The Life Of Pablo by Kanye West : an in-depth thread

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The seventh album by one of rap& #39;s greatest talents. While MBDTF seems to be generally accepted as his best album,I don& #39;t think anything captures his best and worst tendencies as much as TLOP. It& #39;s his entire being laid bare.
The theme of family runs really deep throughout the album,and you can really feel his conflict between wanting to be there for his wife & kids and continuing with his previously self-destructive lifestyle.
Generally,the rampant inconsideration & assholery that defines half of his persona is concentrated in the first half ; the bleached asshole line,as well as the shot at Taylor Swift which reignited a feud that didn& #39;t need reigniting.
But I think the album gets deeper and deeper as it goes on,starting with FML ; on this track he seems genuinely afraid for his family& #39;s happiness not only because of their presence in the public eye but also because of his own continuing mental illness.
I do think this fear was very much justified because 8 months after the album Kim would be robbed at gunpoint ; it& #39;s really hard to imagine how much of a toll that must have taken,to see essentially your worst fears materialise like that.
The track Real Friends is a very pivotal piece of the project ; apart from being the best track it also encapsulates Kanye& #39;s questions about how many friends he really has in this time of financial trouble,while also regretting being a lousy friend himself at times.
Over the course of the album the moods keep on shifting ; on No More Parties In LA,he does let himself bask in the glory of his long-running success and newfound domestic bliss,it makes the song a glorious experience from beginning to end.
Odd sequencing choices such as placing the gospel tour-de-force Ultralight Beam further highlight his constantly shifting psyche ; there& #39;s no fully consistent changes in tone but instead it& #39;s an inconsistency that somehow feels fully natural.
Production wise,this is definitely his best work post-MBDTF ; it& #39;s well refined (the final version anyway) and really diverse. Also,more Kanye + Madlib please https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙏" title="Folded hands" aria-label="Emoji: Folded hands">
Saint Pablo is easily Kanye& #39;s most excellent closer to date ; I really can& #39;t imagine that there existed a version without this cut on it. It& #39;s a perfect encapsulation of the album& #39;s themes with some of his strongest lyricism and a brilliant contribution Sampha.
Of course Kanye doesn& #39;t have the debt to worry about anymore,but a lot of the issues he had back in 2016 still remain,and only time will tell how he chooses to address them.

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