this needs its own thread

http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/

is this fucking real? dude types like a 12 year old

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"SOMETIMES I GO 2, 3 DAYS W/O SLEEP WORKING ON MY PERFORMANCE... I HAVE TO ICE MY KNEES AFTER EVERY SHOW AND THEY HURT WHEN I WALK THROUGH THE AIRPORT... HAVING AN EXPENSIVE STAGE CUTS MY PAYDAY IN HALF... CALL ME WHAT YOU WANT BUT NEVER SAY I DIDN'T GIVE MY ALL!!! "

ahahaha boo fucking hoo

6/24/2008 9:11:02 PM

MMMMMMM TALKING IN ALL CAPS

6/24/2008 9:17:50 PM

IT APPEARS THE CAPS KEY ON HIS MACBOOK AIR IS BROKEN

[Edited on June 24, 2008 at 9:19 PM. Reason : .]

6/24/2008 9:19:20 PM

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"REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE A SHORTY AND WATER WOULD HIT THE TV??????"

6/24/2008 9:21:27 PM

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"IT'S NOT CALLED GLOW IN THE DARK FOR NO REASON SQUID BRAINS!"

6/24/2008 9:33:23 PM

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"PEARL JAM ENDED ONE HOUR LATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

That's right... 94 exclamation points.

6/24/2008 10:09:29 PM

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" A FEW MORE SONGS IN AND THE SONG WAS ON IT'S WAY UP.. I CUT A FEW SONGS FROM THE SET BECAUSE I WANTED PEOPLE 2 EXPERIENCE STRONGER WHILE THERE WAS STILL SOME DARKNESS TO PERFORM IT IN. I'VE STRUGGLED WITH STRONGER FROM IT'S CONCEPTION"

He really should have stayed in college...

6/24/2008 11:33:51 PM

no way that's real

6/24/2008 11:52:10 PM

Kanye
West
Rocks Mics the Best
East to West
Dude knows how to throw down
Step to this beast and there might be a showdown
Ten paces till you get hit in the chest
Make you wish you roll with a bullet proof vest
Make you wish you stayed in the crowd with the rest
of T-Dub but because you got stomped like a pest.

6/25/2008 12:00:06 AM

I'm pretty damn sure it's real... go back and look at the past blog entries and comments. I think the guy is just a mongoloid.

6/25/2008 12:01:27 AM

christ in a sidecar

pearl jam (love them or hate them) played a THREE HOUR SHOW before you showed up and those guys are over 40

i can work harder than anyone on earth at taking a dump

but at the end of the day all i have is shit to show for it

6/25/2008 12:03:53 AM

aha, its legit alright

fuckin retard

6/25/2008 4:57:20 PM

^^ pics or it didn't happen

6/25/2008 5:01:59 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/25/music.kanyewest.bonna.ap/index.html

CNN.COM?

really?

this cult of celebrity has to fucking stop

6/25/2008 5:08:02 PM

pearl jam sucks anyways

every album kanye has put out has been more relevant, musically progressive, and interesting than anything PJ has done in the last 10 years.

he does sound like a bitch though

6/25/2008 5:24:47 PM

i wouldnt exactly call Kanye musically progressive but I dono Im sure most people in here wont share that opinion.

6/25/2008 5:27:26 PM

I remember when he came to uncw a couple of years ago

terrible attitude and everyone hated him by the end of the night.

6/25/2008 6:06:33 PM

^^^at least vedder can put together a sentence without drooling on himself in the process

6/25/2008 6:23:20 PM

George Bush hates grunge people

6/25/2008 6:37:34 PM

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"every album kanye has put out has been more relevant"

wow. subjectivity, anyone? hmm?

6/25/2008 7:11:09 PM

there are few things on this earth less relevant to me than kanye west.

6/25/2008 8:41:24 PM

when comparing Kanye to Pearl Jam, I assume relevant is synonymous with young and hip.

6/25/2008 9:20:16 PM

i just have a hard time understanding how a form of music that is 1) based almost completely on synthesized sounds and 2) although can be extremely catchy and fun with rhythm and beats is very not musical in any normal definition of the word can be more musically progressive than a half decent normal band. I mean pearl jam was nothing special but still.

