It felt like a new chapter in Kanye’s career, one that wouldn’t include albums like his opus, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. In their place were uncomfortable sounds abutting one another to create something wholly original.
Gone were the ornate orchestrations, cleanly chopped soul loops, and beautiful textures. Stepping forward with what I know about architecture, about classicism, about society, about texture, about synesthesia-the ability to see sound-and the way everything is everything and all these things combine, and then starting from scratch.” He wanted to abandon most of what had made him a household name over the past nine years. Listen to the album of the decade, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, here.While on the press run for his sixth album, Yeezus, Kanye West, in conversation with director Steve McQueen, said the album was “the beginning of me as a new kind of artist. In addition to those few songs, West’s entire work was heralded as a masterpiece by many, who claimed that nothing like it had ever been heard or made before (even the multiple album covers were controversial and subject to scrutiny), and launched the Chicago native into “mad genius” territory. Furthermore, it won Best Rap Album at the 54th Grammy Awards. The Roc-A-Fella Records-released effort marked Kanye’s fifth studio album and contained strong and still easily-recognized singles including “Power,” “Runaway,” “Monster” and “All Of The Lights” that paved the way for massive critical acclaim. As this decade comes to an end, artists and publications look back at the variety of musical accomplishments and with that comes the collective decision by Billboard and Rolling Stone that Kanye West‘s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is the best album of the last ten years.ĭef Jam just dropped the news that the 2010 album, unveiled at the dawn of the decade, has been named #1 by both reputable music publications.
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