My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

+1 to all the Fuck Kanye reviews

i can't in good conscious give this guy a good score

Absolute Cinema. Best of Kanye def Devil in a New dress and Hell of a Life ooofff

Some bits are great. Other parts are irritating.

Fuck Kanye.

Yo, uhh Uhh, come on I've been so lonely, girl I've been so sad and down Couldn't understand why haters joked around I wanted to be free With other creatures like me And now I got my wish Cause I know that I'm a gay fish, gay fish (Gay fish, yo') Motherfucking gay fish, gay fish (I'm a fish, yo') Going on a gay fish, gay fish (It's alright, girl) Makin' love to other gay fish, gay fish Uhh On these lonely nights at the grocery store In the frozen fish aisle, feeling like a w**** Cause I wasn't bein' true, you know everyone said That I had to make a switch (Gay fish) Now I know that I'm a gay fish, gay fish (Gay fish, yo') Motherfucking gay fish (I'm, I'm a fish, yo') Going on a gay fish, gay fish (Yeah, now where I belong, girl) Makin' love to other gay fish, gay fish

I was absolutely dreading this album. I'm not a Kanye fan so the prospect of spending over an hour listening to him wasn't filling me with excitement. Joke's on me because this album absolutely slaps. The rapping, the singing, the insane production, the guest appearances, the experimentation.... it all works. "Power" and "Runaway" are phenomenal, and "All of the lights" isn't far behind. By 2010 Kanye had enough fame to do whatever the hell he wanted & rather than play it safe, he took some enormous swings. He connected on just about all of them. Even the weird stuff kept me interested and the closing track caught me off guard but I enjoyed the message. Are some of the lyrics questionable? Absolutely. Is Kanye a douche? Undoubtedly. Am I slightly annoyed that I now have to give him one of my rare five-star ratings? You bet. But credit where it's due. I went into this expecting an endurance test and came out wondering if I'd just heard one of the best hip-hop albums ever made. 5/5. I hate that I loved it.

Kalle Westen

Musically. I don’t think he has been better: the samples, synths, beats, and melodies are all top drawer. This, at the time, helped gloss over the fact that there were clear signs of decline. This is a great album until you start listening to what he is actually saying… which is nothing of any value. He used to stand out as he managed to bridge pop sensibilities with commentary about issues (Jesus Walks from College Dropout; Diamonds from Sierra Leone on Late Registration, etc.). This is the album when he stopped commenting on issues and started to be the issue. Runaway is a great example… musically brilliant, with the piano motif, synth bass and strong melody, but he is essentially outing himself as a sex pest. This could have been a masterpiece but the lyrical content leaves it short.

Some of the best uses of samples (king crimson?!) and beats in any of his songs on this, and for fleeting moments there appears to be a degree of self awareness and dare I say it introspection. I just don’t think Kanye adopts a style that I’m particularly fond of, his delivery continues to be a little lacklustre and doesn’t take full advantage on the good foundation that is given to him whereas others might have. Probably the last time he was on his meds sufficiently to not go off the deep end that he did so much following.

Альбом с явным пафослм, биты шикарные и подача

Well OK for background - except the one about pussy. I wouldn't listen to it otherwise.

There's some interesting stuff going on musically and with a mix of styles and influences, but the self-absorption and misogyny are too much for me.

Say what you wanna say about this crazy fanatic fella, but he sure is one hell of a songwriter and producer. The opening top line in Dark Fantasy is really something, same goes with Runaway. And Monster, what a freaking banger. Perfect first album if you want to get into hip hop if you're no fan (like me).

