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I expected to hate this, but it was okay in the end. It did completely outstay its welcome though.
I like this better than I did in high school, but that's a low bar... I do enjoy parts of "All the Lights" and "Power"
Self indulgent and boring. An hour of listening to someone navel gaze that we will not get back.
I didn’t hate this as much as I was expecting to hate it. Didn’t like it much either though. 2 stars.
Veel over deze artiest gehoord, maar dat was niet allemaal positief ;-). Ik had nog nooit een liedje van hem gehoord. Dit album begint heel verrassend met melodieuze zang, maar gaat al snel over in rap. Jammer. Toch zijn er af en toe leuke refreintjes waardoor het album goed te luisteren is. **
Not as bad as I thought it would be, but still hip hop and I don’t overly enjoy the genre. 2
I am just starting and am not a huge fan of Kanye at the start....but this album is very solid.
Kanye ookwadandersdoen?
There are parts of the album that are very good and it's certainly well produced, but there are some massive horrors in there, which perhaps point to a troubled mind. I liked Monster and So Appalled.
Ni un brillo la voz del tipo, pero me agrada el ritmo
Yes very good, though... most of the highlights are from other rappers/musicians (Nicki in Monster is probably the best sounding part of this album) so still don't really get what the big whoop is about this guy?... only 50% (guessing?) of the lyrics/ stories are written by Kanye on here... and for good reason. Do not rate this guy as a lyricist at all. Some of his content is definitely good, but some is just awfully crass and bigotry.... Hell of a Life - haha What is this? *Hell of an Ego, am I right?? Anyway, it is just not executed well either way. Musically, this deserves more than a 2, but I just can't stand this guy. Makes me fucking sad that this is the most famous musician in the world (is it?). Fighting for one minority while trashing another isn't my idea of a great artist, that's for sure.
Qua muziek best aardig, maar die teksten zijn echt belachelijk irritant. En het helpt ook niet mee dat mijn beeld van de beste man niet bepaald rooskleurig is. M.a.w. compleet van de pot gerukte idioot.
Well, gotta give credit where credit is due for rhyming "parents" with "seance". There were parts of it I thought sounded good, but it just dragged on, and so much of it was just Kanye talking about how cool he was by all his cool names. Which isn't to say there weren't plenty of lyrically interesting sections, but I don't really want to investigate them enough to relisten. Tough call between a 2 and a three on this one, and it probably would have scored higher if it had been shorter.
Rollo patatero. La primera canción me suena un poco.
I appreciate it, i just don't like it.
So this is apparently Kanye deliberately taking a "maximallist" approach, and it really doesn't work for me. For every element of a song I like, there'll be two or three more annoying elements jammed in. "Blame Game" samples Aphex Twin? Awesome! Oh, it has a 2 minute long Chris Rock skit embedded in it? ಠ_ಠ Fave track - I dunno, "Gorgeous" maybe. I should probably give this 3 stars, but I'm deducting one because Kanye's obnoxious in a way that doesn't entertain me...
Something something separate the art from the artist, I don't know what I would have rated this if I didn't know who the nazi is. Then again he talked about women as females after sending dick pics so maybe it deserves two stars? Listened to the whole thing, props to me.
Trying too hard mate.
Totaal niet mijn muzieksmaakt, wel leuke samples gebruikt in de nummers
Todo lo que le pude agarrar de gusto a Eminem con un disco diez años más viejo no existe en este disco de Kanye. Encima, el contexto de ser el disco que hizo cuando superó su berrinche contra Taylor Swift y, bueno, ser Kanye… No me gusta el autotune y siento que esto fue de lo primero en ponerlo de moda. Runaway es de las rolas que medio me pasan.
Fuck this scumbag. Hard pass
Not a fan of rap, some parts of the songs were okay but at some point in a song I just ending up skipping.
A couple of great moments, but a difficult album to get through for me. Sorry Ye - a headache of a record to my ears.
Was totally not digging it at first, and not just because of the usual stupid hip hop clichés. By the end I had laughed a bit, but all in all I wasn't very impressed and don't get why some people think this record (or Kanye himself) is so great.
I’m not listening to this awful individual
Kanye West is the worst part of every Kanye West song.
bah non je ne vais pas l'écouter
Not gonna even try
Liked this a lot when it came out... But fuck Kanye.
kanye west is the artist of our time (deragatory). a middling talent with good commercial instincts and a much better investment portfolio, who can claim ownership of taste where creativity fails, who can always find a way to leverage spectacle in their favor with an ever flattened output of rage bait. the subject of this album is the self--west's own melancholia, and a struggle to make sense of the world without the framework needed to do so, the same impulse that drives the following albums in west's ouvre, that ties a corroded thread from "power" to "heil hitler." it's not a fantasy, it doesnt reach the expanses of the imagination, it's an emo rumination on the here and now, the emptiness of money and success, that gets dangerously close to the point considering how far it misses. the broken clock is right twice a day--the cover art is great. "put the pussy in the sarcophagus" is an all timer. some beats are great, some tracks are skips. i will always be fascinated by ye without being a defender. ultimately this album gets the nazi punks fuck off rating.
