Friday, April 11, 2025

Kanye West & Andre 3000 - Life Is Stereo (2023)

While I was researching the recent post from J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar, I found another mix from the same person put together the superb 'The Millennials Folklore' album, and this was an imagined collaboration between Kanye West and Andre 3000. There isn't much to say about this one, other than this joining together of the two rap legends has been talked about for a while but as far as I know has never come to fruition, other than on the 'Donda' outtake 'Life Of The Party'. This recording had it own controversy, with Andre 3000 requesting that his verses be removed from the track after West had decided that he didn't want any cursing on his 'Donda' album. Rather than censor his verse, the Outkast legend offered to have his verse taken off the song altogether, since he didn’t approve of there being a strictly clean version of such a poignant song. The album that was posted by Will On The Soul was only 26 minutes long, which is why I haven't posted it earlier, but after finding a new nine-minute mix of 'Life Of The Party' and slotting that into the running order, we now have a very acceptable 35-minute album. I'm ignoring all the dubious shit that West has got up to over the past few months, as this is all about the music, and the skill that Will On The Soul has shown in piecing this together and making it sound like such a coherent album. 



Track listing

01 Emotion
02 Ye & Friends (Born in Atlanta) (feat. Playboi Carti)
03 Hope
04 Team On Go (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
05 Skit 
06 Yeshua (feat. J. Cole & Iniko)
07 Exhausted 
08 Life Of The Party
09 Stereo
10 Summer '88
11 No Longer
12 Mountains (Born in Atlanta Pt. 2)

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