The Life of Pablo
The Life of Pablo | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Studio album by Kanye West | |||||||
Publication |
February 14, 2016 |
||||||
admission |
November 2013 to February 2016 |
||||||
Label (s) | GOOD Music , Def Jam Recordings | ||||||
Hip-hop , |
|||||||
Title (number) |
20th |
||||||
running time |
66:39 |
||||||
Various
Kanye West, Noah Goldstein, Rick Rubin, Andrew Dawson, Anthony Kilhoffer, Allen Ritter, Benji B, Boi-1da, Cashmere Cat , Chance the Rapper , Charlie Handsome, Charlie Heat, Caroline Shaw, DJ Dodger Stadium, Darren King, Derek Watkins , Frank Dukes, Havoc, Hudsown Mohawke, Karriem Riggins, Mike Dean, Madlib, Menace, Metro Boomin, Mitus, Plain Pat, Sinjin Hawke, Southside, Swizz Beatz, Sevn Thomas, Trevor Gureckis, Velous |
|||||||
Studio (s) |
Various
|
||||||
|
|||||||
|
The Life of Pablo (abbreviated: TLOP ; dt. The life of Pablo ) is the seventh studio album by the American rapper Kanye West . It was released on February 14, 2016 on the GOOD Music and Def Jam Recordings labels . The album was initially released exclusively on the US music streaming service Tidal . West continued to work on the album and on April 1st it was released on Spotify etc. The last changes to the album were made in June 2018.
West described the creation of the album as "a living, breathing, changing, creative expression". In April 2017, the album was the first streaming album ever to be awarded a platinum record in the USA. At the Grammy Awards in 2017 was The Life of Pablo in the category Best Rap Album nominated, but lost Coloring Book of Chance the Rapper .
Track list
The album contains the following pieces of music:
# | title | producer | length |
---|---|---|---|
1. | Ultralight Beam (feat. The-Dream , Chance the Rapper , Kelly Price , Kirk Franklin ) | West, Mike Dean, Chance the Rapper, Swizz Beats, Rick Rubin, Watkins, Plain Pat, DJ Dodger Stadium (DJDS), Goldstein | 5:20 |
2. | Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1 (feat. Kid Cudi ) | West, M. Dean, Rick Rubin, Metro Boomin, DJDS, Ritter, Goldstein | 2:15 |
3. | Pt. 2 (feat. Desiigner ) | West, M. Dean, Rick Rubin, Plain Pat, Shaw | 2:10 |
4th | Famous ( feat.Rihanna , Swizz Beatz ) | West, Havoc, Goldstein, Charlie Heat, Dawson, Hudson Mohawke, M. Dean, Plain Pat, Kuk Harell | 3:16 |
5. | Feedback | West, Charlie Heat, Goldstein | 2:27 |
6th | Low lights | West, DJDS, M. Dean | 2:11 |
7th | Highlights (feat. Young Thug , El-Debarge and The-Dream ) | West, M. Dean, Velous, Southside, Plain Pat, Goldstein | 3:19 |
8th. | Freestyle (feat. Desiigner ) | West, Hudson Mohawke, Goldstein, M. Dean, DJDS, Shaw, Gureckis | 2:03 |
9. | I love Kanye | west | 0:44 |
10. | Waves (feat. Chris Brown ) | West, M. Dean, Charlie Heat, Metro Boomin, Hudson Mohawke, Anthony Killhoffer | 3:01 |
11. | FML (feat. The Weeknd ) | West, M. Dean, Mitus, Metro Boomin, Goldstein, Dawson, Hudson Mohawke | 3:56 |
12. | Real Friends (feat. Ty Dolla $ ign ) | West, Boi-1da, Frank Dukes, Havoc, King M. Dean, Goldstein, Sevn, Thomas | 4:11 |
13. | Wolves | West, Cashmere Cat , Sinjin Hawke, M. Dean, Goldstein, Shaw | 5:01 |
14th | Frank's track | West, Cashmere Cat, Sinjin Hawke | 0:38 |
15th | Silver Surfer Intermission | west | 0:56 |
16. | 30 hours | West, Riggings, M. Dean | 5:23 |
17th | No More Parties in LA ( feat.Kendrick Lamar ) | West, Madlib | 6:14 |
18th | Facts (Charlie Heat Version) | West, Metro Boomin, Southside, Charlie Heat | 3:20 |
19th | Fade ( feat.Ty Dolla $ ign , Post Malone ) | West, M. Dean, Kilhoffer, Benji B, Charlie Handsome, DJDS, Goldstein | 3:13 |
20th | Saint Pablo (feat. Sampha ) | West, M. Dean, Ritter, Goldstein | 6:12 |
presentation
At the presentation of the album, which West celebrated at the same time as the presentation of his third fashion collection in New York's Madison Square Garden on February 10, 2016, the album was not quite finished and West was playing an incompletely mastered version from his laptop. The album, which was originally only to be heard on the Tidal streaming service , appeared shortly after its release on the pornographic website pornhub.com , although it was initially unclear whether West himself had made the album available there. In the first 24 hours of its release, the album is estimated to have been illegally downloaded at least 500,000 times. West continued to work on the album, and on April 1, 2016, it was released on Spotify and Apple Music.
