Kanye lyricism appreciation thread

Kanye lyricism appreciation thread.

Share your favorite Yeezy bars. What makes his lyrics stand out to you as opposed to other rappers?

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b/c he is autistic like us

POCKETS ON SHREK ROCKETS ON DECK
TELL ME WHAT'S NEXT ALIEN SEX

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kanye isn't even a rapper

this is now a xxxtentatcion thread

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NOW IF I FUCK THIS MODEL
AND SHE JUST BLEACHED HER ASSHOLE
AND I GET BLEACH ON MY T SHIRT
IMMA FEEL LIKE AN ASSHOLE

dat shit cray

TOM CRUISE HOMIE WE JUMPIN UP ON THEM COUCHES

I THINK I JUST FELL IN LOVE WITH A PORN STAR

OK I SMASH YR COROLLA

>What makes his lyrics stand out to you as opposed to other rappers?
Nigga nigga nigga nigga bitch nigga muh fuck dick
Vs
Nigga nigga nigga anime bitch nigga muh dick
A step in the right direction possibly but really not much of a difference to matter

OKAY OKAY OKAY OKAY OKAY OKAY

PISS ON YOUR GRAVE
PISS ON YOUR GRAVE
PISS ON YOUR GRAVE
I PISS ON YOUR FACE
I PISS ON YOUR BITCH I PISS ON YOUR DAY

>HOW MANY LADIES IN THE HOUSE
>HOW MANY LADIES IN THE HOUSE WITHOUT A SPOUSE
>SOMETHING IN YOUR BLOUSE GOT ME FEELING SO AROUSED
>WHAT YOU ABOUT
I think what makes me love Kanye is that alot of his bars make me laugh.

some of 'em dyslexic they favorite 50 Cent song "12 Questions"
Give head, stop breathe, get up, check your weave
I always had a Ph.D.: a Pretty Huge Dick

Kanye invented meme rap

Lyricwise I kinda only like him when he's sad or introspective like in Big Brother, Real Friends, etc.

Couches, couches, couches, couches, which one should I pick?
I need extra deep, I like my bitches extra thick (sonic boom!)

She ask "can you get my friends in the club?"
I say "can you get my Benz in the club?"
If not, treat your friends like my Benz
Park they ass outside till the evening ends

A 38-year old-8-year old with rich nigga problems
Tell my wife I hate the Rolls, so I ain't never drive it

I don't know about specific lyrics, but the other day I was thinking about the US economy and kind of realized that capitalism has become a new slave system and that we have much less freedom than we realize. It fucking hit me right then, "New Slaves." I appreciated that song a lot more after that, because I felt like Kanye and I are on the same page about that now.

Saint Pablo is his best lyrically imo. Great song overall too.

DAMN........................................

Uh oh. This is the last nice reply you're going to get on this post

>Saint Pablo is his best lyrically imo.
How? Why?
There's We Major, Gorgeous, Last Call, Touch the Sky, Jesus Walks, Breathe In Breathe Out, Flashing Lights, Everything I Am, Heard Em Say, Late, No More Parties, and Blame Game.

Not that Saint Pablo is bad, but those songs shit all over it.

I don't really care if you think that's edgy or whatever. I don't have to fit in. It's true though, so have fun with that.

No other rapper does introspective as well as him, Drake is absolutely terrible at it and that's what he's known for.

It's not edgy, it's just that you're a retard and if more people come into this thread they're going to mock your retardation.
New Slaves isn't about capitalism by the way.

>I don't have to fit in.

This has to just be bait

I'm hoping his new album got more of this vibe.

Jesus Christ, I don't feel like laying out a whole philosophy in a Sup Forums post that no one will take seriously, okay? But I basically like the song New Slaves, that's all I wanted to say.

Ye's new album? Me too. I appreciate New Kanye, but I do prefer shit like Everything I Am.
FML was weak. I wish he had another verse on Wolves. Everything on TLOP felt so short.

>okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay

POP A WHEELIE ON THE ZEITGEIST

I'm not really dead; This caskets for show
I'm not really alive; I only cry to bring you into my hole
And I will hold you tightly in the name of fucked up
'Till you bite away the staples that connected us

My ribs break every time I get a hug
A billion stars in the sky and I only want to taste one
You're my Jupiter, I'm your junkie
I know you're pretty; I can see it in my ugly

I really like the second half of TLOP, it grew on me recently but yeah, I miss stuff like Everything I Am, Family Business too.

this is terrible.

Kendrick does introspection way better than Kanye and you know it's true.

I need to listen to it more, it's a really weird album in how everything is new but feels familiar (not in a bad way).
It's amazing, but I hesitate to say it's on par with the rest of his albums.

Bittersweet Poetry is low key one of the best tracks on graduation.

