Kanye West So Help Me God Album Cover Art
This strange, strange saga continues. After increasingly extensive snippets of the track made their way online last week, the full "Kendrick Lamar version" of Kanye West's aggro-rap single "All Day" has made its way online. But can we really call it a remix? Lamar's verse is certainly a welcome addition to a track's fiendish, high-octane beat; to hear him go back-to-back with Mr. West is certainly a major-league rap dream come true. That said, the track sounds rougher, younger, and a lot less polished than the final single that Ye distributed early last month. It's important to note that on that track, the name Kendrick Lamar was in fact listed in the writing credits. Could this alleged "remix" be in fact a reference version, an unmastered demo shopped between Kanye, Kendrick (and perhaps Paul McCartney?) before the finishing touchers were applied? This version lacks Theophilus London, but includes the excellent interlude from Minneapolis MC Allan Kingdom that's heard on the Kanye single. Paul McCartney's whistle outro has also been removed. What was added when? Who drafted bars for who? Does it really matter when two MCs of such colossal skill and stature are on the same track? We're not going to jump to any conclusions, but we are going to recommend you listen to the just-surfaced track below. It most definitely goes.
