Reviews (page 12 of 15)
debo decir que me sacó de onda el sampleo de Ironman pero ya en la segunda vuelta de algunas rolas la escuche mejor y hasta me gustó, odio que los raperos tengan miles de participaciones y odio a la minaj. Power, Runaway, hell of a life son unas joyas y lost in the world es un verdadero poema de pocas frases le doy un 3.5 solo por esas rolas
What else do you want?
It's pretty good but I am not one of those people who views Kanye as a genius. Monster is a great track, but it's because of Nicki Minaj
Some really good beats. Some really bad singing. Some mediocre rapping haaaaaaaaah.
Not my favorite Kanye album. It's got two or three great songs and several...not so great. Compared to say Graduation, it's not his best.
такое
I liked this Kanye West west album. It featured many rappers that went on to become successful.
Power - норм, Runaway - шедевр. Остальное - ну такое
Music was surprisingly good. I was able to enjoy it despite not really being into rap all that much. The themes, however, were often questionable. Due to the latter, I probably wouldn't feel comfortable listening to it again.
B
Good until the times when it gets really weird and self-indulgent. Then it *really* loses me. But overall good.
Kanye is a perfectly good rapper who lost his damn mind. Thing is, he was never - and was never going to be - one of the greats. For that reason. I'm willing to give him a huge pass on the crazy shit.
The music wasn’t terrible. But I maintain this list, and the world as a whole, could use less Kanye and more Tupac.
A lot of new r&b in this rap album. Some good beats, some interesting lyrics, but not enough of either to keep me from wanting it to get to the end.
This album is hella overrated. Kanye also became evil. I think their are some great songs but I don't know we're the line of separate art for the artist is. I love led Zeppelin even though Jimmy Page is a pedifile and I think that is probably worse than Kanye but being a Nazi is also pretty horrible.
The only good songs on this album are Power and All of the Lights. Compared to Kanye West’s older albums, this is a huge downgrade.
Probably Kanye at his best but still not really for me.
The album is fine, but it’s Kanye West and what even are the lyrics. I like Dark Fantasy and Runaway idk But still Kanye West so :(
Ok, so I really don't like vulgar language, and this album has kind of a lot of it in the lyrics. Then some songs of the album suffers from the typical 00s Hip hop/R&B production that I find really mediocre. I think this album suffers from what most Hip hop does: boring/vulgar lyrics that is hard for me to relate to in any way, and often kind of boring production. However on the positive side, there are some few ok songs. 'Lost in the World' is ok and 'Who will Survive in America' is kind of a good much thanks to poet Gil Scott-Heron (Whom I think is a much better rapper than most rappers). 'Runaway' is actually a pretty good song. It has really outstanding production and composition. If only they shortened the song and cleaned up the lyrics a bit... I would rate this a weak 2.
previous disliking of Kayne heading into this album recognise snippets good background vibes, grwm hype so far lyrics not relatable don't quite get in the feels but appreciate music
Beautiful prouduction but nothing stuck in my head
Oh boy. I fucking hate Kanye the person, and I've never been impressed by the music of his I've heard. Here we go... 1 - Dark Fantasy. I like the bounces around musically, like the choral vocals that are probably sampled elsewhere like most rap songs. Jesusfuck I do not like rap... was actually really into this until Kanye started rapping. 2 - Gorgeous. Applicable to the beat, not the vocals. FISH STICKS! What a fucking dipshit. Also fuck this guy. KYS you Nazi freak. Why am I listening to this. 3 - Power. I recognize this one. Very famous song, famous lyric. Don't like the ending, just the popular chorus and the King Crimson bit with the 21st century and drum fill. Is this guy's entire schtick just slapping a bunch of other people's music together and rapping over it? Because that's how this has felt. I know that's very heavily what rap is, but I don't get why this or Kanye are considered special. I know this is my old-man-yells-at-cloud moment but while I recognize the production value of this record, I don't understand what makes it special at all. I am not likely to comment much more on the songs. BUT HEY I KNOW ALL OF THE LIGHTS, AND I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY SAMPLES! Monster sucked. A lot. I couldn't get further than "So Appalled". Wiki says that's further than halfway. 2 stars only because this dipshit thought he dunked on South Park in this album and only made the Fishsticks episode funnier that he is legitimately so stupid he never figured it out.
Wow, disappointment. I was expecting some rap version of a rebel yell. Geniuis, cutting-edge, unbelieveable. Nope, just a bunch people in a studio over-producing a bunch of nothing-shite tracks. This is the best that this genre can produce? Yikes...no wonder the world keeps going to shit. A bunch of beavers plunking on a piano would eventually make this. But it's better than ABBA or ELO. That's something. 2 "because Runaway was at least listenable" stars.
If I am charitable and assume that Kanye chooses all the samples that he uses, maybe I can give him a credit for having good taste in music. My problem with him as usual is his belief that he is the most interesting part of that set-up. I always feel that if he applied the same approach to visual media, he’d select a load of cool scenes and then end up covering as much of the screen as possible telling us about how great he is. Actually, some of the most interesting stuff on this album seems to come from the guests.
Started and needed to stop after 4-5 tracks. Can’t be arsed to do back. It’ll either be a 2 or 3 but he’s a bellend so I’ll assume 2.
Raper spróbuj nie nagrać piosenki bez wulgaryzmów challenge
🤔 didn’t hate it-didn’t love it
Nice tracks, good production, questionable lyrics Fucked up person, 2/5
Loved the song with Nicki Minaj and generally the production side was good. I just find his voice too annoying to enjoy it very much.
Good production but it's corny, overrated, and overloaded with features. The features and samples often being way better than anything Kanye says
Que manera de darle cabida al negro este. Ni que fuera para tanto este álbum por favor. Estoy seguro que hay discos que ratee como el orto en esta página y son mucho mejores que este. Pero viste como es el mundo, sampleas un par de temas, le metes un boom bap, rapeas de fondo de algo coherente para después terminar diciendo "I don't need your pussy, bitch, I'm on my own dick" y terminas siendo el mejor disco de la historia, lo normal.
Kanye is capable of creating some of the most stylistically repulsive music of all time, I truly feel like this album has not aged well whatsoever. "Monster", "Hell of a Life", and "Blame Game" are fantastic examples of gaudy production and disappointing lyricism. That being said, the album has high potential for hype aura moments if that's your thing. Highlights: "Dark Fantasy", "Runaway"
Does nothing for me.
Even in songs I remember liking, like Power, you realize it’s a mentally ill man who’s like lol who care if the president called me out, I’m just an asshole, drunk driving lmao. What a fucking loser.
Quite a fantasy.
nice listen but seems either overhyped or not my jam. Appreciation might also be influenced by what i think of the artist
4.5/10
Did I enjoy this album? No. No, I did not.
I don’t get his popularity. His lyrics aren’t impressive. His delivery is just ok. He does have a unique quality to his voice but most of his songs are dull. I can’t stand him as a human but wish someone would step in and get him the help he needs. Maybe he burnt to bright when he came on the scene but I don’t find him creative.
no thanks. It's some kind of refined plastic with no soul.
Sometimes I can separate the art from the artist but I just can’t with kanye
Jeg sier som Jon: Jeg skjønner ikke.
Not a huge fan of his music and I’m def not a fan of his as a person. DNF.
not as good as college dropout might have gotten a 3 if he wasn't a wrong'un but happy to mark it down
urgh, really all the worst people. Listening to this his weird pivot looks even weirder. But it really is a good album, its tough. But then the misogynistic lyrics mark it down for me.
