Kanye West – Good Friday Series
Kanye West has been releasing a song every Friday for the past month and a bit. He’s willing to sell them to you for the reasonable price of your email address (which is valid currency in today’s music transaction system). Each track is pregnant with collaboration with Jay-Z, Raekown, Bon Iver, Justin Bieber and Kid Cudi among the artists that have featured in the five tracks so far released. I had a hard time deciding what track I’d stream but Raekown’s opening verse on Runaway Love won me over. I don’t know how I feel about Bieber’s vocals yet. I’m probably closing to liking them than hating them. He’ll be releasing a new track every Friday until Christmas.
Kanye West – Runaway Love (Feat. Justin Bieber & Raekwon)
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I'm feeling like Kanye West is gettin pretty desperate at this point. Lines sound recycled, mechanical, weak.
I think he's just snatching up all the hot celebs he can right now to get more attention. For example, the only reason I even knew about this shit is because I dig Bon Iver and everyone told me he was singing on a Kanye West track.
oh, and I don't think he should ever rap with Raekwon, that's embarrassing. haha.
To sum it up, I hear these songs and I yawn.
I dig your blog though!
having not listened to any other tracks besides this one, I think I'm heading towards agreeing with Aydin. weak. I'm a Kanye fan, like what he's done with all his albums, but if the rest of the weekly tracks are like this one, this is the first time I've been disappointed by his musics.
"Runaway Love" raises so many questions like…
How on earth did Kanye persuade Raekwon to allow Justin Bieber to poison such a classic Wu-Tang anthem?
Who gave permission for Kanye to pilfer some of U-God's lines (from the same Wu-Tang album)?
Like Sophie C, I'm a fan of Kanye, but tracks like this one remind me of why I'm an even bigger fan of the Wu.
Thanks for pointing it out to me though!
Nath Lee, you are hip hop informed.
I'm not a big fan of Kanye (as a person or as an artist). I guess I posted this because I find the idea of three really different paradigms coming together in one song interesting. Also because it's clever marketing from K Dub.
yeah gotta say I was a little surprised to see you post this, but I got a kick out of his clever marketing too.