Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo -t.l.o.p.- 2016 [UHD | 4K]

It is not a perfect album. It is bloated. It is offensive. It is contradictory. But that is the point. The Life of Pablo is named after Pablo Picasso (the master of the Blue Period and Cubism) and Pablo Escobar (the drug lord). It is named after Saint Paul (the apostle) and the Apostle Paul. Kanye is trying to be all of them: the artist, the outlaw, the saint.

The rollout for the album was arguably the most frantic in music history. Originally titled So Help Me God, then SWISH, and briefly Waves, the project underwent constant tracklist revisions and title changes up until the final hours. The world premiere took place at Madison Square Garden during the Yeezy Season 3 fashion show, where Kanye stood behind a laptop, surrounded by hundreds of models, playing the album for a global audience via a Tidal livestream. Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo -T.L.O.P.- 2016

The album's "story" is an exploration of Kanye's fractured identity, represented by three iconic figures named Pablo: It is not a perfect album