And finally, because I know a lot of people do get hung up on Kanye's verses being written by collaborators like CyHi, Push or Consequence, I think it's worth pointing out the writing credits on Cudi Montage are very slim.
There's a reason he carried lines from it over from his scrapped Skeletons version. It's not the easiest to pinpoint but listen to the song and just pay attention to his voice, you can feel the care and investment in the verse. Many praise his singing on Ghost Town or everything for this era, but his singing at the end of Cudi Montage is his best and most impactful in my opinion, again the emotion in his voice really carries through. Then he transitions into this beautiful reprise of Cudi's hook. His verse itself is so good too, the lines hit hard and feel like they could've come from an unheard verse on Gorgeous or We Major. His passion and energy is fantastic, the emotion in his voice is great and his delivery is flawless, none of the flaws in his rapping that have become more apparent as of late (mumbling, awkward flow, tired or raspy vocals) are present at all. Much of KSG lets Cudi take the spotlight, with Kanye's verses being less prominent, but his closing verse on Cudi Montage is one of his best ever. However, despite my love of his rapping on ye, KIDS SEE GHOSTS holds what I think is his best verse since not only TLOP, but probably Yeezus. Most of ye doesn't have this problem, even though most of his flows are more standard he sounds very engaged and is rapping very fluidly.
Even though most of JIK is written very blandly his low-energy delivery is what kills a lot of it most of all for me, and the same goes for many of his recent features. I should take this moment to point out his delivery has been more of an issue for me than writing on most recent songs as well. His verses on ITAKY, Yikes, All Mine, and Violent Crimes all have great verses with good delivery. Plenty of people have different issues with ye as a project (most of which I find shallow and disagree with) but I see people ignore his actual rapping on the project entirely. Every change he made for G2DM improved it.Īs for solo work though, I think ye is actually really overlooked in terms of great Kanye verses. Some would argue that doesn't count since it's a 2016 verse he reworked, but I disagree with that since his original In Abundance verse is significantly different and imo worse in both writing and delivery. In my opinion, Go2DaMoon is one of his best features ever, and an amazing verse. However, he has had some really amazing ones over the last few years. Whatever issues you have with him having his verses written by others aside, his verses have often felt very boring or lacking in passion or energy. One of the most consistent criticisms about Kanyes post-TLOP music is that his verses have been lacking, and that's something I agree with.
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