In order to get some context for the Saint Pablo Tour, let’s go over a quick, but necessary, recap of the precurser to the Saint Pablo Tour: The Yeezus tour. The artistry, the majesty, the (admittedly inflated and self-serious) grandeur of the legendary tour mixed so perfectly with the concept of the album Yeezus and the Warhol-esque public performance West paraded around in the limelight that it became more than a tour—when Kanye West climbed a mountain and paralleled his career trajectory with the second coming of Jesus Christ, he was speaking to a new era of hip hop, to putting art over popularity, to the destruction of “The Old Kanye.”

That last part is the most important. Maybe not to your average hip hop fan, or the people who actually prefer the Old Kanye; But most definitely to those invested in the insane(ly genius) narrative Kanye West has formed over the course of 12 years—you know, the people Kanye catered his entire tour to. To put into context: Yeezus, the album, is about alienation, addiction, delusion, the destruction of self. Over the course of ten songs, Kanye crafts a narrative about an individual who, quite literally, deems himself a god. When Kanye mutters lines like, “I am a god/Even though I’m a man of God/My whole life in the hands of God/So y’all better quit playing with God,” people tend to, understandably, jump to their conclusions about Kanye. In our current zeitgeist, where people crave humble artists who dedicate award speeches to the countless fans and friends who helped them achieve greatness,

The Saint Pablo Tour: Unity, Spirit, Rebirth

An exploration of how people express their spiritz through music.

Musical taste reveals a lot about a person. It cuts to the core—revealing some of the most personal aspects about them. We can see through how others feel, how they think, and what they relate to. What we perceive and process from our experiences is infused into who we are as people, and it shapes our musical taste.

BLACK DOG invited dozens of people to reveal a little bit about who they are by creating a playlist that harnesses their musical taste, sparked by a specific theme. On this card, they were asked to write down their ideas and connotations relating to their theme. From there, they created a ten song playlist comprised of songs that they found meaningful and relevant to their topic.

We found the results to be meaningful, poignant, and deeply personal.

Playlists x Humanity

Mitch is a great friend of mine. We immediately started about bouncy castles and childhood memories of public play places that rocked our world (and honestly still could). We barely had time to talk about the fact that we have the exact same Fender Jaguar (the one with the cloth wiring). It's the reason I walked up to them in the first place. My friends thought her name was Fender Kid actually. Between us, Tender Kid and I might as well be tender childhood friends. 


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What was going through your head at the time? 

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