Kanye West’s ‘Ye’ Is Here: Let’s Discuss

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The New York Times

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

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🗓️ 6 June 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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The rapper’s polarizing eighth album arrived surrounded by a celebrity circus and provided few answers.

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0:00.0	Get medicine, frightening, find help.
0:05.0	Sometimes I scare myself, myself.
0:11.0	You should get,
0:12.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, you are on-demand cover art meme
0:16.3	generator of music news and criticism. I'm your host for the week, Joe Koslli. Twink and twicken off that 2ccbe hah,
0:26.0	is he gonna make it T beh, hah,
0:29.0	thought us gonna run, DMC ha,
0:32.0	I didn't die, and lived again on DMT, huh? See, this is the type of
0:35.8	how that won't come down. This is a type of how to get you gunned down. Easy, easy trolling
0:41.8	O-D old deheim.
0:43.0	Turned TMC to smack DVD Hine.
0:46.0	Russell Simmons want to pray for me too.
0:48.0	I'm a pray for him because he got me too.
0:51.0	Thinking what if that happened to me too,
0:54.1	then I'm on eat news.
0:55.2	Shook a gear, medicine, frightening,
0:59.4	if I ain't help.
1:00.6	Sometimes I scare myself. Yikes. Yikes. Yikes.
1:08.0	Yikes. Yikes. Yikes.
1:10.0	That's one of the first words that comes to mind after the past few days of
1:15.4	Kanye West. I am hosting the pop cast this week because our man in the
1:20.6	woods, John Karamonica, he is still on the road, but he is joining us by phone
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