Mehhhh was never my favorite Kanye

Fuck Kanye and fuck Nazis

Some bops

Let's fucking gooooooo. kanye?? I already know a few songs off this album. yesss. ok, on a GREAT roll so far. Project, we needed this run after that awful Beck album. ... ummm yeah, this album is good so far. And I know 2 songs off this. All of the Lights and, of course, Monster. iconic. ok, sorry, I didn't know how iconic All of the Lights actually is??? Elton John? fergie? John Legend?? Huh? Also, of COURSE Monster is iconic, minus jay z. ok rest of the album is new to me. I guess this is the first rap album that's been part of this for me. ok first critique i dont love rick ross his v in monster is fine cause it's short but whatever this song is i dont like it,devil in a new dress. Yeah, not a fan. Runaway is NINE MINUTES long??? Sorry to say, I only know this song from social media lol, and there was another one at the beginning I recognized from social media. anyway. Why is it 9 minutes? Song " Blame Game " sucks. Sorry, is that Chris Rock?? ok that was the silliest interlude I've ever heard in my life. And I'm just remembering that Chris Rock played the zebra in Madagascar, so that's all I was thinking lol.

One of the greatest rap albums of all time

A defining album of the decade

yes yes.. very influential, very good, but some of the lyrics always have been off-putting to me. men are weird and i don't feel the need to elaborate Especially for kanye

not as good as Joni Mitchell’s Blue

Ooh, a day off!

Pass.

Nope (zero stars for the Nazi)

Still not listening to a nazi.

I never really appreciated Kanye West when he was at his peak - not sure I do now really. I understand the impact that his music has had on listeners and artists alike - just not sure it's my bag

As has been the case with Kanye, I find it impossible to rate his albums due to his actions in the past number of years. What I can say is that this is an almost excellent record. It is amazingly produced. However it's still Kanye, and no matter how much I enjoy some of the songs I'll never save them to a playlist and I'll never listen to the album again. I'll decide tomorrow morning what to rate it, but it won't get what it would if he wasn't such a horrible human.

The guy is no don’t clever and unusual use of instrumentation but all the bravado and swearing is not really my cup of tea. (2/5)

Nazi rappers fuck off, or whatever the Dead Kennedys said.

Gotta give it to this little nazi fuck, he does write good music

Een dikke 3,5 vanwege de onverwachte muzikaliteit

Standard Kanye

Didn't listen

Unfortunately, you do have to hand this one to him.

It's a really transcendent rap album by a guy who is extremely problematic

Second Ye album, and I'm once again relieved I was able to avoid the undesirable "love the art, hate the artist" paradox. After listening to this, I even more strongly believe that both are plainly calculated and laughably overrated. Oh, and I'm also thankful to have once again avoided contributing to the master(rage-)baiter's streaming revenue by locating and utilizing an unofficial source for this slop. Definitely the most "feel good" part of the experience.

I hate myself a little bit for liking his music. But it is what is.

Better than I thought it was going to be, but dragged on a bit and unfortunately I lost a bit of interest. Okay, nothing special about sums it up.

Review based solely onusic not the Nazi who made it.

MBDTF may have been his cultural peak, but in my opinion it is Late Registration that is his actual creative peak. Sadly, LR isnt on the list.

so good, it made me uncomfortable, which IMO is the pinnacle of art.

An unquestionable banger of an album. The beats, samples, and guest appearances are superb. The trio of Devil in a New Dress, Runaway, and Hell of a Life has got to be one of the best 3 track runs in an album. I would love to give it 5 but there's a few tracks that aren't as brilliant. Favourites: POWER Devil in a New Dress Runaway Hell of a Life

i really wish kanye wasnt a nazi cus this album is genuinely gas

Even though this album is by Hitler 2.0, I actually do quite like it. Good production throughout with some solid flows from both Hitler and the features. Monster is packed with features and they all do pretty well. I will say some lines are a bit cringe. Anyway yeah, I enjoyed this so I gotta judge it fairly.

Struggling to rate this album, there is undeniably a lot of good and iconic tracks. But I struggle to enjoy them other than from pure nostalgia from hearing some of the music on the radio as a kid. I think the average quality of song is good, but it’s not my favorite style for the genre, involving a lot of flexing and pointless lines in some songs. It’s definitely a better album than most of the ones I’ve placed at 3 stars but I think generally worse than the ones I’ve put at 4. But I think it is closer to being a 4 than a 3.

álbum bom com músicas lendárias, mas não é 10/10

All of the lights… tis got me thru the Monday “back to work” blues!

