New Music – The Hero Inside A Villain

A hero is someone that impacts lives and can move nations with a singular voice, whether a creative mind or an activist in a particular field; Kanye West is a modern day hero. Stood once as a people’s voice in the early stages of his career, Kanye West went through a villainous phase where he is now looked at as always-engaging, ever-pressing influence in a modern society.

Through fashion, movements, or more specifically his music; West is a standing monument in history. A continuous voice as one of the most popular artists of a generation, West moves into something that is less of a frantic mess, and more of an organized chaos that feels thrown together, but working in motions. West takes his otherworldly visionary mindset, forming a project that feels like an inner reflection of the darkest, but also brightest sights of West’s psyche.

YE is a studio project coming from West that received a large amount of speculation, fan-predictions, false leaks, and now an official release. With a controversy behind it, YE was expected to be one of the largest talks in the music and entertainment industry. As he delivers, West forms a cocky, yet loveable look into fatherhood and feels more authentic as the crazed, scattered, and sporadic West.

“I Thought About Killing You” is the opening track that gives the insight into the adventurous jungle that would become YE. While Kanye in the past has shown the bright ability to create flashy and ear-catching instrumentation. On YE, there is a difference and a new direction; the production is instead primarily stripped down and used to instead create the focus on West’s vocal and lyrical output. West has also been known in the past to deliver on some clever, comedic lyrics that reflect his own personal life and the society around him. While YE is a beautifully crafted album through production in some aspects, ultimately YE just does not have that impact lyrically that stopped charts and made the listener think twice or truly reflect on the poetry that West provides.

“I Thought About Killing You” has a beat switch and flow maneuver that changes the style, but does not really drop jaws. YE as a whole feels very thrown together as did The Life Of Pabloin its earliest stages. The beauty behind The Life Of Pablo was growing with the album. Seeing how different each track formed and the ways that the twisted mind and broken or fragmented intelligence from West all came together into one package.

YE wears a similar fashion where the album will see instrumental changes, it will see lyrical changes, and even most likely see some directional changes of entire tracks as did The Life of Pablo. It keeps the listener engaged and interested to see one of the only shape-shifting albums and truly an inspiration from one of the greatest voices in the world.

While he may be insane, called crazy or delusional, West is one of the greatest performers and innovators of music in history. YE is a reflection of that and proves that he can still form some sensibility to his sound even behind all the popularity, all the cameras, all the drama, and even the people that sue him. YE might not be even close to a personal favorite or what West’s best project is, but it has this strange attractive factor that makes it a new endeavor to the twisted, but beautiful mind of Yeezus.

Listen To YE Here!!! – Spotify/Amazon/iTunes