This album makes the samples feel more original. This is saying a lot because Kanye’s use of samples was always integrated very well into his previous works. Kanye’s use of samples is so much more integrated than ever before. I say this because the content focuses a lot on porn, monsters, and having sex with nuns, among other things. The main theme of the rapping focuses more on romancing the devil.
Kanye’s verses were more about being in tune with the emotion behind the words than how cool the lines sounded. There are several cases where Kanye mumbles his words and just continues to the next line. Most of the verses don’t sound as polished as the guests verses do. Not to say that he did not sit down and write it, but when he recorded it, it is as if he felt that one take was enough. It’s truly a diary of a madman.Kanye sounds like he is holding his balls while rapping. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is all things Kanye: complicated, hilarious, dark, extravagant, perverse, intricate and brilliant – although, at times, not as brilliant as it thinks. And sure, I like the aforementioned “Runaway” but it begins to wear out its welcome after about five minutes – why did we need five additional minutes AND auto-tune? “Monster” suffers from the same problem – too many cooks in the kitchen. Alicia Keys, Charlie Wilson, The-Dream (ugh) – what’s the point, other than to show off Ye’s celebrity ties? It doesn’t matter if Ye added the California Raisins – Fergie totally ruins the song anyway. “All of the Lights” is a perfectly good song (even with whiny Rihanna on the hook) without 294 additional vocalists on the track. It tries much too hard to be epic, instead of letting it happen organically. Many fellow reviewers have christened this album a near-perfect work – um, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. The single, repetitive piano note makes it sound like a score from a horror film. And “Runaway,” which I initially was not a fan of, fits much better in the context of this bleak album. “Lost In The World,” which swagger-jacks Bon Iver’s “Woods,” somehow becomes a weird, upbeat – yet still haunting – dance track. The album’s most impressive trait is how it’s able to meld contrasting genres into one package. The Chris Rock outro is hilarious, as well. For those, like me, who thought we’d never again hear the self-conscious, backpacker Kanye of the mid 00s, check out “Blame Game.” Listening to Ye go at it with his lady, and himself, over such a soulful tune will remind you why we put up with the guy in the first place. “Power” and “So Appalled” sees Ye wrestling with fame, again spitting some of the best rhymes of his career, while “Devil In a New Dress” and “Blame Game” detail his constant relationship woes. “Dark Fantasy,” the sinister album opener produced with the help of the RZA and No I.D., shows us that Kanye has grown leaps and bounds lyrically from his early days in the teddy bear costume: “The plan was to drink until the pain over/But what’s worse? The pain or the hangover/Fresh air, rolling down the win-dow/too many Urkels on your team, that’s why your Wins-low.” That might be my favorite line of the year.Īs the album continues to delve into Kanye’s psyche, it becomes a reflection of all his tabloid mishaps of the past two years. And it’s a reflection of Kanye’s long, strange journey. All those ridiculous stunts have paved the way for Kanye’s fifth album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (what’s with all the long, bizarre, comma-less album titles this year?).
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