This week Démar and Adriel discuss the supergroup ¥$ (Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign)'s second studio album 'Vultures 2', Kanye's juvenile lyrics, reused motifs and incomplete songs.
Démar’s rating: 2 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 5.5 / 10
The Love List: River, Field Trip
TIMECODES:
1:04 - Surprised it was going to drop/exist
2:33 - Ye in the NBA Youngboy Zone
3:05 - Vultures
4:25 - Struggle raps for almost an hour
5:30 - Ye was someone who would make an album, scrap the album, and then remake the album
7:40 - similar to White Dress
10:55 - Don’t want to say he ruined all these songs
11:42 - Ye’s lyrics are almost elementary school
12:20 - The Kanye effect
13:30 - Ye is a producer at this point
16:37 - Does it twice on this album
20:10 - Ye is in a space where he used to be adjacent to conscious Hip-Hop
22:25 - The rapper version of Ye needs to retire
26:41 - When Ye is involved in any of these songs, he brings too much baggage
27:45 - Sky City
31:45 - All you have is a cool idea / what message
33:00 - Thought of all the artists that sound homogeneous
34:00 - Remember when he used to have a direction in his project
35:10 - He’s looking washed
39:50 - What are we asking of Ye at this point
43:13 - When people get divorced, you go back to the age you got married at
46:12 - in the worst stretch of music in his career
47:24 - Feels like he’s out of ideas
53:44 - The cover
58:45 - The Score
1:02:15 - The Simpsons comparison
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Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign ¥$ - Vultures 2 / 2024 / hip hop, rap, trap,
