The lion’s share of this flabby footage is fuzzy, shaky stuff, sometimes redeemed by the presence of young West. Had things stopped there, it might have worked. The hundreds of hours of footage Coodie and Chike generated were originally intended as a documentary about the making of West’s 2004 debut, The College Dropout. Coodie and Chike ended up working on a few of West’s music videos: “Through the Wire,” “Two Words,” and “Jesus Walks.” As West started to get more work as a producer, Coodie kept filming him. Everything began in 1998, when Coodie met West while hosting his own video show, Channel Zero, in Chicago. The footage that makes up jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy was shot by Clarence Simmons and Chike Ozah (referred to throughout as Coodie and Chike). But if you accept Kanye’s complete incoherence, what are you rooting for? The three good songs on Donda ? A discount on Yeezys? A reunion with Julia? If you roll with the embarrassment, you are at least playing a long game. With an outright fabulist like Trump, there is an underlying cause: white supremacy and fascism. Whatever community he’s being tied to, the deal falls through. He has destroyed any sense of trust with his audience. Even a diehard Kanye West fan needs only about fifteen minutes of this shaggy compilation-perhaps the part where Kanye, still a producer and not yet a rapper, walks around the Def Jam offices trying to get people to listen to his demo, or the shots of a young Kanye easy and relaxed around his mother, Donda West, the closest we come to something we haven’t already seen.Įxcept Kanye’s such an inconstant and fragile character that I’m not sure what a diehard Kanye fan would even look like at this point. Whether it becomes a classic or not, only time will tell, but as the man himself says, 'everybody feel a way about K, but at least y'all feel something'.Somewhere in the middle of this four-hour timesuck called jeen-yuhs, I tried to crank up my empathy-and failed. The list of guests (Common, The Game, Nas and Jay-Z) is impressive, and rather weirdly - on "Gold Digger" -includes Jamie Foxx singing along in his Ray Charles voice, to samples of the original Ray Charles.
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On "Diamonds From Sierra Leone (remix)" West acknowledges that the origins of his jewellery may be far from harmless.īut it wouldn't be a Kanye album without humour, wit and perverse ambition! And there's that by the truckload. "Crack Music" deals with the harsh reality of drugs in the black community and proclaims, like only a musician can, 'that music is the only medicine'. He's not afraid of making social and political statements either. Some might find his samples a little obvious, but let's be honest, who has ever brought the essence of Simon and Garfunkel, Curtis Mayfield and Shirley Bassey to one album? For all his arrogance, Kanye is keenly aware of the history of black popular music and certainly has no fear of the 'pop music' label. Late Registration, West's sophomore effort, has some fabulously soulful production.
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Recently named one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world, it is obvious that not only does he believe in his greatness, but that others think the same way too. However that's the appeal, the arrogance, the cockiness and the confusion. You only have to look at the way he behaves at award shows, declares himself to be the best at, well, everything, and has disputes with magazines who don't give his albums top marks to confirm his insight. Yep, he proudly confessed that on his first album, College Dropout.