Kanye West’s Sixth Solo Album Coming This Year

[flyingmonkey10]

Last week, Kanye West lit up the airwaves with a surprise Funkmaster Flex exclusive of his incendiary new track “THERAFLU” through New York’s Hot 97. Within hours, the track and its vivid, revealing, personal lyrics had taken over the blogosphere, streets and clubs, inciting a firestorm in the press, both on and offline. Praised by fans and attacked by detractors, “THERAFLU” ignited controversy the way only a new Kanye West track can.
Today, Kanye announces the creative decision to title the track ‘WAY TOO COLD’ feat. DJ Khaled.
Whether it’s been through his pioneering lifestyle blog, his unabashed, frequently controversial twitter feed, or his wildly popular “G.O.O.D. Fridays” download series, Kanye West has always used the online space – perhaps as well as any artist of his era – to give fans access to his creative world. Now, in an effort to bring his fans the freshest, most undiluted version of his music, Kanye will offer ‘WAY TOO COLD’ for sale through his website http://kanyewest.com. This direct digital offering marks a first for West. The track will also be made available to all digital retailers and services.
The release of ‘WAY TOO COLD’ only heightened the thirst for “Mercy,” the first track off of the upcoming G.O.O.D. Music project. On Thursday evening, ClearChannel stations nationwide were given a first pass at “Mercy,” resulting in hundreds of plays nationwide before the track dropped exclusively on iTunes at 12:01 Friday morning…G.O.O.D. Friday.
“Mercy,” - featuring G.O.O.D. Music labelmates Big Sean and Pusha T, along with an all-star assist from 2 Chainz, arguably the hottest new artist coming out of the South – is the first single from the hotly anticipated G.O.O.D. Music album, which will see its release this summer. The project will mark the second official release through G.O.O.D. Music’s new venture with Def Jam Recordings, to be followed this year by Big Sean’s sophomore effort, Kanye West’s next solo album, and future releases from Pusha T, Q-Tip and many more.
Stay tuned for further details on the G.O.O.D. Music album in coming weeks, as well as info on the label’s burgeoning roster of talent, helmed by one of music’s greatest forces, Kanye West…

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[Almostlity]

oh boy oh boy oh boy

[SG.]

Man. Half a sentence. That's fucking confirmation.

[SG.]

Try Late Registration or Graduation. My personal favourite is My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, but it's a very hard album to get into for a first-time Kanye listener.

[Almostlity]

Maybe I should try to really get into Kanye before this drops. Liked WTT, what Kanye albums should I try? The only two I remember the names of is that MDBTF or something, and Graduation.

i'd start with Graduation. Great balance between great beats and good/great lyrics

[Emadyville]

what was so controversial about the song?

[Trimss]

what was so controversial about the song?

About Theraflu? The fact that he's admitting that he loves Kim, and the fact that he disses her ex husband. (lucky I ain't had Jay drop ya from the team..)

[Emadyville]

what was so controversial about the song?

About Theraflu? The fact that he's admitting that he loves Kim, and the fact that he disses her ex husband. (lucky I ain't had Jay drop ya from the team..)

I'm sorry but I dont know who kim is or her ex-husband, if you dont mind explaining.

[limea]

FUCK YES NEW YEEZY! I can't wait!

[SG.]

what was so controversial about the song?

- Announced love interest in Kim Kardashian
- PETA hates "mink on the floor" line, called Ye a caveman
- Theraflu didn't want to be associated with it, got him to change name to "Why So Cold"

[Kill You]

Boner is pretty huge right now.

[Slim Fiasco]

If Kanye releases an album as well, this year is going to be fucking insane as far as Hip-Hop goes. Specially for me; if you look at my top 9 favorite rappers, most of the living ones will release a probable great project:

Eminem - /
Big L - /
Lupe Fiasco - Two parts of Food & Liquor 2.
Kanye - 6th solo album
Nas - Life Is Good
2Pac - /
Common - /
Elzhi - The Feed
Hopsin - Knock Madness.

This has never happened before.

[Aftermathers]

Never been a fan always found him boring and not relatable as far as Lyrics. Not a good Rapper or decent Writer and as a Producer relies on Samples for almost every Song.


Best Artist/Rapper to ever come from Rocafella label in history ever though i'll give him that.

[Slim Fiasco]

:worship:

I'm kinda upset he changed the Theraflu name tbh Way Too Cold sounds too cliche for a song that amazing

It's not his fault though. But that title was definitely better.

[Slim Fiasco]

[quote="Aftermathers"]and as a Producer relies on Samples for almost every Song.

/quote]

All of Hip-Hop relies on samples for almost every song. That's the core of rap music. And reinventing isn't an easy task. It does take talent to find a specific sample and flip it in a good way. Also, Kanye is a good rapper. He may not be the best one, but he's definitely not a bad one. He's also been the best songwriter in Hip-Hop for the past 8 years, and has been able to appeal to all Hip-Hop audiences.