KEEP IT 300

It was less of an act of hubris
More a lonely hearts club at the helm of a magic bullet
Away on a relentless bid for rarefied inertia
Rattletrap forks married to the patchy terra firma Ursa Minor getting warmer
I crowbar into the pecking order
The dreck between the whores and Betty Ford-ers
Hug a double yellow spine
Knobby rubber like a rat on a rope
Those little fuckers run on passion alone
This is the product of a d.i.y. inadequate home
Grabbing a cabin in the-fuck-outta-dodge
Actin' a savage in the shadows of Rome
Traffic amassed against insufferable odds
Fashioning gallows out of plastic and bone
I got the motordrome walls of death splintering under me
All-city galvanized bikes white knuckling
Bright light, tunnel kings tuck in the devil
PS - I wrote this on a self-destructing memo...

I'm more of a MBDTF and Graduation guy, I like every album but this two are always with me, even though people here usually put Graduation like his worst but whatever, maybe I just like pop rap.

No, Kendrick does everything terribly.
On u he did a cartoon voiced and rapped everything in third person. Garbage.

I've never seen shit taste like this so my defense mechanism is telling me that your post is bait. Have a free (You)

>muh metaphors and obtuse way of saying simple things

DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN WE FIRST MET?

OK, I DONT REMEMBER WHEN WE FIRST MET

Kanye doesn't know the difference between Romans and Spartans

Late Registration is my favorite but Graduation is seriousl amazing.
Few features, just straight personal bars and anecdotes.
The production ventures further away from traditional hip-hop and his last two albums.
I disliked Good Life for so long, but it has to be one of his best songs.

>defending rapping in third person and putting on a cartoon voice

Is this bait

I think I overlooked LR compared to his other albums, will give it a propper listen soon.

Put your hands to the constellations
They way you look should be a sin, you my sensation
I know I'm preaching to the congregation
We love Jesus but you done learned a lot from Satan

IF I FUCK THIS T-SHIRT, IMMA FEEL LIKE A MODEL

WASH MY SINS IN THE BLOOD OF JESUS
THEY BE SAYING YE WE NEED ANOTHER YEEZUS

Unironically my favorite Kanye bars

They're so stupid but he delivers them with this bizarre intensity and I love the synths I gotta say

Yeezus lyrics are art

obligatory 300 in roman numeral = CCC
CCC = Calm Cool Collected (or something like that??)

That was actually a deep line. I'll show you the bigger meaning

"Trapped in a theater like Hitler"... as you may already know, in real life, Hitler was never actually trapped in a theater. He died in a bunker. Kanye is referencing the movie "Inglorious Bastards". Kanye isn't referencing real life, he's referencing the media's version of real life.

Another line goes like "300 like the Romans..." Now, he's referencing another movie loosely based on real life, "300". In real life, the forces of the 300 didn't belong to the Romans, it belonged to Greece. He's deliberately mistaking reality for his own version of it.

Kanye deliberately referenced two historical events, that had famous movies based on them, and referenced the media's version of these real events, as opposed to what actually happened. By doing so, Kanye is making an extended metaphor on how real life can be altered by the media, a concept which correlates to his own life (how the media perceives him as an ****, etc).

By doing so, Kanye is making his own version of REALITY with this song. These themes may be extended within the album. Since he calls himself a God in "I Am God", the album might be about his own shaping of reality. His version of the world, since he is a god. During "Black Skinhead", since he is God, he can alter reality and perceive it the way he wants to.

All the movie references actually have a bigger meaning. He's talking about how the media (ie movies) can alter the perception of things. The King Kong line is a reference to how the media perceives his relationship with Kim. They portray him as the giant ape, trying to kidnap the white woman.

Kanye is a postmodernist, he has rejected the idea of god and become god. He makes his own reality through the media and changes history. The line's a lot smarter than you think.

naw he thinks The Flintstones was a documentary

>He died in a bunker

>"put your pussy in a sarcophagus"
>ancient egyptians held cats to be sacred (not entirely true but widely believed today so w/e)
>could be said to worship cats i.e worship pussy
>he's saying we worship pussy i.e worship vagoo

>im living in the future so my present is my past
>my presence is a present kiss my ass

>"Eatin Asian pussy all I need was sweet n' sour sauce"
>pussy = cat
>widely believed many Asian restaurants use cat meat and claim it's chicken
>Asian chicken + sweet n' sour is good as fuck
>eating at a restaurant can be called eating out
>preforming oral on a girl out can also be called eating out

>Eating Asian pussy all I need is sweet and sour sauce

NOW EVEN THOUGH I WENT TO COLLEGE AND DROPPED OUT OF SCHOOL QUICK, I ALWAYS HAD A PHD, A PRETTY HUGE DICK

I WANNA FUCK YOU HARD ON THE SINK AFTER THAT GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO DRINK STEP BACK DONT GET SPUNK ON THE MINK I MEAN DAMN WHAT WOUL JEROMEROMEROMEROME THINK

