‘I am the day Ice Cube met Michael Jackson. Keep ’em away, huh? Something might happen.’ Kanye is on his A-Game with this G.O.O.D. Friday release.
179 thoughts on “Kanye West f. Talib Kweli & Consequence – Chain Heavy [Prod. Q-Tip]”
Ye teaching/preaching now. He is next level and can’t be touched. Leave’em alone. Good shit. G.O.O.D. Music. Kweli was a nice touch for cultural effect. Still not sold on anything Cons has spit. He’s kinda stagnant stuck in that Beats, Rhymes and Life mode. And what year was that?
What more needs to be said?! G.O.O.D. Fridays has been nothing short of amazing. Kanye is bringing it for real. Cannot wait for the album to finally drop. Support real hip-hop!!
cool song. I liked that song Ballad to the Black Gold also. This time the chain is so heavy the oil leak needed a leavy but the leavy broke we weren’t ready.
I HEARD THIS IS ON THE DELUXE EDITION, THE SOURCE IS KINDA… YOU KNOW LOL…. BUT THIS WHERE I HEARD FROM…. stereogum DOT COM ……………………….. This slicker version with production and cameos from Q-Tip, Talib Kweli, and Consequence, is rumored to appear on the deluxe edition of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. — but fuck it…. THIS IS CLASSIC NIGGA
Kayne been changing the game but he never gets his due, yall wanna lable lil wayne as best and kayne been doing this since he came out…. (rant to myself)
hmmm….little over rated i think. album dope, good friday’s been real good….this solid hip hop production but as a whole song don’t think its on kanye’s usual level. hook is below average and verses are good but not amazing…cons is just boring, no personality, and just raps and raps and raps! hahaha good song though just could have been better!
I’m not sure if you mean the album or this song, but if you mean this song I disagree. Kanye has made hooks like dis before, his verse is full of his personality. If someone else rapped his verse I would be like “dat sounds like something kanye would say”. His flow is kinda boring but it has personality…. personally my favorite verse was Kweli
This production is genius. It has a hint of Bossa Nova. Q-Tip killed the whole track, without a single verse. And that’s saying a lot, given how tight and on-point the bars are delivered.
NOT QUITE A CLASSIC CONSIDERING SOME OF THE ILLER SHIT HE DROPPED FOR GOOD FRIDAY, I KIND OF DOZED OFF TO THIS ONE. TALIB SOUNDED KIND OF FOREIGN ON THIS ONE.
Yeah Kanye this is where its at now we just need Mama’s Boyfriend next week on the final G.O.O.D friday or on some deluxe version of the album and we good!
I feel like they were like “hey let’s go in here and just make a song. no writing. nothing. off the top. sound good?” “Yeah!”
and i like it. old school, fun, freestyling.
Merging hip hop with fashion is nothing new or contrasting. Hip hop and fashion have gone hand in hand since way back when. Never the less, this track is dope. YEA ‘YE!!!!!
Its 10:00 Pm In Portland, Oregon and i just got off a 16 hour shift and this is one of the better songs i’ve heard in along time, This is real Hip-Hop, My Night is getting started right by hearing this, Time to get Fucked Up, fuck some slut and then wake up and watch some football. One.
This mental midget fails to realize that Kanye’s job is to make music not give politically correct interviews with fuckin Matt Laur. Dont Judge Just Listen. You smurf!!!
after that “today show embarassment” I lost respect for George Bush… two failed trillion dollar military campaigns, a half assed week late response to a natural disaster that swallowed an american city, the collapse of the american economy, and a large portion of the population of the WORLD hating him and everyone he represents to to point that they are willing to go to war with all things american, and this clown says the low point in his presidency was fuckin Kanye West’s speaking on behalf of the millions of black families displaced by Katrina that do believe the former CEO of America is apathetic toward the plight of black people? fuck outta here with that bullshit! Kanye west owes nobody a fuckin apology for speaking his mind when they gave him a mic! I woulda said the same thing if they’d asked me but I was too busy treading water!
wtf? are you serious? my chain heavy? motherfucker some of us don’t have huge rapper chains! come on bring the old Hip Hop back! Dre take out Detox and save us all!
u my friend a complete idiot, chain heavy is a metaphor, most of u clowns dont understand what the man is talkin about bc most of u are stuck on some bullshit. and detox?? really, u want to hear a 50 year old rappin about low riders and bitches. Child Please..