-1 for the anti-semitism
the second album of this guy i had to listen to... again, a general critic of this 1001 album format. there are millions of albums, and i get it that this bloke "changed his style" on each album... a bit, but one album per artist is enough. The music does change, but his lyrics stay as dumb as before. It's the old "dumb people are confident, smart people have self-doubt" story with this guy and his "music"
not a big fan of Kanye's music so it's not really me
2/5
Escuche por primera vez a Kanye West, sabia que mucho no me iba a gustar, pero destaco sobre todo la habilidad o capacidad de Kanye supongo, de como desde una estructura base muy sencilla cada una de las canciones toma su forma caracteristica, desde el beat mas simple hasta las armonias y arreglos mas complejos. Creo que mas allá de la musica, que es lo que mas me importa o en lo que mas me fijo, el concepto del album son las letras, que sinceramente mucha atencion no le di.
Purille lyrics again.
I might like this album more if Kanye wasn't on it... Some ok beats and production, but lacks music and a front person I'd be interested in.
jus not my style
This is an impressive display of narcissism and paranoia. I had no idea there were so many people after Kanye. Poor fella. The music? Ah, nice production and creative instrumentations and arrangements. The King Crimson samples demonstrate a good music knowledge. But then he opens his mouth and I have to listen to those lyrics. I'm out.
Just as dull as any other “modern hip-hop”
Selv om det er virkelig poppet så mangler der nogle stærke hooks. Runaway har det. Resten af numrene har jeg allerede glemt.
tem umas muito boas mas num geral é ok e esse cara e nazista
Some good songs but not my thing. Plus he’s a POS.
Overrated
Not my style of music but this was back when Kanye had some talent.
Never liked him, nor his music. Production is mediocre at best, and if intended, didn't work. Most of the lyrics are the way you'd expect from this kind of music, and I still detest it. There were some short, quite good parts, mostly when other artists were performing, so no credit to Ye.
algunas canciones estan buenas, otras no. Suenan raras
Some of this was ok but it just doesn't speak to me much. As others have noted the production is certainly very good. It does seem that Kanye gets a very high critical appraisal which I'm not sure he deserves.
Better than I expected
Nope
i dislike Kanye as aperson, the album exists
Dark Fantasy - fajny beat, falsecik kogoś w refrenie. nie moge zniesc glosu Kanye ; lubie za to glos Nicki Minaj - dlatego piosenka "Monster" mi sie podoba. Runaway jak tylko uderzyła pierwsza nuta - pomyślałem, że brzmi znajomo - zainteresowałem się - a potem było tylko gorzej, gdzie nadzieję dawały pojedyncze klawisze pianina. Jak tylko Kanye otwierał ryja miałem ochotę wyłączyć. Ogólnie cały album - lepiej niż się spodziewałem, ale niech koleś wypierdala tak ogólnie
As noted earlier, artists of this genre tend to collaborate frequently, which is the case on this album. Even though there is a lot of talking, Kanye at least makes an effort to do some singing. There is more music here than any of the other rap albums so far, which is a positive. Still, it’s all so forgettable. 2.5 stars.
This is a good album. But I can't with this guy. Again. Worth repeating: Ye get your life together you fucking psychopath.
I found this one hard to separate the art from the artist. I despise Kanye West as a personality. I tried to go in without having a bias, and did appreciate both the music and his ability to rap, but the lyrics make this something I didn't like and don't intend to listen to again. Here's hoping this is the only time he appears on this list.
I really do try to separate art from artist when listening to these albums (although once again, fuck you, Brian Warner). Kanye, though? That's a tough one... ...thankfully for the bit of my brain that wants to instantly give the dickhead a 1/5, there's plenty for me to dislike. For a start, I don't much like his voice or flow while rapping and I genuinely cannot stand his singing voice. He's comically poor when trying to be melodic. Some of the tracks also do not even slightly justify their running time. The multiple circa 6 minute tracks rarely had enough ideas to support that. I hate skits and despite not generally disliking Chris Rock, I despised his nonsense on this album. I didn't mind a few of the tracks, I strangely liked Nicki Minaj's contribution (despite her also being an extremely problematic individual) and I like a fair few of the actual beats but all in all, I don't understand why this gets such praise. Even pre-Nazification Kanye wouldn't be something I'd want to listen to judging by this record. 1/5 for the human being 2/5 for the record (and that's generous)
Polished, stylish, well produced and eventually not my cup of tea.
é capaz de ser bom para quem gosta. Não obrigado.
Interesting. Not an album I would have listened to otherwise, but a couple of good tracks.
I like his style in some ways, but can't get past the raunchy content, even in the clean version.
It’s fine. Some really good classic tracks but I don’t think all hit the spot. Wouldn’t choose to have this on really.
413/1089 - Incredible. It switches between pretty great songs and the worst shit I've ever heard. A bit more garbage than gold on this one. For those into classical music, have you noticed classical fans talk about Percy Grainger the same way normal people talk about Kanye?
I tell you one person who’s had some beautiful dark twisted fantasies, Len Houmous. 2.4 3/13 Power
The production on this album is great, but it’s overshadowed by Kanye’s ego. I was rolling my eyes at his perceived slights and crude lyrical attempts before the second track ended. How many times can one person talk about balls and assholes?
This is decent... which is a shame because I'm not into praising antisemitic, Trump supporting, cultural narcissists. It can have a default 4/10 Heard before ❌️ Listened this time ✅️ Revisit ❌️ Default ★★☆☆☆ (4/10) Total reviewed : 244 Already owned : 56 Purchased : 12 To buy list : 4 Nope : 173
I didn’t like this quite as much as college drop out. The themes felt a little more negative. But I still love runaway and Nicki’s verse on monster is unmatched
no me gusta este genero
The 21st Century Schizoid Man sample in Power isn’t that good; you just like the original song
A 2 only for the song “all of the lights”
Meh, pretty boring. Really don’t get why this is so hyped, it’s like GTA music 3 / 10 Alright track: Runaway Terrible track I never want to hear again as long as I live: Blame Game
I think this guy has a really strong God complex. Not sure how that delusion can be justified.
He can rhyme, and create an interesting soundscape. But I don't want to hear songs with caricatures of the worst tropes of segments of society. If this were a movie, I would not want to see it, even if critics rave about it
Not my thing at all so I was expecting to hate it but it wasn’t as bad as I was anticipating.
A little all over the place. Not as good as some others in the genre.
Better than I expected
Musically speaking, it’s really above average. Sadly, the lyrics are typical rap garbage. And as a person who payed zero attention to this clown in his prime, I had no idea his vocals were so bad. Can’t hit the note, can’t hold it. Also, Trump’s butt boy. Fuck him.
Meh 😕
Found it difficult to separate the art from the artist when listening to this, but I tried my best. There are two very, very good tracks (Power, All the Lights), but almost everything else is absolute shite
I liked it one of Kanye's better albums
*A few great songs with otherwise bloated content, much of which is clearly for shock value from an all time terrible human
Meh when it came out. Even more meh now. Huuuuuuuge drop off from his first few albums.
Ei ollut mun juttu Kanye. Yksi biisi (POWER) oli mielestäni hyvä.
The main problem with this album is that its by Kanye West. That aside, it still sucks. The bad songs all somehow lasted ages whereas the alright songs were comparatively shorter unfortunately. I did myself the disservice of reading the lyrics and I was disappointed (but not surprised) to see exactly the sort of stuff I was expecting- bad language just for the sake of it and misogyny.
I'm finding it hard to separate my hatred for Kanye West from this album. Some songs were good, however some were awful. 2.5 rounded down
insanely good hip hop brought down by a massive ego
Not a bad album for kanye
I like other Kanye better. I like other music better. I think the middle school locker room aura has tainted the listening experience a bit for me.
