The unflappable Kanye teams with rap's oddest hot guest-star on this chipper collaboration where West waxes praise on Chicago while Chris Martin manages to not sound like he's on the verge of downing a bottle of pills.
With a clever "I Used To Love H.E.R." metaphorical set-up, West introduces "Windy" (she "loves to blow trees") as one of his most precious loves outside of his mama. She shows him the wonders of her "downtown" region, and he giddily shows her off to all his friends, yet ss he gets older and becomes famous, they begin to endure a sort-of love/ hate relationship. "She never mess with entertainers/ Cause they always leave/...Last winter she got so cold on me", he rhymes, yet she continues to support his every success ("She said 'Ye 'Keep making that platinum and gold for me'").
Another smart, competition-obliterating gem that only furthers belief that Graduation could finally nail him that elusive Album of The Year Grammy, "Homecoming" soars so high off of West's own grand wordplay that it doesn't even need it's attention-grabbing A-list featuree (the most forgettable element here).
DL: "Homecoming" (YFH)
1 comments:
Eh, I liked the version of this track that was on Freshman Adjustment much, much better.
I can appreciate that this is little more "genre busting" or whatever you want to call it... but Chris Martin sounds out of place on this track.
This version just doesn't hold up compared to the original. Maybe I just like the old Kanye production trademark of using samples too much
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