The album was produced mainly by West, along with a variety of high-profile producers such as: Mike Dean, No I. Shipping and handling fees are not refundable.įollowing a period of public and legal controversy, West retreated to a self-imposed exile in Hawaii in There, he worked on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy in a communal recording environment involving numerous contributing musicians and producers. A valid receipt or packing slip is required for all refunds or exchanges. Business days are Monday through Friday, except for holidays. Once the order has been picked and packed, it will be sent via standard ground, second business day or next business day delivery. Led by the bombastic King Crimson-sampling single ''Power,'' featuring a return appearance from Dwele who provided the hook on West's ''Flashing Lights'', My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy will surely please those who viewed s as a derailment. Sampling and ventriloquizing the pop music past to tell the story of its future – very much a tale of our cultures wish for unfettered digital ubiquity – MBDTF is the album of its era, an aesthetic self-acquittal and spiritual autobiography of our eras most dynamic artist. Swallowing the chaos wrought by his public persona and digesting it as a grandiose allegory of self-redemption, Kanye sublimates his narcissism to paint masterstroke after masterstroke on MBDTF, a 69-minute hymn to egotistical excess. In the land of taking a selfie, honing a personal brand, and publicly melting down online, Kanye West is the undisputed king.
In a cloud-based and on-demand culture – a place of increasing virtualization, loneliness, and hyper-connectivity – West straddles this critical moment as what David Samuels of The Atlantic calls the first true genius of the iPhone era, the Mozart of contemporary American music. Having risen from obscurity as a precocious producer through the ranks of Jay Zs Roc-A-Fella records, by the time he released My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (MBDTF) in late 2010, West had evolved into a master collagist, an alchemist capable of transfiguring semi-obscure soul samples and indelible beats into a brash and vulnerable new art form.Ī look at the arc of his career, from the heady chipmunk soul exuberance of The College Dropout (2004) to the operatic narcissism of MBDTF, tells us about the march of pop music into the digital age and, by extension, the contradictions that define our cultural epoch. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Kanye West created the most compelling body of pop music by an American artist during the period. Kanye Wests My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kirk Walker Graves
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