Diamonds Are Forever, Indeed
Hey y'all, I ain't forgot about you. I got a lot of essays half written, in the tweaking and adding stage. In addition, the new job is taxing the brain and zapping the energy (and I'm gonna add a class in the evenings to boot!). But I'm just stopping by real quick to say that I ain't disappeared, and to let you know about Kanye's new jam, "Diamonds."
It's absolutely fucking ridiculous.
Just when I was starting to get bored of Kanye's whole soul sampling gig, he goes and throws a curveball. Lil' Jon might make the crunk music and think that he owns the dancefloor-- but this, well... this is gonna be a fucking nuclear bomb on dance floors all spring and summer long.
Kanye's really done it this time. This is the best introduction to the forthcoming Late Registration because it announces in a major way that Kanye isn't a one trick pony. Kanye ain't no joke, man! The beat has so much going on, so many elements that blend to just create an absolute monster. One of my friends described it as an anthem, and he's right. It's without a doubt the most hype, most energetic beat West's ever made-- and this is the man that produced Ludcacris' "Stand Up." Straight up, it's the best Kanye beat ever.
Seriously, hearing this makes me think that all these months, Kanye's just been clearing out his archived beats while he's secretly been in the lab going insane, keeping the dank funk for himself. Even including Common's new Be (which is hot), "Diamonds" makes most recent Kanye beats (The Game's "Dreams," for example) pale in comparison.
Lyrically, Kanye rips it, riding the beat perfectly. Although it is a little weird to hear someone who so proudly rocks his diamonds-- and talks about just how much he rocks them-- talk about conflict diamonds, somehow he makes it work. And at this point, are we really calling Kanye on the carpet for contradicting himself?
"I ask, when you talk about classics, does his name get brought up?" Kanye asks.
Not yet. But if you can prove that The College Dropout wasn't a fleeting moment of genius (and at this point, Dropout is askin to a modern hip hop classic in the minds of many)-- and if Late Registration is more of the same, you can believe people will.
And you know that once it does, Kanye will let you know about it. Because as this track also reminds you: Kanye is also hip hop's reigning king of braggadacio and self-inflation-- you'd think that he was made a Saint by now, to hear him tell it.
It's absolutely fucking ridiculous.
Just when I was starting to get bored of Kanye's whole soul sampling gig, he goes and throws a curveball. Lil' Jon might make the crunk music and think that he owns the dancefloor-- but this, well... this is gonna be a fucking nuclear bomb on dance floors all spring and summer long.
Kanye's really done it this time. This is the best introduction to the forthcoming Late Registration because it announces in a major way that Kanye isn't a one trick pony. Kanye ain't no joke, man! The beat has so much going on, so many elements that blend to just create an absolute monster. One of my friends described it as an anthem, and he's right. It's without a doubt the most hype, most energetic beat West's ever made-- and this is the man that produced Ludcacris' "Stand Up." Straight up, it's the best Kanye beat ever.
Seriously, hearing this makes me think that all these months, Kanye's just been clearing out his archived beats while he's secretly been in the lab going insane, keeping the dank funk for himself. Even including Common's new Be (which is hot), "Diamonds" makes most recent Kanye beats (The Game's "Dreams," for example) pale in comparison.
Lyrically, Kanye rips it, riding the beat perfectly. Although it is a little weird to hear someone who so proudly rocks his diamonds-- and talks about just how much he rocks them-- talk about conflict diamonds, somehow he makes it work. And at this point, are we really calling Kanye on the carpet for contradicting himself?
"I ask, when you talk about classics, does his name get brought up?" Kanye asks.
Not yet. But if you can prove that The College Dropout wasn't a fleeting moment of genius (and at this point, Dropout is askin to a modern hip hop classic in the minds of many)-- and if Late Registration is more of the same, you can believe people will.
And you know that once it does, Kanye will let you know about it. Because as this track also reminds you: Kanye is also hip hop's reigning king of braggadacio and self-inflation-- you'd think that he was made a Saint by now, to hear him tell it.
posted by Black Charles at 12:45 AM
1 Comments:
yes mr alper, your friend who made that comment is right (me), it is a fucking anthem in the making.
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