Friday 9 August 2013

My iPod #110: Kanye West ft. John Legend - Blame Game

Built upon a well-chosen sample of a track by Aphex Twin is "Blame Game", the eleventh track from Kanye West's fifth album from 2010.

If you wanted a song that depicted Kanye at his most vulnerable- if you can ever describe him as that - it's probably this one. For the background, he had split up with his girlfriend - who then went out with Wiz Khalifa - and was feeling all these emotions that he could only put into song.

Firstly, he raps about 'gripping' the girl in question up, 'fucking' and 'choking' her and then the next minute he's broken down singing 'I can't love you this much'. I put that in a rather simple way but I can't go through it all with you. That would take too much time. You've got rapgenius for that.

The song also features a skit about five minutes into the song, spoken by the one and only Chris Rock. The things he says are very funny, but in context with the song it's quite tragic.

Surely you can spend seven and a half minutes of your time for this? Surely?

Until tomorrow.

Jamie.

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