Great beats but the flow seems ill-timed and just random over top
blegh
nice production, cool beats, good flow, but too self-indulgent. had to give up about 2/3 of the way through
Rap's Topographic Oceans album. Couple of decent tracks but then the rest are just bloated.
It started off ok. Not great and not terrible. A little disjointed as songs felt like they kind of got distracted or lost focus. It’s like the album is off its meds.
These things leave me somewhat disappointed, I get to hear modern masterpieces and it’s kinda middle of the road pop r&b/rap vanilla. It’s well produced but don’t think much of the actual substance of the damn thing. Don’t know much about him to be fair as artist or person, can’t say he hits me with any distinction vocal stylings and strike me as a bit well, ok, average, middle of the road pop. As said it definitely well produced and structured, which reading the comments is down to him. It’s supposedly raw and honest and personal but I found the content to be quite predictable, always the expected and cliched, the usual hedonism, celebrity, self promotion, American dream crap, me me yawn. It’s ok, I preferred his last effort I heard on here more, as it was less predictable, finding this one somewhat overrated, 2 Star.
Not bad but Ye is a nob isn’t he? Bit done with this now I don’t think I’ll ever listen to this again I haven’t finished it and don’t think I will
Gostei mais da capa do que do álbum. Kanye é péssimo no pessoal e médio no profissional.
- Ugh, yet another creep on this list. - Some interesting production and melodic ideas. - I don’t like his voice, so that makes his stuff harder to like. Also, the lyrics are all about him or his misogyny, so it’s a creep talking about himself. Pretty hard to separate the art from the artist when the art is about the artist. - This album felt way too long, especially the second half - the first half was way better than the second half.
Some moments but I just can't deal with all the self destructive bs posing as life.
I survived the listen. It’s ok party or club noise but the lyrics are pointless trash in most songs. Runaway is by far the most memorable. The rest was meh.
Fuck. The music and the production is incredible. Second to none. When All of the lights come on i get chills. MOST of the people he got to work on this were incredibly smart and added so much to this. Rihanna, Bon Iver. fucking nicki minaj. Don't even get me started. The rapping is absolutely dog shit. the lyrics are hard to listen to even without the foresight of 2026. The humor is completely gone, but he still delivers it like he is funny. but the worst is I hate this. I hate what has become of this legacy. I hate how much of a complete ass he is here and I hate how he became so so much worse. I just listen to this and think what his mother would have thought of all of this. It just makes me mad I can't listen to this anymore, and I am mad that this list made me listen to it again.
This is supposed to be the masterpiece everyone talks about? The legendary album that cemented Kanye’s legacy? Look I don’t doubt the beats here but every goddamn song on this album is about just what a shithead he is, unrepentant, unwilling to admit any sense of fault. In retrospect we all should have been willing to see through his bullshit right here because he does nothing less than admit to what a waste of space he is. But we bought it hook line and sinker. It’s competent and the beats are good but that’s all I can give it.
Meh - not the biggest fan anyway and the album feels long and bloated. Monster is the standout track, Runaway is now meme famous but so long and a bit tedious.
I don’t know if the story happened quite like this, but some accounts claim Bob Dylan kicked Phil Ochs out of a limo with the line: you’re not a folk singer, you’re a journalist. It’s a low blow, because nobody likes a journalist, and who, now, even likes Phil Ochs. I’m not sure what Dylan meant by folk singer, but in the years after that 1965 spat he did far more than sing Froggie Went A Courtin. His supposedly non-journalistic style ricocheted between confessional, surreal, spiteful. On Highway 61 Revisited - which we’ve already talked about - he was frequently cruel about his circle, his fans, his lovers. Yet somewhere in all that meanness and evasiveness he occasionally found something universal. A kind of reporting on his own life that, paradoxically, spoke to many. Kanye West, here, is neither folk singer nor journalist. He is - very much of the time - a blogger: oversharing, ephemeral, convinced of his own significance, demanding to be read. The idea that time has treated him unfairly - that the present Kanye has somehow contaminated the legacy of the 2010 Kanye - is wrong. There is only ever the present for him, and the material on this album is now stranded in the past, cut off from the only temporal mode he understands. His enthusiasms were fleeting. His collaborators of the moment. Nothing here steps outside of that moment. If you weren’t plugged into Kanye’s world in 2010, the whole thing now feels oddly weightless. And who would dare to care about Kanye West in 2025. There is so little reflection that there is no possibility of insight. On Blame Game he recounts events but never interrogates them, as though admission were understanding. On Toast the closest he comes to analysis is that line about sending an unsolicited photo, followed by a shrugging acknowledgement of incompetence with women. But he doesn't know why. It’s not introspection. It’s barely a diary entry. It's certainly not meaningful. West ends up reminding me most of Trent Reznor. Both are strong technicians and producers - the maximalist music here, certainly isn't bad, but the vocals are often muddy and that sample of 21st Century Schizoid Man feels anaemic beside the original - who nevertheless have to say something, so they drag insecurities and boasts from their private diaries. Reznor at least mined his teenage notebooks, so vague and raw that Johnny Cash could recontextualise them later, they were something listeners could inhabit. We were all teenagers once. Many of us while be old and dying eventually. My Beautiful Dark Fantasy exists only for Kanye West, and only in 2010. Some listeners will pore over it - as Dylanologists pore over arcana and Swifties build taxonomies - but West’s combination of vast ego and minimal self-awareness makes for a shallow puddle to stare into. It is a long way from Public Enemy - the Black CNN - to this kind of self-involvement. But it isn’t folk singing. Folk singing is for ever. 2 I have never listened to a Kanye West album before. I am of course aware of his status as one of Western Civilisation’s leading manchildren, but the only music of his that I know is Gold Digger. ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ is entirely new to me, excepting POWER which I recognise from somewhere but had never really listened to before. My first impression is that it’s an indulgent mess although I can admit a little surprise that there is so much attempted music splattered everywhere. Of course I was bound to say something like that because as I learned from reading a few critics on this album MBDTF is a ‘Magnum Opus’. It’s Kanye West’s fifth album and represents a synthesis of unique ideas and styles that the previous four records had been building towards. One does not simply dander into a Magnum Opus and expect to have a good time. You shouldn’t start your journey in Richard Wagner, for example, with Tristan und Isolde; it’s even longer than MBDTF and very difficult to make sense of. You’ll probably come out at the end, if you make it that far, and say, as Clara Schumann did after her first time, ‘Wagner is shite, folks must be on crack if they think this is good music.’ The Magnum Opus thing will be completely lost on you. So what should I do to get into Richard Wagner, you may ask? Great question Kanye West fans. I would point you to the Preludes first and a good Ring Highlights - Karajan’s maybe. There is also the Tannhäuser Overture which some would call Wagner’s Gold Digger. Tannhäuser is also a good start for the first full album/opera. You Kanye fans think you know hoes but if you don’t know Venus… Anyway when you finally make it round to Tristan and find that y’all feeling that shit - you’re welcome. 1.5/5
I feel like it's not for me. Sampling is interesting in times, but nothing keeps me going back.
Dark Fantasy 3 Gorgeous 2.7 Power 3 All of the Lights (interlude) n/a All of the Lights 2.8 Monster 1.3 So Appalled 1.5 Devil in a New Dress 1.6 Runaway 2.4 Hell of a Life 2 Blame Game 2.1 Lost in the World 1.8 Who Will Survive in America 1.6 Score: 2.15
So, he sucked BEFORE he went full nazi.