And I am not trying to bash hip-hop. I like a handful of it, admittedly I am not as big of a fan as any of you but if my ipod isnt on Im always on a hip hop station instead of the absolutely TERRIBLE modern rock stations. so by no means do I bash it and say hip-hop sucks or something because I understand that it definitely has its place in the world of entertainment.

but youd talk yourself in circles trying to explain how someone like kanye is "musically" progressive in my opinion.

[Edited on June 25, 2008 at 9:40 PM. Reason : ]

6/25/2008 9:39:36 PM

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"i just have a hard time understanding how a form of music that is 1) based almost completely on synthesized sounds and 2) although can be extremely catchy and fun with rhythm and beats is very not musical in any normal definition of the word can be more musically progressive than a half decent normal band. I mean pearl jam was nothing special but still."

everything you said here is absurd.

6/25/2008 9:41:03 PM

how? Besides the good musicians that I often accompany hip hop/r&B artists live (mainly drummers and bass players), there really is hardly anything "musical" to me about hip hop. Like I said, that doesnt mean I dont enjoy some, but in a classical sense there is nothing groundbreaking or musically interesting about hip hop. it has beats and melodies. hardly EVER interesting time signatures and even less frequent anything remotely creative even on an elementary level done with keys etc.

im not dissing it. weezer's blue album wasnt musically progressive and really isnt that musical and is super fun.

[Edited on June 25, 2008 at 9:46 PM. Reason : ]

6/25/2008 9:45:48 PM

^^ what he said

Why do you have to be a traditionally structured band to be musically progressive?

[Edited on June 25, 2008 at 9:46 PM. Reason : ^]

6/25/2008 9:45:52 PM

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"weezer's blue album ... isnt that musical"

wat?

6/25/2008 9:49:00 PM

^ the blue album plays to the obvious and it works. 99% of the time the next note or chord you hear is the one your ear expects. but thats why it works. theres nothing interesting done but it just has such GREAT, yet simple harmonies. Notice i didnt say anywhere that you HAVE to be musical or musically progressive to write ENJOYABLE music.

^^ you dont have to be a traditionally structured band at all. it can be one sax player or simply a drummer and bass player or just a violin player or an entire symphony orchestra. I didnt suggest you had to be a traditionally structured band at all.

[Edited on June 25, 2008 at 9:56 PM. Reason : ]

6/25/2008 9:55:30 PM

its music

therefore it's musical

6/25/2008 9:59:54 PM

pretty much

6/25/2008 10:04:00 PM

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"there really is hardly anything "musical" to me about hip hop."

Go out then and make a hip hop song that can make you rich.

6/25/2008 10:04:51 PM

What about Techno?

6/25/2008 10:07:45 PM

^^youre making a HUGE jump from saying something isnt pushing classical musical boundaries and making it sound like I said making a successful hip hop song doesnt take some sort of skill or talent (especially on the production side).

^while its not my thing, ive heard a lot of techno/electronica/etc. that actually does some very interesting things musically. there is lots that does not but there is lots that does.

[Edited on June 25, 2008 at 10:12 PM. Reason : ]

6/25/2008 10:07:50 PM

^ What do you define as "classical musical boundaries"?

I would argue that most music, regardless of genre, that's mainstream doesn't push any musical boundaries. I don't see why people like to pick on hip hop. Yeah, a lot of it sucks, but so does music from any genre.

6/25/2008 10:16:03 PM

oh i completely agree, trust me. Im not picking on hip hop. Hip Hop isnt really ABOUT pushing musical boundaries and thats fine. My initial comment was simply regarding the fact that I dont consider Kanye musically progressive.

I have absolutely no problem listening to hip hop haha. I mean I was rockin Lil' Wyte at work today

[Edited on June 25, 2008 at 10:20 PM. Reason : ]

6/25/2008 10:19:51 PM

I don't listen to hip hop so I am far from an expert but I think there are still examples of mainstream songs that are interesting musically. The best example that I have heard is Sensual Seduction http://youtube.com/watch?v=pKz-RXSeIYA. It is a lot better than the prominent thudding baseline + cheesy high pitched timberland type synth that most songs seem to have on the radio.

