Kim And Kanye’s Baby Girl: What The Critics Are Saying

So Kanye West’s baby came out early. So did his new album.

The critics are having a field-day with the latter — but who’s reviewing mini-Kimye?

Here. We’ll help.

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“This is a vicious, petulant, abrasive, colossally vain, frequently hilarious baby, most of the time intentionally.”

— Rob Harvilla, Spin

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“This new-born baby is a fiercely edited, assaultive, and noisy work, concerned less with grandeur than with intensity. It doesn’t sound like anything else.”

— Sasha Frere-Jones, The New Yorker

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“It’s pretty obvious that this baby girl will shock a lot of people … She’s not one that you’ll want your kids listening to.”

— Randall Roberts, LA Times

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“This is the darkest, most extreme baby Kanye has ever cooked up, an extravagantly abrasive daughter.  Every mad genius has to make a baby like this at least once in his career – at her nastiest, she makes Kid A or In Utero or Trans all look like Bruno Mars… The dick sure has some balls.”

— Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone

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“She’s just long enough to satisfy, but still short enough to make you want to play with her … In hip-hop terms, she’s the hardest-rocking baby since the early ’90s peaks of Public Enemy and LL Cool J. It’s just the daughter as she should be: a chutzpah classic.”

— Jim Farber, NY Daily News

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“Kanye West’s brand new daughter is the latest affront from an artist who keeps inventing ways to tick people off. She is hostile, abrasive, and intentionally off-putting, as if to test the loyalty of even his most ardent fans. She amplifies his obsession with race, class and, sex (especially of the interracial variety), and how they speak to issues of control and freedom. On the surface, he’s created a polarizing little girl that practically demands to be loved or hated.”

— Greg Kot, Chicago Tribune

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“The screaming — harrowing, desperate, scared. It’s like something out of a horror movie. Gasping for breath, the sound of running footsteps. Kanye is the one running now. Away from something that, by the sound of it, is much bigger and more powerful than he is. What’s happened here? Nothing celebratory. This is the sound of paying a terrible price. The cost of self-regard? Of blasphemous hubris?”

— Dave Bry, Complex

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“The anticipation for this child has been massive since West coyly tweeted the release date for the effort last month …  But after all is said and done, does she live up to the hype?”

— Billboard

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“This baby will be the most important baby of the year.”

— Charles Aaron, Spin

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Feature Image: ‘Baby Kimye & The Royal Heir’ sculpture by Daniel Edwards, via Cory Allen Contemporary Art