So when I saw this album as today’s selection I was prepared to do my usual when I get hip(perty) hop(perty) (c)rap music and seriously slag it off. I might be wrong here but I don’t associate Kanye West with gangster rap likely to shoot me in a drive by, threaten to burn my house down or sexually abuse my mum. This favourable impression was improved when I read reviews and the wiki entry. Couldn’t believe my eyes when it was described as progressive rap influenced by The Beatles and Pink Floyd. As a Prog Rock fanboy this did really prick my interest and convinced me not to be so dismissive. The album started well with some good melodies which was good but out of the blue came a King Crimson sample of 21st Centuary Schizoid Man. Unfortunately after this the album did degenerate back to your normal hip hop stuff. Apart from one or two Prog Rock style length tracks, as far as I could tell that was about as proggy as it got. Still, compared with the excessive number of hip hop rap albums on this list, I can safely say that so far this is my favourite which is meagre praise. For that reason it scores more than my normal one star. Album 700 tomorrow. Let’s hope it’s a good one. Does Steven Wilson feature at all on this list? 2/5 1/12/25
Quelques morceaux cool mais c’est Kanye et c’est un humain destestable
I like exactly one song from this album, and that's it. The fact that he's a loser and has a fanbase made of rabid bootlickers doesn't help either.
Look, it has some good songs, but not a single one is something i wanna hear again. Rap normally its not my type, but i like a few ones, and i always come back to it. But this one i wont return, i thing this one listening was enough.
Eh, the other one was better. Some decent enough tracks, but instantly loses a star for featuring Rihanna, drop another for being Kanye and there's not many stars I can actually give it. Does he show some self awareness in sampling 21st Century Schizoid Man?
I have a hard time separating the Artist from the Art on this one, didn't blow me away.
Doesn’t sound good now looking back after the person Ye has now become. Lyrics seem to be hitting out at a lot of people which scream a fragile ego
Meh
Meh... Overrated
Gosto muito de Hip Hop mas KW não é um artista que me interessa. O álbum é OK musicalmente. TRI x HBB Kai.
This was ok, but I never was a huge fan of him. Nowadays, I am the exact opposite of a fan of this guy. But this album was ok.
Kan ikke si jeg skjønner hvor all hypen bak dette albumet kommer fra. Er helt ok, tidvis ganske bra, men lite som virkelig imponerer. Det er et par øyeblikk som virkelig tester tolmodigheten - slutten på Runaway bare gikk og gikk med det samme trøtte partiet, og slutten på Blame Game var... dust. Slår et slag for POWER som var den eneste låten jeg hadde hørt fra før. Hadde alle låtene vært mer som den så hadde jeg skjønt det. Lå og vippa mellom 2 og 3. Siden fyren er nazi runder jeg ned. 🫠
2 out of 5. Not a fan and still not after this album. I get why people love it and on its own it does stand out.
Man, this is a tough one. I had to unblock his music for this. A very strong performance from a very unwell and bad person. Do you separate art from artist? It’s like rating a Chris Benoit match. No, I can’t. What would be a 4 star album (the Chris Rock skit is too long) gets a 2. Power is my favorite song
I don’t get it and I never will. That’s okay. You can’t get everything, where would you put it. The production is good
Kitchen sink production that is charming at first. Big, recognisable hits that are well-cemented into culture albeit through stupid online memes and the opening of Saints Row 3 are the reason that I know these songs. Outside of those songs, only So Appalled really appealed to me. As for the rest of the album? It's too long, too bloated, over-produced and grating at times. I can't deny the talent of Kanye's production but I really didn't care for this, it gets outright bad towards the end especially on Runaway and Blame Game, the former for the godawful vocoder outro and the latter for the skit at the end both of which compelled me to skip to the next song. No repeat listen on this one, I did not enjoy it. Highlights: Power, So Appalled
boring blowhard stuff
Ugly transparent and far too real. Just taking great production talented singers and musicians and letting your sweary rap loose isn't a great album. It's just very boring. Worst rap album ive had to listen to so far though clearly very expensively produced. Nothing raw, little to amuse, and full of egotistical rambling.
Power and Runaway are bangers, the album as a whole is way too long. Not going to actively revisit this one though because reasons
This is my first time listening to a Kanye album. I feel a bit mixed, the production if amazing but his flow has always bothered me. I'd say it was far better than I thought it would be but not for me. Ignoring the complete mental breakdown from him lately, I definitely can understand why this album is held in high regard. I think the saving grace for this album is there is much less Kanye on it than I expected.
That's nonsensical.
Lots of rappin'
fantastic beats. fantastic guest vocals. generally not a fan of his flow and his constant self-aggrandizement is exhausting. only made harder to listen to by his non-stop idiocy in real life. i do actually really like "Power", and not exclusively because of the King Crimson samples. 2 stars.
I don’t listen to Rap/Hip hop, I’m out of my depth. Some of the music was cool but was very repetitive and the rapping gets overwhelming quick
Tää oli melkein raskaampi kokemus ku Napalm Death. Alkuun oli pari kivaa taustabiittiä, mutta kaiken pilas Kanyen ja kavereiden lässytys. En tiedä onko tää jotenkin vallankumouksellista kamaa aikanaan, mutta näin maallikon korvin tuntuu että tätä samaa geneeristä menoa on tehty jo vähintään kolmatta vuosikymmentä. Nykyinen ulkomusiikillinen Kanye huomattavasti viihdyttävämpi. Hämmentävintä on kuitenkin se, että miten ihmeessä kaveri on miljoonansa (miljardinsa?) tehnyt. 1 xtra tähti hyvästä yrityksestä.
good album, awful person.
Yritetty lähestyä avoimin mielin, mutta ei vaan iske omaan korvaan. Laadukkaasti tuotettu kuitenkin, ja yritetty "kaikkee jännää" joten ei kehtaa antaa ihan 1 tähteä
Kayen hippiduhop ei oikein iske. Tylsää. Toisaalta tavallaan ehkä ymmärrän miksi levy on listalla. Samalla kova huoli Biancasta.
Vihdoin sain tietää mistä yksi hyvä spinningtunnin biisi on, siitä lisäpiste. Pari hyvää biisiä, jos tietoisesti unohtaa itse Kanyen sekoilut vuosien varrella. Vähän outo levy.
Vahinkoarvio :)
Kanye moment. It has POWER so that's why it's here. It's fine, but nothing particularly standout otherwise. I just don't like rap I guess.
If we could rate his music only we would give it a 5. But he is about the worst person alive, which is really saying something. I often wonder would his music be so good if he weren't so crazy?
At best, there were some zinger lines. Some auto-tuned basic lyrics, unoriginal melodies, and nothing that I see deserves to be on this list. The "best" song was only my favorite because it had more talented artists included.
I am not the target audience for this, and I'm not convinced there is a target audience for this. I think the dude just did his own thing and doesn't care what others think, so props for that. But also, yeah, I won't be listening to this again.
Power is good. Didnt like much more than that.
Silloin ei kanye ollut näin hullu, köpö kuitenkin. Kyllä tämän kerran kuuuntelee. Narsistinen paska se silti on.
most overrated album of all time probably dark fantasy, devil in a new dress and runaway are the only good songs the rest is the type of shit drake would get clowned on if hed written it
Second Kanye album from the generator and I'm starting to realize all the music dudes online lied about this album being one of the best albums of all time. It's not even one of the best rap albums of all time. The samples on some songs were really cool but the rest was meh. If it wasn't Kanye, the album would've been cooler but sadly it is him 2/5
Hard to listen to with his current public persona. Impossible to seperate art from the artist with songs like runaway ☠️
15 years ago I would have rated this 5 stars. Truly is a work of art. However, being unable to separate the art from the artist, MBDTF gets two stars. A star was added to the rating to take into account the artistry of the album, but Ye’s past work doesn’t get a pass from me for his hurtful and idiotic comments today.