No thanks, fuck kanye west
Fuck this dude
No streams for Nazis.
Fuck this guy not listening to this
Seemed like every time I tuned into the words, Ye or someone was dropping the n-word, bragging about something, or talking about violent sex. Made it hard to appreciate anything else about this supposedly classic album.
Good music, not a good guy though.
lmao Kanye is on this list? Famous Nazi, Kanye? Nah bro, this ain't it
no thanks.
Worst of the worst of the worst
Monster was a pretty good track, especially the portion with Nicki Minaj. Otherwise this was just a bunch of nonsense.
Marginally more interesting, but still a no. Brags about losing $30m and teaching in the ghetto of life !?!?
I really wanted to not like this and I absolutely didn't like it. There were moments that I almost was enjoying a track but that's as close as it got.
Second Kanye album to pop up in the last few weeks. Last time I tried to separate the music from the artist. I'm not doing this again. Skipping this one.
Saai...
3 to 4 stars, but im not supporting this guy
Trash
Nope!
Songs sound similar to each other
Non.
Je ne dissocie pas l’art de l’artiste
j’ai pas écouté et j’écouterai pas parce que je donne pas d'argent aux nazis, d'où cette note de 1, juste parce qu’on peut pas mettre zéro (nique les nazis)
rotten
Liquid shite
Een van de beste hiphop albums ooit met een paar van mijn favoriete tracks ooit. Maar fuck nazis en fuck Ye
I refuse to patronize this antisemitic hateful person by streaming this album. And even if I did, I couldn’t objectively listen to this or rate it. Fuck you Kanye West. 1 for being an absolute shithead.
I wasn't committed to listening to this in its entirety, but in the end, I did listen to most of this boring, shitty album. I never listened to this jackass before starting this project, and now I am freshly dumbfounded by the world I live in. . I have to take the internet's word for it that he's a great producer. When it comes to his rapping, "Who are you gonna believe? Me or your ears?" I'm going with my own ears. Not buying it. His ability to achieve flow that works with the music is somewhere between rudimentary and absent. In short, he stinks. Plus, awful person and hopeless narcissist. So much of this sounds like What would happen if one walked around dictating the events of one's life into a portable recording device, then set it to music as the first draft of a hip hop Broadway musical. Just saw Prom at the local high school ... trust me. This analogy Holds Up. (I just tried it for a couple of minutes. It's surprisingly easy. But I didn't want to push it with my spouse, so I stopped.) If we're going to do this, "He's a terrible person, but that is set aside because of his amazing talent" thing ... I mean, Kanye can't hold a candle to Slick Rick. How do we live in a world where this guy is a star of this magnitude? By far to my mind the most compelling track is Who Will Survive In America. If you read anything about this album, you will learn that it was "one of the most expensive albums to produce ever" and that it features performances by an astounding array of stars. Yet, its best track is due entirely to the extensive use of a Gil Scott Heron recording, and GSH himself is never mentioned by the Enablers. (The Kanyes of the world always talk about the Haters ... what about the other people, who Enable people like him? That part remains absent!) Awarded one star for its unexpected and skillful sampling of King Crimson. Docked one star for excessive use of profanity -- such a crutch for the lazy writer.
nope.
Nope
Nope. No streaming money from me nazi.
On no earth can you get me to listen to this guy - pass!!
Fuck outta here already with this guyyyyyyy
3 or 4 stars for the music, -1000000 stars for the dude singing them
Great production but Ye is such a horrible person. You really can't separate the art from the artist. I do miss this era of 2010s hip hop style though. It was unique for the time. Not sure why music people always praised him ngl.
Kanye gets no money from me
I will not even bother in hear this.
It's not really my preferred genre, and I wasn't very into the subject matter. There seemed to be a lot of both self-aggrandizement in ways that I'm not a fan of, and victim culture, as well as sexism and whatever else. But some of the hooks were decent. If I could better separate the art from the artist, I might give it two stars. But it's getting a one.
Firstly, I didn't enjoy any of the tunes in the slightest. Secondly, I read a bit about what inspired this album. I almost choked on my own spit to find it was a response to poor darling Kanye feeling so overwhelmed by the public response to his Taylor Swift interruption. Isn't he such a victim? Musically speaking, this one comes in the bottom 10-15 of the whole project so far. There are a small handful of records I believe are sonically inferior. But when you mix such shit music with such a shitstain individual, this deserves less than a single star.
Couldn't care less about supporting this in 2026.
don't want to listen to this
Kanye gets no love
It's Kanye :|
Garbage
Nah
Sorry, not listening to this guys stuff.
used to like this but rating it a 1 on principle 🖕🏻
Heeeeeeelllllll nnnoooo! This piece of shit has gone too far off the bat-shit end of crazy celebrity. I will never volunteer a single second of my life to anything this ass hat has or will ever do!
An instrumental version of this album would be worth 1.5 more stars.
I can't in good conscience listen to Kanye in 2026. He's seemingly mentally unstable and is definitely pro-Nazi at the moment. It seems wrong to give his music streams.
