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Me and my housemate Dom have had this theory for a while, ever since we heard Watch The Throne. On tracks such as Ni**as In Paris, Ye's vocals are somewhat baa-like.
"She said Ye can we get married at the maaaaaaaaaaaaaall..." and "Got my ni**as in Paris and they going gorillas...haaaaaah?"
Listen to the song. Particularly the official video (don't watch it if you have photo-sensitive epilepsy. It has full-blown warnings at the start of the video), which is a live recording of the song. Kanye's singing live is awful, and even more akin to his woolly ovine brethren. Observe:
I just read a story on NME about Mr West Esquire, talking about his upcoming album Cruel Summer, which is a compilation of songs by artists on 'Ye's label G.O.O.D. This article also mentioned that he apparently has plans for a new solo release that incorporates mostly animal and jungle noises. Right.
It got me thinking - what happened? I like a lot of styles of music, and I have no shame in saying that Late Registration, his second album, is one of my favourite albums, and one of the first rap albums I got into. I've only been vaguely aware that since then, he's become a bit of a tool. The infamous Taylor Swift incident, a few questionably weird songs and videos, and all his other award show muck-ups. There's also the most recent rap album I've got into, his Jay-Z collab Watch The Throne - his lyrics in that are...weird. Misogynistic and just plain strange in places (case and point: in Ni**as In Paris, the line "...what she order? Fish filet...").
I accept that I don't know everything about him or a lot of his music, but as a more casual observer, he just seems to have gone off on a massive life tangent. And this alleged new album direction could work. I don't think it will, but I'm open. But given how much I love Late Registration, I'm left wondering why he's gone on this apparent tangent.
