By: Amanda Anderson-Niles
With Kanye West all set to drop a new studio album on June 18, the rapper is still working diligently to put the finishing touches on music he hopes will be considered classics in years to come. Unfortunately for Kanye, the songs he has debuted so far have been met with mixed reviews, and even his own label has sent him back to the studio to try to create some more commercially friendly tracks. However, Kanye got on the stage the other night at the Governor’s Ball and ranted that he doesn’t care about album sales anymore. And it does appear that Kanye is at a place where he just doesn’t want anyone to tell him what kind of music he needs to make to top the charts. And that’s very apparent with his controversial album title, “Yeezus.”
On Monday night, Kanye hosted a listening party for his album and he opened up about the concept of the album and he also finally explained why he named the album “Yeezus.”
On the album concept, he says:
“We didn’t give a f*ck about what nobody said from the outside looking in. We just wanted to make the best product possible and this is just the beginning of an entire new mentality about how to make music.”
And Kanye also took a moment to explain why he titled the album “Yeezus”:
“I wanna explain something about the title Yeezus, simply put West was my slave name and Yeezus is my god name.”
Check out video from the event:
Y’all can’t tell me with Kanye’s ego that if this album flop he won’t care he will go off as usual.
God name? Kanye, you are not a god. You are far from it. And this new music is not very good. It seems like it’s going to be all hype and subpar music. What a shame.
He’s trying to sound all deep but he impregnated Kim Kardashian’s shallow a-s.
LOL. This!
Exactly!
I’m not impressed. All I care about is the music. I don’t care about these rants, who he knocked up, or what the album cover looks like. My issue is the music I’ve heard so far has not been good. He’s losing focus of the one thing he claims he is only focusing on…making good music. He hasn’t done that so far with this new album…
He’s doing too much. To be honest, his music hasn’t been good in a long time. All of these antics won’t change that.
I’m sure his delusional fans will call all of this genius. But calling yourself a god isn’t intellectual, it’s arrogant.
Boo. I’m over him.
Sigh…I haven’t liked what I’ve heard so far. But the album title and calling himself a god is offensive. He has really lost himself and it’s unfortunate. There have been better rappers, artists than him and they didn’t have to do this to make quality music.
How “real” is this if he’s using all these gimmicks to get attention?
Thank you!!!!
Kim come get your loony a-s baby daddy.
So what’s getting ready to happen is Kanye’s about to have all these fools running around calling themselves gods. Making up corny “god names” and etc…
Boy bye!
I can’t deal with this queen anymore.
He’s such an overrated a-shole.