6/25/2008 10:23:47 PM

i know that song and its definitely got a much more interesting beat than a lot of mainstream hip hop for sure.

and im not really here to start or at least continue a pissing match haha. im not trying to attack hip hop. it IS music, i wasnt debating that either dont worry.

6/25/2008 10:28:01 PM

i love a lot of hip hop.

i like Kanye.

i love Pearl Jam.

but i won't stand idly for the slanderous chatter going on about the RELEVANCE between the two.

6/25/2008 10:35:45 PM

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"oh i completely agree, trust me. Im not picking on hip hop. Hip Hop isnt really ABOUT pushing musical boundaries and thats fine. My initial comment was simply regarding the fact that I dont consider Kanye musically progressive. "

Kanye is unique in hip hop in that he often incorporates more melodic elements rather than relying mostly on syncopated rhythms. Music in general is going this direction though, of mixing traditionally separate styles together.

"Big Brother" even has an electric guitar as a main component of the melody. If there were no vocals the drums are the main thing that give it away as a hip-hop song.
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=263305262&id=263305063&s=143441


[Edited on June 25, 2008 at 10:45 PM. Reason : ]

6/25/2008 10:44:01 PM

I'd just like to point out that the guy questioning what is "musical" about hip-hop is in a band that produces this:

http://www.myspace.com/calledtoarms

[Edited on June 25, 2008 at 10:52 PM. Reason : it ain't music if ya throat ain't bleedin']

6/25/2008 10:51:57 PM

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"I would argue that most music, regardless of genre, that's mainstream doesn't push any musical boundaries. I don't see why people like to pick on hip hop. Yeah, a lot of it sucks, but so does music from any genre."

well I mean you have a point but rap almost relies on the mainstream for the genre to exist with club music to dance to and a beat to excite you, if you're referring to mainstream music thats on g105 then you are right but if you have a larger boundaries then you'd be surprised, at least other music has some respect for the roots and theory of actual music

[Edited on June 25, 2008 at 11:03 PM. Reason : k]

6/25/2008 10:59:52 PM

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"dude types like a 12 year old"

Not surprising in the least. How is that complete morons can make more money than I do? Furthermore, what's with this guy's continual self-delusion of "I'm number one in music?" (though I suppose I haven't heard him use that phrase in some time)

6/25/2008 11:00:30 PM

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"I'd just like to point out that the guy questioning what is "musical" about hip-hop is in a band that produces this:"

lol. im pretty sure everyone is aware of that, i dont exactly hide it or anything... and we werent talking about vocals, heck a lot of hip-hop vocals arent conventional singing either (and im NOT saying that is bad) so im not sure what you were trying to prove.


[Edited on June 25, 2008 at 11:40 PM. Reason : I ain't splitting nothing with nobody homie I gotta gimme me (cause i'm out here grindin') ]

6/25/2008 11:33:31 PM

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"it ain't music if ya throat ain't bleedin'"

says the unabashed Thursday fanboy

6/25/2008 11:40:06 PM

hehe yea. i like thursday too (i love waiting and full collapse) but geoff is lucky to be on key even 50% of the time

6/25/2008 11:42:17 PM

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"at least other music has some respect for the roots and theory of actual music"

This seems like a meaningless statement you use internally to justify your irrational hatred of a musical genre. Seriously, what does this even mean?

6/26/2008 12:23:42 AM

ever heard of a chord on an acoustic instrument, or a melody, a harmony anything besides a beat, you know thats what actual music used to be about



[Edited on June 26, 2008 at 6:34 PM. Reason : k]

6/26/2008 6:28:16 PM

i think we all lost site of the fact that kanye's a fucking retard

6/26/2008 6:39:12 PM

I like Kanye's music. he's really talented.

I've been sick of Pearl Jam since their "Ten" album

but, goddamn if Kanye doesn't sound like a whiny bitch. All his self-centered bitching and moaning has really gotten to the point where I've lost about all respect for him, personally. Cause all I've got to go on is the shit he says in the media.

6/26/2008 7:45:37 PM

I decided that any respect I had left for him was gone while walking back to my tent at bonnaroo at 3:40am after waiting to see him for about an hour after sigur ros. this is just the icing on the cake.

6/26/2008 7:49:54 PM