There is not a chance that I’m going to listen to this. I was the first in line on the hate train. Seriously, fuck this dude. I may have given him a chance if he wasn’t telling the world what a genius he was. I may have given him a chance when he went off of his meds. The nazi shit it I can’t forgive. I would pay money to watch James Hetfield beat him senseless with a deluxe copy of The Black Album.
Brilliant album but I'm giving it a one because he's become such a knobhead
I dont ike Kanye west he is a twat
bad bad man
Nope.
The music is great, but I cannot support Kanye for the person he is. Also, the lyrics seem to be getting more and more graphic. one star
no coment
Album #69: DNL I do not wish to support Kanye West.
He doesn't deserve my attention or money generated by my listens.
Wanker
Traaaaash
No.
It's a hodgepodge of styles, mostly poorly sung pop music, produced to hell with so much ProTools gimmickry and Vocoder-type mangling that it comes across as AI music before AI was a thing. I mean that in the worst way possible. This is not for me, I find it horrible. Not to mention how much Kanye weirds me out in general. He comes across so delusional megalomaniac that I'm having issues with anything he says.
:(
The music is excellent, as is the production, it's just every time he opens his mouth it all goes wrong,
Big skip, guy is a prick.
Damn it. This is a good album. So varied and fun and each song was different and interesting. A lil too much misogyny though. One cuz he’s crazy.
I don’t support this mf
2 Kanye albums on this list and College Dropout and Graduation aren’t either. MBDTF is mid. Also Kanye is a piece of shit.
The worst bros with the worst taste & worst personalities all praised Kanye like the second coming when I was in high school. Hated it then, had only aged worse. What’s the opposite of nostalgia?
We should have known. The album cover invokes MAGA.
Je m'en fiche que cet album soit bien fichu et que les samples soient utilisés intelligemment (y'a quand même du King Crimson), le mec s'amuse à proclamer qu'il est un nazi et qu'il admire le petit moustachu, donc je m'en fous, il aura jamais la moyenne à mes yeux. 1/5, c'est déjà cher payé. Quand je pense qu'il y en an encore au moins un dans la liste... En plus, la pochette censurée est dix fois plus tendancieuse que l'originale. Une fois floutée, on dirait que c'est une véritable photo au lieu d'une peinture.
some few tracks interesting
Have to recuse myself from this one on the grounds of Kanye being an antisemitic POS
nah
ну это заведомо не музыка для меня, я это знала, но, конечно, дала шанс! есть забавные песни, хочется конечно отметить monster, партия Ники Минаж абсолютно вытащила. не понимаю безэмоциональную читку, и тут пришла она, внесла эмоции хотя бы в песню, ее партия звучит прям весело и ярко. power интересно звучит, но я такое слушать не буду. hell of a life тоже прикольно звучит, но не знаю, стоить ли ее считать, мотивы блэк саббат. в all of the lights понравился лишь женский вокал, оказалось - просто сэмпл. короче порой забавно, но точно не мое. 1/5
Technically it's very good. But the music does nothing to me.
nope, too commercial...pop rap in my opinion. Never been a big fan of West despite his talent and success. Not a go-to for me.
No.
I have trouble separating Kanye the person from the music. While the album is I guess good musically it’s not groundbreaking enough to make me give it anything but a 1
I refuse to listen to this on principle. I don't care that he's appologized, it's too little, too late.
Fuck Kanye
An hour of a twat telling me how he's the best and how much money he's got isn't going to work for me. This is one of those albums where the world was a bit better before I heard it. He's undeniably a better producer than rapper, but then he tries singing and he really can't do that. One of those rare albums where the world seems a worse place after having listened to it.
This one is easy: I will not waste any attention on Kanye West. Next, please.
Yeah, a common refrain throughout my reviews is ideological agreement != enjoyment, the corollary does not hold, I cannot give West any credit for writing good music. Is he the only monster on this list, no, call it recency bias but I won't positively review a Kanye West album, regardless of how good it is. 1/5
Fuck Kanye and fuck Nazis. Because of that 1/10 (plus this was what I agreed to so I could justify giving College Dropout a 5) To talk about this one musically, I don't really know. I understand why most of his fans consider this his magnum opus. For a guy known for always known for his maximalist and grandiose sound, this is perhaps his "most" album, if that makes sense. And there is a lot that works for it. POWER and All Of The Lights are hits for reasons. Monster may be carried by Nicki but goddamn does she kill it (another part of this album that hasn't exactly aged well) and I actually think the albums opening and close really strong. That being said there is a lot here that doesn't quite deserve the hype. Runaway is a decent song but not the masterpiece a lot of people believe it to be. Blame Game goes on and on. Songs like So Appalled and Gorgeous are just kinda... there for me. It's certainly not bad but not a top 5 hip hop record like some people believe it to be. 7/10 but 1/10 due to the Nazi tax.
Don't listen to nazis
I hate kanye
Just another rap album made by a pedophile!
Really not my thing at all. It might be a masterpiece for all I know, but it makes no sense to me and has zero appeal. Boring, generic, nothingness.
Started out hopeful that all the things I'd heard about Kanye West weren't true, but this evaporated quickly. Just dull.
Nope
I don’t like him
I hate rap. I hate Kanye.
