Reviews (page 12 of 15)
2010년산 클래식 - 가가 가가 못지 않은 예가 얘야
It sucks that he is a douchebag because it is a pretty good album
It was ok
Not a genre I'm used to, but I still think it's very good. Strong 6 light 7
I gritted my teeth before pressing play - although this album was from 2010, I was still concerned. I found it very hard to disconnect what we know about Ye now and what/where he was then. I feel really sorry for him, he’s obviously going through a lot of stuff, and all while in the public eye. Doesn’t mean I like what he has to say even if he does say it in an impressive way. And he can’t sing. There, I said it.
Nicki’s verses were the best part
Kanye is not a great person and like other artists on this list, the album is reviewed separately from the cesspool of the person. There are several well known songs on the album. Some I had not heard before. Some that I don't need to hear again. Several of them just drag on too long. The beats are mostly great. The lyrics are ok.
4/5, kanye is an asshole tho
Good production and guest stars. Don't like Kanye himself.
this album was randomly selected for me on october 31st, 2022, and this was during the time kanye west made several public anti-semetic comments, not to mention other public incidents in the last few months. i hardly know of any of west's music, and i typically do have difficulty separating music from the artist. the album was better than i thought it would've been. there were some troubling parts that did not endear me to west. but so much of it was catchy. west managed to combine such a soundscape into one album, and the album works as a whole, reminiscent of other well known concept albums. in particular i loved the line from "power": "no one man should have all that power."
Musically, this album was interesting. It had some very progressive beats that all work really well together from an album perspective. I wasn't particularly captivated by the lyrics. I may be hearing this album a bit too late, though, because I feel like progressive rap artists like Kendrick Lamar have eclipsed Kanye in this realm, without being overly egotistical. Sidenote: The line in "So Appalled" dissing Donald Trump sure didn't age too well for Kanye.
Not my thing and we all know about the guy himself, but as an album I didn't hate this at all.
Tässähän alkaa lämpeemään Kanyen musalle! Saatoin olla hänen uran huippuvuodet enemmän metalliin kallellaan niin jäänyt ihan täysin perehtymättä näihin. Lyriikoihin en keskittynyt edes vähää alusta, mutta soundit oli hyvät ja lepposat.
Not really a huge fan of this, it was alright. It is better than the debut and Yeezus (which are the only other albums I've heard).
Good album not really my genre of music but some great tracks i would check out again. I wouldnt complain if i heard it.
Didn’t finish listening, but much more interesting than the JayZ album.
Top 3 Songs: 1 - Dark Fantasy (1) 2 - All Of the Lights (5) 3 - Monster (6)
3.5
Not my usual sort, I was determined not to like him based on his public persona. There were a few good tracks, they might grow on me
A 4-star start with a 2-star finish.
A bunch of bangers but too many meh songs to be 4 stars
Not bad. Was not expecting to like it... but rap has moved quite far from last time I listened to any.
quinto album de la discografia de kanye, para muchos el mejor. Para mi quizas el pico del pop rap internacional. Un inicio muy artistico con "dark fantasy" hablando sobre como el cree haber llegado al pico de su carrera y se encuentra sin saber que hacer. Sigue con canciones muy iconicas y populares como son "power" el cual cuenta con samples de historicos del prog-rock (king crimson). Esta obra es muy especial ya que toca miles de topicos, entre ellos el, soul, pop puro, lados mas electronicos y toques barrocos. fav songs: power runaway hell of the life devil in a new dress ✰ realmente no me considero muy fan de kanye pero eso no quiere decir que este album no haya sido excelente en todo aspecto. Miles de samples, miles de referencias, miles de sonidos, sentimientos y formas de escucharlo, yo me voy a dar un tiempo para reescucharlo y entender su sonido. 3/3.5
LEgal
112 albums in and we’re onto our third Kanye album! Couple of solid bangers on here but the rest just blended in. 3.5/5
Once again, I mostly liked a Kanye album, though this one got a bit boring at the end
I like Kanye.
I can see why so many love this guy, but not really my thing.
I understand why he is more popular than the rest - his music is more approachable than most hip hop.
