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Also, you know, Kanye West CAN'T change his other albums. He can tweak the streaming versions all he wants, but the albums we all own and love are never going to be fucked with. Yes, there's a question of "where does it end?" but it's also kind of exciting ina strange way.
I read an article in Rolling Stone about how TLOP has changed the face of music, and has truly been yet another game changer album, perhaps Ye's biggest one yet. It all seemed really crazy (and was) at first, but now that I've spent $20 on an album that I've received three new versions of, I'm kinda into it. Every time I get a new email from kanyewest.com with a new download link, I slap it on and try to find the changes. I'm not sure there have actually been any this last time because I didn't hear anything different, but whatever. It's uncharted waters. And the album continues to make everything else look like baby shit by comparison.
This is why Kanye's still relevant after 12 years. He keeps doing the unthinkable. This was definitely an unpredictable way to roll out an album, but 808's was an unpredictable way to follow up a stadium hip-hop beast of an album like Graduation.
Let him remix his tracks on streaming services all he wants. Let Kanye be Kanye.
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