Kanye’s done a really good job sort of “repping” Daft Punk, making it clear he’s sampling them which I find fairly respectful; it goes along with ‘Graduation’s sense of deference. I pretty much had my fill of ‘Discovery’ when it was released, so I haven’t sat down with the song ‘Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger’ in a few years. Kanye talks over it on the ‘Graduation Mixtape’ and I heard Clinton Sparks screaming over it earlier tonight but that’s still not really hearing the song. So, tonight I listened to the Daft Punk song and man, is that song boring! One of the most uninteresting songs on ‘Discovery’; it just goes nowhere. When I first heard that Kanye was sampling the group, I thought it was kind of stupid but now, I really hear how Kanye could’ve heard the song and thought “This needs something more!”. Oddly enough, Kanye makes ‘Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger’ sound like Daft Punk’s earlier (and these days, I think better) first album ‘Homework’. Where it’s all just sick-as-fuck synth farts and pounding beats (‘Rollin’ and Scratchin’is a personal favorite) with some straight-faced funk thrown in at points. It isn’t a surprise that Timbaland is credited with “additional drum programming” here because it is certainly in the vein of Timbo’s most recent and most house-y sound beats. At the same time, it doesn’t really sound like a Timbo production, it retains Kanye’s relative simplicity with drum programming. I’m not that big of a fan of Timbaland’s work, while I find it cool and exciting in theory, I find it too busy and purposefully “out-there” so mixing Timbaland’s sense of how heavy drums should actually be with Kanye’s hip-hop purist sense of a beat, works well together.
‘Stronger’ is really the only “single” on ‘Graduation’ and I think that fact highlights the underwhelming feeling many get from the album and I initially had. What I mean by “single” is it’s the only track that you can imagine blaring from car stereos. It should have been the first and perhaps, only single before the release date. Yes, ‘Graduation’ is full of “anthems” in a sort of U2 ‘In the Name of Love’ way, in that they are affecting, smart pop songs but they also sound minor and inward. Every track could be the third or fourth single, nothing stands out. That is both good and bad. Good, in the sense that ‘Graduation’ is remarkably consistent and cohesive without feeling predictable, hard to do- but bad in that without bangers, it’s not really a rap album!
One of the most exciting things about much of the popular rap music of the past few years is how bizarre and truly experimental the beats are. This is one of the reasons why a lot of so-called “indie” types have been getting into mainstream rap, because Young Jeezy or Clipse sound like Daft Punk and Boards of Canada. Kanye, for better and worse- makes a lot of the stuff about rap explicit and by sampling current electronic music, the whole rap beats are weird and experimental like weird, experimental music is loud and clear. Producers like to act like they are rappers, but they aren’t- rappers are already weird but the guy who chooses to express himself through abstract sounds and samples is even weirder. Of course, they would think house music and electronica and noise is cool! Kanye makes that clear by sampling from the group that Swizz Beats sampled more quietly and Black Milk has cited in interviews as a favorite. The borders between genre and style are becoming increasingly porous and ‘Graduation’ is a part of that. You’ll need to get over it if that upsets or offends you, jerkoff.
On some of the songs on ‘Graduation’, Kanye adopts a very annoying slow-flow that I’ve gotten used to but on ‘Stronger’ he really does RAP, and it’s on one of the least rap-sounding beats of ‘Graduation’. He also shies away from the single-topic rap songs that slowed down ‘Late Registration’. I find the best rappers to be, what I’ve referred to as “maximalist” rappers, rappers that say as many complementary and discordant thoughts as possible with little interest in lyrical focus. It is the style that I think defines the post-Golden Age era, where the songs are not narratives or issue-based but thematically connected thoughts all just sort of building atop one another as the verse progresses. ‘Stronger’ is a few variations on that line of the chorus “that, that don’t kill me/Can only make me stronger”. The most apparent is the way it’s another song about “haters”: If their hatred doesn’t ruin him, it will only inspire him. He’s also asking for a challenge, “haters, you make it harder for me and that inspires my creativity”.
There’s also the girls aspect of the song with Kanye approaching a girl (“I don’t know if you’ve got a man or not”) and how he apparently wants a challenge. He has that line in the ‘Buy You a Drank Remix’ where he says “And I don’t want no girl that’ll answer to “Hey yo”/Make it more harder, make me put some work in” and adds that he won’t just buy her a drink but “buy [her] the bar if [she's] worth it.” In a world of rap STILL obsessed with hoes or even just a culture full of celebs that flash their weird-looking pussies every other week, it’s kind of interesting for Kanye to suggest that he wants a challenge. Oh yeah, and then there’s the sexual aspect of the song, you know the girl making his dick harder but I don’t really want to over-analyze Kanye’s dick (I’m not that big of a Kanye stan).
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