Stop acting like youвЂ™re not as much of a slave to the Kanye Machine as the next fuccboi (or fuckboy whatever makes Vince Staples happy ), someone I think we all become while taking in one of these megascale Kanye functions.

Still excited about Kanye West, even.Д«ut yвЂ™all haters played yourselves, because when it comes down to #Facts, 20 million bots didnвЂ™t break the Tidal stream. IвЂ™ve said IвЂ™m a Kanye apologist (only the music!), and in the lead-up to MSG, even as recently as Tuesday, it felt like I was the only one still excited about Pablo. Then, like Yeezy Yeezy Yeezy does, he hit us with a deluge of last-minute, thinly veiled promo ( beefs with Wiz and Amber, hopefully fake Cosby support, now this Taylor mess) and tons of oversharing about the minutiae of making an album (which I actually donвЂ™t mind).

WhenвЂ™s the last time Kanye did anything low-key? He spent over a year jerking us around in the longest rollout since RihannaвЂ™s Anti, trickling out detail after detail - at the first two seasons of this thing, at the Brits, at the goddamn Grammys. Everything about this listening party felt like a kickback in a college dorm, with the difference being that thousands of hypebeasts (fans and press alike, trust), tons of rappers (like Young Thug and his semi-performative ennui), Anna Wintour, and the entire Kardashian-Jenner-Odom clan (a few looking like a swarm of wig-wearing Lil Kim imposters right next to the Queen Bee ) got the invite. Kanye wasnвЂ™t lying: This is a gospel album, but ratchet gospel - the kind of worship service that covers вЂњHotline BlingвЂќ because why the hell not. But IвЂ™ll be damned if my living room didnвЂ™t catch the same spirit that I imagine permeated MSG as soon as Kirk Franklin and Kelly PriceвЂ™s voices hit. (I was like, вЂњWhy are they letting Donatella hold the baby?! Oh.вЂќ) Were you guys watching online? The whole show had this very charged sense of being A Big Cultural Event in person, but IвЂ™m curious to hear if that translated to the livestream.Дee: I watched the whole miniвЂ“ Summer Jam from my couch, courtesy of a spotty Tidal stream. I was lucky enough to be at MSG, with a seat good enough that I could see the Royal Fam at all times, but far enough away that I legit thought Kim was Donatella Versace for the first ten minutes. It felt like one of those rare monocultural moments that everybody was tuned into. The Kardashians.ДЇirst off, IвЂ™m curious about the different ways we all experienced this thing. (How benevolent and professionally savvy of BeyoncГ© to give us all 90-day free trials for downloading вЂњFormationвЂќ!) So much to discuss. But we did get to experience it yesterday, in a star-studded listening session/ fashion show/clusterfuck that 20 million people (20 MILLION PEOPLE) streamed on Tidal. Can we stream it or purchase it yet? At press time, no. Lindsay : MY PABLOS, whatвЂ™s good? So, a new Kanye West album exists. As we await the albumвЂ™s official release, Vulture music critic Lindsay Zoladz, New York writer-at-large Rembert Browne, and Vulture editors Dee Lockett and Kevin Lincoln discuss the spectacle, the controversy, and our first impressions of the album. Thursday, Kanye West unveiled Yeezy Season 3 and debuted his long-awaited new album, now titled The Life of Pablo, at Madison Square Garden.

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