Not one of my favourite artists and this album do nothing to change that opinion. An okay album but just feel there are other rappers out there who have more to offer in terms of song depth and subject matter
Kanye really isn't my bag, but I gave it a try. I reached track 4 before I switched to different music.
Most of this genre sucks and I give them all 1/5 stars. I don't know what it is about Kanye though. This, along with several of his other albums are really great. I'm going to knock down a point just for the unnecessary language... 3.5/5
I was expecting something a little more introspective and subtle? 3 stars
Did NOT like this when it came out. I liked it better this time around.
There was more variety & depth to this than I'd expected but it's not really my sort of album.
Kanye no.
Let me start this off by saying that the 'Blame Game' backing track is a straight ripoff from Aphex Twin's 'Avril 14th'. Aphex deserves all of the recognition he can get, so shame on Kanye for not doing right by him. There is a lot to enjoy about this album, and I agree that it is the pinnacle of Kanye's career. There are some great rhymes and techniques at play, Kayne's production skills are on full display, and the collaborations are fantastic (especially Nicki Minaj and JAY-Z on 'Monster'). There are also stark contrasts between and even within tracks that seem to mirror Kanye's continuously tortured state. You've got a track like 'POWER' throwing bravado every direction it can but then culminating in contemplations of suicide. You've also got loads of lines about how they're "f'in B's" and then a seemingly apologetic track like 'Runaway'. It's been sad to see the steady decline of Kayne (at least in the public eye) and this album seems to do a decent job of encapsulating the conflicts that were at play within the man at the time. It is simultaneously resplendent, self-congratulating, chaotic and introspective. I still struggle to separate the artist from the art, so I'm sure that is pulling my rating down here, but the album was much better that I figured it would be, and certainly far superior to anything that Kayne has made since.
I think I've cracked my issue with Kanye. He's clearly an extremely talented producer and so he has this ability to make ridiculously catchy, epic-sounding tunes. But he ultimately undercuts his own genius because the size of his ego will not let him recognise that his lyricism and vocals are really quite mediocre, by far the worst part of his work (cringe-inducing comedy skits aside). I swear to god, if you just look at things like the instrumentals on "Power" or the Rihanna half of "All of the Lights" this is a four-possibly-five-star album. But Kanye is Kanye, and Kanye needs to be the centre of attention. He's made his own masterpiece tangibly worse by his need for personal glory and more than anything, it's really disappointing. Also that Chris Rock skit is fucking awful and it's extremely shitty that he tried to rip off Aphex Twin.
Great samples and production, but still felt rather soulless.
The first time I’ve ever listened to Kanye West with any real interest, and it was ok. Some songs were good, some songs were bad. Don’t see myself actively going back to it.
Yeezy’s production and beats are undeniably meticulous. His rapping is OK, but he’s no lyrical genius and there are some really lazy lines, the most glaring one being the ‘pussy in a sarcophagus, bruised her oesophagus’ line on ‘Monster’. Just cringe. The guest rappers and artists are better and provide most of the album’s highlights. Overall though, I find MBDTF way too bloated and self-indulgent to be considered a classic in my book.
Kjánalegt nafn á þessari plötu. Hún rennur annars ágætlega, ekki leiðinlegt en ég þarf ekki að hlusta aftur.
Some good beats, clearly setting a template for a lot of what we're still hearing now. Big stars too. He's an angry dude though, lost his sense of humour when he got successful
I have avoided this record because I always want to avoid Kanye. But if I’m being truly objective, there were several parts of this record I liked: Power, All the Lights, and Runaway in particular. I’ll take some solace in knowing that each song has about 10 people credited so who knows how much of it is actually his creation.
West has more of a reverence for his words and story telling than many of his genre peers. He makes the songs thoughtful. As someone who is not necessarily a fan of rap, I nonetheless enjoyed this
I’m firmly in camp 808s/Graduation, but this is also good. The features range from great (“Monster,” “Runaway”) to weird (“Lost in the World”), but the production is exceptional throughout. Kanye’s eccentricity is on full display here, bursting out in some great rhymes and ambitious creativity, but it’s a maybe a little too much “out there” for my tastes. I don’t see myself coming back to this. 2.5
Honestly, many Kanye songs are absolutely re-listenable. But while on some days this might be closer to a 3.5 for me, it got bumped down half a star because I have trouble reconciling his belief in his own genius with lyrics like this: "'Cause the same people that tried to black ball me forgot about two things, my black balls"
Never listened to Kanye before. Really Good beats and i enjoy melodic line of the rhymes. lyrical content i mostly ignored, didn't really interessted me.