Reviews
- Aria Nejati rated the album positively for the hiphop magazine Hiphop.de : It was "a kaleidoscope of musical fascination". He compares The Life Of Pablo with a “roller coaster ride with theatrical lows and highs”, it seems “like a manic depression in fast motion”. The album was "produced with more precision and detail than almost any other piece of music on the market". In return, however, it is “clearly lagging behind in terms of the text”.
- In a review published on t-online.de , Daniel Reviol wrote that the album was "too much of everything". Among the 18 songs are also some weak numbers. According to Reviol, West should have limited himself to the ten best.
- Ivo Ligeti describes the album more positively on musikexpress.de : “All that is wonderful” is judged here and it is said that West leaves “the greatest moments to its guests”.
- Rob Sheffield rates the album 4.5 out of 5 stars in Rolling Stone and describes it as a “complex conflicted masterpiece”.
Commercial win
The Life of Pablo failed to make it onto the Billboard charts in the first few months after it was released because West Tidal forbade the streaming numbers to be passed on to NielsenSoundscan. According to an estimate by Torrent Freak, the album was illegally downloaded more than 500,000 times in just a few days. In March, Tidal revealed that the album was streamed more than 250 million times in the first ten days of its release. After the album was released on other streaming providers, it entered the Billboard 200 at number one on the US album charts in the week of April 23 . In the week from 1–7. April, 94,000 units were sold, with 28,000 digital sales on Tidal and West's websites. With 99 million streams in chart week, The Life of Pablo became the first album in Billboard history to hit the top with a majority of streams. With the chart week of October 5, 2019, the album is still on the Billboard 200.
Chart successes
year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |
---|---|---|---|---|
UK | US | |||
2016 | The Life of Pablo |
UK30 (48 weeks) UK |
US1 (... week) US |
First published: February 14, 2016
|
Awards
Country / Region | Award | Sales |
---|---|---|
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales) |
||
Denmark (IFPI) | 2 × platinum | 40,000 |
France (SNEP) | gold | 50,000 |
United Kingdom (BPI) | gold | 120,000 |
United States (RIAA) | platinum | 1,000,000 |
All in all |
2 × gold 3 × platinum |
1,210,000 |
Main article: Kanye West / Music Sales Awards
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jazz Monroe: Kanye West's The Life of Pablo Is Out Now . In: Pitchfork . February 14, 2016. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
- ↑ Jonathan Jones: Is Kanye West hip-hop's greatest cubist? ( English ) In: The Guardian . February 17, 2016. Retrieved February 27, 2019.
- ↑ The Life of Pablo - Credits. In: Kanyewest.com. Kanye West , February 17, 2016; archived from the original on February 20, 2016 ; accessed on February 17, 2016 .
- ↑ TIDAL. In: Listen.tidal.com. Retrieved February 16, 2016 .
- ↑ Daniel Gerhardt: God's great egg dance. Zeit Online, February 15, 2016, accessed March 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Kanye West is now running on pornhub. Spiegel Online, March 2, 2016, accessed March 11, 2017 .
- ↑ Kanye West's The Life of Pablo is now on Spotify, Apple Music, and Google Play . In: The Verge . April 1, 2016. Accessed June 9, 2018.
- ↑ Aria Nejati: Kanye West's "Pablo" is a kaleidoscope of musical fascination. In: Hiphop.de. February 15, 2016, accessed May 6, 2018 .
- ↑ Daniel Reviol: Kanye West fails because of her own megalomania. t-online.de, February 16, 2016, accessed on March 10, 2017 .
- ^ Ivo Ligeti: Kanye West - The Life of Pablo. musikexpress.de, February 17, 2016, accessed on March 10, 2017 .
- ^ Rob Sheffield: Kanye West: The Life of Pablo. rollingstone.com, February 16, 2016, accessed March 10, 2017 .
- ^ A b c Will Robinson: Kanye West: The Life of Pablo Tidal streaming numbers revealed . In: Entertainment Weekly . March 29, 2016. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
- ↑ Keith Caulfield: Kanye West's 'The Life of Pablo' Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart . In: Billboard . April 10, 2016. Retrieved January 3, 2019.
- ↑ Chart sources: UK US