In a past interview, Kanye West revealed that he wants to release his next studio album by summer 2014 and during an appearance at Art Basel, the Chicago rapper shared a few added details on his plans for his next LP.
According to Rolling Stone, during a conversation with architect Jacques Herzog at Miami’s Moore Building, Ye stated that he wants his next album to consist of only eight songs in order to reduce “the amount of information” fans need.
“I think my next album is going to be eight songs,” said Kanye. “It’s just reducing down the amount of information that you need. People say a design is the point where you can’t take anything else away. [Yeezus] was very, very designed. I took a departure from radio and popular music in order to get this seat here. If I hadn’t made Yeezus, I wouldn’t be sitting here with this cool font at Basel right here.”
With the multi-city Art Basel serving as an annual fete dedicated to all things art, Kanye also took the opportunity to discuss his background in art and referred to his music career as “a giant art project.”
“My original creative background was fine art,” he said. “By the time I was 14, I was in national competitions for art, and I actually went to school for art. Sometimes I actually forget that. Except for when I tour and I look back at the stage and say, ‘Wait a second, I forgot this was the whole trick I pulled on everyone to make them think I was a rapper, a musician or celebrity when the entire time it’s all been a giant art project.'”
Kanye’s appearance at Art Basel comes as the G.O.O.D. Music emcee recently underwent a moderate amount of bad publicity following two Yeezus tour stops. During his Tampa, Florida show the rapper reportedly stormed off stage after cursing out the tour’s technical crew. Additionally, in Kansas City, Kanye’s tour only drew in a total of 4,500 people at a venue capable of holding up to 18,500.
The Yeezus tour is currently scheduled to make stops in Houston, Chicago, and a handful of other U.S. cities before concluding in Toronto, Canada at the end of the month.
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if its 8 songs I’m not buying
Kanye West:
And see, that’s why you’ll never be me, because you can never understand who I am and what I stand for. I am Mozart, I am Wilt Chamberlain, I am genius in the flesh. I am art, I am God. I can paint a masterpiece using just my penis. I can construct a sewage treatment plant made of popsicle sticks powered by a 900 watt toaster oven. That’s genius, that’s Kanye.
you will if it’s like his old stuff.
Well played, Kanye.
not as masterful as the masterpiece ray j painted with his penis though….
Relax guys. He can put out an album of only 2 songs and it would still go multiplatinum.
‘YEEZUS’ is comin’ off a failed album, a cancelled tour, a relationship that has dulled his effectiveness, & NOW he ‘announced that his next album is ONLY 8 songs’ without having a HIT in the last 3-4 years?!@! He’s HUSTLIN’ BACKWARDS at an amazing pace! ….BUT he’s a ‘genius’ ?!@!
Everything you said is false. Go fuck yourself, you dumb bitch. “Hasn’t had a hit in 3-4 years”, yeah pretty sure none of his singles from MBDTF were successful? WTT? Cruel Summer? He canceled his tour? Is that why all of his shows except for his KC show (which was added early last month) have almost been sold out? Jy Dubb, you a fucking dumbass, please do the world a favor and stop listening to music and learn how to fuck a knife with your ears.
@Jy Dubb
The stupidity in everything that you wrote is incredible. You are a faggot.
LOL @ JAY DUB WHAT A FUCKING IDIOT!!!! lololol. “HUSTLIN BACKWARDS”????…LOLOL
i guess making millions and millions of dollars yearly is going backwards
KANYE is the fucking GOAT, hands fucking down.
Reach much? GTFOH
Jy Dubb, what a stupid piece of shit. MTO should hire you. That’s where all of the other dipshits go for work.
nutn wrong/new with that… its just 8 songs , 2 more than E
P…
better idea: no more albums from kanye west
Ehm. Why?
no more?
ok he is an asshole, yeezus sucks
BUT! MBDTF is the best hip hop album of the decade
Damn. WTF happened to him! College Dropout, Late Registration, Graduation.. those were all classics!!!
late registration was trash and other than stronger the first half of graduation was trash.
Both of you are retards, MBDTF was amazing, and yet you forgot to mention it.
But thats just like.. your opinion man. ”other than stronger” lel
good. less shitty songs the better
Thriller had 9 songs, Illmatic had 9 plus 1 intro….shorter albums are better. No room for fillers.
exactly
Alright! Less for you more for me—>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJAWHu10AzI
This aint the same ye anymore anyway.. He hasnt made a good album since graduation in 07. So anything he says and does now is solely to be different and get a response. Quality for him, has unfortunately taken a back seat.
Are you forgetting MBTF? That is musically one of the greatest hip hop albums ever. And yeezus was a different kind of project, I think in a few years people will start to appreciate it more. 808s was his only garbage album, IMHO.
How about an album with no songs on it?
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but was good and by far the best album of 2012. So far Kendrick got 2 classics with S.80 being one of the greatest pieces of music of this decade.
So its an EP? Just say its a fucking EP…
EIGHT songs? That’s not an album, it’s an EP!