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maybe this aint dudes best track….but u a god damn fool if u dont notice that Kanye is killin everything latley…Back on his grind, no doubt about it, its GOOD MUSIC MA FUCKA
Agreed alot of clowns if they don’t think kweli kills it hardest. Kweli is a top 25 emcee of all time arguably, in terms of lyrically/storytelling/unique voice, longevity in the game (12 years now), respect of other dope emcees in mainstream/underground (Train of Thought is classic, Blackstarr w/ Mos is classic and alot of his other albums are very good)…Kanye is an AVERAGE mc…his A+ producition is top 15 producers ever in hip hop, but LYRICALLY as an mc? He’s a tad above average when you compare him to an Em, Nas, Kweli, G Rap, Pharoahe Monch, Black Thought, Rakim, 2pac, BIG, Big L, Big Pun, Redman, Crooked I, Tonedeff, Cunnin Lynguists, Elzhi, Royce, Budden, Louis Logic, Juice (from chi and doper), Lupe, Diabolic, Andre 3000, Jay, Most of Wu-Tang, to name A FEW who are doper LYRICISTS. Kanye is a solid ARTIST (when you take everything into account) and is pretty unique, but as an EMCEE he’s merely a lil above average. These are just the facts
Hook could’ve been played with, but the track is great, its got a raw feel, great lyrics, and truly sounds like hip-hop. Beat sounds simple but really what it does is give the lyrics an extra shine. It’s a special beat.
a few solid bars from kanye littered throughout his verses, but a lot lazy/corny ones and the “Here we go, like we should, Feel the sweat on your face, ALLRIGHT OKAY” over and over is pretty damn annoying. Solid q-tip beat.
Kweli cuts KANYE as an emcee obviously, b-c well he’s a dope MC and kanye is simply a very good producer (in his prime) and unique overall artist
Obviously some people got the point of the song and others did not. “Chain heavy” is a metaphor representing the burden that Kanye West has to bare as an African-American. The burden has remained the same throughout the years in the United States. Though the physical chains have been removed we still have mental chains that aren’t as easilly broken. Let someone rape, beat, and enslave just one generation of your family and lets see how much counseling your family would need. (300 years worth are wounds that take a looong time to heal) Blacks and whites both wear chains. The black chain is one of being misunderstood and struggling with the idea that in order to be successful he/she must assimilate. Kanye receives so much bad press because he makes attempts not to assimilate. He reached a place in his career where he can speak his mind and not have it affect his well being.
OOOH yaaa kanyes life is real hard. But ya I get what you’re saying and what he was trying to do but how long he gonna talk that shit while he’s sittin on millions.
Money doesn’t make life any easier, but it does give the illusion of comfort. Wouldn’t it suck to think that money was going to make things better, get the money and still be unhappy. Now you can’t just be unhappy, you’re unhappy thinking that you should be happy because you’ve got money.
this nigga talkin about the devils that own him/pay him. kinda on the borderline between underground talk & mainstream rap. prolly the dopest verse i’ve heard from yeezy as far as the G.O.O.D. Friday releases go. Ice Cube & MJ?? Cube keeps it real 24/7….MJ got played by joe jackson & geppetto (fuck them niggaz). Mr. West has a smart flow on this one….Q-Tip is a freakin genius for the beat….Talib/Consequence held it down but could done better. nuff said, im out.
don killuminati style all day, every day….Fuck them haters.