I refuse to contribute to his royalties.
Cannot do Kanye.
fuck kanye
- lots of stars for being a nazi and a Taylor Swift hater. Although there are some bangers on this album.
Guess I’m old, so this is definitely not my bag. 1
Blegh. Not for me.
Nah
Kanye, mate...you do realise that your heroes hate you, right?! Hitler would have sent you to the gas chambers because you're Not Aryan. Trump would gladly have you shot in the street by his personal death squads because you're Not White. You are the Suella Braverman of hip-hop. A useful idiot. Massive twat.
I'm not listening to nazi music. I'm shocked this is even on the list.
garbage.
I'll try to be objective and just listen to this without prejudice - but I have a very strong negative opinion of this guy just based on his public persona - so we'll see. I've never once listened to any Kanye West music - plus I'm not real familiar with most hip hop - so my expectations are very low. After listening through it twice... I thought this would be better without the vocals. The vocals aren't bad or annoying but it gets tiring listening to the endless self centered, egotistical, "I'm the best, I get all the women, everybody loves me, I got all the money and the best consumer products" sentiment. It seems like fake bravado masking an incredibly deep insecurity. And the drama about haters and beefs with specific people aren't interesting at all - it's like some incredibly dumb Jerry Springer shit. For these reasons "All of the Lights (Interlude)" - which is an instrumental - was the best song on the album. I thought it was cool that he had a whole song with Gil Scott Heron ("Who Will Survive in America") - but seems like Gil Scott Heron and Kanye are really very different people with vastly different perspectives on the world so was surprised he did this. The most honest song on the album is "Runaway" - which is literally telling people to get away from him since he's such an asshole. At least it was a slight bit of self-awareness. I admit this is probably my hip hop and Kanye West ignorance talking here, but - I will add that I can't really tell what exactly Kanye West is doing. He has so many writers, producers, guest rappers and samples - that I'm not sure I can pinpoint his specific contributions versus any of the others. I do think the music is interesting and well put together, but my life will be just fine if I don't listen to any of this again. And besides, Kanye West doesn't need one more person feeding his ridiculous ego or enabling him to get more money so I won't be clicking like on any of these songs. This is just not for me I guess. Liked songs on Spotify: 0/13 Rating: 1/5 (should be zero)
Nazi prick
Not giving kanye listens
Na
Nope. Fuck Kanye
532/1001
I’m not listening to this Nazi, fuck right off. Don’t care how great his albums are they aren’t getting any listens from me.
I was not impressed with this album, the beats and production felt flat, the flow was lackluster and aside from a few decent lines the lyrics weren’t really anything special.
I'm not listening to this one. One star for an idiot that I won't waste my time streaming.
boo, it is really hard to listen Kanye objectively.
Hmmm won’t listen too bad
Zero stars
I just don't get it. I know how much praise he used to get but I'd never heard much from Mr Ye himself, so I was expecting more from this. It was a struggle to get through. Don't think I've ever listened to a rap album and come away thinking it was pretentious. The lyrics were often terrible, I don't think I'll ever be in the mood for a 9 minute song where the last 3 minutes was monologue about a girls p***y. Kanye is a stuck up rich kid with a stunted view and that comes across in this release. Even the rifts were repetitive, songs that were too long and didn't go anywhere. There were maybe 2 tracks that I liked but way more that had me checking the time like "how has it only been 30 seconds".
Drago mi je što mi generator dosad nekim nevjerovatnim čudom većinu izvođača koje ne znam a tu su više puta daje da slušam hronološkim redom. Tako ovdje mogu čuti nedostatak napretka u odnosu na debi koji mi je bio sasvim ok. I ovaj mi nije bio nepodnošljiv ali je još dosadniji, repetitivan, s previše "gostiju", odvratnim tekstovima, djeluje duži iako je kraći, dosta više fula u odnosu na onaj pa mislim da zaslužuje zvjezdicu manje definitivno. Edit: ništa, jedinica iz principa
Okay, putting aside the whole Kanye debacle...I can't fault it for being weird and experimental but it doesn't sing for me at all. It's just kind of boring and not fun. When every 30 seconds you decide to change up the entire song, for the whole album, it's just a mess.
actually pretty good just rating low cause it’s kanye
Will not listen to Kanye.
Don't like at all
Let's say, hypothetically, that I can't speak a single word in English. And I hear this album. Judging this album by the music and only the music, I'd give it a 3. Now, as a person who *does* speak English: the lyrics take this album down to a 1. On top of that, knowing that Kanye West is a literal fucking nazi? I'd give it a 0 if I could.
169 Hubo un momento en que escuchando Monster pensé "esto no es tan malo" se lo quise mostrar a alguien y no lo volví a encontrar.
I'll try and be brief: I really liked this album and was in a phase of my life at the end of high school/starting college when I listened to this album heavily and got into Kanye (thanks to a 21st Century Schizoid man sample in 'Power') for a while. I even saw him live with Kendrick Lamar opening for him. This album is a hip hop masterpiece in and of itself, Kanye at his creative height beyond the producer-turned-college-dropout indie rapper and into this maximalist king of both worlds (and still suck at mixing drums right). But he's also an avid nazi. Not even just a sympathizer, a nazi. He can fuck off. Outkast weren't nazis and made albums just as creative as ABDTF, and perhaps even better. 5/5 otherwise. But nazis are hateful scum. Such a shame.