É desses discos de rap, pop, essa coisa que eu não sei bem onde começa e onde termina, mas que é bom, massa de ouvir no fone. vale a pena dar mais uma olhada com calma, descobrir as músicas mais mais. Destaques para: Runaway, POWER e Blame Game.
Just not into it.
rap is really not my thing, but this was a solid album. Devil in a dress and Runaway were my favorites, great songs, really liked them. Monster was also fun.
Hate to say it, but its sort of nice listening on the side.
I don't like Kanye's personality but I have to admit that this album had some good production on it. But I enjoyed the guest singers' voices more than his own.
Surprisingly enjoyed more than I thought
Runaway and Power are the high points. Hard to separate the man from the art.
Ah, disappointing. I find Kanye the most entertaining when he’s producing garbage and telling me it the greatest music ever made. This was reasonably good. Not genius, but reasonably good. At least it’s not Chipmunk Crap or vocodered to hell. This guy is a joke to me, I would love to tell him that. 🤡🤡🤡
5 for music 0 for Ye
Musically pretty good. Good production value a lot of good use of instruments and effects. Songs are pretty mediocre with rich people talking crap about other rich people. Not rally my thing 2.5
Kanye's music largely passed me by in a blur over the last decade, so I'm pleased this was the first 1001 album recommended to me. It challenged me to dip into the Kanye archive post-College Drop Out/ Late Registration. Aside from 'All of the Lights' which I'd have had to have been living under a rock to avoid, there's essentially nothing on this album I recognise. Of course there's the unmistakable scattering of auto-tune vocals from Justin Vernon, the Bon Iver electronica, the customary hip hop sampling of Sabbath's Iron Man and cameos in a volume akin to an Adam McKay movie. But in terms of hit singles, radio airplays and stuff that might've seeped into my subconscious...nothing. Says more about me than the album, of course. But I've so often been put off Kanye's music by the hyperbole and absurdity that goes along with its release. In a way, this album reinforces my preconceptions. Everything about it screams 'Kanye', from the production to the occasional but desperately dumb lyrics. "Let's have a toast for the douchebags..." being a prime example. "I sent this bitch a picture of my d**k..." being another. In fact, ultimately what I realised is that I mostly like everything on this album that's not Kanye. Jay-Z brings some calm and class to two back to back tracks in the middle; RZA brings some proper hip hop flow. Vernon brings some quality and production innovation, whilst Sabbath bring a nod to heavy metal and even Nicky Minage brings...something. But Kanye just feels like the awkward and unnecessary spare wheel; which is quite the feat given it's his album. He's like the rich kid who's paid all his classmates to come on holiday with him. They'll all have a good time dining out at his expense whilst he spends the entire week whinging. Kanye's self-awareness has become beyond parody, and you can definitely hear and feel where the genesis for all that started in this album. I hope College Drop Out is in the 1001 list because I'd sooner be listening to and writing about that album.
Would give 3.5
I don't see it for most of the album but a couple stand out
The highs of monster were cancelled out by "Yeezy reupholstered my pussy"
Overrated. Cringe lyrics.
I like it, overall. Every element of his songs on the album sounds very good.
yeah this is smooth. A couple of songs I like, but i dont feel like listening through it again.
euh jsp j'ecoute pas les paroles :) avril 14th aphex twin pub
THIS IS BAD BRAINS - I AGAINST I
I quite enjoyed this but lost interest during the profane sex and "gangster" sections. Not what I was expecting - musically diverse. 3.5 out of 4
Das ist die Kanye Zeit, die ich wohl verpasst habe. Zum ersten Mal gehört. Leider nicht so überzeugend, wie seine früheren Alben. Trotzdem noch spannende Elemente und Mischungen. Drei Punkte, weil er ein Depp ist.
Not bad
Very well put together and an impressive roster of featured artists. POWER is the standout but love the autotuned harmonies on Lost in the World. Unfortunately much of the album lacked the oomph which would make me want to listen again.