Aside from Kanye West and whoever else decides to put out an album this year I want to hear YOU. I know that sounds cheesy and corny as hell but it’s the truth. Let me clarify what I mean when I say that, “I want to hear YOU!” This shit that they play on the radio is toilet floats. You can summarize the lyrical content by saying, “Skeet, Skeet, drink, smoke, skeet, skeet, talk shit I’ll shoot ya, bling bling.” Seriously how many different ways can you say the same shit. With that said all of this is being pumped into the airwaves and now people that even attempt to rap end up regurgitating the same crap. It makes no sense for people to purchase the same album over and over again. I want the commercial rap to be REAL HIP HOP. I have worked with children for a number of years and I encourage them when creating to tell their own stories. Your life is real, why not share that in your songs. I want to hear YOU, not what you think you should be, what you think you should say to make money, pure untainted YOU. This shit has got to stop. Weak metaphors and a barage of unrelated similes can’t cut it. If you hear a rapper say “like” more than five times in a rap sit him down and let him know that he needs to step his game up. You guys know what I’m talking about. I honestly believe that the average joe can rap better than Lil’ Wayne and could come up with better lyrical content. I’m no record exec. or anything of the sort, but if you have some music that is real shoot me an e-mail at dacurious1@hotmail.com. I want to hear YOU!
Ok, a few flaws in your argument. 1- not everyone is eminem and has a crazy/fucked up child hood story and at the same time is a lyrical genius even after many nights under the influence of any and everything. 2- Kid CuDi… listen to the shit he has to spit and he comes no where close to the intricate lyrics of papoose. cudi is trying to do exactly what ur asking… listen to just about any of his songs and u will find out he has night terrors almost every night, thats whats unique about him and hes trying to use that to get to the top and have that huge bank account. having said that the other artists your having problems with dont have that intense background so they talk about whatever they think is going to make as many people as they can get to play their music one way or another and make that cash flow and have that “dream” lifestyle. now dont get me wrong i love the artists your referring to who really come up with bars and bars of real shit they went through and can still kill it again and again on the track but there are a lot more fake bullshit wanna-be’s that just want the fame as opposed to the real legit artists we all want to hear more of.
Yo, this fire I wish it made the album but I don’t care the album is my fav this year so I kno it will not be album of the year cus everybody crying Em, but it’s album of the year in my heart, Kanye makes art not just music from the cover to the sounds & stories he tells he is one of musics all time best emcee’s !!!!! Also look for hiphops newest artist Young Cassius “Power” YouTube
Ye teaching/preaching now. He is next level and can’t be touched. Leave’em alone. Good shit. G.O.O.D. Music. Kweli was a nice touch for cultural effect. Still not sold on anything Cons has spit. He’s kinda stagnant stuck in that Beats, Rhymes and Life mode. And what year was that?
Kanye is the best artist since 2000.
Kayne is where he needs to be, second. NO ONE is better or bigger than Eminem since 1999.
I disagree yerrr I’ll take all of GOOD Friday over Eminem’s last three albums
Is this going to be a bonus track or what?
KANYE WEST! making real fucking rap
Don’t look now, Kanye leading Rap back to it’s roots. Long live real HIP-HOP you fucking haters!!!!!!!!!!!
Shout out to Banks, Lupe, Pusha T.
Forgot to rate. 5
Fuck the apologies Ye and do you!
Dope
fuckin sick
Hot track, Keep em coming Ye’ your doing great !
so dope!
my chain too heavy!!
AWESOME! Its good to see the contuation of evolution in music. It takes way more energy to stay amongst the social normal than to be yourself.
Thanks for the post. Your content is on point. Keep it UP!
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Whoa…where this been at?
What more needs to be said?! G.O.O.D. Fridays has been nothing short of amazing. Kanye is bringing it for real. Cannot wait for the album to finally drop. Support real hip-hop!!
WHERE ARE MY ILLUMANTIOLOGISTS WITH THIS TRACK….IF U REALLY HAD EARS U CAN HEAR WHATS GOIN ON NOT JUST WITH THIS TRACK….PEACE AND MY CHAIN STILL HEAVY
The beat is cooked up perfectly. Al dente! You can speak backwards in turkish and sound good on this track. Laced up tight! Good work fellas!
Ye came with some dope verses
still shouldn’t of apologized to that bush thing, but i like this. THIS IS FUCKING DOPE!
MBDTF & Good Friday > Every other rap release this year, only FNL even coming close lol
Didnt consequence dis ‘ye on man purses?…the track is strait fire tho!!! Rosewood
nope. pay attention to dat song a lil more. it wasn’t a diss song he wuz jus airin out his personal thoughts.
HERE WE GO…LIKE WE SHOULD!!!