I am listening for the hell of it but Kanye has gone in such a bad direction IRL. I am not really interested in supporting him as an artist. This is a good album though, the songs are catchy. Lyrics are good. I love the electric guitar running under everything. The production is great. There is an on-going philosophical question in life of can you separate the art from the artist. Can you appreciate what someone did before they were red pilled? Did this version of Kanye believe the things he supports now? Does that change things? I don't support Kanye, I don't want to contribute to his financial success at this point. Truly whacked out views. I enjoy this music. Can it be "good" art if the artist is bad? Just unfortunate that I have to ask these questions. On it's own merit alone, I like this. There are probably artists that I like that I just don't know about bad views they hold.

Masser af bangers. Lidt synd at Kanye er psykopat

En vrai pas mal

Started on 10/15, finished on 10/16 A lot of certified bangers in this album, many I have heard pieces of before but never heard from start to finish. Liked the first half of the album but the second half was too grotesque for my preference. Several songs were also too long and too repetitive. Rating it a 3/5, but it would probably be better at 3.5.

muitas musicas icônicas! no final tem uma ou outra mais esquecível, mas não necessariamente ruim não sei se é um 5 fechado mas tá acima de outros 4 que eu dei dito tudo isso kanye west tem mais é que se fuder mesmo pqp

Kanye West, né? Fica aquela coisa de: "o que esse cara vai aprontar desta vez?" Bom, se eu puder me basear apenas neste álbum, eu posso assegurar que aqui ele faz história! Escutei inúmeras vezes e, toda hora, ficava a indecisão de qual faixa me conquistou mais. Bizarro como cada faixa brincava com aquela coisa de: "Mano, o que eu posso fazer com esse som aqui? Alguém já tentou esse estilo com o rap? Não? Bora lá!" Já na primeira faixa, "Dark Fantasy", parece que tudo é tão familiar e a música vem de um jeito arrebatador. Você fica: "Ok, eles estão fazendo o quê aqui? A Nicki Minaj do nada?" Depois vem "Gorgeous" com aquela batidinha gostosa que faz você ficar acenando com a cabeça igual aqueles cachorrinhos de brinquedo que vendiam no centro, sabe? Faixa incrível! "Power" é uma das mais absurdas! Agora não estou apenas acenando a cabeça. Os meus pés e pernas estão no embalo da música. "All of the Lights" e você se assusta por ainda continuar assustado... "Oi, Rihanna?!" "Monster" é aquelas, né? "Trago o meu mano Jay-Z e aproveito que a Nicki Minaj ainda está no estúdio e chamo ela também para a bagunça." Faixa que me faz balançar de novo. "So Appalled" "Tá aqui de novo, Jay? Cara, continua aí, que isso aqui está ficando bom demais." "Devil in a New Dress" é para fechar os olhos e encostar a cabeça na janela do ônibus. "Runaway" Desculpa, você disse fazer história? Não, amigo. Me deixa aqui tocar minhas notinhas no piano e assumir minha vilania para o mundo!

I remember this being better, or at least less vulgar. Minus one because fuck Nazis.

Not a fan

There is no worse ego than an unearned ego.

fine

It's close between this and The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, but I'm thinking this is my all-time favorite hip hop album. Runaway is the only rap song that can make me cry every once in a while. Kanye's production is actually just on another level, with the obligatory it's a shame he's lost his mind since releasing this.

Production is undeniably great but that’s about the only positive thing I can say

Amazing producer, but truly awful lyricist and performer. This dude's lyrics are so shallow and all over the place. The last good album he made, but in hindsight he was already pretty far gone.

