3. Kanye West-My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
I wanted to see Kanye West fail. I avoided his Friday downloads like the plague, telling myself I wouldn’t like them. When he announced the working title of Good Ass Job I took joy in making light of the various ways to read the name and when he switched the title to My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy I thought it sounded even dumber. The first time I heard “Runaway” performed at the VMA’s, I convinced myself it was a dumb cry for attention with a catchy beat. But upon hearing the rapper/producer/singer/everything-musically-related’s fifth studio album, I couldn’t ignore it anymore.
This is the best work of Kayne’s career. Better than his hit heavy Graduation even better than his throw back debut The College Dropout. This album will do to the next ten years of hip-hop what The Blueprint did in 2001 and what Illmatic did in the mid nineties. Every subsequent release in the genre will be influenced by his work in some way. His collaboration with dozens of artists leads to an album that could have seven or eight radio singles. There has never been a better produced hip-hop album, ever. Every moment is perfectly refined to sound exactly as Kanye intended, hell it’s of some value to note that Kanye sucks at singing, but you wouldn’t think it based on the production of the album. This is the comeback story of the year and the reason why Kanye’s ego is, at times, warranted.
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