Reacting to "BULLY" by Kanye West

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not now, since theres lots of new releases, but id love to see a quadeca “scrapyard” reaction. ok bye ty

Passion pain and demon slayin" - kid cudi, is something i think youd love if you want more kid cudi music. Great album with mike dean production all over!

Olivia Rodrigo’s GUTS when?

Great reaction bob :D We need only slayyyter new album and here we go 👍

Not a big Kanye fan. But totally disagree with your opening statement. Always found the guy abnoxious as a person, fairly brilliant as a producer. Both can exist next to each other. Michael Jackson is still a musical wonder, next to he a trroubled and controversial person. Heck I even listen to R Kelly, even though lot of his lyrics are even more cringe now. There is a podcast in the Netherlands, every episode a legendary historic figure is reviewed by an historian and at the end they will decide was this person a white or a black page of history. Turns out even Mahatma Gandhi slept in the same bed as his niece. Moral of this story: we all got skeletons in the closet, but especially with artists one must be able to see things in perspective. I find rapper Necto a sorry little man, still one of my favorite beat makers though. Can’t stand the guy personally, but who cares when listening to music. Such progressive BS, imho.

Everything after Preacher Mask is so evidently AI, gross. LIKE WHY DIDNT HE JUST HAVE THE AI AND THEN RE-RECORD IT IN HIS VOICE, ITS NOT THAT HARD, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Also Preacher man is a finished song, come on dawg.

The think we need to remember here is, the album is 40 minutes, thats album length, just because the songs sound not finished doesnt mean they were put on the album as demos. Its just the production is all over the place, theres hints of AI and he's obviously trying to hide it through some production choices. There are bits and bobs in here I feel that are reminiscent of old Kanye and those are my favourite parts, and I do enjoy some of the shorter songs on the album because the production is decent, doesnt mean they need to be longer, they just sort of flow into each other and intented to be listened to without pauses, I get why you'd feel they are unfinished because you are trying to listen to them as individual songs even when they're only 2 and a half minutes long at most.

We need a Smokedope2016 - The Peak reaction

I agree with you in parts. This album has been in the works for a long time; it was almost finished at the beginning of last year. Then that whole episode started, and he abandoned it. In the midst of all those tweets, he even posted the entire album on YouTube, which is why there are several versions of these songs on the internet. Then came the famous cuck, little after he was hospitalized at the end of the year. After he got out, he made this current version. That's why some moments seem like a collage of good, incomplete ideas. One thing you said that really makes a difference is listening to the entire album without interruptions; it flies by, it's very good. Good video bob 👍👍

New thundercat album next? 🦭

I hear you on the songs being short but after a few listens I love how short the songs are and this is becoming one of his most replayable albums for me just throw it on and let it go

bob earl and mike just dropped album of the decadeeeeee btw

Daydreaming about the good reality where bob listened to Earl and MIKE instead😞

i really do love the brevity of this album tbh. the quick hits really work to me, i love how they make the album flow in an extremely quick work. i get why it doesn’t work but to me it honestly feels like a stylistic choice.

Thanks for reacting to this!!!!

So much good shit you could react to, and you choose this?

I agree your takes on this record. Something to note though that is really important that a lot of huge ye fans want to pretend didn’t happen (I am a former HUGE ye fan). I know a lot of people outside of the Kanye community are listening to this and being like “oh Kanye is back to writing good lyrics again”. Because the songwriting on this is genuinely so much better than vultures which was abysmal. BUT, as someone who’s pretty into the ye community I have seen these songs take shape over time, and the reality is the majority of it was written by other people, with ye just putting an AI Kanye filter over their lyrics. And just in the past 2 weeks he re-recorded over the AI cause people were understandably mad about it. In fact, the Vinyls of Bully are almost fully AI vocals. I know that Kanye has had a lot of people write for him for a long time, but this feels different. It’s hard for me to take these songs as serious expressions from him because of that’s fact that he outsourced almost every aspect of his creative process. And the fact that this album feels like a decent old ye album just feels like a board room deciding how to make the most inoffensive ye album that harkens back to various old sounds of his, to make people nostalgic and get people back on his side. I want to be more positive about this album. I want the narrative to be that ye is back to remembering how to make songs, and it will all be up from here. But in reality I feel like this is a collection of songs brainstormed by a bunch of people in ye’s camp to be the most crowd pleasing inoffensive album. Without having any real innovation from Kanye. At his best Kanye doesn’t usually re-tread old ground, he has narratives to his albums and has different movements in his songs. This had none of that, so I really don’t buy the ye I’d finally back! Narrative. I really wish I did. He used to be my favorite artist, and he still has made some of my favorite albums ever. I think if you listen to this album in a vacuum without context, it’s a listenable experience. But I think if you really stack it up to anything else he has made (pre donda) it’s nowhere near, and doesn’t feel authentic. Sorry for the vent. I literally used to be a Stan and the past 5 years I feel like people just gaslight themselves into thinking this ye music is something that it’s not 😭

Although I don’t think this album is gonna get major changes like extra verses and such just remember that the life of Pablo went through a lot of changes months after it originally came out

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While in a way better step in the right direction from vultures 1, 2, donda 2, and whatever cuck was. I’m glad Kanye seems to be doing better mentally but the music still doesn’t really connect to me personally. There’s really no theme with bully and it kinda just spams a sound that sounds the same after a while. I’m behind the belief of my standers with Kanye are super high and I can recognize bully as just a ok album, honestly in Kanye standard it’s a bad album but it just goes to show how low the bar has become that this has a ton of people saying aoty somehow