Kanye West Setlist Draft

Your goal is to draft the best possible 10-11 song Kanye West Show. Kanye is assumed to be performing every song perfectly to the best of his prime abilities. He's not censoring himself. He is assumed to be performing at smaller than normal venue with a great crowd. At the end, everyone will vote for the show that they would be most excited to see. Just the setlist that would make you the most excited given a perfect performance and perfect environment. No realism variable. Don't vote on anything other than how good the show would be for you.

It is assumed that this will be the last Kanye West show that you will ever see. So go out with a bang!

While you will be voting based on your subjective opinion, I do want to be clear that you can make arguments for why a setlist is better or worse than another one. How much value do guests add? How good are the songs? How much of a rare treat would a song be live vs one you've seen 1000 times? Does that matter? Do you like the flow to a setlist. Do you like the opener / closer? Etc... I want to be clear that fun arguments can be had, but there is no overriding disqualifying nature to any of the available songs. Does not matter how unrealistic the guests are or how rare the songs would. 

Notes:

- During the first 8 rounds, you will draft songs that come from Kanye West studio albums + Watch The Throne, Kids See Ghosts, Cruel Summer, and the Good Fridays Series that led up to My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (the list of these tracks can be found on Wiki)... and some other singles that didn't make albums and the 2 Child Rebel Soldiers songs. The list to choose from is below.

- No remixes or Part 2s allowed after a song has been taken. The person drafting a song will tell us if they want a remix or part two instead of an original at any time they please, but both are not available separately. To clarify further, if Kanye is featured on the remix of another artists song but isn't on the original, that remix will be available during rounds 9-10.

- For rounds 9-10, we will re-order then draft songs that Kanye is featured on

- For rounds 11-15, we will maybe reorder but it isn't that serious, and you will draft a 5 song, warm up the crowd, playlist of songs to be played in the venue leading up to Kanye taking the stage. These need to be songs that were produced by Kanye, but Kanye doesn't rap or sing on himself. These selections aren't exclusive, but they can only be on 5 lineups each. This probably shouldn't weigh too heavily on people's minds when voting comes around, but I think it will be fun to think about and draft.

- After the draft, you can choose one song for Kanye to cover that he hasn't already covered in some form or fashion. Just a total wild card. You can pretend he worked on it and made something unique in the studio prior to debuting it, or maybe he's just covering something true to form for fun. You can also not do this if you don't have ideas for it.

- Unless an artist is dead, all guests will be assumed to be present at the show for the live songs they are a part of. However, the drafter can remove guests from a song and indicate exactly who will be there. You can have one guest on the cover song, but that guest can't be the creator of that original song that is being covered

I think 20 participants would work for this 10 song format based on a quick count of the available songs from his studio albums + collab albums. If we get less than 20, I might increase the number of songs for the setlist. The game will be capped at 20 though, so we will have to form some teams if more people want to join.

Going to bracket this puppy at the end.

I don't know exactly when this will start, but let me know who is interested and if there are any questions / requested changes.

Kanye Song List




Draft Order

1. Zach Frost
2. KPO
3. Jortles
4. Alexandra
5. Maddog
6. Todd
7. GoCats
8. Elpingu
9. Pablo
10. Sang
11. Teddy
12. Mardude
13. Dan
14. Truevine
15. Silver
16. Tristan
17. Tranter
18. JTR



Order for the two feature rounds (pre trades, you guys figure that out)



1. Gocats

2. Tristan

3. Teddy

4. Zach Frost

5. Mardude

6. Pablo

7. Alexandra

8. Dan

9. Maddog

10. Todd

11. Tranter

12. Sang

13. JTR

14. Truevine

15. Elpingu

16. Silver

17. Jortles

18. KPO