Kanye West-My Dark Twisted Fantasy Incredibly underwhelming album. Wonderful production and technical aspects but the lyrics are trite and often insipid and Kanye is an incredibly monotonous rapper.
Overraskede egentligt positivt ved at være mere melodisk end forventet. Men albummet var for langt.
Not my thing really but appreciate the craft and the production quality. However, Kanye is a dick, to say the least.
Love him or hate him, the dude can turn a phrase. The problem is that the songs are covering the same ole boring hip hop stories we've all heard countless times. While I personally get no enjoyment out of hearing people drop bars, no matter how good they are at it, I do respect that he has a good ear for catchy instrumentals and song structures. I would never choose to listen to this album, but I can easily understand why those who love this genre would. So, it makes sense that this would be included. As an aside, the thing I find the funniest about him is that people seem surprised by his behaviors. Particularly recent hijinks but he always seemed to be that kind of trail mix where you never knew what you were going to get. In his early years, I think that people just kept looking past his extreme behavior because they assumed they were just calculated publicity and marketing stunts to generate awareness and interest in his music. On the other hand maybe they always were?
Innehåller ju flera av hitsen, men av princip så blir det lägre rating
Maaaaaan, idk. Maybe I could get into an earlier album more. A lot of other artists featured on here and they were great. Rick Ross was INCREDIBLE. Had some standout lines that will definitely make it into my regular usage. “I wear my pride on my sleeve like a bracelet If God had an iPod, I'd be on his playlist” “Cause you haters got PhDs Y'all just some major haters and some math minors“ “I call you bitch for short”— “you call me asshole for long”
This is now the second of this style of hip-hop on this journey I've gone through. It seems to be very similar in that it's "triumphant" with some hints of soul. Reminds me of that late 2000s/early 2010 sound. It isn't for me especially how cocky Kanye is.
That’s an hour and two minutes too much of Kanye. Lots of F’-ing and N’-ering throughout, no surprise there. Significantly better than The College Dropout, but he’s still a jackass, no surprise there either, and a little further up his own ass than earlier in his career. Best track is All Of The Lights. Highest I can go is (2.3*s) His rhymin’ is still ridiculous, but maybe now he realizes that…
Kanye steps it up on this release compared to his debut. The man got beats and the package did sellll, but delivery be weaker than the US Maillll...huuuuh? At least this DB got somewhat real and is "So Appalled" with his ridiculous (dickless, dickless, dickless) lifestyle after the fortune/fame and tells women to "Runaway" cause he is a "Monster" (Top Track). Glad the skits were cut from this record and having Chris Rock cameo was a highlight. Need to be careful of artists with album titles such as this one. They are coming out of the woodworks with twisted, dark secret lives. I expect to see Mr. West on this list again amongst others (Epstein). "Who Will Survive America?" These days, I really don't know but be careful what Yeezy teaches you...2.35 stars.
Not as good as the prior Kanye entry. He's got some clever lyrics sprinkled in here and there, but otherwise MBDTF did little to keep me interested. The highlight of this album was Monster, and specifically Nicki Minaj's segment. Beyond this song nothing really stuck with me. Perhaps his schtick had mostly worn off by this point in his career? 2.04 stars
Largely forgettable
Good but I wouldn’t go out of my way to listen to again. Plus, he’s a horrible person.
I tried putting off, listening to this album as I could, bit the bullet and listened to to it. It was not as bad as I anticipated it would be; however not my kind of music; I am not asking for a refund today.
I’m conflicted. Definitely like some of the songs but I just can’t get behind Kanye now that he’s a crazy trump supporter
4/10 I must be as soft as lily white marshmallow, ready to melt in the salty rain of my liberal tears, but the lyrics are horrendous! It's porn, not art. What on earth do they say that is of any value? I mean, not everything has to be Dylan, but hell, this stuff is just filthy. Musically I was pleasantly surprised. Ok, so it is kind of 1 idea, tweak it once and that'll be another song done, but it was alright. But jeez, those lyrics are disgusting.
I don’t like the man. That said, there were parts of the album I enjoyed.
Ég vissi auðvitað að ég væri að fara að hlusta á rappplötu og bjóst við að þurfa að þrauka þessa en hún var bara allt í lagi og vann á alveg þar til Kanye tók Iron Man söngstefið í lagi un klámstjörnuást. Þá hrundi allt álitið sem var búið að byggjast upp.
Who can listen to Kanye anymore?
Didn’t listen bc I can’t stand Kanye as a human
Despite liking some of these, they're all mostly terrible
Musically catchy and some great lyrics.
Not for me
Self indulgent to a fault. Album and songs are not tight. Cutting out some of the fluff would make this a much better listening experience. Gotta give credit to the strong production and guest appearances though. I did think the black balls and fish dicks lines were pretty funny though. 2.5, not a big fan but production was worth listening to. I get why its on the list. I round down. 1=Crap that shouldn't be here 2=I didn't like it but get why it's here 3=I thought it was ok or even like it, get why it's here, but won't revisit 4=I like it, will revisit 5=This is some of the best music I've ever heard and will continue listening to it
"Nazi" "Nicki" and "Minaj" being some of the top keywords explains everything
Ist nicht meins
TJ music
Not as good as I thought it would be
Ok. I can see why it is rated it still feels innovative in use of samples and the music but the lyrical content is same old.
Didn’t mind it, just not my thing. Feel alike a lot of the lyrics and designed more to shock than convey a point or perspective. Won’t be listening again
As someone who doesn't care a lot about hip-hop pretty much all I know about this guy is that he either is an actual fucking nazi, or thinks it's cool to adopt a nazi image for shock value, but also makes the best music in the genre by miles and people generally hate to love him. After listening to this album, I sort of get it? This is fantastically produced and sure might be as good as hip-hop gets, and if I enjoyed this sort of thing more it'd have to be an easy 5. But alas, it still just isn't my cup of tea, so I don't even have to worry about separating the art from the artist when I give this idiot a low score.
Alright I knew it was coming, I’ve never listened to it, here we go. First song is pretty good, gorgeous is atrocious. Power has a good chorus, the rest of the song is so boring. All of the lights interlude is really swell, loved that, but all of the lights the real song? Another good chorus ruined by the rest of the song, what the hell is that drum throughout the whole thing? Monster continues the trend of just a horrible song. So bad. You ever had sex with a pharaoh???? Only enjoyable part of so appalled was that I realized Kendrick interpolates it on Hiiipower, a far superior song. Devil was a great instrumental but a boring song. Don’t get me started on Runaway, if I ever have to hear one of my students play an E on a piano ever again I’m quitting. Hell of a life interpolates iron man? And then what is this butchering of Avril 14???? Blame game is the worst song on here I did not need to hear one of my favorite songs of all time with Kanye talking about choking a woman and then Chris Rock talking about new parts of the pussy over it. This Bon Iver track is really good though. Who will survive in America kinda caps it off nicely. I cannot fathom why most people think this is a 10/10 masterpiece of an album. Forget Kanye being a Nazi, that’s its own shit but this album made me so angry. People have been yelling at Fantano for years over giving this album a 6/10, that’s like 2 too high. I’m glad it inspired a generation or whatever, it sounds like shit on first listen in 2025. How is this my brothers favorite album. At least a lot of the lyrics are really funny and the production is incredible (except for that drum on all of the lights) I have to agree with Mr Fantano that this album probably rules if you care about Kanye lore and have been following and heavily invested in his personal life but that is not me
Joa
Second Kanye album for me. Just as mediocre as the first one. No idea why this guy is considered a legend.
