User:Kyle Peake/sandbox

Research one aspect at a time for tours

Newspapers.com about 808s & Heartbreak:

• Calgary Herald (a rap album that features almost no rapping - one whose hooks sink deeper into you with each listen - grooves constructed on songs from pulsing electro and R&B synth bass, drum beats picked from Roland TR-808)
• The Akron Beacon Journal (Martian keyboards and New wave beats – synthetic space opera, give it time and sounds more like West than ever before)
• Kitsap Sun (bleak landscape; sonically monochromatic songs that navigating can feel like a hard slog; "push and pull" of how he admits without the girl he left it is so lonely in the end like "Heartless")
• The News and Advance – abandons West's soul samples, beats minimalist and Auto-Tuned vocals sounding robotic – self-confliction, narcissism and indulgence – "more introspective and skeptical of his enormous lifestyle"
• The Palm Beach Post – rarely rapping on the album
• Fort Worth Star-Telegram "indulging in a revealing frankness not often found in rap ... most superstars simply don't want to admit they have feelings just like everyone else", minimalist album
• The Spokesman Review – retrospective on his emotional introspection
• Pittsburgh Post–Gazette – tenor pipes; mellow, ambient production
• Northwest Herald – left early samples
• The Tribune – "somber introspection"
• Kelowna Capital News – simple, "ultra hooky tunes that are more dance pop that hip hop"
• The Philadelphia Inquirer – indulgence
• Press of Atlantic City – minimalism
• Check Metacritic reviews
• Check Internet Archive

Newspapers.com about The College Dropout:

• The Daily Illini – vocal hooks, pop and street combined with the beats; messages palatable to people who glorify the bling-bling lifestyle which he criticizes; self consciousness; bright but holding back his thoughts as not using his smart-aleck skills
• Kitsap Sun self consciousness, sped-up soul sampling
• The Province – political rap; speeding up old soul samples for chipmunk; socially conscious; party anthems; no gangsta cliches because he "never killed anybody" so will not rap about this subject matter "Every song [of mine] is an inspirational song, to make you feel good"
• Lancaster New Era – sped-up soul sampling
• San Angelo Standard-Times – religion, socially conscious and party themes
• The Star Press – brains; taking on the system that oppresses his people and taking on his own people
• Today interview
• Check Metacritic and Internet archive
• Chicago Tribune – fun digressions
• Detroit Free Pres – self deprecating; pokes fun at bling-bling culture and phony materialism; chipmunk soul samples
• Wausau Daily Herald – move away from gangsta rap
• "ten years ago today we finally released the college dropout kanye"