Kanye West has earned many accolades throughout his career, but his latest isn’t something he’ll be shouting from the rooftops about.
The controversial Chicago rapper was awarded the No. 1 spot on Rolling Stone’s 50 Genuinely Horrible Albums By Brilliant Artists list for his 2018 album Ye, which writers at the publication said “marked the beginning of the most disastrous artistic and personal collapse in the history of popular music.”
“Clocking in at a mere 23 minutes, the chaotic, half-baked album was cut in Wyoming right around the time he told TMZ that slavery was a ‘choice’ and started wearing a MAGA hat in public,” Rolling Stone wrote.
“The uproar over his slavery remark caused him to rework many of the ye lyrics over a frantic two weeks shortly before the album dropped, which explains screeds like ‘Just imagine if they caught me on a wild day/ Now I’m on 50 blogs gettin’ 50 calls/ My wife callin’, screamin’, say, ‘We ’bout to lose it all.’’
They concluded: “The Kanye scandals of 2018 seem almost quaint compared to his recent issues, but he’s never made music less vital than this.”
Elsewhere on the list, Lil Wayne’s rock-infused 2010 album Rebirth also snagged No. 24, with the RS writers calling the project the work of a “vocally challenged genius stuck in limbo.” RUN DMC’s 2001 effort Crown Royal also appeared at No. 27, with RS describing the tape “as a colossal bomb.”
They also placed OutKast’s Idelwild soundtrack at No. 46, calling the tape the product of a “creatively exhausted duo” that were “desperate to go their separate ways.”
Despite Ye’s number-one placement, it was announced in 2021 that ye had still exceeded a billion streams on Spotify.
Kanye’s placement on the list also comes amidst announcements the 49-year-old’s most recent string of antisemitic comments will be the focus of a new BBC documentary tentatively titled We Need to Talk About Kanye. The one-off documentary will follow award-winning journalist Mobeen Azhar as he wrestles with Ye’s current place in pop culture following his series of antisemitic outbursts last year.
The new film arrives as Kanye gears up for another presidential run in 2024, and will examine Ye’s “complex journey” from adoration and acclaim to “condemnation and notoriety.”
We Need to Talk About Kanye will air on BBC 2 with Stefan Mattison on board as the primary director. A premiere date is expected to be announced in the coming months.
Despite the man’s antics no one going tell me Ye wasn’t a a good album? It’s the same people saying that Nas album by Ye wasn’t good neither.
Wouldn’t Leave
Ghost Town
FOH with that was the beginning of the Kanye mediocrity. Kids See Ghost was the same era, bruh he kept the best beats for those two albums and there’s the song on Nas Album “Everything” , “Cops Shot The Kid”.
Man’s may have a mental breakdown but Ye did not suck as much as these magazines that made a top 50 and left out rappers on some dafuq were they own? shit. Rolling Stones just needs controversy to stay relevant is all. And everything is just like their opinion.
Despite the man’s antics no one going tell me Ye wasn’t a a good album? It’s the same people saying that Nas album by Ye wasn’t good neither.
Wouldn’t Leave
Ghost Town
FOH with that was the beginning of the Kanye mediocrity. Kids See Ghost was the same era, bruh he kept the best beats for those two albums and there’s the song on Nas Album “Everything” , “Cops Shot The Kid”.
Man’s may have a mental breakdown but Ye did not suck as much as these magazines that made a top 50 and left out rappers on some dafuq were they own? shit. Rolling Stones just needs controversy to stay relevant is all. And everything is just like their opinion.
@ Don’t @ Me _ firstly, eat a fat dick for still hanging on to his nutsack! Secondly, why would a nobody like you hang on to the nutsack of miserable hater like him who clearly hates everything including YOU? Thirdly and most importantly, YOU NEED TO GET SOME ASS!!!! HOMO!
YE was a good album. Ignore the comment by @Becky above. Her comment has no merit at all. Just name-calling. Vulgar language. lol Very elementary. Obviously, Wal-mart’s worse kind. She’s either a 13 year old kid, or she’s a 32 year old mother (with 13 kids from 13 different dads) who shoplifts Ramen noodles from big box stores. Read a book or something. 😉
I thought it was pretty good. Didn’t like Donda pretty 2 at all.
when the hate no longer works they just smear your name to get the clickbait
30 antisemitic incidents related to this pos. Y’all still praising this nazi loving pos LMAO clown work guys, clown work.
That’s insane because a quick search of the site shows the site and public rated it 4 out of 5. I also saw an article where dx praised the album for having 1 mil in streams. The site loved him until he had an opinion that some people disagree with. He has many other opinions, habits, and preferences but we’re only concerned about how he feels about a particular group of people and Trump! I don’t agree with everything he’s said but it’s interesting to see how narratives change.
Real Talk OG, U.S. Grant and Evan in shambles rn
Ye is an absolutely garbage album. They got it right.
Cancel culture and “doesnt fit our narrative” at its finest. And seeing how slavery was abolished by a republican over 150 years ago, I agree with Ye, whining about slavery in 2023 is a choice. And im not even a fan of his music, but I respect his message.
You have no idea what you’re talking about. Slavery may have been abolished but Jim crow and redlining came next, so you need to pick up a book and learn something before you speak to us. Another thing stay out of our business.
“Stay out of our business”. Hmmmm. Not the same attitude people had when my great great grandpa was fighting in the Civil War. Also, you said “you have no idea what you’re talking about” and proceed to AGREE with what OP said, that SLAVERY WAS ABOLISHED. He didn’t say it meant everyone was treated right. He simply said “slavery was abolished”, which you agreed with. But Ye is right to say that things are a choice. We all have mental chains of fear that prevent us from taking true freedom. People know the Gov is corrupt. We outnumber them ny the hundreds of millions. Yet we let them fuck us non stop. Why? Mental chains. Fear.
Lol, ye not Ye’s best work but still amazing, duck these retardas
This is political, has nothing to do with the art.
Ye was a great album.
Yep
It is possible to recognize that in 2023 we know Kanye is a racist POS while also admitting that Ye was a great album in 2018.
People can hold more than 1 thought in their heads.
They should have used the Jesus Is King Christian Contemporary trash album for this
First of all, Ye isn’t a racist. And also Jesus is King wasn’t a “trash” album, you probably just dont like Christianity so that’s your problem. Ye doesn’t have any trash albs, Some may be below Ye standard but there’s no trash in Ye’s discography
I thought about killing you is garbage? yikes is garbage? I already forgot who wrote the list but I’ll never forget these songs
I thought about killing you is garbage? yikes is garbage? I already forgot who wrote the list but I’ll never forget these songs
Let’s add Donda, the fake christian album, College Dropout for giving cornballs the courage to rap, and 808s for singlehandedly ruining rap.
I love Ye the artist. The album to me is probably his worst, but it’s better than a bunch of albums on that list. Ye being his worst album is a credit to how great he has been over the past 20 years. If he didn’t implode over the past year this wouldn’t be on the list. It’s cool to hate him now so everyone loves to pile on.
I thought Rolling Stones was a Rock N Roll magazine… I wonder what happened to that….
Putting that album at number one has me questioning the ethnicity of the owners of Rolling Stone 🤔🤔
You do you. For me, Kanye hasn’t released anything listenable since Twisted Fantasy.
Kanye is not 49 years old
It is possible to recognize that in 2023 we know Kanye is a racist POS while also admitting that Ye was a great album in 2018.
People can hold more than 1 thought in their heads.
They should have used the Jesus Is King Christian Contemporary trash album for this