I've never listened to a Kanye album. At this point, I have too many opinions about the man to appreciate his music. As an old white man, I can't have too much to say about this anyway. I've never appreciated what sounds to me like misogyny. I did appreciate the King Crimson sample on "Power".
Fantano is right. It's not that good. And if you think it's one of the best of all time that's fine. I'll just know your in the cult. Kanye has always been a strange one to me. He's massively influential and that's where my love for him starts and ends. He is my favorite artists favorite artist and I'll always be grateful for that but I just don't like 90% of what he does. There are some brilliant moments here and there but before you know it is on some bullshit again. Like on the 2nd song why are all the vocals slathered in some shitty filter. Why do we need that? But then runaway comes on and it's a perfect song. I don't understand. And in the year of our lord 2025 I don't understand how people can still live in this cult of personality. He's not a good guy but then again I don't think any celebrity is good really anyway. But he's a mentally ill man who we point cameras at 24/7 and then laugh at the insanity. It does really suck. Kanye isn't great but Kanye is Kanye and that's kinda it.
This is, I feel, the moment that Kanye's true colors showed in his music - if they didn't even show sooner. The beats are produced well, of course, but you only need to listen to a few songs before you realize that the mastermind behind it is a sex pest obsessed with garnering attention. I wish I could give it lower than a 2, but that's the awful truth of it: the music -is- good.
The first half was honestly so good. Power is such a banger. But the back half of the album had so much misogyny that no beat could pull me back and make me enjoy the album.
Definitely using a private session for this....individual. A challenge to separate the art from the artist. Uncomfortable use of the N word and a lot of misogyny , music isn't off putting, but everything else is. I can't.
Some ok
Argh. This album actually isn’t bad for hiphop, and has almost none of the aversive sound effects that usually put me off, but I can’t quite get past the pornographic cover art and all the artist’s hate speech to let it have a 3.
Another album that I tried several times but just couldn’t get into despite all the “special guests” Of course we all now know Kanye is a total bellend which doesn’t help!
Took a listen but not able to call myself a fan!
Não gosto de rap/hip hop. Em todo o caso, no álbum há uma ou duas canções aceitáveis de se ouvir.
It takes a truly unique talent to take the riff/melody of Black Sabbath’s Iron Man and turn it into a song as shit as Hell Of A Life. In 2010 streaming hadn’t become dominant yet, so there’s a lot of filler to make that CD seem value for money. There are good bits, but they are like needles in a haystack of auto-tuned self-pity and keyboard trumpet noises
Had some good songs but so much of this is him talking about how great he is. Stand-out: Lost in the World
Hard to listen to in light of recent events.
Not a fan of RNB and hip-hop still.
Beats good, dislike the lyrics
Dude. “Pussy and religion is all I need” is such a sad lyric. I did not enjoy this album, possibly because of who Kanye has revealed himself to be over time. Big ick
Trying to separate the art from the artist here... It's a little difficult, and I can't honestly say that I am without bias here... That being said, I do not understand why this album gets the automatic 5/5 "best album" treatment. I can see some of the interesting pieces, the flow is pretty solid throughout. But some of the tracks are of a maximalism style that I just don't love, and I'm shocked to see how many people don't share that opinion. Also, a lot of the lyrics in this album are very corny. There is a constant argument I hear floating around hip-hop circles about lyricism vs rapping ability, and I feel like this album is an amazing example that an artist's flow is at least 75% of the success of an album. Kanye has good flow. He's a real piece of shit, and he spends a sizable amount of time on this album complaining about how hard it is to be him, all the people against him, etc. etc. And yes, in 2010, I thought, the African American from Chicago, making it big in the music industry probably did have a lot of enemies, hating him, for no real reason... But now, looking back with 2025 eyes, he was always a real egotistical asshole, so those who hated him in the industry probably did for a good reason. Separated art from Artist I'd be hard pressed to give this a 3/5. Without separation, this is a 1/5. Kanye needs to get some help. I'll rate it 2/5. It'll get plenty of 1s for those who can't separate, and I understand that. It'll get plenty of 5s for those who enjoy the beat style, and don't hear lines like "If you don't really care middle finger in the air if you don't really care it's like that sometime man ridiculous. life can be sometimes ridiculous." as whack.
He’s a very sick individual who occasinally makes good music. I just never listen to it freely - not only because he’s that person, but also because I really never cared about this type of music - it doesn’t really move me emotionally
Pretty good. Monster is a good song and Nikki Minaj is a surprisingly welcome addition. Power is also good, though it leans heavily on the King Crimson sample. However, Ye has clearly leant to far into the album title and his choices now cloud his earlier work (for us).
Leider gute Musik aber Werk vom Künstler nicht trennbar.
The imagery of bruising a woman’s oesophagus is not something I want in my head. It also passes up the chance to rhyme sarcophagus with “Mr Snuffleupagus”.
This album raises the Leni Riefenstahl problem. She was a gifted German filmmaker in the 1930s. Her most significant work was "Triumph of the Will," a mesmerizing depiction of Nazi rallies in Nurnberg that was, above all things, a propaganda triumph for Hitler. She never repented of her work. Comparing people to Nazis is usually a pointless way to end reasonable discussion of an issue. But here, West is now a self-confessed Nazi. So the comparison seems apt. How does one assess his work in light of the fact that he is a thoroughly odious stain of a human being? Musically, it's got a lot going for it. But I can't get over the artist's moral depravity. Maybe this would be a harder call for me if it involved a morally problematic artist from my own youth such as Michael Jackson.
I don't like Nazis, so I didn't listen to this album beyond the Spotify-given clips. It sounded fine, I guess.
I don’t like Kanye. As a person. He’s a diuchebag. And it’s hard to listen to his music without picturing his stupid face and thinking about how much I dislike him. But I gave this two hard listens. I like his collab songs with others more than I like him by himself. In the end, though, there are only two or three songs on this album I’d gladly listen to again.
This guy is a piece of shit. The music is alright. I wasn’t much interested it back in 2010- sure am not now.
more rap, but not terrible - includes King Crimson sample
Non fa per me, non mi piace
Difficult to listen to someone who has become a Nazi.
I don't think I've ever heard the P-word on an album as much as I have on this one. The production sounded good, but I'm not into this.
Never heard this album before, probably won’t listen to it again. Scratch that, I’m sure some trainer on Peleton will mix this into the next cycle class. Ho hum.
Elements of this were OK. The overall music was good, the supporting vocals were good, production good. Then the rapping began! Tolerated it for a bit but had to turn off. I am no fan of hip hop. I don't like it, I don't get it. Because Elements of it were OK it gets 2 stars
Reiferes Rap Album. Weniger N-Worte und mehr Musik und mehr Melodie verbunden mit netten Experimenten. Diese Mischung macht es, trotz des schwierigen Genres teilweise hörbar. „All of The Lights“, „Runaway“ und „Blame Game” versprühen einen Hauch von Musik.
Not for me
Interesting. Music quite good. Lyrics interesting but not usually my thing - but also not a put-off
Meh. Not necessarily my thing.
I don't know... this just isn't my cup of tea. Just from a production standpoint I feel like it's all too over produced. And I don't think I can separate what I know about what kind of person Kanye is from his music. Not sure he can be separated though because who he is really comes through in his lyrics. Sexist, megalomaniac. I enjoyed "Runaway" because I once used it in a Bud Light spot and the Bon Iver track was ok.
Didn't think it was good. Rhymes were so-so. Production was nice. First Kanye album I've ever listened to but I do trend towards JARV and Aesop Rock and Blackalicious more.
