Kanye West – ye R&B sees adoring fans and fast

sees adoring fans and fast cars -- the latter self-effacingly acknowledged elsewhere as a recurring album theme -- as inadequate fill-ins for one-on-one time

The Age of the Understatement

and thoroughly unique style of their own

Recorded live at the Shrine Auditorium (Los Angeles) in 1968

previously unreleased cuts

Kanye West – ye R&B sees adoring fans and fastWhen Kanye West declares "It's been a shaky ass year" on 2018's Ye, it's an understatement. During a tumultuous period following 2016's The Life of Pablo, he garnered as much attention for headline controversy as for his music: he was hospitalized for stress and exhaustion following the cancellation of his Saint Pablo tour, later revealing a struggle with opioid addiction, and a disastrous pre album promotion cycle was packed with provocative