Some good tunes, some awful tunes.
I think I like this... I think.
Zitten best leuke stukken tussen, jammer dat Kanye meedoet. Ik kan dat verongelijkte hoofd niet wegdenken.
Okay I wasn't expecting to like this but it was really good?? Up through Monster I thought it was great but I took one star off bc it was so long
A couple of bangers on this album but other than them it’s pretty bad. What is it with really long shitty intros on every song which make no sense at all. 3/5
Tolle Produktion und ich liebe das Klavier, das überall auftaucht. "Runaway" der größte Ohrwurm in dieser Geschichte hier, "Power" auch ein Kracher. Im Grunde auf Höhe mit dem Eminem-Album. Aber wenn ich mal locker Herrn Diedrichsen herbeizitieren darf und die Popfrage schlechthin stelle: was ist das für ein Typ, was will der, find ich den sympathisch?, dann sackt das doch ordentlich ab. Mein Morrissey des Rap.
maybe 1 good song
3 - Bisher keinen Zugang zu KW gehabt, außer zu den Hits. Find es not bad at all.
Verstehe den Hype. Teile ihn nicht.
Not really my thing, but better than I remember.
Esta decisión es muy complicada. Creo que se escucha muy muy bien, tiene mezclas muy bien logradas y coros muy bien utilizados. Creo que hay una clara división en el disco: una mitad trata de que él es un fuera de serie y la gente está contra él y él todo lo puede y no tiene que pedir perdón y él es el mejor y él y él y él y él y él y él. Para decir eso no necesita 34,081 palabras dichas por 18 personas, creo que se entiende el mensaje. La otra mitad es un poco más variada (pussy + relaciones disfuncionales), bueno, no tanto, pero al menos deja ver una parte más humana del autor porque aunque cambia el discurso todo-lo-puedo a todas-mías (pequeña variación) al menos ya habla de alguien con fallas. Creo que es un disco increíble de 45 minutos metido en 68 minutos complicados de aguantar, no por falta de talento, sino que es repetitivo. Para mi es un 3.5 porque quizá vuelva a escuchar un par de canciones pero no me quedaron muchas ganas de escucharlo decir "yo" otra vez, además de que creo que ahora me cae un poco más mal. Tracks: Runaway, Power, Lost in the world, All of the light
eeeeeh.
Bangers, but also misogynistic 😔
Yeh it was fine
Tuve que escuchar este disco dos veces para “entenderle” bien. La primera vez me aburrió un poco y no le presté la atención adecuada. El disco tiene arreglos musicales interesantes y supongo que fue innovador en el género. Me agradó mucho la canción de “Monster”. Le pongo esta calificación porque algunas canciones se me hicieron tediosas.
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.
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.
Fuck Kanye Hate the fact that his songs are good
I have never been a Kanye fan, this was less than mediocre, at least 808s and heartbreak had some consistency. Fuck this guy.
Turns out, I do not actually miss the old Kanye
You know, this album had a strong start. Then it quickly devolved into generic rap about sex and whatnot and felt like most other generic rap I've heard. Also fuck Kanye.
This isn't what I want from hip hop. At no point does it ever kick into gear as a rap album.
А ось і уєбан!!!
Never really listened to this artist before. But I listened to the whole thing and tbh I enjoyed the first half but then just got bored near the end.
I'd enjoy this a whole lot more without Kanye West's rapping all over the top. I can kinda see the appeal but I'm not going to listen again.
