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Gabe Vodicka’s No. 7 of 2016: Kanye West, The Life of Pablo


From now until Jan. 1, Flagpole Music Editor Gabe Vodicka is counting down his top 10 (non-local) albums of 2016. 

7. Kanye West: The Life of Pablo

I don’t have much to add to the conversation about The Life of Pablo, Kanye’s brilliant, maddening, never-ending OCD-scrapbook of an album, other than it floored me on first listen, my free Tidal trial ended while Yeezy was still in full Amadeus mode, and when I finally heard the “finished” version months later, it floored me all over again.

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