![]() It distils the anger and aggression of the album into something as unmelodic and removed from his previous material as possible. On Sight is the first song on the track listing, serving as a mission statement for the divisive Yeezus. We’re kicking off eliminations by kicking out our first track from Yeezus, On Sight. Highest Score: 10 x 2 (IAmMrDexB, MrBlonde) And I'll try and get through 6 eliminations tomorrow to bring us above a 7 average. I wasn't feeling too great earlier so was going to skip eliminations today, but I persevered. will this do? sort of effort.Īpologies that these are a bit later than usual. I gave it a middling 6.5 and think it was probably time it left. Unsurprisingly, this one didn’t attract many comments, attracting lots of 6s and 7s. It’s got some nice, uplifting piano and military drums to make you feel inspired. Marsha Ambrosius provides the hook and we have some pretty lazy verses by Kanye, Big Sean and 2 Chainz. Anyway, The One is a standard R&Ballad about being The One. Confession: I was about to put the song on for the write-up and ended up playing Kylie instead. ![]() Our second Cruel Summer track to fall is The One. Time for our final elimination of the day. this is pretty boring,” thinks an incorrect Beautiful Child, who awarded it a meagre 4. “It's nice to catch your breath after *that* blockbuster opening but. Pretty boring song which doesn't really go anywhere or fulfil interest,” says an unfulfilled Dark Raider, who gave it a 3. We got a couple of low scorers, though, who weren’t fully on board. “Really great production here,” he says, “especially when it slows down.” He awarded it an 8. ![]() The creeping beat just brings it all together and the result is pretty sublime. The production is just so great here, I love it. Kanye wasn’t the only one inspired by the track – notably both 2Pac and Eminem sampled the track before him. That sax line is perfect, sampled from a cover of Wildflower by Hank Crawford. Paul Wall and GLC follow with verses bragging about their fancy automobiles, reflecting their fancy lifestyles, and advise the listener to take it easy: to drive slow. Drive Slow starts as a tribute to Kanye’s childhood friend, Marley, who was the shit at school because he had a sweet ride, and talks of days they spent creeping around the hood together. It was released as the final single from the album and received a pretty dull video courtesy of Hype Williams the video version features an additional verse from TI. We’re cutting the fat from the album and with it, we shed our third track, Drive Slow. Our victim of the day is Late Registration. Malik and the wonky, dark production on the last minute and a half redeem the track. Good, but to rank high here, you gotta be more than good. I feel like that’s a pretty good synopsis of a lot of the tracks leaving us at the moment. “A solid album track, but no highlight.” He gave it a 5.5. Semi-frequent commenter Beautiful Child took the lead with this one. The spoken word outro here is performed by an uncredited Malik Yusef, who is signed to Kanye’s GOOD Music label and was similarly featured on Cruel Summer track Sin City. The production is driven by a catchy snare sample and brass, which give the track a lot of its character. Crack Music compares the crack cocaine epidemic in America to an addiction to the (then) massively popular hip-hop. We’re kicking off eliminations today with Crack Music, our second track to fall from Late Registration. I care about my vision." West's collab with adidas turned out to be a smart move, however, as his Yeezy sneakers reportedly brought in $1.3 billion in 2019 and, in 2020, Forbes reported that West had officially become a billionaire.Highest Score: 9 x 4 (Dejan, dylanaber, Jonathan27, lemonsqueezyy) "I was trying to play a sport that's a billionaire sport," he said, adding, "It's not a millionaire sport and I'm proud of the debt. West then teamed up with adidas to launch Yeezy Season 1, which, as he told BET (via VIBE), put him $16 million in the red. ![]() that cost him $30 million, and the fact that Nike reportedly didn't share any of the revenue from the Nike Air Yeezy with him. Vanity Fair agreed, noting that most of his money woes likely stemmed from a number of failed undertakings in the fashion world, like his first clothing line, Pastelle, which never saw the light of day, a 2013 collaboration with A.P.C. Breaking down the numbers, TMZ noted that the losses likely came from investments in his music career and fashion, including shelling out $40 million for three seasons of his clothing line, Yeezy. ![]()
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