Whether loved or loathed, fully enjoyed or merely admired, this album should be regarded as a deeply fascinating accomplishment. As the ego and ambition swells, so does the appeal, the repulsiveness, and - most importantly - the ingenuity. George later revealed that Kanye wanted a cover.
The only thing that remains unchanged is West's lyrical accuracy for every rhyme that stuns, there's one deserving of mockery from any given contestant off the The White Rapper Show. Note: The album’s original cover (drawn by George Condo) depicts Kanye West being straddled by an armless phoenix. Even less explicable is the last third of the nine-minute "Runaway," when West blows into a device and comes out sounding something like a muffled, bristly version of Robert Fripp's guitar. Sullen solo-piano Aphex Twin plays beneath morose cello with a chorus from John Legend, a dejected, embittered West - whose voice toggles between naturally clear-sounding and ominously pitched-down as it pans back and forth - tempers wistfully-written, maliciously-delivered lines like "Been a long time since I spoke to you in a bathroom, ripping you up, fuckin' and chokin' you" with untreated and distinctively pained confessions like "I can't love you this much." The contrast in "Devil in a New Dress," featuring Rick Ross, is of a different sort a throwback soul production provided by the Smokey Robinson-sampling Bink, it's as gorgeous as any of West's own early work, yet it's marred by an aimless instrumental stretch, roughly 90 seconds in length, that involves some incongruent electric guitar flame-out. "Blame Game" chills more than anything off 808s & Heartbreak.
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At once, the song features one of the year's most rugged beats while supplying enough opulent detail to make Late Registration collaborator Jon Brion's head spin. Its making involved 42 people, including not one but two French horn players and over a dozen high-profile vocalists, only some of which are perceptible. It’s a celebration of fame ("Fast cars, shooting stars") and a lament of its consequences ("Restraining order/Can't see my daughter"). Nothing exemplifies its contrasting elements and maniacal extravagance as much as "All of the Lights." Rattling, raw, synthetic toms are embellished with brass, woodwinds, and strings. Consequently, the sonic and emotional layers are often difficult to pry apart and enumerate. The 13 tracks, eight of which are between five and nine minutes in length, sometimes fuse them together simultaneously.
In some ways, it's the culmination of Kanye West's first four albums, but it does not merely draw characteristics from each one of them. Listening to it, much like saying or typing its title, is a laborious process. i still bang Kanye from his pre-wack days.As fatiguing as it is invigorating, as cold-blooded as it is heart-rending, as haphazardly splattered as it is meticulously sculpted, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is an extraordinarily complex 70-minute set of songs. just because someone falls it off it doesn't mean that you don't have to consider yourself a fan.
strictly because of his early material though. Let's celebrate the dopeness that he once demonstrated with some material from Kanye's golden days, so to speak.Īnd for the record, i would still consider myself to be a huge Kanye fan. It's a shame because at one time Kanye was one of the best producers out there!! and lyrically he was sooo on point! I will listen to this album and hope for the best but honestly i have very low expectations for him at this point.
Kanye is a real life example of the concept that all rappers fall off once they lose their hunger. College Dropout was a fantastic album but after that he steadily went downhill.