Next comes the middle of the album, starting with “Monster”, the only track I routinely skip while listening to this album. It’s a textured, grand masterclass in musical excellence, that’s all I can really say. “All of the Lights” features a cast of eminent guests such as Rihanna, Kid Cudi, Nicki Minaj and even Elton John. The cello makes a brief appearance on “Power” and immediately returns with “All of the Lights (Interlude)”, a beautiful, soulful cello and piano duet that leads into “All of the Lights” proper, the first peak of the album.
The next song is “Power”, which is powered by a militant beat and ends with a mournful, sorrowful coda. “Gorgeous” has some of West’s best lyrics on the album, but again it’s the rich layered beats and pensive melodies that propel this track to greatness. The layers of vocals and instruments are lush and generous on this track, which is followed by “Gorgeous,” another gem on the album featuring Kid Cudi as well as Raekwon, who I saw perform in Vancouver once. The album opens with Nicki Minaj reciting eerie poetry in a British accent on “Dark Fantasy,” before a chorus of singers beautifully asks “Can we get much higher?” West’s lyrics are provocative but it’s the melody and harmonies that make this song great it’s foreboding, heavy, introspective and somber but not too dark or depressing just the right balance. As he raps on the MBDTF track “Power”, “He knows, he’s so f-–g gifted.” The song continues, “I just needed time alone with my own thoughts, got treasures in my mind but couldn’t open up my own vault.” Well, with MBDTF, West certainly opens up his vault and unleashes his marvelous treasures upon us. But mostly I just tune out all that noise and focus on his music, because that’s his real strength. Whenever I read about him running for president or doing something wild, I pray for him, I pray that he stays grounded and focused and healthy. When he met Trump and separated from Kim Kardashian, the whole country was talking about him. I know from his Instagram feed that he’s always involved in drama, but that’s probably just part of his genius: he keeps the media conversation revolving around him to increase his relevance and billion-dollar fortune. Say what you will about him, but Kanye West is undeniably a jeen-yuhs, the title of a new Netflix documentary about him.
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I’m going to buy the album, I’m going to download that m-–f-–, I’m going to shoot a bootlegger!” Like Chris Rock says in his comedic monologue on the MBDTF track “Blame Game,” “I gotta thank Yeezy. It was a true masterpiece that perfectly captured my mood and spirit. I listened to this album nonstop for YEARS and it never got old.
Walking the streets and riding the subways of New York City with my iPod and Beats headphones, I listened to MBDTF endlessly on repeat. As it turns out, that was a defining moment in my musical education, because this album turned out to be my absolute favorite album of the last 10-plus years. One day, Robb gave me a digital copy of Kanye West’s new album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (MBDTF) and told me to tell him what I thought of it. We even met then-senator Barack Obama together three years earlier, a story I told in a previous blog project. (He was a big Nirvana fan and loved flipping through my copy of Kurt Cobain’s Journals.) He introduced me to hip hop artists like Kanye West and Kid Cudi, and I happened to introduce him to Childish Gambino (he became a huge fan). Robb was of Afro-Caribbean heritage and had a love of music like I did. In the fall of 2010, I was living in Brooklyn sharing an apartment with two friends, including one named Robb. Spinning a copy of MBDTF on my custom Technics turntable
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