Ok, we need to talk...
People (and the musical press too)! What on earth is the matter with you. Sure, the beats on this record are impeccable. But the rhymes are f'kcing TERRIBLE. This is some of the worst lyricism I have ever come across in hip hop. Total amateurs make slicker rhymes than this. I mean, seriously. This is a guy who rhymes "ballin" with a cop who looks like "Alec Baldwin", "rollin'" with "Kelly Rowlands", and just throws in "a$'s" a whole bunch of times when feeling it too much effort to bother rhyming at all.
Much of it just comes across as childish: "Tell ‘em Yeezy said they can kiss my whole a$'s, More specifically, they can kiss my a$'$hole". And so on and so forth. It sounds like a 12 year old kid just starting out in his bedroom, and not only from a lyrical standpoint but conceptually too. There is really little worse than somebody who comes across as being of limited intellectual capacity playing 'pretentious'. It makes you wince.
A great hip-hop record? Do me a favour. Best album of 2010? Really? It's barely the best album of November.
Lovers, tell me please: just what is so brilliant about this CD?
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