Lots of noise and beats. Runaway was okay
Not a Kanye fan at all, but Power and All of the Lights are certified stadium bangers, the rest is kinda forgettable for me. Loved the instrumentals for most of the songs but I hate his voice in most of them
Not an interesting album by Kanye standards. It takes the spirit of Graduation and Dropout (both amazing albums) to push recycled tropes in a directionless manner. The album intro: an airy voice providing a bit of non-sense narration has been done sooo many times. But does he do something inventive? Does she become a character like on ATCQ:Midnight Marauders? No. Does she reappear later to provide insight or relatability? No. Does she provide any value at all besides clicking off the cliche check-box? No. She's included only to say: what follows is semi-clever fully-confused claptrap. This is just the first three seconds, I know. But everything on here is a rehash, and it just gets boring. Unacceptable for anyone calling themselves the GOAT.
Mir ist dieser Rap etwas zu funky.
Slightly annoying that some of the tracks on this are really quite good (e.g. POWER) because the guy is clearly an absolute bell.
Well, that was something. Another recording where it felt that not only was it not intended for me but it was explicitly not intended for an audience of people like me. From what I have learned, this album represented a change in direction for Kanye West. Quite an array of contributors. The anger over injustice is intertwined with self importance and sex. Still a lot of talent, but I don't need to hear KW's whole catalog in my life.
Jeg var ganske spent på det albumet her siden jeg elsker Power, men det her gjorde ikke så mye for meg as. Ikke så overraskende, det er langt ifra min sjanger. Jeg satte pris på skalaen på albumet og generelt hvor mye variasjon det er i ideene, men det blir litt slitsomt og repetetivt i lengden. Hadde sikkert fått en annen mening etter flere lytt, men får se om det blir noe av mer av det. Beste sanger: Power, Dark Fantasy og All of the Lights
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I'm going to (attempt to) ignore the fact that Kanye is kind of a piece of shit for this review. I'm trying to give this a fair shot. Dark Fantasy is a decent album opener - I'll give Kanye credit for surrounding himself with lots of talent. My only note on this one is that Kanye must be absolutely tone deaf. His rapping has always been his talent, but he can't hit a note to save his life. Gorgeous is boring. I'm torn about Power. On one hand, it does a really interesting job taking a classic King Crimson song and transforming a song around it to modernize the sound. On the other hand, King Crimson did all the hard work here. How much of the reason that this is a good song is because of people other than Kanye? All of the Lights is fine until, again, Kanye tries to sing. Fergie is great on this track. It is a good song overall. Monster and So Appalled are fine. Very rap, which isn't really my genre. All the substance of Devil in a New Dress is sampled. I think Runaway is the first genuinely great song on the album. For as long as it is, it's cohesive and impactful. Hell of a Life isn't a huge standout for me, but I do think it's a significantly better use of sampling than some of the other songs on the album. The inspiration/borrowed melodies and sounds are obvious, but the song is still original; it's not just rapping over a backing track of someone else's song. Blame Game is not interesting. The outro spoken word part is gross. Lost in the World is actually pretty good. Thank you to Bon Iver for the melody and sample on this one. Kanye's ego is absolutely fucking ridiculous. Anyone who didn't see his complete psychotic breakdown coming, even back at this point, is deluded. There are moments when I can see what people mean by his "artistry" on this album, but his head is too far up his own ass most of the time to let a song, never mind an album, be completely good. Credit where credit is due; Kanye can put together a solid group of talent. The best songs on this album had some heavy lifting by other artists and sampling. Unfortunately, I don't think this proves that Kanye is a good artist, and I don't know that I can call this a good album. 2.5
More musically varied and interesting than I was expecting. Found the language in the lyrics difficult and alienating, although it does explore a concept and is a proper album. And it’s too long!
Tracks: No matter how creative the programming - robot music leaves me feeling cold. Rhymes: Is the threshold for being considered a genius making 30% of your lyrics meaningful and interesting?
Not listened before, better than expected but not my thing.
first album okay - can we get much higher??? middle was kinda ehhh i think all of the lights is okay tbh like idk didn’t speak to me monster is kinda gas LMFAO WHAT IS NICKI DOING HERE BYEEE didn't really speak to me unfortunately
He's really not the genius he says he is.
I try to listen to it as how a fan of this genre would. I guess it would be great, but it's just not for me. I gave up a few songs in. Make no mistake, I do listen to rap, the Filipino artists like Moro Beats, but Kanye is, well, Kanye. And life is too short to listen to music that doesn't move you.
I really did not like this album. There were moments that were ok, but every song felt two-three minutes too long. It wasn’t like the songs were dynamic enough to warrant how they just went on and on. Also I’m not sure if I’m supposed to sympathize with Kanye’s inability to see women as human beings, but that’s the vibe I got.
It was all right, but my cultural background prevented me from really getting into the lyrical content. I have to say that the sampling and his flow was nice
I don't like the man, only sampled the first couple of songs, and rap is not my thing but I can see how this album would be appealing to those who do like it. This would be on the higher end of the over-abundance of rap albums offered up here. 2.5/5
I tried but I can’t get around my dislike for Kayne.
All the lights by Kanye West has some sounds that kinda sound like wooden drums like the ones you would use in elementary school. Or it could be digital but either way its very interesting. It adds a nice complement to the other instruments and it sounds up-beat. Nice back-up vocals also. I would say I would recommend this album.
Best Song: POWER Worst Song: Ball Game
better than i thought itd be at the start? i started to enjoy it with whoever was on those female vocals, seccond song with what i assume is kanyes vocals seems less fun, but its fine. song 3 - kinda hard to listen to, i tend to like hip hop but this is a bit rough, way less good than i expected seeing the reviews.. 5? really? i dont see that yet. song 5 - its fine, i feel like it gets better whenever kanye isnt singing but when he comes back it gets mid again, bit of an issue that is. wtf is monster this intro is ass - this album is so shit lmfao i undestand the beats are fun, but this is really not for me wtf this is so uncanny - AGAIN kanye shuts the fuck up and the music gets better - get it niki fucking get it HAHA maybe i just hate men idk these vocals are just not hitting it for me im so appalled by song 7 look at me im funny PLEASE this album is shitty intro to song 8 is fun okay okay icu runaway is a bit of a banger, heard it before, but its nothing like the rest of the album and its sill a bit mid its fine i guess, nothing ill listen to again.
More pop than hip-hop and more diversified and therefore more listenable than other hip-hop/rap albums. But still not my prefered gengre and way too long.
A little better than the previous one I listened to. Two Kanye albums in the same week is torture...
I tried to come at this one objectively putting aside how I feel about the man. Putting aside biases towards the artist, I still didn't love this one. Some Kanye admittedly slaps. This album just didn't do it for me.
This one didn’t do anything for me.
If I’m being honest, I’m not really a fan of rap music but I’ve always believed that any genre of music can produce something worthy of listening to. Sadly this isn’t one of those occasions. Perhaps my judgement is a little coloured by negativity surrounded by this artist, although I don’t know much about West apart from allegations of misogyny and violence. To its credit the production is slick and many of the tracks tuneful but then he starts rapping. I can appreciate that this is a form of poetry and there’s certain skill attached to its composition and performance, but as an ageing white man I can find no cultural connection to this apart froma sample of 21st Century Schizoid Man.
I didn’t hate it as much as I thought I would.
This stinks.
I expected it to be awful but it was more just sad, especially the song with Nicky Minaj and the one after. Some people really can’t handle getting famous.
Ye the producer 10/10 Ye the artist 2/10
Enjoyed "Dark Fantasy" and "Monster." Other tracks not so much--just as douchy as the dude.
