11 Takeaways From Our Trip to Kanye West's 'The Life of Pablo'/Yeezy Season 3 Show
Fuse was in the house on Thursday as Kanye West unveiled his Yeezy Season 3 fashion line with Adidas and simultaneously premiered his seventh album, The Life of Pablo. Here's what we came away with.
1. If you didn't get the memo yet, Kanye's skills as a designer are ferocious. The new line is gorgeous and inventive as hell. When the arena-floor-sized sheet got pulled back at the beginning to reveal something like 1,000 models underneath, it was staggering.
2. We're not sure The Life of Pablo is actually finished. The album started and ended the way the tracklist said, and mostly seemed to flow as advertised, but "Fade" didn't get played till after the record finished, despite being placed No. 7 on the tracklist. Fingers crossed so hard that this doesn't mean Kanye is going to keep tinkering with this thing to the point of a delay. It's easy to imagine, considering that he's now seen an arena's reaction to it...
3. Frank Ocean's voice is the last thing on the album. Frank lives! He was THERE! Album-closer "Wolves" has been floating around since Kanye soundtracked his Yeezy Season 1 fashion show with it about a year ago, but it seems to have lost the Vic Mensa and Sia features in favor of a Frank finale. Also, the previously vibe-heavy, verses-averse cut now has a serious Kanye verse. And it references both Nori and little nine-week-old baby Saint.
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