Hard to separate the art from the artist, who is, I must remind you, a literal Nazi.
I will not give this man the attention he craves. The only thing he should crave is intense therapy.
Yet another 0 on principle. I continue to refuse to support this man.
Man, I’m sure this is great but it just doesn’t tick any boxes for me.
Fuck that guy
Everybody know I’m a mutha fuckin' monster - you said it Ye
like i get it but once he started singing about rape and like giving a girl bruises on her esophagus i was out
Ugh
Nope, will not rate a black Nazi’s album
Boykot
Why is he on the list twice? I couldn't finish it. What a load of shit!
I was surprised by many things on this recording. The production, the musicianship, the arrangements were all unexpected for me. I didn't like it and won't listen to it again but there were seconds that took me by surprise. I had never listen to a Kanye record before and so I didn't know what to expect. It was different than I thought it would be.
More like con-nay. I hated this when it came out, and I hate it even more now that Kanye’s praising Hitler and shit. I never understood why he has fans, really. You want to listen to a guy aggressively talk about how great he is at you for an hour (how much better he is than you, by the way), and then conjure poetic images centered around his balls. I don’t want to listen to something that’s going to make me think about someone’s balls. Fuck this guy. People here praise the production value- well, of course it has a high production value. He threw like a billion dollars at it. You can heavy produce a turd, but at the end of the day, you’re still just squashing a turd into your ears. We should uncancel cancel culture to wipe this scum from human memory.
No
not even wasting my time on this.
Kanye is a hateful, stupid person, I’m not streaming anything that gives him money and I’m not doing anything to spread any amount of influence he has.
Yeah. I'll listen to this after the collected works of Rolf Harris, Skrewdriver, Gary Glitter. I appreciate that this guy has talent; Adolf had talent in genocide and we don't celebrate him - unless we're seriously fucking stupid. I suppose I could illegally download it, but that would also appear in some list of popular downloads, so: nope.
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Some of the songs on this album are really good but I have a really hard time enjoying them knowing what kind of person Kanye is. I just don't like him as a person and it causes me to not like his music even though I'm sure it's not bad.
this would otherwise be a highly rated one but in this case i just can't separate the art from the artist.
i refuse to listen to this.
Awful. I semi-decent song. The rest was just garbage. 0.1/5
Load of tosh
As you know, the policy around here is no streaming revenue for Nazi scum, so I’m listening to: Born This Way (2011) by Lady Gaga This is such a fun album. 12 of the 14 songs are certified bangers; if this doesn’t make you want to dance, I’m gonna question if you like music. It’s a celebration of love, the LGBT community, feminism, sex, and just being young and free. A bonus is that ‘Judas’ pissed off the religious community, which is always fun. Every time I listen to this album it puts me in a great mood, and today was no different; an excellent way to start a Friday. It won’t count in the official rankings since I will be giving the Kanye album a 1, but this will unofficially join the ranks of my elite albums as my ninth 5/5.
Fuck Kanye, Fuck Nazis, and Fuck anyone who supports any of this fascist shit that's going on right now.
I don't like Kanye
Garbage
Already listened loads Brilliant album, but he’s a Nazi
Jajajaja. No. No está el mundo para dejarse ver en compañía de nazis. Este tío es un imbécil además de carecer de todo talento musical real.
ні цього додіка я не слухатиму
i suspect his mental illness started. before we originally thought.
Not interested in what Kanye has to say as a person or an artist.
This album is a five, but Kanye has tanked any chance at redemption
Getting this one right after Off The Wall is a real funny joke. 1 for Nazis.
0 of 5 No stars. I won't listen to an anti-semite.
nope
I do like this album just not Kanye.
I've listened to most of this. Probably all of it. I will not listen to this to give this man any more streams. Kanye is a weird and terrible human.
one of my least favorite humans/musicians don't like or appreciate his music, and nothing makes you less of a genius than declaring that you're a genius. Such a clown. It'd be lovely if he retired. Lost in the World only decent song on here.
I hated this. I don’t care how creative Kanye is I despise the vulgarity, the misogynism, and the immature boastful arrogance. Just foul.
Principle
I want to preface this by saying I completely understand why this is here - really did influence a lot of the sounds of the decade. But I do think it’s overproduced and overrated. Was neutral about this album in high school - dont really like it now. Absolutely hate his voice, flow is mediocre at best, and while some of the lyrics were fine, there was always at least one or two downright stupid lines that ruined the whole song. No amount of great guest features and interesting samples will make me like this, sorry. :( Favs: None
I just don't want to
Zero.