His lyrics don't stand out. He's as hackneyed as any top 40 rapper. Let's take a look at one of his acclaimed tracks:

Yo G they can't stop me from rapping can they?
Can they, huh?
>typical rapper bragging
Through the fire, to the limit, to the wall
For a chance to be with you, I'd gladly risk it all
>rhyming wall with all. so original
Through the fire, through whatever come what may
For a chance at loving you, I'd take it all away
>more rhymedictionary.com
>oh wow he'd risk it all for love. never heard that before in a song
Right down through the wire, even through the fire
>"through" the wire? he doesn't even get his fucking idioms right and what is this, Loverboy? wire and through the fire.
Now he just needs some spandex pants and a headband
I spit it through the wire man
>yeah I bet he spits
There's too much stuff on my heart right now man
>rhymes 'man' with 'man' and halfasses some internal rhyme
>so much on his heart though. what a poet!
I'll gladly risk it all right now
It's a life or death situation man
>more dreck that could have a nice keytaur and drum machine backing
Y'all don't really understand how I feel right now man
>by this point he had to have been trying to end as many sentences with 'man' as possible.
>but it's okay because we just don't know how he feels
>he's such a complex genius guys

MY FLOW
IS IN THE POCKET LIKE WALLETS
I GOT THE BOUNCE LIKE HYDRAULICS
YOU CANT CALL IT I GOT THE SWERVE LIKE ALCOHAAAAUUUULLLLLLLLICS

Get Em High has his best bars

got a dark skinned friend look like michael jackson
got a light skinned friend look like michael jackson

bump

I like his lyrics. Pure autism

in the pockets like wallace*

2/10 bait

"Nice as Bun B when I met him at the source awards; girl he had with him, ass could've won the horse awards"

My favourite Kanye struggle bar.

>THIS THE FUCKING ANTHEM, GET IT? THE FUCKING ANTHEM!

that's not a fucking struggle bar

>THERE'S LEADERS
>AND THERE'S FOLLOWERS
>BUT I'D RATHER BE A DICK THAN A SWALLOWER

Funniest Kanye lyrics
My vote goes to or
>I just talked to Jesus
>He said, "What up, Yeezus?"
>I said, "Shit I'm chillin'
>Tryna stack these millions"

Except even in 300 they don't ever mention them being Romans, they only mention them as being Spartans

Wow that's so clever! I do t think I've ever heard a rapper say something like that!

>Soon as I pull up an park the Benz
>We get this bitch shakin like Parkinsons

SLEEP TIGHT
GRIM RIGHT
WE HAVE 200 COUCHES WHERE YOU CAN

HAVE YOU EVER HAD SEX WITH A PHAROOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH

I PUT THAT PUSSY IN A SARCOPHAGUS

I hit the Jamaican spot, at the bar, take a seat
I ordered the jerk, she said you are what you eat

You see I always loved that sense of humor
But tonight you should have seen how quiet the room was

The Lyor Cohen of Dior Homme
That's "Dior Homme", not "Dior, homie"

The crib Scarface, could it be more Tony?
You love me for me? Could you be more phony?

Got goosebumps the first couple of times I heard this.

I SAID CAN U GET MY BENZ IN DA CLUUUUUUBBBBBBB

>The media said it was outlandish spendin', the media said he's way outta control
>I just feel like I'm the only one not pretending, I'm not outta control I'm just not in they control

>They rewrite history, I don't believe in yesterday
>And what's a Black Beatle anyway? A fucking roach?

>Blocka, blocka, blocka-blocka, blocka blocka
>Pour a little champagne, cranberry vodka
>Feelin' lied to like parents never said you adopted
>Your feelings like Zulu, then nothin' is a Shaka
>I hit her with Jamaican dick, I'm the new- Shabba

>Textin' and drivin' down Mulholland Drive
>That's why I'd, rather take the 405
>I be worried bout my daughter I be worried bout Kim
>But Saint is baby Ye I ain't worried bout him

COULDN'T AFFORD A CAR SHE NAMED HER DAUGHTER ALEXIS

She don't believe in shootin' stars
But she believe in shoes and cars

if new slaves isnt about capitalism then whats it about?

I hit the Jamaican spot, at the bar, take a seat
I ordered the jerk, she said you are what you eat

FPBP

"What's today? Wednesday? Oh you a tuesday"

>I'm so appaled, spalding ball, balding donald trump taking dollars from y'all

Can't top that verse

unironically great lines

I JUST TALKED TO JESUS HE SAID WAT UP YEEZUS I SAID SHIT IM CHILLING TRYING TO STACK THESE MILLIONS

NOW

can't believe this thread is still up

I've always enjoyed Ye's lyrics even if they some of them are beyond stupid. Even the dumbest shit he ever says is pretty fun.

Fuck you and your Hampton house
I'll fuck your Hampton spouse
Came on her Hampton blouse
And in her Hampton mouth