Now this that shit!!!
Kanye classic shit. Talib and Con came to play as well, and QTIP ON THE BEAT YEAAA.
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Damn! “Chain Heavy” is heated heavy!
OH… MY… GOD !!!
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Listen to this
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they rock.
chain too heavy !!!!!!!!
actually, the aliens did built the piramids…
Oh, of course. Everyone knows that.
8=000==D
Nerd.
pyramids?? Omg the lack of intelligence here, lol, song is fire.
is it me, or there’s no sense of humor left?
lmao this shit FIYA niggas. take notes
WOW!!! this is what real music is. I am going to play this shit everyday for months haha
Classic.
um thanks? Are you bored or something?
i like this song
nice song
looks like another classic
Did Q produce this?
FUCK WAYNE AND DRAKE THIS IS REAL SHIT RIGHT HERE
yes it was…you know you gon’ get that straight boom bap if Q-tiptheabstract is on the keys…love live ATQC.
is it me or did kanye just destroy talib on this?
Tip’s beat MAKES this song.. soo sick.
This aint that good its ok 3/5 stop jockin kanye
I wonder why does somebody say people are jocking someone just because the majority think it’s dope lol, ur opinion isn’t fact son
Bring it back ‘Ye
Verses are on point but I dont like the beat at all
This and joy, classics
Fire!
MAGIC!!!!!!
Ok. I like this song, but why 2 verses for Kanye. One verse woulda been fine. Maybe add a Mos Def verse at the end. The prophet!
Because it’s a Kanye West song…
are you serious???? you’re the type of dude that’ll find something wrong with a flawless stone
This is some rock star shit right here. Kanye has pioneered a new genre of hip hop.
cool song. I liked that song Ballad to the Black Gold also. This time the chain is so heavy the oil leak needed a leavy but the leavy broke we weren’t ready.
LOVE IT RIGHT HERE
fire
Q – tip is crazy wild on beats . this reminds me of halloween though
Q-Tip produced this?!?! holy shit, its fuckin mad dope!
I HEARD THIS IS ON THE DELUXE EDITION, THE SOURCE IS KINDA… YOU KNOW LOL…. BUT THIS WHERE I HEARD FROM…. stereogum DOT COM ……………………….. This slicker version with production and cameos from Q-Tip, Talib Kweli, and Consequence, is rumored to appear on the deluxe edition of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. — but fuck it…. THIS IS CLASSIC NIGGA
CLASSIC!!!!!
Kayne been changing the game but he never gets his due, yall wanna lable lil wayne as best and kayne been doing this since he came out…. (rant to myself)
FirE
hmmm….little over rated i think. album dope, good friday’s been real good….this solid hip hop production but as a whole song don’t think its on kanye’s usual level. hook is below average and verses are good but not amazing…cons is just boring, no personality, and just raps and raps and raps! hahaha good song though just could have been better!
I’m not sure if you mean the album or this song, but if you mean this song I disagree. Kanye has made hooks like dis before, his verse is full of his personality. If someone else rapped his verse I would be like “dat sounds like something kanye would say”. His flow is kinda boring but it has personality…. personally my favorite verse was Kweli
This production is genius. It has a hint of Bossa Nova. Q-Tip killed the whole track, without a single verse. And that’s saying a lot, given how tight and on-point the bars are delivered.
Classic!
NOT QUITE A CLASSIC CONSIDERING SOME OF THE ILLER SHIT HE DROPPED FOR GOOD FRIDAY, I KIND OF DOZED OFF TO THIS ONE. TALIB SOUNDED KIND OF FOREIGN ON THIS ONE.
Wow
Yeah Kanye this is where its at now we just need Mama’s Boyfriend next week on the final G.O.O.D friday or on some deluxe version of the album and we good!
Daamn….
FIRE!!!!!!
I feel like they were like “hey let’s go in here and just make a song. no writing. nothing. off the top. sound good?” “Yeah!”
and i like it. old school, fun, freestyling.
I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING…IT’S LIKE A THROW AWAY JOINT.
Who the fuck are those people on the cover WTF?
Vampires?
merging hiphop with high fashion? that’s smart. Kanye’s new style is should be called “contrast.”
