“Finally, after a protracted and often chaotic rollout, the new Kanye West album is here. The Life of Pablo is the first Kanye West album that’s just an album: no major statements, no reinventions, no zeitgeist wheelie-popping. But a madcap sense of humor animates all his best work, and the new record has a freewheeling energy that is infectious and unique to his discography.”
“Drug lord Escobar, pioneering artist Picasso or great poet Neruda? Kanye West’s seventh album ‘The Life Of Pablo’ sounds like all three. Dangerous, sparse, surreal, disjointed, hyper-realistic, cokey and constantly second-guessing its audience, it’s a carnival of self-portrait that accurately depicts the psychic confusion of its author simply by being, itself, slightly confused. West’s last album”
“Kanye West's botched attempt at the greatest album ever”
“Kanye West tries to sell a lack of cohesion and half-baked song ideas as concepts on his new album.”
“I know that’s crazy to say. But you really get everything from Ye here. The albums early structure was definitely very messy. But after the multiple updates to the album. This is definitely his second best or best album. This album transformed from Yeezus 2 and Swish and the album really was minimalized and tweaked to perfection. That’s why I love it. I love this album because it’s not trying to really dump and trauma or any bragging rights down your throat. It’s a milestone in Ye’s career. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was an album trying to desperately prove something. And Yeezus was the hangover. This album is basically a calm humble victory lap of all of that. Does he brag in it? Yes, of course he would. But it’s not the entire point of the album. The production of the album is very interesting. You get old Ye songs like Father Stretch My Hands and No More Parties In LA. While some of the songs are extremely techy like Feedback and Freestyle 4. His rapping in this album peaks here in his career (so far.) . He truly goes all out in tracks like No More Parties In LA and Feedback. This album just has everything and it doesn’t get enough credit for it. The structure is great and probably his best. The only flaw is once again. The amount of skits. I mess with the I Love Kanye skit but dear god silver Surfer and Franks track? That’s necessary? I like them but why? Otherwise. Phenomenal album.”
“Really fun album from Kanye. It feels like everything in the rap game that was good in 2016 was thrown onto this album, especially with the insane feature list of Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, Chance The Rapper, Post Malone, Sampha, Rihanna, Desiigner, Chris Brown, Ty Dolla $ign, Frank Ocean etc etc. Production is great from Kanye and some solid rap performances too especially on the song ‘No More Parties In LA’. Top songs from the album are “Ultralight Beam” “Father Stretch My Hands Pt.1” “Waves” “Wolves” “Real Friends” “No More Parties In LA” “Fade” “Saint Pablo””
“This album switches SO FAST from genuine shit to the most beautiful song you've ever heard. With wifiskeleton amounts of consistency i cant give it a 9.0 even though i really want to.”
“Amazing era-defining album from Ye. Huge hits with FSMH PT 1 to Famous but also smaller bangers with 30 Hours and Saint Pablo.”
“This album was a great listen. Lots of great features and nice skits to go with it. Really enjoyed this album”
“this album genuinely has my some of my favorite kanye and some my least favorite.”
“Has definitely gotten old from too many plays. Not the project’s fault though.”
“The second best ye album, love the vibes and chaotic tracklist”