I have tried to like Kanye as my son thinks he's awesome. I just don't get it, I don't see his brilliance, and I don't like his voice at all. His vibe is off for me. I saw him open for U2 on his first tour, just him and a boombox on stage, it was entertaining at the time and I knew two songs from the radio. I am not a "message guy", he may be spouting the gospel, but all I hear is a guy talking with an edge, then a chorus, I just don't get him. I'll give it 3 stars because I've been told this album is brilliant by numerous people. I'm the wrong dude to grade this one, or enjoy it.

pass, not engaging with Kanye West

This is the first album in the entire 1001 project that I have woken up, seen waiting for me, and genuinely thought: I do not want to do this. I have listened to The Wall. I have endured albums that bored me, annoyed me, exhausted me and seemed determined to prove how clever they were. None of them made the project itself feel like work before I had even pressed play. I expected My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy to be difficult for a fairly mundane reason. Kanye West has subsequently said and done things that make me deeply unwilling to spend time with him, while the album arrives carrying an almost absurd weight of critical acclaim. I imagined I would be listening dutifully to some very good music while trying not to let later knowledge contaminate it. That is not what happened. I was not bored. I was increasingly aghast. The irritating first fact is that the album is extraordinarily good at what it does. “Wildly competent” was the phrase I initially reached for, largely because I did not feel inclined to give Kanye West anything more than was absolutely necessary. It became untenable quite quickly. The opening of “Dark Fantasy” is preposterously grand, Nicki Minaj declaiming her fairy-tale prologue before the music arrives in enormous, luscious layers. “Gorgeous” has a guitar sound like an enormously luxurious kazoo. “Power” uses King Crimson brilliantly. “Hell of a Life” somehow finds another use for “Iron Man”. The arrangements constantly shift scale and texture without ever sounding accidental. The record has swagger and breathtaking range. More inconveniently still, Kanye himself is not some mediocre presence being carried by brilliant production. To my ears he has possibly the most distinctively expressive voice in rap. Not necessarily because of vocal beauty or technical virtuosity, but because of what he does with language: smearing and blurring words, bending their pitch, moving between speech, rap and something approaching Sprechgesang. He reminds me in that respect of John Lydon. Lydon did not merely sing punk songs; from his first declaimed note he seemed to establish a new dictionary definition of what a voice in that music could do. Kanye can feel similarly definitional. Even on something as comparatively light as “Gold Digger”, there is no neutral Kanye delivery. Personality is built into the shape of every line. Nicki Minaj demonstrates something related in a different direction. She opens the album as a storybook character and later appears on “Monster” seemingly inhabited by several other people. She is not simply a versatile rapper; she is a remarkably good voice actress. The record is full of people operating at that level. So there is no escape through dismissing the art. The bastard is world-class. There is an arguable case, if one means the complete musical artist rather than merely the pure microphone technician, that Kanye West belongs at the top of his genre. And that makes the rest of the album much worse for me. West has described this record as a kind of backhanded apology after the Taylor Swift incident. I do not hear an apology. I hear wounded doubling down. The Swift incident matters to me without requiring any particular affection for Taylor Swift. It was simply an unusually public demonstration of self-exception: the idea that ordinary social limits could be overruled because Kanye’s judgement, importance or entitlement took precedence. Looking backwards from 2026, it is tempting to treat that as the beginning of a story whose ending we already know, and I have tried not to do that. But the