Melkosen junnaavaa
Oikein hyvän kuuloisia biisejä, mut tapa jolla Kanye on kohdellut Taylor Swiftiä ei ansaitse minkäänlaista tunnustusta.
terrible album from a terrible person
Jotain ok sampleja käytetty ja ei ehkä hirveintä genressä, mut ei tää kyl yhtään sytytä. 1/5
Hip hop is not music. And from Kanye West to boot. I have no desire to listen to shit from a black Nazi. Adidas was right to finally part ways with him. I won't even enter into a liaison with him. That may be prejudiced. But sometimes I don't feel like sniffing at every pile, only to realize that it's shit after all. There's only one mandatory star in the drawer where Kanye West is. 1/5
I'm not a Kanye fan and I can't even understand the slang just because of how I grew up. He has good songs, but this album only has one song I can be okay with just because I heard it before in the past in the car.
Fuck this shit.
You pretend you're going beyond the rap genre because you're a new renaissance genius and you act like that (yes we all know you're crazy, we don't fucking care). The truth is that your music is pretentious AND lame. You're not ELP nor Yes, but a boring individual. Your version of Iron Man is stupid and worst of all, pretend to be clever. Music is so stupid nowadays.
Fuck Kanye forever.
Didn’t listen because he’s the worst and I don’t want him getting any of my money
nazi
Just no
Some people may like it. Better than other recommendations I’ve received here.
Hahahaha hahahaha! Nope. Get in the bin you freak. Annual leave request from this monolithic undertaking has been put in.
1.5
I liked this album at some point, but Ew Kanye
Can't stand the bloke, his views, his ego, and his shitty tunes.
Get fucked, Kanye
Nah fuck Kanye
Not a fan. No real value there.
My first instinct was to give this a hard pass but I'm committed to giving every album a chance. Made it halfway through. There's no denying the talent and the production; it's just not for me. And I don't need to listen to a jerk boast about how great he is. There's enough of that in the news these days.
As I always say. Rap crap. Not a fan.
Since he’s a self-proclaimed Nazi, this only gets 1 star. To briefly separate artist from the art, I’d say this album is at a 3 for me. I liked Dark Fantasy and All of the Lights, plus some of the samples and featuring artists in other songs. Kanye was probably the worst part about all of the songs and his ego and misogyny are a major turn off.
Some of it is fine but there's just so much garbage. And then there's the album itself.
I really thought about skipping this one but I haven't missed a day yet so I just went ahead with it. I really enjoyed the 10 or so seconds of "21st Century Schizoid Man" that was sampled at one point. The rest, well, not so much - or not at all really.
I did not listen. I will not support a Nazi even with minimal add or streaming revenue
Would have been a 4.4 if he had Kurt cobained it in like 2013. Unfortunately not. Specific rating - 0.0 Fav song- devil in a new dress Least fav- so appalled
Didn’t listen
Fuck Nazis. (shame as it is an amazing album)
Was never a huge fan of this one, and his last few years have really soured the listening experience over all. Probably would have been 2 without that.
Nazi chumps fuck off
Glad I was never into Kanye before he went nuts. Don't have to deal with trying to separate the artist from their shitty opinions. Always disliked him for his big ego. Tried going into this album with an open mind, but still didn't really enjoy it. DNF. 1/5
Fuck Kanye.
Das Album wurde überwiegend auf Hawaii in den Avex Recording Studios in Honolulu aufgenommen. Kanye West, US-amerikanischer Musiker und Produzent, kehrte für diese Produktion bewusst zu einem abgeschiedenen Arbeitsprozess zurück, nachdem sein vorheriges Werk gemischte Reaktionen erhalten hatte. Das musikalische Genre lässt sich vorrangig dem Hip-Hop zuordnen, wobei Einflüsse aus Progressive Rock, Soul und orchestraler Popmusik ebenfalls deutlich zu erkennen sind. Die Produktion ist vielschichtig, mit komplexen Arrangements, die oft mehrere musikalische Ebenen gleichzeitig bedienen. Bekannte Titel wie „Power“, „Runaway“ oder „All of the Lights“ zählen heute zu den am häufigsten rezipierten Stücken seiner Diskografie und gelten inhaltlich wie stilistisch als prägend für eine Phase, in der Kanye West seine künstlerische Position neu definierte. Das Album vermittelt trotz der aufwändigen Inszenierung eine persönliche Note, da sich West mit gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen, persönlichem Scheitern und öffentlicher Wahrnehmung auseinandersetzt. In der Gesamtschau handelt es sich um ein musikalisch durchdachtes Werk, das sich deutlich von vorangegangenen Veröffentlichungen abhebt, ohne sich vollständig von seiner bisherigen Stilistik zu lösen.
Track 1: Wasn't all _that_ offensive. Maybe I even give this a 2 Track 2: This is incredibly grating. Track 3: Somewhat offended by the 21 CSM sample. Track 4: Because this is an albums project, I pledge to listen to the entire thing anyway. Scout's honor. Track all the rest: Hang in there. You can take it. Made it. Now I have to go wash my ears out.
Booooo Nazis.
It's uncomfortable to listen to Kanye nowadays. Kanye's voice is generally the worst part of each of his songs, and knowing how drug abuse can exacerbate mental health issues, those lyrics are more disturbing than enjoyable. Same goes for lyrics about violence against women. Power and All of the Lights are undeniable hits.
