It drifts off with electric piano and the words of wisdom “life is precious, we found it.” How he found it out from the preceding jumble of ill formed lyrical and musical ideas is quite another question. He seems to be identifying Kim Kardashian and himself as the parents of a messiah, surrounded by wolves. The downbeat conclusion of Kanye’s self-declared masterpiece finds the rapper “lost and beat up,” delivering his autotuned vocal to a slow, doomy electro crawl. “I guess I get what I deserve,” he mutters. For all Kanye’s swagger, when he actually gets into honestly revealing himself, he comes across as insecure, introspective and paranoid. One of two tracks Kanye has already previewed, Real Friends sounded like something slow and offbeat when first heard, but in this context it actually sounds like a fully formed track with some energy. Of course, if the Pablo refers to Escobar, then this might simply be an exercise in drug induced megalomaniac delusion.Ī low slung downbeat ramble with a wayward hook about Kanye’s inability to trust anyone. If the Pablo of the title refers to Picasso, then this might be Kanye’s attempt to create a work of hip hop abstraction. Kanye West at 'The Life of Pablo' listening party at Madison Square Garden on Thursday. It ends abruptly with conflicting beats bouncing off one another, as if we are being forced to listen to three different tracks at the same time.
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If we were to be unkind, we might think that Kanye’s attention span has grown too short to actually finish a whole song. As promised, Kanye West unveiled his new, long-awaited album The Life of Pablo at Madison Square Garden on Thursday. If we were to be kind, we might think that Kanye is pioneering a new song form for the short attention span generation.
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It ends with a compelling burst of rich electric piano chords and autotuned singing.