warning was not invented retrospectively. A Garfunkel and Oates video posted in October 2009 was already able to make comedy from precisely the disturbing public persona that had become visible. The canary was already coughing before this album existed. What followed was not contraction. It was this. You think I am too much? Here is more. You think I am arrogant? Watch what my arrogance can make. You object to my behaviour? Look at the scale of my talent. The entire album can begin to feel like an exceptionally beautiful exhibit submitted for the defence. That is where the gorgeousness starts to devalue itself for me. The problem is not ego. Popular music would be considerably poorer if performers were required to demonstrate modesty before entering the studio. The problem is self-exception: the proposition that exceptional ability changes the ordinary terms of accountability. Once I heard that, I found it everywhere. “All of the Lights” turns the confusion and scrutiny of fame into huge melodrama, but my unsympathetic response was essentially: famous man acts objectionably, then objects to the scrutiny produced by acting objectionably. “Monster” makes monstrosity thrilling. Its famous boast now sounds unpleasantly like something displayed in plain sight. “Runaway” gets closer to genuine acknowledgement. When Kanye recognises that somebody has been putting up with his behaviour for too long, I finally felt something resembling recognition: yes, mate, quite. But even that recognition is immediately converted into an enormous aesthetic monument. This is self-awareness, certainly. I am much less convinced that it is self-examination. Recognition without correction is not contrition. That distinction reminded me unexpectedly of my difficulties with Morrissey. There is a temptation, when somebody is sufficiently talented, to become an extraordinarily generous interpreter. The troubling thing becomes part of the persona; the persona becomes part of the entertainment; eventually the capacity to acknowledge one’s own unpleasantness is treated as evidence of moral sophistication. Admirers give the maximum available benefit of the doubt because the alternative threatens something they love. I cannot do that here. Perhaps I would have received this posture differently in 2010. In 2026 I have had quite enough of people turning refusal of correction into evidence of strength: criticism becomes persecution, consequences become grievance, concession becomes weakness, and doubling down becomes authenticity. What might once have looked like outrageous pop-star swagger now looks horribly familiar as a way of operating in the world. That does not retrospectively make the music bad. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy remains beautifully made. At times it is spectacular. “Devil in a New Dress” was another gorgeous confection, and I had no interest in it whatsoever. That became the strangest recurring sensation of the morning: aesthetic recognition without any desire to participate. I have also realised that I cannot simply pretend the later Kanye does not exist for the sake of methodological purity. Other listeners may be able to isolate the 2010 object and judge it independently. I cannot do that without falsifying this particular encounter. The later antisemitism, Nazi sympathy and transphobia are not abstract celebrity gossip hovering outside the record for me. They affect my willingness to enter into the bargain the record appears to offer. I cannot listen to the magnificent self-mythologising and agree that magnificence earns its maker exemption. That boundary is personal as well as critical. There are people I love whom I could not look in the eye while pretending otherwise. So I have ended in a position I did not expect. The album is simultaneously world-class and overhyped. Its craft is not in question. Its mythology is. I do not think its brilliance redeems the posture at its centre; if anything, its brilliance makes that posture more disturbing because it renders it so persuasively. I wanted the artistic judgement to be easier. It isn’t. The bastard really is that good. But admiration is not amnesty. I heard the greatness. I am declining the transaction.

