Kanye West - Ye [Album Review]

' Kanye West. At times a problematic figure, but now undoubtedly one of the best producers/artists of the last two decades at the very least; if we look at statistics and record sales. Unfortunately, for better or worse it seems that when he does anything at all it’ll be frontpage news – be it positive or negative which has somewhat marred his legacy from some people’s perspectives. Every single album West has released since his sophmore effort ‘Late registration’ has now debuted at number 1 on the US Billboard top 200 chart – that’s a run of 8 albums with the release of ‘ye’. His first LP ‘The College Dropout’ (an album deemed by many to actually be his best) debuted at 2nd on the same chart. While one of Kanye West’s 8 projects that helped him achieve this impressive run is his collaborative effort with Jay-Z; ‘Watch The Throne’, and his more recent collaboration with Kid Cudi ‘Kids See Ghosts’ has only just been released (and it’ll be interesting to see how that charts in the coming weeks) – statistically he is one of the greatest musicians of the last few decades, accomplishing a feat that has only been equaled by Eminem and The Beatles. Not bad company to be amongst. [...]' https://www.gigsoupmusic.com/reviews/album-reviews/kanye-west-ye/