Although his highly anticipated new album "Yeezus" has received mixed (though overall positive) reviews from fans and critics alike, Kanye West seems proud of his latest work of art, and Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter recently revealed to MTV News that they were the first people the rapper came to when looking to, "building the record" around his collaborations with the robot duo.
"We were the first people that Kanye came to," Bangalter said. "He really responded positively to those ideas we were throwing out to him. And then he ran with it and built the record, working with a lot of other producers and based on maybe some of the initial directions that we had laid out together."
Bangtalter explained that with the help of Daft Punk, the "Black Skinhead" rapper laid down the ideas for the foundation of the polarizing, aggressive new album. The first three songs off the record, "On Sight," "Black Skinhead" and "I Am a God" were all produced by Daft Punk, and as it turns out, the album's most memorable tracks evolved out of the scrap heap from "Random Access Memories."
"The first track we did was 'Black Skinhead,'" Bangalter said. "The drums we had recorded earlier during the recording of our album, so we had those. It was a great twist of pushing the envelope."
The rapper also worked with Chief Keef, Frank Ocean, Kid Cudi, King L, Rick Rubin and Justin Vernon among others on the new project.
West's good friend and collaborater Jay-Z has called the album a work of art, praising it for "pushing the genre" of hip-hop forward with its unique, brash sound. "Yeezus" currently has a high average score of 85 percent positive reviews on Metacritic.
Pitchfork called it a "razor-sharpened take on 2008's distressed '808s & Heartbreak' and marks a blunt break with the filigreed maximalism Kanye so thoroughly nailed on 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy'," while Rolling Stone praised it for its "grinding electro, pummeling minimalist hip-hop, drone-y wooz and industrial gear-grind."
Most recently, the leaked unfinished version of the "Black Skinhead" music video has hit the net, upsetting West who tweeted that it was "not the official version," which he plans to release "within the week."
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