I refuse to listen to anything by this creep
I have a feeling part of this is because I don't like Kanye west but god I just didn't like this
Nope.
Great musicians, great production, terrible lyrics.
No no no. NO
Purchased this first time around and enjoyed it. Unfortunately not listening to it ever again given Kanye's embrace and glorification of Nazim. Absolute bell end.
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Mmmh
the hatred i have for kanye stains any music of his i could listen to now unfortunately, but the people that are also on this album and the sample of king crimson does unfortunately eat. but honestly not even that good, there are better kanye songs and better music in general idk
The collabs with bon iver were interesting, but otherwise, not my style.
nazi piece of shit
Not my thing
Not a fan
Ye Ye No No North South East West Can I Love the art and not the artist? That’s too much of a test!
nope. next.
It's a big aside but putting his MAGA, racist, misogynist, crazy, anti-Taylor actions aside I still don't get what it is that people like about his "music." Now that I'm schooled in Kendrick Lamar, The Fugees, and The Pharcycle I know what good rap should sound like. I would feel bad because he's so clearly struggling with mental health issues but I don't because he is fundamentally dark and twisted. He even told us that 15 years ago.
To begin with, the beats are okay and the production is fine which makes for a slick, slick mediocre record that for some reason is very popular and sold millions. The reality of this dark twisted fantasy is Kanye West is the most overrated and (self) hyped artist, probably ever. I'm not an expert in hip hop or rap, but to my ears there is nothing special, beautiful or earth-shattering about this album. I would have given this maybe a 3 or 2 if it was any artist other than West, but I could try to be somewhat objective and ignore the shitty human being he is...nope, sorry I can't.
Not gonna listen to a nazi
This album is the musical equivalent of a gilded trash fire. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy sounds like what would happen if someone handed a malfunctioning ego a billion-dollar budget and told it to paint its feelings in JPEGs. It’s overproduced, overwrought, and undercooked — a monument to indulgence where actual musical ideas go to get buried beneath walls of noise, guest verses pretending to be profound, and vocal takes so bloated with self-importance they may as well arrive via gold-plated parachute. “Runaway” is nine minutes long and somehow manages to say nothing except “I’m awful, but make it art.” “Blame Game” turns into a voicemail. “Power” is catchy in the way migraine auras are visually interesting. The production is technically impressive, sure, but so is a fireworks display at a landfill — doesn’t mean you want to sit through it. Everything here is trying to be cinematic and mythic, but it ends up sounding like an expensive identity crisis broadcast through a distortion pedal. It’s an exhausting slog of operatic narcissism, where every good idea is smothered by five worse ones. The features are dragged into the quicksand one by one, forced to shout platitudes into the void. By the end, it feels less like an album and more like a cry for help from someone who thinks help is beneath him. A bombastic, baffling, and utterly joyless monument to a man who thinks he's a misunderstood genius, when really he just needed someone to say "no."
ick
Fuck Kanye
Not even going to bother with this garbage from a piece of shit human being. 0 stars, next.
No thanks. Won't listen to this fascist.
Didn't listen. Not giving this guy any streaming profit. Even if it only adds up to a fraction of a cent.
Yikes, this one is going to be hard to listen to with an unbiased perspective in light of all the crap our favorite unhinged, bipolar nazi has pulled the last few years. I was dreading this album making an appearance, and here it is. At least it's come early in this project, so lets get it over with. I listened. I cringed a lot. I didn't want to give him any listens but I did it anyway for the sake of musical enlightenment. Yeah, I'm still biased. Now for my scathing review: I think Kanye is a clown with a persecution complex fueled by mental illness and an inflated sense of self-importance. That aside, I don't like his flow and I don't think his rhymes are all that great. None of it is clever. The man just throws in an object or person to get the rhyme so much, it bothers the hell out of me. The man is not a singer. The best parts of most of his songs are arguably the featured artists. Musically this album is actually pretty ok, at least Kanye incorporates a lot of instruments and styles in his tracks and the beats are good. I just wish I didn't have to hear his whiny voice over top of it all. Lyrics I thought were subpar, going on and on about Kanye's lifestyle and how great he is. Here's an example of his exemplary (read with heavy sarcasm) storytelling: "Ah, put the pussy in a sarcophagus, Now she claiming that I bruised her esophagus." Here's another: "My presence is a present, kiss my ass." Ugh. Both from the same song, "Monster." Its all just so played out and exhausting after the first 10 minutes. "Hell Of A Life" might be the most annoying song on the album, with stupid lyrics autotuned to imitate Sabbath's "Iron Man" over top a cowboy clip-clop track with digital harpsichord. Just awful. Standouts if I had to pick them are "Power" - I think this is honestly the only Kanye song I've heard previously - "All Of The Lights" - for the drum machine and Rihanna, honestly - "Runaway" - the second half was instrumental and was a nice break. I'll admit I very badly wanted to give this album 1 star from the go ahead. I wanted to not even listen, give it 1 star, and wait for my next album. But I gave it a shot. I even toyed with rating it 2 stars for having some catchy beats at times, but man, I would never listen to any of this again and I can only listen to Kanye beat himself up for so long. Poor guy with such a great life and money and power doesn't need any charity stars from a guy like me. So might as well pile on the Kanye pity party and go ahead and give it that 1 star. If this is Kanye's best, lord help me if I ever have to listen to his worst. People love it, I just don't get the hype. Punch Nazis, kids, and stop making stupid people famous.
