How should I begin this? I feel I may be overrating this but something also makes me confident of the placement and rating, something pretty much intangible. It was good in those departments for sure, but I stick to what I described.
So why then has it splashed so large? Hit so above it's apparent belt? What other element of good music did it get so right that everything was carried upward? It's a rare side of things, most artists, especially in this self-conscious hipster age, don't tap into.
It used to be common place. But we're living in the post-post modern times, these nostolgia times where everyones super skeptical of everything and particularly the way celebrities present themselves. That rare thing that much hated Kanye embodies. He's done nothing but get himself hated on in the past few years, it's become easy to rag on him for fans of his music and genre or not.
Even the president called him an asshole! But I think, because he's dared to be this tremendous asshole, this incredibly self-centered ego maniac, I think each and every one of us is secretly loving it. When was the last time we had this guy? No one in rap or rock has combined this level of profile with this level of crazy ego in the past decade and maybe before even. The last man who would be king was Kurt Cobain and he killed himself in such disgust of the crown, and we've maybe been too scared to give it to someone ever again.
But Kanye has grabbed it. And that infectious overindulgent meglomania is all over every damn track here. Every otherwise pretty normal synth-rap song is transformed with flabby fucking asshole mode, and it's wonderful. That's what makes this so big and fun, so bold and out there. The music taken on a basic technical level didn't make me give it a 4. And if you deny that being a legitimate reason for music to be great you're downright naive or in denial.
Merry fucking Christmas. Rating: 4. Building Steam With a Grain of Salt Cant rate this until release day, but it better be better then the album cover, and the album cover is better then Graduation, will I be blown away like I was in freshman year of college.
Well I heard the album the other day or whatever and like diction I loved it even the edited version I copped Dark Fantasy-starts off with a averege interlude and then leads into a party type track that is pretty good.
Also very good Power-I am stunned this is not the albums centerpiece but this beat is increddible, and the 21st century Schitzoid man King Crimson sample is bonkers man. All the Lights-Another manic song in which Kanye is like if I am gonna die tonight is the perfect night for it.
Think Rihanna has a ghost appearance on this one. Monster-This one is awesome pretty much, better then what you find on the radio, the beat is manic and sounds like American's pre concieved notions of what monster's sound like. Bon Iver does a great job on the hook, and Nicki Minaj's verse is just awesome. So Appalled-this beat is so good, sounds like what he did on the Food.
I love the fact that RZA was on here he fits perfectly with the beat, wish Jay Z was on the next song more instead of this one. Devil in a New Dress-Probally the best example of Kanye's rapping skills, this was the type of track that was all over the Blueprint. Runway-The albums ultimate show case and one of the high points in the history of rap music.
This is the third depressed song in a row, and makes me want to cry it is so good. Hell of Life-Forget who appears on this one but it was another great party jam. Blame Game-Chris Rock takes over the last minutes with some hilarious shit. The track continues into Who Will Survive in America which is the end all be all of the album, these two sum up the album, and lead into deep twisted pychotic paranoia, and Gil Scot Heron is the perfect way to end the album.
Pretty much all the songs are good, Monster may actually be the 10th or 11th best song on the entire album and the song is really pretty good. January 14, the favorites on here change on here but the whole thing is still increddible.
This one will probally not be bad unless he comes out with something better which given his track record is possible. The perfect manic depressant album. Ive listened to it 6 or 7 times and it still blows me away, have let up just a bit with my ratings this is one of the best albums ever made everything is on an increddible level.
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This assiduous work ethic led to West employing two private chefs, one for hot food, and one for cold food. Throughout the album's development, West elicited other producers and musicians to weigh in on its music with conversations and contributions at the studio. Every person has a voice and an idea, so he's sincerely looking to hear what you have to say—good, bad, or whatever When he has his beats or his rhymes, he offers them to the committee and we're all invited to dissect, strip, or add on to what he's already started.
By the end of the sessions, you see how he integrates and transforms everyone's contributions, so the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. He's a real wizard at it. What he does is alchemy, really. Pete Rock said of his studio experience with West, 'He's definitely hip-hop, his roots, I was testing him on joints He takes it to another level which is dope. He had these musicians and this song, they played around my little raggedy beat and made it real. I love the way he works — he goes from one room, writing rhymes then goes to another beat and goes to another room and does something else — I love what he's done'.
He's totally done with electro. You're gonna be surprised what you hear'. To prevent any of the material from leaking onto the Internet, West made the recording of the album as secretive as he could; he instituted a 'No tweeting, no talking, no e-mailing' rule for others at the sessions to abide by. We're not going to ever work there again!
We're going to work in hotel rooms! My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 's music has been noted by writers for incorporating elements from West's previous four albums.
The music was described as maximalist by Jon Caramanica of The New York Times , who also took note of East Coast hip hop elements, [32] and Ryan Dombal from Pitchfork , who deemed it a 'culmination' of West's past work: 'Musically, [the album] largely continues where 's Graduation left off in its maximalist hip-hop bent, with flashes of The College Dropout ' s comfort-food sampling and Late Registration ' s baroque instrumentation weaved in seamlessly'. The 13 tracks Consequently, the sonic and emotional layers are often difficult to pry apart and enumerate'.
The album's themes deal primarily with excess and celebrity, [30] [36] [37] and also touch on decadence, grandiosity, escapism, sex, wealth, romance, self-aggrandizement, and self-doubt.
Club describes it as 'darkly funny, boldly introspective, and characteristically fame-obsessed', noting 'manic highs and depressive lows emotionally' in the album. In the opinion of Pitchfork ' s Ryan Dombal, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was 'a hedonistic exploration into a rich and famous American id', [30] while Chris Martins from Spin said it was an alternately grandiose and eloquent production that 'owed as much to the artist's self-aggrandizing ego as to the voracious id that would destroy it publicly'.
This isn't just a personal problem. It's the curse of what the author Michael Eric Dyson has called 'the exceptional black man', embraced for his talents but singled out for the color of his skin'. The song blurs the line between fantasy and reality, sex and romance, love and religion, until no lines exist at all.
It's a zonked nirvana with demons underneath; a fragile state that can't help but break apart on the very next song'. On July 28, , West announced via his new official Twitter account that 'The album is no longer called 'Good Ass Job' I'm bouncing a couple of titles around now. Chris killed that skit! Dag yo, you nigs crazy. Your email address will not be published. Comments 0 -. Rate This: 5. Diary of a Young Black Asshole says:. Donn says:.
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