Highlight: Lost In The World In a nutshell: maximalist hip-hop. There is a lot of copy-paste song format here: find a sample or beat you like- even if it sounds similar to another track you've laid- and loop it. Add anything that sounds shit hot- synth horn, hand drums, vocoder, a Gospel choir, piano. Get your mates involved. Go apeshit. Make it regal, big, unapologetic. Keep shaping it til it sounds perfect. Repeat. I sense a mania in the music- in production and execution- that I didn't hear in The College Dropout. It's definitely bloated, half the songs are over 5 minutes. One has an (unfunny) skit outro featuring Chris Rock. This sounds like one of those albums an artist needed to make to redefine and refine themselves. Kanye is an expert at shaking up shit. I appreciate the ambition, it's not my thing. But it's worth a listen. It's unique and a product of its time. Overall: 4/10
So as usual with Kanye the production is great but sine of his rhymes are just too cringe. This doesn't seem as impactful as College Dropout though
Not as good as I expected. Somewhere between Kanye's old soul sample style and the minimalism of 808s etc and I am not sure if this works. I think I prefer either approaches on their own. Don't think I will play this ever again. Also, with 2024 ears, it is hard not to hear the nastier tone than Kayne has in voice (and lyrics) these days, already kind of being in there.
Keeping the fact Kanye is a problematic character aside... This isn't a great album. It's fine but not even one of Kanye's best let alone one of the greatest albums of all time.
Qué raro
The self importance permeates this one all the way through. 2.3 stars
Eh
Honestly wasn't half bad (That is a lot coming from somebody who's "worst" genre is hip-hop.) "Runaway" is a standout for me, featuring a twinkling piano melody and fantastic incorporation of samples. In fact, I would argue that the album was well written. That said, Kanye West is a disillusioned Nazi and antisemite. Whenever I'm listening to his tracks, I remember that Tweet of him wearing a swastika shirt and that instantly ruins the album's appeal to me. I have been called out for turning my nose up to rap music then and again. But why should I breach my own morals just to conform to self-proclaimed music elitists's standards?
Like Kanye himself, this album turned out to be a complete and utter disappointment. The best part about it is Nicki Minaj’s verse on “Monster.”
What to do with this one? I can understand why Kanye has been lauded. There are moments of ambition, even genuis, but I feel like mostly he's mostly getting graded on a curve, merely for stretching the genre. It all feels a tad self-indulgent, which I guess is all part of the rap game, but still. I found Runaway to be the most interesting song, and perhaps mostly because it's a moment of introspection, perhaps clarity, where Kanye can see the cliff he eventually ends up going over. When he tells you to run away, he's not lying. And, as much as I would like, I can't really separate the art from the artist. It colors it all, and I'd prefer not to know anything more about his fantasies, dark or otherwise.
I acknowledge the popularity of the album and the impact of the artist, though I care for neither. Favorite track: "Lost In The World."
It took me a bit to figure out that the reason why so many songwriters are listed in the credits - for one song I counted 13 names - is that Kayne was forced to acknowledge the artists he sampled. The album is exceptionally well-produced. I like everything but Kayne's rap.
Not my kind of music at all
One point bonus for iron man sampling
I know it’s iconic, but it’s not my favourite genre of music
I’m not seeing the genius of this album
It was all over the place, and the subject matter didn't click with me. I just didn't get it.
This album was the end of the good stuff. I didn't like it when it came out, for some reason, i think the hype was too much and it just didn't live up to it. Only one song is worth relistening to, and it's only good due to the background vocals.
The guy is a scumbag, but that's more or less all I know from him, I've lost interest/lost track with mainstream hip hop a long time ago. Is it any good? I don't particularly like his flow (there is no particular edge, it's a bit too smooth/dull to my taste), the background music is not too bad but a bit bloated. We can clearly hear that lots of efforts were put in the production, but I'm not really convinced and it's hard to claim that is pure genius. It wasn't really bad overall, but not that good either.
My thoughts on this album clicked on that one song that sampled Avril 14th by Aphex Twin. It was great musically and set a great atmosphere, and then Kanye put just enough self-aggrandizement on top of that to make it not unpalatable. At the end of the song, my takeaway was that the original Avril 14th was better. Granted, I don’t listen to rap, and there might be something to his lyrics that might be more meaningful to someone who does, but it didn’t resonate with me. This might be controversial, but I feel like this album succeeded in spite of Kanye West, not because of him. It struck me as a series of slightly worse versions of great songs that are still very good. I struggled writing this because I did enjoy listening to this album, but at the end of the day, my takeaway is that a rap album was good, but would be better without the rapper, which is pretty damning praise.
I'll admit I was a little surprised that I didn't find this to be the worst thing ever. I was actually enjoying much of the first half all the way through Monster. But then it started to get tedious & the lyrics took a serious nosedive. Apparently Runaway is a standout for a lot of people but that might be my least favorite track as it's just the lazy-ass Four Chords again.
Not my bag.. Creative and artistic - - but.. nah
Infinitely more listenable than the College Dropout, which felt like taking a wire brush to my eardrums. Lyrics were pretty much what I expect from this genre and I could do without it. Consistently quite musical and well produced, though I wouldn't come back to it. Some bits I was like 'this is obviously supposed to be funny, I guess...'
The reviews on this album talk about the production and how great it is but I just find it busy and confusing for a hip hop album; too much going on in each track - I just don't find 'the swing' or whatever. In fact I don't like the production; I don't like the songs; I don't like Kanye, I don't like any of it...
Not as charming as College Dropout, not as weird as Yeezus. Never liked this album.
A well produced/constructed album, but I was just bored listening to it
At this point of the 1001 list, I'm tired of Kanye West! Subjectively, it's a fine pop/hip hop/rap album, good beats, well produced and all that, a little too much autotune, but by the time I got to the Chris Rock skit, I couldn't take any more.
He goes on a bit doesn't he?
Für mich ist das nichts mag keinen Rap
1. dark fantazy - 1.5 2. gorgeouz - 1 3. pouuer - 1 4. interlude - 0 5. lightz - 1 6. monzter - 1 7. apalled - 1 8. devil - 1 9. runauuay - 1 10. life - 0 11. blame game - 1 12. uuorld - 0 13. america - 0
not that horrible
Hm, ich fand's uninteressant.
Some good tracks and some absolute trash. Tracks like blame game nothing but turgid shite
This is considered to be one of the greatest rap albums. There are some really good parts of, then Kanye opens his mouth and trashes it. He was pretty good producer, I will give him that. “All of the Lights” and the collaboration “Monster” are okay. “Runaway” is also pretty good. Overall, this album graced my IPad and probably will not be gracing it again.
Some genius stuff on here. I always had respect for Kanye’s unconventional methods. Now all I hear is clouded by his antisemitic rants. Unfortunately.
Music was good but everything else about this was nonsense.
I'm glad we got this, I know a bunch of people who are OBSESSED with Kanye but I never got around to listen to him because he always gave me bad vibes. Well, time proved me right and he ended up being batshit insane and I have a huge problem of not being able to separate the art from their artists. Trying to be open minded and understand why a lot of people consider this album "the best ever made", I listened to it twice and spent a lot of time interpreting the lyrics and focusing on the songs. But I cant... The lyrics are just him being self indulgent with half assed rhymes and the sampling is very boring and repetitive. There's even a few times I thought spotify was being buggy because the sampling were just repeating weirdly. Some songs get pretty hype but it either repeats ad infinitum, or abruptly stops and you never hear it again, no balance in between. Some guest artists were pretty good too, but as soon as kanye start spouting shit, it gets ruined. Overall, the music is also not really intricate, but I guess its decent compared to most of modern hip hop, which is not saying a lot tbh.
This is a tough one for me. I can appreciate the artist but it is so difficult to get passed the man.