Man I hate how much I love this album. I have so many reasons to hate the artist and so many reasons to shun his work, but this album is undeniably a masterpiece in my catalogue. Stylistically, I think this is the album that the artist came into his best form. Emotional, dark but also light, powerful, and fun. I think I have to put it at the top of the artist’s works, and among my favorite albums, in spite of the artist.

Уже очень давно мне хотелось познакомиться с музыкой Ye и особенно с этим альбомом. Да, это определённо один из лучших альбомов 21 века. Если честно, если бы я не знал, кто его автор, то я бы поставил 4, ведь я не большой поклонник американского рэпа, но грандиозность автора заставляет меня поставить 5. Лучшая песня: POWER

He's off his meds but I'm not going to listen to a Nazi sympathizer.

Music was fine but I cringed so hard at the lyrics, which made it impossible to separate art from the artist. I'm honestly relieved that this is not my genre to begin with.

Album #212: Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ⭐⭐⭐ A big, bastard pop album with all the bells on it. When it came up this morning, I thought I was looking at another five-star review from memory alone, but it was a surprising relisten. The good stuff is that Kanye is an exceptional producer. This thing gets off to a fairly low-key start. Despite the “Can we get much higher?” refrain, both Dark Fantasy and Gorgeous are slow enough, simple hip-hop songs. But once Power comes in, the album unleashes its true power, forgive the pun. From there, it’s that maximalist sound that this album is known for. That’s all great. It’s too long, but that comes with the territory. Not every song is great, but most are brilliant. The music isn’t the problem. It’s the vocalist. With as huge a sound as this, you need an exceptional voice to carry it. And Kanye doesn’t have that. He awkwardly sits at the top of the mix with his flat vocal that’s just too thin for what’s around him. Take All of the Lights. Rihanna sounds awesome on that song, but Kanye sounds downright amateurish with his “I’m heading home, I’m almost there” singing voice. It made me wonder what this album would be like if it was a Rihanna solo album with Kanye producing. Or Madonna! Or Beyoncé! Or even Michael Jackson, as he’s mentioned in the song itself. If he had lived to have one of his albums produced by Kanye, I think it would have been a really interesting listen. Even Rick Ross, who is absolutely shit near 100% of the time, commands the music around him on Devil in a New Dress. You need a voice like that, with some power and weight behind it. Kanye’s a decent rapper, with decent lyrics (with a few too many references to his literal asshole), and his voice works on his more hip-hop stuff, but not here. The task is too huge. Speaking of features, everyone turns up on this thing, but what blew me away is who actually stole the show, and that’s Nicki Minaj on Monster. Her verse on that is the best moment on the album for me. It’s funny, witty, powerful and exceptionally delivered. So we’ll do the rating mathematically. Five stars for production, minus two stars for Kanye, equals three stars.

I am not the audience for this

Fuck Kanye Hate the fact that his songs are good

POS music from a POS human

Pretty good.

I have never been a Kanye fan, this was less than mediocre, at least 808s and heartbreak had some consistency. Fuck this guy.

Dark Fantasy - 4.5/5 Gorgeous - 4/5 Power - 5/5 All of the Lights (Interlude) - 4/5 All of the Lights - 4.5/5 Monster - 3.5/5 So Appalled - 3.5/5 Devil In a New Dress - 4/5 Runaway - 4.5/5 Hell of a Life - 4/5 Blame Game - 3.5/5 Lost in the World - 4/5 Who Will Survive in America - 3.5/5 I'm going to myself finish this review, but Kanye West is a fucking bigoted Nazi who deserves nothing after coming out as one. Which makes this really hard to rate because this album is him arguably at the end of his peak. The chokehold a lot of these songs have even today is incredible. There really isn't a skippable track on here, although a few come really close to skipping them over. The highs here are pretty high, but I can't in good conscious give this a 5*. Overall: 4/5 Favorites: Power, Dark Fantasy, All of the Lights, Runaway

Ahh, Kanye. He made a few beloved albums and then started spouting extreme-right viewpoints that hurt his own kind. Granted, this is a pretty good rap album. There is some disgusting lyrical content here, but there's also some very cool samples and unique beats. Features appear frequently across all the songs, often helping them to sound more unique. Either way, it's very different from the gangster rap of the 1990s. For his music to be good and then his political beliefs to be so abhorrent is a tragedy. This album is ranked #4 of 8 albums for 2010. Other 2010 albums rated by me: Brothers(1/8)-3 The ArchAndroid(3/8)-5 Queen of Denmark(7/8)-4 Halcyon Digest(8/8)-2

First of 3.

This is my favourite rap album. I normally don't have favourites - but this is it. Listened to it LOADS back when it was released, pretty much soundtracked my undergrad dissertation (along with Heligoland from Massive Attack, for when I needed to concentrate). This, along with 808s and Heartbreak, and Yeezus, are an incredible run of relatively experimental rap and hip hop albums. The production is, almost without exception, incredible. Dark Fantasy: Fantastic lyric: "I fantasized 'bout this back in Chicago; Mercy, mercy me, that Murcielago". Great song, really like his lean towards a fun clean sound rather than awkwardly fitting in bad rhymes. Gorgeous: The refrain and beat are top notch. Power: Again, cool refrain. Mixing the chants, colonial (lyrics too make a fair few references), with heavy bass and the modern 2010s slight overproduction. All of the Lights is the most commercial song on the album - that drum machine is working overtime - and Kanye's lyrics make sense. Cracking horns, and Rihanna is good value. As an aside, Run This Town is such a tune. Monster is good - love the sarcophagus lyric, quite daft. I don't care for So Appalled, Devil In A New Dress, Hell of a Life, or the short Who Will Survive in America. Runaway is THE standout on the whole album, and perhaps in Kanye West's career. Extremely focused writing, he sounds great again, the beats are really on point. The dissonant piano. The music video is worth a watch too. One of the few long songs I have no issue with listening to. Blame Game: "I can't love you this much" as a refrain works well, especially considering the first half of the song is on the aggressive side - it is like he regrets and is reconsidering. The skit is way too long though. Lost in the World is a great introduction to Bon Iver - a really unexpected collaboration but it just works.

