Like a lot of new parents, Kanye feels laser-focused on big stuff—love, serenity, forgiveness, karma—and a little frazzled on the details. On "FML," he name-checks the antidepressant Lexapro on record for the The album's most humane moments come when he reaches for his family: "I just want to wake up with you in my eyes," he pleads at the end of "Father Stretch My Hands." Pablo Picasso and Kanye West share many qualities—impatience with formal schooling, insatiable and complicated Kanye's second child Saint was born in early December, and there's something distinctly preoccupied about this whole project—it feels wry, hurried, mostly good-natured, and somewhat sloppy. Neither bitter nor blithe, it shows a novelist’s eye.Even so, it’s hard to shake the sense of a man so immersed in his talents he thinks his very shit is golden. That both the Paul McCartney team-ups ‘Only One’ and ‘FourFiveSeconds’ have been scrapped suggest otherwise. © 2020 NME is a member of the media division of If anything, ‘…Pablo’ is the sound of an artist going even more cubist in a two-dimensional pop world.It’s an album on which, at a moment’s notice, Kanye veers from futuristic beats on the likes of ‘Feedback’ to bog-standard modern trap – as when Atlanta rapper Young Thug turns up on ‘Father Stretch My Hands, Pt. 4.

2’ – to vintage soul on ‘Ultra Light Beam’.

It’s hard to believe, but Kanye West‘s The Life of Pablo has now been with us for a full two years. Even when he was being loathsome, Kanye's behavior always felt rooted in something messy and relatable. The more traditional beats on the album are far and away some of the best things West has ever produced, melding the hip-hop pedigree he developed on his first three albums with the rawness of Yeezus and some of the best production tricks on 808s and Heartbreak and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy . Connect with Crack Magazine. Albums are his legacy, what he knows, deep down, will endure after the circus of attention he maintains around him subsides. On ‘30 Hours’, he pulls off the most masterful of these high-low art juxtapositions by taking a sample of cult New York oddball Arthur Russell’s ‘Answer Me’ to get nostalgic about his own frailties (“I hit the gym, all chest no legs”).It’s the sort of introspection ‘The Life Of Pablo’ could do with more of. On ‘Real Friends’, for instance, he names something very adult about the passage of time and the inevitable parting of ways that fatherhood brings: “I couldn’t tell you how old your daughter was/Couldn’t tell you how old your son is /I got my own junior on the way, dawg”. “But I’mma have the last laugh in the end,” Kanye promises.

A madcap sense of humor animates all his best work, and Around this point, the joke became clear: This whole thing—album cycles, first-week sales, release dates, the album-as-statement, the album itself—is If there was a larger message behind all this impulsive last-second lurching and heaving, that was it.

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But it sounds like West is actually mourning the long-running love affair between Kanye and Kanye. Life with Picasso book. We want to hear from you! The Life Of Pablo by Kanye West album reviews & Metacritic score: After several album name changes (So Help Me God, SWISH, Waves, and T.L.O.P. This is the logical endpoint to the sort of obsessive perfectionism that led West to make 75 near-identical mix downs of  "Stronger," and in the song's lyrics, Kanye admits that the same workaholism that made his father a distant figure in his childhood now keeps him from his family. The Life of Pablo Tour Garnet RED I Feel Like Pablo Ultra Light Beam Short Sleeve Kanye West Yeezy TLOP Merch Yeezus (Small) 4.4 out of 5 stars 40 $19.99 $ 19 . L'album è stato lodato dalla critica per la sua frammentazione e la sua incompletezza. But he makes it seem like harder work than the effortlessness we’re used to.The world's defining voice in music and pop culture since 1952. The best in culture from a cultural icon. The claim slots neatly with his assertion that On "FML," a bleak song about resisting sexual temptation, he sings to Kim, "They don't want to see me love you." "We on an ultralight beam/ This is a God dream" reads like an affirmation that we live in a world touched by divinity—but it could also mean the universe is a trick of the light, and we're nothing but a figment in a higher being's imagination. 2”) and all the other things he worries he is. Kanye West’s dangerous, disjointed and confused seventh album retains the rapper’s status as the most interesting musician on the planetDrug lord Escobar, pioneering artist Picasso or great poet Neruda? He might talk a lot of shit but at least he’s good at what he does.