try hard anti-religious accused rapist on a gospel album, I'll give him that lol. He knows how to get people talking for better or worse. Like Manson himself though the move feels real try hard. Guess this is the same drumless loop as Pt 1? This song is kinda boring to me until DaBaby comes on. Not a huge fan of DaBaby but he impressed me with his verse here, he's spitting.

25. Ok Ok Pt 2 - Ye gave pt 2's to all all the songs that stood out the least to me lol. Funny I did say I wanted female vocals over this type of production and here we go with some female vocals. Not really sure if reggae fits over this techno-y beat, but I guess I like it better than pt 1.

26. Junya Pt 2 - See Ok Ok Pt 2.

27. Lord Jesus Pt 2 - Don't get mad but since it seems like Ye and Jay Elect's got the same verses as Pt 1 I'm skipping straight to the Lox. And to the surprise of no one the Lox killed it.

Overall this album has some decent songs but it's def on the bloated, overly-long side. My main problem is all the more churchy organ sounding songs blend together to me and makes the album feel like kinda lethargic. Ye probably coulda narrowed this down to a more focused, leaner, meaner 14 to 16 track album.

Now granted religious rap is not really my thing, especially for a whole album (I do love DMX's God songs and that My Bible on KDII is greatness), so maybe I'm biased. I will say it is pretty impressive that he's got mainstream fans anticipating gospel rap since that's never been a super popular style. Truthfully only Ye and maybe a few other rappers could do that. At the same time the religious stuff does blend bizarrely with his antics like posting Drake's home address, saying he's gonna be Joker in the beef or hanging out with Trump and Marilyn Manson. It's weird cuz there's glimmers of old Kanye in here but a second later you're reminded of new Kanye again.
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I'm not into Christian rap. I don't mind rappers organically rapping about those themes but restricted to them only nope.
 
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The_Sheff said:
People just want more of the same shyt he used to be on, nothing more. His new music is way off the experimental deep end, it's like he just throwing shyt together with no thought about how this makes an actual song. It's just noise. That's why his production for other people is so much better than his own stuff now, other folks are trying to make songs.
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I appreciate when a mainstream artist does edgy experimental music, but it was too many ingredients in the soup and too many chefs in the kitchen
 
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This shyt war so far why didn’t he write the fukking features next to the tracks fake artistic fakkit :pacspit:
 
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