Merging hip hop with fashion is nothing new or contrasting. Hip hop and fashion have gone hand in hand since way back when. Never the less, this track is dope. YEA ‘YE!!!!!
Its 10:00 Pm In Portland, Oregon and i just got off a 16 hour shift and this is one of the better songs i’ve heard in along time, This is real Hip-Hop, My Night is getting started right by hearing this, Time to get Fucked Up, fuck some slut and then wake up and watch some football. One.
tmi
Fuck yeah mang
I feel you on that one.
I live in Oregon City and I’m about to do the saaaame damn thing!
FATTY ASS PARTY/RAVE IN WILSONVILLE..
FIND THAT MOTHERFUCKER
oh yeah… song is fucking dope. 5 stars!
Oh yeah dog… Its 9:31 in Portland…I think you forgot to set your clock back the other day…
And Oh Yeah….Go Ducks!!!……..Fuck Auburn.
Oh man dis is real spit on all levels man shit is tuff
cool lil beat by tip. 4/5
OkAy oKaY kAnyE, i FeEl yOu sPeAkInG! yOu gOt goOd aRoUnD yOu…
FIRE!!!
KANYE PLEASE BLESS US WITH SOME JAY-ELEC G.O.O.D. FRIDAYS!!!!
HEAVY!
One of the best Kanye songs ive heard since College Dropout, this is going straight in the whip
straight fire, maybe we’ll get mamas boyfriend next week..?
whole album already leaked fool
mama’s boyfriends not on there dumbass anonymous.
nice ye on his a game. im coppin lloyd banks hfm2, will cop ye too if i have the $ but for now its just banks
shut up no one asked for your life story
you can make goood music and sell a lot. kanye – proof.
good shit
Fire
5
Kanye is a best ,Talib is the most mature in rap music and Q tip is dope on the beat
worst hook possible. but the verses were reallly tight to make up for it
WOW!
Pure hip-hop. No one can touch Kanye right now. Hands down the best rapper alive
Shout to Q-Tip. You are a legend and a genius. Beat is damn near perfect
Kanye cant stop wont stop, da man is ill
HOT BEATS @ MRCONCEITED.COM
wow….. straight fire.
after that “today” show embarressment i lost respect for kanye sorry!!!!!!!!!!!
Fuck you
you are a douchebag
This mental midget fails to realize that Kanye’s job is to make music not give politically correct interviews with fuckin Matt Laur. Dont Judge Just Listen. You smurf!!!
yeh fo real Jamaal
after that “today show embarassment” I lost respect for George Bush… two failed trillion dollar military campaigns, a half assed week late response to a natural disaster that swallowed an american city, the collapse of the american economy, and a large portion of the population of the WORLD hating him and everyone he represents to to point that they are willing to go to war with all things american, and this clown says the low point in his presidency was fuckin Kanye West’s speaking on behalf of the millions of black families displaced by Katrina that do believe the former CEO of America is apathetic toward the plight of black people? fuck outta here with that bullshit! Kanye west owes nobody a fuckin apology for speaking his mind when they gave him a mic! I woulda said the same thing if they’d asked me but I was too busy treading water!
yessir boss
as much of a dick that Kanye is…. he makes great music
yes, this is the Kanye from college dropout and late registration with a little more darkness and maturity. dynamic beat. not big on the hook though.
I guess I’m the only one that sees Kanye as a serial thief. Now he’s stealing Royce’s flow and style.
Royce is shiiit, kanye isnt stealin shit but the spotlight from everyother artist
ur a fag
wtf? are you serious? my chain heavy? motherfucker some of us don’t have huge rapper chains! come on bring the old Hip Hop back! Dre take out Detox and save us all!
i think you’re missing what “chain heavy” means. hint: it’s not a gold chain
you seem to be complaining about substance, but Dre’s albums are about big cars, bitches, and blunts. how’s that gonna save anybody?
u my friend a complete idiot, chain heavy is a metaphor, most of u clowns dont understand what the man is talkin about bc most of u are stuck on some bullshit. and detox?? really, u want to hear a 50 year old rappin about low riders and bitches. Child Please..
Kanye best rapper in the world
You’re outta your fuckin’ mind.
