West ad-libs, “just did that Madison Square Garden,” which is to say: This part of the song was recorded in between the album listening session on Feb. West is commenting on the album’s rollout from within the album itself. West listening to? Bits of Desiigner’s “Panda,” a breakout hit of just a few weeks ago, are incorporated into “Father Stretch My Hands Pt. West’s brother-in-law Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna, a Kardashian friend-turned-enemy. Family drama? “Highlights” makes references to the recently revealed taboo relationship between Mr. “Pablo” also seems to be responding to events close to real time. West, including the eyebrow-raising “I need at least seven days, for Chloë Sevigny/ Since I saw ‘Brown Bunny’ it ain’t never been the same.” And the bootleg of “Highlights” is more than a minute longer and features extra verses by Mr. In “Waves,” the leaked version is shorter with slightly different lyrics. West and features the rapper Travis Scott. Compared with the version streaming on Tidal, the bootleg of the single “FML” is structured differently, includes one less verse from Mr. West trying out different lyrical approaches to the same portion of music. It shows songs in steady mutation, with Mr. West’s consent - is particularly revealing. This music - presumably leaked without Mr. Ocean was included as of the publication of this article, he isn’t.) (A side note for obsessives: When the album’s credits were originally released on Mr. One of those is a version of “Wolves” that includes Mr. Over the past couple of days, several demos of unreleased songs and alternate versions of “Pablo” songs have leaked online. That’s the version currently streaming on Tidal, too. West’s laptop at Madison Square Garden a year later, it was a different version, without Vic Mensa and Sia but with Frank Ocean. When “Wolves” was heard again, coming out of Mr. A few days later, the three performed the song on the “Saturday Night Live” 40th-anniversary show. It featured the rapper Vic Mensa and the singer Sia. West’s first fashion presentation with Adidas, called Yeezy Season 1. The original version of the song debuted in February 2015 as part of Mr. “Wolves” shows just how long creative ideas gestate in Mr. West tweeted “Ima fix wolves” but didn’t elaborate. 14, after the album was finally released on Tidal, Mr.
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West’s Madison Square Garden extravaganza, illegally ripped and made available for unauthorized download soon after the show (which some critics chose to review)? Is it the 18-track album that was very, very briefly made available for sale early Sunday morning, for $20, via Tidal (which included an incorrect file, a duplicate of one song)? Is it that same (now corrected) version, now not for sale anywhere, that remains available for streaming on Tidal (though even Tidal has referred to this version as “partial”)? West released on Twitter? Is it the nine-track version of the album that played at Mr. What is “The Life of Pablo” then? Is it one of the notepad-scrawled track listings Mr. Pay close attention to the multiple iterations and you hear an artist at work, as well as a celebrity tending his image. With flux embedded in its DNA, “Pablo” is crisply alive, like water that’s still boiling even though the flame is off. West has turned the album release process - historically a predictably structured event, and lately rewritten by stars like Beyoncé as precise, sudden assault - into a public conversation, one taking place on Twitter, YouTube, Periscope and in Madison Square Garden as much as in the studio. The result is an exemplar of modern celebrity musicmaking: a dramatic, rococo, continuous (and possibly still continuing) narrative that spans music, fashion, theater and politics. The process has also included televised live performances, public squabbles, unauthorized leaks of demo recordings - the sort of stuff Dylan archivists typically wait decades to hear - and a fashion show with 1,000 models. West, the Grammy-winning rap artist, adding songs, revising lyrics on quick notice, adding and dropping contributors, changing the album’s title and release date several times, and gabbing about it all on Twitter. Instead, the rollout of “Pablo” has been an unprecedented public marathon, with Mr. When Kanye West first tweeted a handwritten 10-song track list for his seventh album, “The Life of Pablo,” late last month, the photo was captioned, “So happy to be finished with the best album of all time.”īest? Could happen.