While excellently produced and arranged, the subject matter is really a celebration of neoliberalism. "I will get money and fame at all costs" is the running moral code. This is not a cry against the system so much as a plea for our fucked up system to please favor him instead of anyone else. Kanye was never one of the good ones. You can detect a lot of the weirdness we now condemn him for already in this record. When Kendrick raps they not like us, he's not just talking about Drake, it's this. These rich kids who want to get even more rich. Kanye was never on the streets. Why does he rap so much about people hating him? Because it's transparent this man has no real authenticity, his motivations are not connection or speaking truth to power but getting ahead and pulling up the ladder. And doing bitches, lots of bitches.
No voy a darle reproducciones a semejante zángano. Mi primer 1 pero por razones obvias.
I was going to listen to Kanye for this, but after the pro-Hitler song (and really even before that), I just can’t.
Not a fan of rap in this style. Very overrated IMHO
This shit… is so ass‼️‼️🔥 Nazi and bad at music? Why does anyone like this guy
I have not been able to connect with the album. No one single song kept my attention for long. The fact I'm not into this kind of music didn't help. 3/10
This honestly isn't my thing. There's hundreds of other rap albums I'd rather put on than this.
I saw him live once. Waited so long for him to come out the drink I had pregamed with wore off. Show wasn't bad though. I used to enjoy his stuff, good lyrics, flow and beat. Then he started talking all Hitler was a good guy and went on Alex Jones with a white supremacist. I hope he gets the help he needs, but I'm not giving him anymore of my money. This would be a 4-5 star album. I can't give it that though.
This is #day259 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… fuck Kanye West. Honestly, I think he should be dropped from the list for a whole bunch of reasons. At this point, three of his albums are included, and zero are from, say, Slowdive or Deftones, or other bands and artists who are more important and influential. I listened to The College Dropout in full back on #day10 because I told myself then that no matter the music, I'd check out every single album, as that's what the challenge is about. I must admit, since then, there have been a couple of exceptions when I couldn't get through the whole record. I tried listening to one song today, too, and nope. I don't want to hear this before I die, and I wish the same for you. This is a 1 out of 5. Looking forward to #day 260.
nuh uh
Not listening to a Nazi
Didn’t listen
The man is an idiot with a good taste in samples
As is the case with the world in general, this album is best when kayne keeps his mouth shut.
Sure, I was convinced back when this came out. The album was all the rage, everybody's darling. Voice of our generation. And it had enough to offer to make me look past the things that, in hindsight, had rubbed me the wrong way from the start. It's larger than life, but not in a quietly confident way and instead an obnoxious look-at-me way. There's obviously still a lot to like in the music, but to make a long story short: Shut the fuck up Kanye, you literal nazi cretin.
American dog shit!!! I'd rather be tortured than hear shit like that
Mental illness aside his music is not for me
I really dislike rap
not listening
Fuck this Nazi, first album I have 100% skipped. The last one of his I got he was still being tame enough that I gave it the benefit of the doubt. As of April 2025 when I received this album it is far too hard to separate the art from the artist. Fuck Kanye!
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Primero que nada dude mucho en escuchar este album porque no lo soporto a keni. Me encantaria decir que es un álbum de mierda pero no (no lei la letra de ninguna de las canciones, asi que seguro hay un monton de cosas que no pude entender del todo bien), que bronca que este tipo sea tan pelotudo e infumable. Rate: 4 estrellas por que me hizo mover, en momentos se escucharon intrumentales con mucha epicidad y se agradece sin embargo -3 estrellas porque kenye west es una persona de mierda y tampoco creo tener la necesidad de volver a escuchar este album
Ugh, no. Some good music there, but it needs to have Kanye's blabbering removed to make it listenable.
Fuck kayne
Fuck Kanye West
Did not listen out of protest and giving one star to try reducing the average score.
It sucked!
This ain't it
Fuck Kanye. Tried to give this an honest go and it's boring at best. I hate modern production and this is no different. Flow and rhymes are entirely amateurish outside of a few moments from guests. This has to be one of if not THE MOST overrated artist/producer in the history of music.
This has some listenable tracks on here, but entirely screw this guy.
Yeah, no.
Nothing will get me listening to this facist, anti-Semite
Not gonna listen
Regardless of how amazing this album is, or any other possible album of his that may show up in here again, out of principle there is really only one score I can give.
No to Nazis
Rubbish
This person with not make one more cent off of me. F Kanye
fuck him. and his music, too.
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It's amazing how separated I am culturally from some types of music. Collectively, these songs have had about 4 BILLION listens on spotify, yet I hadn't heard (of) a single one of them. And are they good? Yeah they are fine. Like 2 or 3 stars fine. However, while I usually try to separate the art from the artist, this album does lose 3 stars for Kanye being a literal Nazi.
Fuck no, not even gonna listen to this N@zi shit