Kanye Meltdown

I'm not really sure what to make of this piece of garbage.

While it could be seen as a bold move by a major mainstream artist towards minimalist hip hop. One of the maddeningly frustrating things about the hip hop genre is its inability to absorb new trends or musical directions. The music simply does not reward free-thinkers and iconoclasts.

That being said, this music is more like a severe castration of musicality. The nauseating use of auto-tune suggests Kanye is taking a dangerously stupefying trend and exacerbating it to its unwanted conclusion.

I'm still hoping that this is all some elaborate ruse on his part, that he's testing the waters before putting out the "real" first single. We shall see... his three-album streak of brilliance just might be over.