12/8/2023 0 Comments Cudi montage sample kurt cobain2),’ and closer 'Cudi’s Montage’ poignantly building off of a posthumous Kurt Cobain sample. The 24-minute project is packed with druggy, guitar-based romps, with the space-rock enormity of 'Freeee (Ghost Town, Pt. The choice of wordless yowling as his entrance is fitting of his current thesis of free thought and creation, going blood-drunk in his battle against culture and politics with backup from his archer and mage. From there, West and Cudi engage in a two-player run-and-gun, Cudi on lead vocals as West screams onomatopoeias in tandem with ballistic drum breaks. On the album’s opener 'Feel the Love,' Pusha T starts off with a reptilian guest verse, as if to make it sting ten-fold for Drake as he pushes play on the third album to blot out his spotlight in a month (who fired shots at Cudi in addition to Pusha in a single diss track last year). ![]() If you lived that subculture, you went lightheaded when you saw Takashi Murakami’s cover design for this record West’s most inspired artwork commission since 2010’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. The sartorial center of the movement was Nigo and his gangster-meets-Kawaii clothing brand A Bathing Ape, and it was at A Bathing Ape’s New York store where Kid Cudi worked and first met Kanye West in 2008. It’s the perfect pretext for the aesthetic they hone on Kids See Ghosts: the legacy of joystick-gripping, Manga-devouring, Air Jordan–doodling, introverted millennials who took refuge in Japanese pop culture and went on to dominate American pop culture thereafter, with West and Pharrell as prophets, and Kid Cudi and Frank Ocean as apostles. This long-awaited collaboration was seemingly conceived in 2016 when West announced he was working with Cudi on an album called Turbo Grafx 16 right after The Life of Pablo’s release, named after a poorly-marketed Japanese game system from the Eighties. ![]() Now it’s going to be a blast watching them all scramble to reevaluate their agenda to 'cancel' him after he’s delivered his collaboration with Kid Cudi, Kids See Ghosts, ransacking them with just the defibrillating charge of songwriting, production and catharsis they originally pined for in his solo release. He always knew they would try to tear him down But the word here is 'try', because if you wander outside the blogosphere, there are millions of passionate fans celebrating the same subversive novelties that have critics brandishing their torches and pitchforks. It should be no surprise how quickly critics harpooned Kanye West’s eighth studio album ye, which has been out for a week now -ravenous to punish him for wearing the wrong hat last month, not to mention the clickbait potential of exiling one of music’s mightiest forces, he was ripe for sacrifice.
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