Kanye West "Mama’s Boyfriend": Being a boy who had to deal with my mom having a boyfriend, I get what Kanye is talking about here. I also dig how this sounds like that pre-808’s flavor, digging into his past over that vocal-driven Soul on the beat. Plus, I got into the same situation – but ended up going all the way with that situation. It’s crazy, experiencing both sides of the whole “that’s my mama boyfriend” shit. Oddly enough, the track ends up working better in concept/theory than execution, mainly because it doesn’t feel fleshed out enough. Shit like this reminds me of “All Falls Down”, but at least on that, Kanye added some more substance to the theme. It’s one of those jokes that has the premise and humor in the explanation, but to truly make it fly, it needs some kind of resolution. Possibly why this didn’t make it to any official projects, and just got leaked out the other day. In any case, shows how Kanye still knows how to open up his heart and speak from his mind, without sacrificing honesty or humor.EDIT Looks like this version is bogus - apparently someone got their mitts on the Kanye acapella and put their own beat under it or something? Oh well.
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