Kanye West confuses me. He can clearly make (produce?) very good sounding music, although the type he's making here isn't quite my thing. At times his rapping is compelling and he's saying something interesting, but then there's also these really inane lines too; "Put the pussy in a sarcophagus". College dropout is still my favourite of his we've had. Before he'd gone full Yesus. There is still something about this though. 3.5

dont like him enough to give it a 3

I mean, even if you’re not a fan of hip hop or Kanye, you can’t deny that he is the best to do it. Hands down. And if you disagree and say it’s Drake, you are obviously not Canadian or have not lived in Canada long enough to know how fake that guy is. Terrible hairline, bad name, fake wheelchair kid, horrible acting fake hard ass. Anyways This album is banger after banger. No one alive does it like Kanye. Not even Dre anymore. Choice cut: Power

Turns out, I do not actually miss the old Kanye

Beyond phenomenal. I had heard the hits off of this but all together it's so diverse and interesting. And he just sounds so unique. God damn I wish he wasn't a terrible person haha

like just...so good

This album fucks, but fuck Kanye

Not full in decline Kanye yet but pretty weak compared to his earlier work.

This one is tough to review. There are moments of brilliance on here and then there are moments of Kanye BS. There’s no question he can make a great album that is unusual and unique. I was a fan when he came out with College Dropout and Late Registration but then I lost interest, so this album was new to me. It’s good overall but maybe not as great as Kanye thinks it is. I was waffling between a 3 and 4 but going to stick with a 3.

Kanye is nuttier than squirrel shit but damn if this mofo can’t write a song. Ye tends to lean a little too far into the racist area with his lyrics for me, but see my first comment I guess. Nasty beats across too many tracks and a rhythm that you can’t stay away from.

Very much a microcosm of Kanye himself, this is opulent and overproduced. You cannot dismiss it because it definitely has moments of brilliance, but there’s so much extra bullshit that you have to sift through in order to find those highlights, it really isn’t worth it. An exercise in tolerance that I lose every time I try to listen all the way through.

Really good. Went in blind, but recognized a couple songs. Surprised how much I liked this, not at all what I expected.

Nothing beautiful about this

Fuck this guy. Good stuff though when I used to listen to him

Kanye is a scumbag. But we're judging this on its own merits. This is where he allows his awfulness to really overtake him. There's still a bit of honesty about or conflicted sentiment about it that runs through this and is reflected in some of the best songs ("Dark Fantasy" "All of the Lights" "Runaway"). But by the end, he's just finally become the asshole he always wanted to be. All that said, I dug getting a chance to spin this again. The first three-quarters of this is almost impeccable* (basically, everything up to and through "Runaway"). Then it loses me, especially "Hell of a Life" and the goddamn Chris Rock skit. Side note: I remember my wife scrolling through the radio when I was driving, pausing at, and then proceeding past, Nicki Minaj's verse on "Monster," which I'd never heard. I told her to stop and go back. One of the best features you'll ever hear, also done by a pretty rotten person. * - Excepting Jay's verse on "Monster," possibly the worst thing he's ever done. That alone keeps it from 5 stars, even with Nicki's verse.

A modern masterpiece

THE ONE STAAAAR, THE ONE STAAAAR IS REEEEEAL!!!!!!!

Lite för poppig för mig

Not my music...sry

What an album this is. The production quality, the samples, the lyrics, the featured artists, they're all there. There is genuine merit to calling this Kanye's best album, but I'm personally not sure. Doesn't mean its not a 10/10.

Girl I was dating bought this on release day. Not sure why.

Overall a good, upbeat album. It's always upsetting when creatives go crazy.