Alright, so I was not going to post this (I swear), but in retribution to the unlicensed leak of the song, Kanye decided to skip this week G.O.O.D. Friday, but yeah, while I can somewhat understand his reaction as the song is unfinished which you can tell by listening to the song as it sound a little bit rough, his reaction is a little bit childish, I mean, he’s letting it go to his head and therefor letting them get the best of him. And you know what? Kanye might be skipping this week G.O.O.D. Friday, but we had two Kanye releases so far and it wasn’t even Friday yet, so yeaaah, I guess it’s not so bad after all right?
Update : Alright, so I got some shit from random people for putting this up, and seems like it is the trend on other blogs who posted the song too. To be honest, I was really not expecting such a strong reaction.
Here’s my whole point of view towards the situation… I started this blog to share music with everyone and that is it. Yes, I would lie if I’d say that I don’t like the traffic, but may it be 100 daily visitors like I used to have or the few thousands that I get now, I’d be on the same conviction posting shit up for them. So no, it’s not about making my website ‘better’ by any means, it’s about sharing with everyone. In fact, for the people complaining about the song being posted here, are you guys even daily visitors or results of a google search? because if you were a daily visitors you would have noticed that you could always find a MP3 attached to every posts we [Above&Beyond] make, no matter what or who it is and that even if it’s licensed or not. It’s just how we roll, I know that not every blog can afford doing so, but being a smaller sized one enables us to do it while still keeping ourselves under the radar.
And frankly, are you going to tell me that every damn mp3s and albums on your computer are legit? I’ll probably get a couple of people saying that they do, but come on, like I said, if you’re a daily visitor here, some of the songs you probably peeped from here are not official singles. I mean, I leaked some of Eminem’s songs that were not official singles back when his album dropped and nobody complained, in fact I probably was the first one to leak Love The Way You Lie; and all that while Not Afraid was still rolling in and Recovery was just about to get on the retail shelves… I didn’t see you complain. I believe that people are just getting on their high horses because Kanye got mad and went on Twitter with it.
And yes, I do believe that Kanye’s reaction is a bit childish because he did let this whole thing get to his head. He should know better… because at the end of the day, his songs will get leaked and his albums will probably be leaked weeks before their release. Did he really think he was above all of this? I wouldn’t say that I’m the biggest supporter of those kind of things, but still, leaks are now a reality in today’s music industry and is fully part of it… and it has been like that since Napster, that’s all I’m saying.
Oh and do you guys remember what statement Drake made when his album leaked? He didn’t get mad or anything, he embraced it.
I gave away free music for years so we’re good over here…just allow it to be the soundtrack to your summer and ENJOY! JUNE 15th!
For the record, I did hear the whole story behind the leaks of how a hacker got his hands on 5 unfinished songs from one of Kanye’s dozen computers, but only this morning… So while I will let this song up, I will not post the three other songs that are probably going to find their way on the internet in the upcoming days/weeks.
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download : Kanye West – All Of The Lights (Unfinished)
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