Mixerr Album Reviews #999

This is Michael Mixerr. Today I will review Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo (Stream Edition).

The Life Of Pablo album by Kanye West has been given the popular abbreviation TLOP by Kanye West fans and Kanye West stans. This had made The Life Of Pablo album rise in terms of popularity. TLOP is the most discussed Kayne West album of 2016 by music critics, journalists, and fans alike. It’s scattered nature gave the album positive reviews due to the musical content of the album.

The album cover artwork of The Life Of Pablo by Kanye West seems to have been slapped up in MS Paint. Is the new standard to have album covers created in MS Paint now? Is this the new standard? Kanye must have copied the idea from Frank Ocean - Channel Orange album. Kanye is trying to be like Frank Ocean and Future on TLOP.

TLOP was produced by a handful of producers such as Rick Rubin, Noah Goldstein, Frank Dukes, Havoc, Madlib, Plain Pat, Caroline Shaw, Swizz Beatz, and many more. TLOP was recorded in recording studios in various locations and not onto one property as SOME of Kanye’s other album were in the past.
To sum it all up… Kayne used various locations to record the TLOP album.

As for the musical content of the album, Wolves, Only One, and All Day were great choices for singles due to the songwriting and productions skills. No one can write and produce like Kanye West can. Kanye West has a signature production style prevalent on his albums. Kanye blends in Electronic sounds into hip hop music thus somehow turning music into pop. This production style makes his albums go platinum Just listen to his previous albums such as College Dropout, Graduation, Yeezus, Late Orchestration, 808s & Heartbreak, and Late Registration just to name a few.

Wolves is a great song, but can get redundant and annoying real quick due to the usage of autotune. Autotune is played out. The bridge is heavily auto-tuned. Yet somehow Wolves has that melodic feel. The “Bluesy” chorus is performed by Vic Mensa. Sia lends a hand in songwriting with Vic Mensa and Frank Ocean. Mix the genres of Blues, Hip Hop/Rap, and Pop and the result is the song called Wolves. Yet somehow Wolves feels melodic to Kanye fans when in reality, the song is annoying.

Kanye West catches the fade on the track Fade. Note the fade in and fade out features used. Fade is played out. The autotune is played out. People and fans should know that by now. In fact, Fade is similar to Facts by Kanye West. Fade and Facts have similarities in terms of sound.

I Love Kanye is an interlude about self-awareness and Christianity. Kanye takes it to the gospel on this one. Kanye really showcases off his gospel roots on I Love Kanye.

The Charlie Heat version of Facts is rather updated in terms of production. Producers Metro Boomin and Nicholas Smith both lend a hand in production along with 7 other producers. Kanye invited many producers in on this track.


From a sales point of view, the TLOP album was a flop. TLOP did not achieve as many streams or digital downloads as the Yeezus album from 2013 did. TLOP has yet to reach gold, platinum, or silver status. Kanye should change the title of this album from TLOP to FLOP to reflect the nature of the album sales. TLOP was a straight FLOP in terms of album sales. Even the audio streams couldn't compensate for the loss of album sales for The Life Of Pablo.

Life Of Pablo is the follow-up album to Yeezus from 2013. TLOP is not a very good follow up album to Yeezus. In all reality, TLOP does not come close to holding a candle towards Yeezus, College Dropout, 808s & Heartbreak, Graduation, or any other previous Kanye West albums out there.

TLOP is the most discussed Kayne West album of 2016 by music critics, journalists, news media, and fans alike which has made The Life Of Pablo album rise in terms of popularity. TLOP’s scattered nature gave the album positive reviews due to the musical content of the album. Despite that, the overhype by news media and overuse of autotune make TLOP the most unbrehsive shit ever heard.

I rate this album, TLOP (Stream Edition), Ø/5.