Right. Here we go. My first listen to this album all the way through – I am familiar with his more famous tracks like “Gone” & “Gold digger” but I wanted to give this a fair crack of the whip and not be influenced by the extreme views he’s been posting recently. Starts off strong with “Dark Fantasy” until halfway through when he attempts to sing. Please don't do that Kanye, you sound like a drunk man at the karaoke thinking he can hit notes he can't. “Gorgeous” is up next, weaving a path from political commentary to comparing himself to Ali & Malcom X. I'll forgive the bombastic self-aggrandisement - he's aiming to inspire the youth of today and I'm here for it. Extra kudos for the line about his "balls". Top stuff. “Power” - this is basically about how great Kanye thinks Kanye is - spoiler alert, Kanye thinks Kanye is the dog's bollocks. However, all is not what it seems, his insecurities creep in as he raps about SNL and how they can "kiss his arsehole" after they insulted him. (Edit: a quick google search shows this would not be the last time SNL poked fun at his fragile ego). He also sounds like he's suffering from over stimulation, needing to be alone with his own thoughts. Something is clearly not right with Kanye. Now we have an interlude? You're 4 songs in, Kanye, do me a favour, just play the next song. “All of the lights” - starts with some horns sounding like they were ripped from Rocky, giving it an moderately epic tone. Will the lyrics match the music? To summarise: the narrator is a thug who hits his girlfriend, goes to jail, is surprised when he's replaced by another man, bitter about paying child support, carries on the thug life and then without a hint of irony, thinks that his daughter would be best off if she lived with him because he wants to rescue her from the thug life. “Monster” - relentless, urgent beats and lyrics sounding like they were written by a man named Charlie. Lovely cameo from Nicki Minaj. Nothing deep to these lyrics except an admission of sexual assault by Kanye halfway through. What a lovely chap... “So appalled” - a paint by number slowed down boastful track ticking all the boxes you'd expect. Drugs, women, cars. Kudos for the line: "if God had an iPod, I'd be on his playlist" “Devil in a new dress” – Kanye was horny when writing this track and it ends up sounding like a parody. Overtly sexual and some curious religious phrasing "We love Jesus, but you done learn a lot from Satan". Kanye obviously gets bored at the end and slips into boasting about his cars and drugs again. “Runaway” - could this be a cover of the early 90s folk indie classic by the Dharmas? No, don’t be silly, it's another slow one with a surprising moment of self-awareness: "I sent this bitch a picture of my dick, I don’t know what it is with females, But I'm not too good at that shit" At least he recognises that he's not good at something, makes a change from the rest of the album. “Hell of a life” – Opens with the line "I think I just fell in love with a pornstar"; really Kanye? Or were you just thinking with your dick again? "No more drugs for me, pussy and religion is all I need". Lovely sentiment but I'm not sure you've thought about the compatibility of those 2 things, have you? "Make a priest faint, make a nun cum" ...OK, I take it back. It's not how most people do religion but at least you're being creative. “Blame Game” - melancholic beats with a dainty piano riff leads to more admissions of sexual violence (let's hope it was consensual) as he flip flops from self-pity to rage at the end of a relationship. Ends in a poem written by Chloe Mitchell, who by all accounts was grateful of the exposure. I’d love to know what she really thinks of Kanye… “Lost in the world” - autotune hell. Why do people use it like this? Some lovely use of Anaphora (a rhetorical device that I had to look up as I'm not that clever) but forgettable otherwise. “Who will survive in America” - who indeed Kanye? Tell us! Well, actually, he won't tell us, mainly because he was in a car accident and had his jaw wired shut when recording this and instead has gone for sampling Gil Scott Heron's poem. And by sampling, I mean just playing the whole thing with a beat behind it. Well, there we have it. I enjoyed lots of this – however the lyrics are tracking this man's descent into self-destruction. Kanye revels playing up to the stereotype of a gangster rapper at the same time as moaning about the consequences that it brings without ever seemingly connecting the two. His vulnerability underneath all that hints at a man wrecked by impulsivity, drugs and ego. Does this make this a great album? Possibly, although I don’t think Kanye intended it – the tragedy being it’s not a character he plays – just his life laid bare.
Ok musikk, men tekstene er pinlige. Kanye kan mange lystyper. Kanye synes jenter er pene, men får vondt i tissen når han tenker på de. Hvem kunne ant at denne mannen var sullik?
So I actually don’t know a whole lot about Kanye’s music but I do remember liking college dropout back in the day. Putting aside the person from the music and focusing on that I think this album is more misses than hits. I like his rhyming style and some of the instrumentation and sample choices in this are interesting but I don’t think I need to go back to it. Fave track: “Power”.
He can make a great song. But the rapping is meh and the lyrics are often hackneyed and strained. Plus he's an asshole.
Tycker verkligen illa om Kanye, men överraskande nog är albumet inte jättedåligt, bara lite kasst. Skulle dock aldrig rulla igång det på eget bevåg.
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.
Exactly what I expected.
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🤔 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.