No he’s not… if he keeps puttin out this music at this rate he will be.. he’s embarassing the rest of the game right now… truth
kanye can’t rap for shit, you’re all fuckin’ nuts.
BEST RAPPER EVER.
is this song on the deluxe version of the album as a bonus? and does neone kno what other bonus songs will be on it?
Kanye knows how to rally the metrosexuals like nobody else. Talib/Consequence ripped the beat…Kanye spit jibberish as usual.
your a ignorant fakkit this is real hip hop talking about the bullshit media. go listen to that clown wayne.
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Kanye shoulda came harder working with a legend like Q-Tip!
Props to Q. Everything else was boring.
yea kanye keeps gettin worse. this song aint good, and his rhymes suck
maybe this aint dudes best track….but u a god damn fool if u dont notice that Kanye is killin everything latley…Back on his grind, no doubt about it, its GOOD MUSIC MA FUCKA
How dare you disagree. Shut up before I slam my dick up yo ass and make it hurt.
tell me how hard kanye is trying nowadays
kanye went hard on this song…………..i think u folk are missing the point of “my chain heavy”…………maybe because your chain aint heavy
“My dick heavy yeh yeh my dick heavy my dick heavy my dick too lengthy”
The beat is kinda simple..one loop and one lead synth. His verse is serious tho.
why aint nobody givin probs to fucking kweli here? dude murdered the track!
Agreed alot of clowns if they don’t think kweli kills it hardest. Kweli is a top 25 emcee of all time arguably, in terms of lyrically/storytelling/unique voice, longevity in the game (12 years now), respect of other dope emcees in mainstream/underground (Train of Thought is classic, Blackstarr w/ Mos is classic and alot of his other albums are very good)…Kanye is an AVERAGE mc…his A+ producition is top 15 producers ever in hip hop, but LYRICALLY as an mc? He’s a tad above average when you compare him to an Em, Nas, Kweli, G Rap, Pharoahe Monch, Black Thought, Rakim, 2pac, BIG, Big L, Big Pun, Redman, Crooked I, Tonedeff, Cunnin Lynguists, Elzhi, Royce, Budden, Louis Logic, Juice (from chi and doper), Lupe, Diabolic, Andre 3000, Jay, Most of Wu-Tang, to name A FEW who are doper LYRICISTS. Kanye is a solid ARTIST (when you take everything into account) and is pretty unique, but as an EMCEE he’s merely a lil above average. These are just the facts
yeah you right, kweli had the hardest verse………the d.a. attack us want us in chains like b.a. baracus lol
Hook could’ve been played with, but the track is great, its got a raw feel, great lyrics, and truly sounds like hip-hop. Beat sounds simple but really what it does is give the lyrics an extra shine. It’s a special beat.
Sincerely,
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P.S Kanye killed it best.
a few solid bars from kanye littered throughout his verses, but a lot lazy/corny ones and the “Here we go, like we should, Feel the sweat on your face, ALLRIGHT OKAY” over and over is pretty damn annoying. Solid q-tip beat.
Kweli cuts KANYE as an emcee obviously, b-c well he’s a dope MC and kanye is simply a very good producer (in his prime) and unique overall artist
i agree with the corny line about sweat on his face or w.e lol but the verses are dope dont u think?
Obviously some people got the point of the song and others did not. “Chain heavy” is a metaphor representing the burden that Kanye West has to bare as an African-American. The burden has remained the same throughout the years in the United States. Though the physical chains have been removed we still have mental chains that aren’t as easilly broken. Let someone rape, beat, and enslave just one generation of your family and lets see how much counseling your family would need. (300 years worth are wounds that take a looong time to heal) Blacks and whites both wear chains. The black chain is one of being misunderstood and struggling with the idea that in order to be successful he/she must assimilate. Kanye receives so much bad press because he makes attempts not to assimilate. He reached a place in his career where he can speak his mind and not have it affect his well being.
Everybody has been enslaved one way or another.
Nice explanation …. We need to be reprogrammed seriously !!!
OOOH yaaa kanyes life is real hard. But ya I get what you’re saying and what he was trying to do but how long he gonna talk that shit while he’s sittin on millions.