That doesn’t make sense. Many albums are 3 or 4 songs and they’re over an hour long…
By your standards. Hotel California was a platinum ALBUM9 songs. I could go on and onyou’re part of the new entitlement generation where you get so much music you think you DESERVE 20 subpar songs. Kanye is (hopefully) going quality over quantity, thought Yeezus wasn’t a quality project in my eyes.
So Fuccen What!
rappers singers ppl in movies sports some people in naborhoods malls put hits on ppl try to kill them. looking for some of those people. faggets
who u trying to put hits on faggets looking for u ppl nowww
Runnin’ since the fired the gun and started the clock
that’s when the E jumped off the starting block
a hundred miles from home and yo, it’s a long stretch
a little sprintin’ mothafucka that they won’t catch
yeah, back to Compton again
yo, it’s either that or the federal pen
’cause niggas been runnin’ since the beginning of time
I’m takin’ a minute to tell you what’s on my mothafuckin’ mind!
runnin’ like I just don’t care
Compton’s fifty miles, but yo, I’m a get there
arch in my back and on a straight route
just like Carl Lewis I’m bonin’ the fuck out
from city to city I’m a menace as I pass by
rippin’ up shit just so you can remember I’m
a straight up nigga that’s done it and done it and comin’
straight at yo’ ass, a hundred miles and runnin’ !!!
Hip-Hop was better when it was fuckin’ HARD and scared the shit outta people who didn’t understand it. That shit had the government scared. This new shit is SOFT and WEAK. I don’t care how much so-called ‘talent’ these ‘artists’ have, these niggas are fuckin’ corny and sell outs and the hood needs real spokesman, not these castrated ass punks. A hundred Miles and RUNNIN’ !!!
You’re not Eazy E, so shut the fuck up. You idiot.
eazy e was a pioneer & rapped about real shit. these fucking faggot affeminate clowns are pop pussies, not rappers or MCs. you was probably born in the mid 90s so that reflects in your little comment, faggot.
the FBI was scared to the point of drafting a letter addressing the nature of NWA’s lyrics that antagonized authority figures who in reality were ostracizing minorities. do your fucking research, you “swag2 pussy bitch. fuck kanye and FUCK ALL THESE NEW CUNTS DISGUISED AS RAPPERS WHO COLLABORATE WITH THE LIKES OF JUSTIN BIEBER!
You’re a fucking moron. Only a dumb dipshit can interpret a statement like “You’re not Eazy E, so shut the fuck up.” into an Eazy E diss. Fucking dumbass.
go listen to drake or one direction, you fuckin dumbass bitch. eazy e lyrics are far superior to bitch west who only makes an ass out of himself with each publicized diatribe of his. you sound like you should shack up with bitch west but you’d have to go through kim k first, you little fucking faggot
So you’re mad, and a dumbass? Who are you arguing with, you faggot? Bottom line is, you’re a confirmed homo for using a rapper’s name as your user name, and a butthurt bitch for going on a dumbass rant about shit that wasn’t even being talked about by anybody but you. You are a retard.
coming from the retard who complained about somebody posting eazy e lyrics. HA HA HA HA HA!
go wash your skinny jeans, faggot
Somebody is mad because they didn’t get their poop pushed today. You’re a moron, so I’ll explain what I just said. You’re mad because you didn’t get buttfucked today. Faggot.
I want kanye to cum inside my mouth and ass. I can’t wait to watch the grammys, i’ll have my pink dildo with me.
I’m so gay, anybody want to fuck my butt or have some buttfun. I’m also known as “Eazy-Mothphukkin-E”, I tried acting like him for one post but I’m not really him though because he was actually intelligent and wouldn’t act like such a fucktard. I’m actually a butthurt faggot that gets so mad that he doesn’t know how to respond to people and gets wound up in bullshit. I’m a faggot. Seriously put it in me.
I’m a huge faggot. I name myself after a rapper, but unlike the actual rapper, I’m a fucking bitch. I like buttsex also, if anybody is interested. Poke around long enough and you’ll find a zoo in my ass. Have fun guys.
and kanye’s dick is smelling like no id’s shit
Mortis what are you doing out of your cage? Do you need to spanked again?
Kayne such a tosser. He has lost it all sorry 🙁
Oi mate, what a you doing on this site. Get off of here you bloody wanker.
nothing wrong with 8, Illmatic was only 9
stick it up your ass……… fake hip/hop faggot
And then somebody stick it up my ass…….i’m a faggot
I really think Kanye should step back from the spotlight a little. He used to never do interviews, and now I see why. His personality is just awful, and he loses fans every time he opens his mouth. I absolutely love all of his albums ( except for 808s, yes, I did love yeezus) but I hate him as a person every time he says something outside of his music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQQiG7rAuyw
fucking idiot, 8 songs are you kiding me. He has to drop at least 15 songs
I deleted the bootleg of his last album. 8 tracks = no purchase.
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kanye, i want to have your baby!