2009
Tag: Kanye West
We Got Love ( song ) … Teyana Taylor
2019
Runaway ( song ) … Kanye West ( featuring Pusha T )
2010
Power ( song ) … Kanye West
2010
Gorgeous ( song ) … Kanye West ( featuring Raekwon + Kid Cudi )
2010
audio review : Jesus Is Born ( album ) … Sunday Service
Perhaps this should’ve come before Kanye West’s last album. All miracles aside, Jesus had to be Born before becoming King. I guess this is the prequel, although the title cleverly coinciding with a Christmas release date shouts gimmick.
The music is the kind of choir-led gospel you’ll hear in most urban churches; the ones with mostly black people in them; marvelous harmonies that rarely stumble upon matching melodies, even though they’re singing cover songs.
The best include Sunshine, Lord Works; well, the first third of it; Souls Anchored and Paradise. Those latter two are based on secular songs about sex and drugs. Sounds like somebody in the Sunday congregation needs another chat with Jesus.
my rating : 3 of 5
2019
Sunday Service and Kanye West performing songs at Vous Church in Miami
2019
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Kanye West performing songs at Lakewood Church in Houston : Jesus Is King [ A Sunday Service Experience ]
2019
lakewoodchurch.com
audio review : Not For Radio ( song ) … Nas ( featuring Diddy )
“Edgar Hoover was black; Willie Lynch is a myth,” Nas affirms, “Colombians created crack; the government made stacks.” It’s that first part about Hoover that represents the rapper’s state of mind. He, like too many Americans, is obsessively focused on race and racism, but only the white on black type, which itself seems racist in its exclusions.
To be fair, Sean Combs (Diddy) does suggest equality by commanding all listeners to put their fists in the air, whether they’re “white, black, Latino, Asian, Caucasian…” Hold on; isn’t Caucasian and white the same? In being inclusive though, he contradicts not only himself but the concept of the song, which is supposed to be about “they” and “us”.
The best parts are the hook, though what sounds like a silly falsetto effect added to it takes away from the song’s solemn message, and the beat, which is led by an epic sample from The Hunt For Red October. The worst part of the song, other than Diddy mentioning the year; “We ain’t posing for no pictures in 2018”; is the title, which seems irrelevant.
my rating : 4 of 5
2018
Bonjour ( song ) … Nas ( featuring Tony Williams )
2018
White Label ( song ) … Nas
2018
Cops Shot The Kid ( song ) … Nas + Kanye West
2018