Money doesn’t make life any easier, but it does give the illusion of comfort. Wouldn’t it suck to think that money was going to make things better, get the money and still be unhappy. Now you can’t just be unhappy, you’re unhappy thinking that you should be happy because you’ve got money.
BreakinChainz that was the most intelligent thing I’ve heard someone say on here
YUP, ANOTHER 5/5. THAT ‘CHAIN’ DOES BARE THAT BURDEN, NIGGA IS SMART. SOULJABOYS WILL THINK THIS TRACK IS GARBAGE
this is hot hope this is on the album.
this nigga talkin about the devils that own him/pay him. kinda on the borderline between underground talk & mainstream rap. prolly the dopest verse i’ve heard from yeezy as far as the G.O.O.D. Friday releases go. Ice Cube & MJ?? Cube keeps it real 24/7….MJ got played by joe jackson & geppetto (fuck them niggaz). Mr. West has a smart flow on this one….Q-Tip is a freakin genius for the beat….Talib/Consequence held it down but could done better. nuff said, im out.
don killuminati style all day, every day….Fuck them haters.
lame as usual
good beat
lol lemme guess u listen 2 waka, roscoe dash n soulja boy.
5 star general
Talib Killed it
Aside from Kanye West and whoever else decides to put out an album this year I want to hear YOU. I know that sounds cheesy and corny as hell but it’s the truth. Let me clarify what I mean when I say that, “I want to hear YOU!” This shit that they play on the radio is toilet floats. You can summarize the lyrical content by saying, “Skeet, Skeet, drink, smoke, skeet, skeet, talk shit I’ll shoot ya, bling bling.” Seriously how many different ways can you say the same shit. With that said all of this is being pumped into the airwaves and now people that even attempt to rap end up regurgitating the same crap. It makes no sense for people to purchase the same album over and over again. I want the commercial rap to be REAL HIP HOP. I have worked with children for a number of years and I encourage them when creating to tell their own stories. Your life is real, why not share that in your songs. I want to hear YOU, not what you think you should be, what you think you should say to make money, pure untainted YOU. This shit has got to stop. Weak metaphors and a barage of unrelated similes can’t cut it. If you hear a rapper say “like” more than five times in a rap sit him down and let him know that he needs to step his game up. You guys know what I’m talking about. I honestly believe that the average joe can rap better than Lil’ Wayne and could come up with better lyrical content. I’m no record exec. or anything of the sort, but if you have some music that is real shoot me an e-mail at dacurious1@hotmail.com. I want to hear YOU!
good speech
Ok, a few flaws in your argument. 1- not everyone is eminem and has a crazy/fucked up child hood story and at the same time is a lyrical genius even after many nights under the influence of any and everything. 2- Kid CuDi… listen to the shit he has to spit and he comes no where close to the intricate lyrics of papoose. cudi is trying to do exactly what ur asking… listen to just about any of his songs and u will find out he has night terrors almost every night, thats whats unique about him and hes trying to use that to get to the top and have that huge bank account. having said that the other artists your having problems with dont have that intense background so they talk about whatever they think is going to make as many people as they can get to play their music one way or another and make that cash flow and have that “dream” lifestyle. now dont get me wrong i love the artists your referring to who really come up with bars and bars of real shit they went through and can still kill it again and again on the track but there are a lot more fake bullshit wanna-be’s that just want the fame as opposed to the real legit artists we all want to hear more of.
cons murks it! nice
Heavy track! They go in on this ill Q-Tip beat!
kanyes insane
ye killed er again
my god…..
why was this not on the album.
Yo, this fire I wish it made the album but I don’t care the album is my fav this year so I kno it will not be album of the year cus everybody crying Em, but it’s album of the year in my heart, Kanye makes art not just music from the cover to the sounds & stories he tells he is one of musics all time best emcee’s !!!!! Also look for hiphops newest artist Young Cassius “Power” YouTube
I’m not crying Em. I’m crying Nas and Damien Marely or Reflection Eternal. Maybe Skyzoo and Illmind.
lolz @ this song. Kanye West is an idiot.
Its a not literally about chains you morons!
The production is dope. Should of been on the album.
Maybe it will be a B-side to one of the singles?