"...Nobody else is making music this daring and weird... 5/5 Stars"- Rolling Stone
"...a blast of surreal pop excess that few artists are capable of creating, or even willing to attempt... 10/10" - Pitchfork
Rolling Stone's Best singles of 2010
40. Kanye West
"Power"
The first sign of how crazy Twisted Fantasy would be: 'Ye goes all schizoid while sampling King Crimson.
10. Kanye West feat. Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj and Bon Iver
"Monster"
On this rumbling id-fest, Minaj delivers the cameo of the year, switching personae and voices like she's rap's Meryl Streep. Kanye has the good sense to let her go on for 31 thrilling bars.
1. Kanye West feat. Pusha T
"Runaway"
It takes a special kind of dark, twisted genius to raise the white flag of surrender while raising a middle finger. Kanye West is that genius. "Runaway" is Kanye's musical response to the Taylor Swift affair, but it's much more than that: a nine-minute meditation on romantic failure and public infamy. Kanye creates a huge, eerie beat out of thunderous drums and plinking piano, and he turns the phrase "Let's have a toast for the douchebags" into a refrain nearly as catchy as "She loves you — yeah, yeah, yeah." In 2010, no other song was so crazily epic or jaw-droppingly gorgeous — not on the radio, not anywhere. Now, everyone raise your glasses.
1. Kanye West
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam
With My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West made music as sprawlingly messy as his life. When he wasn't feuding with Matt Lauer or bugging out on Twitter, Kanye was building hip-hop epics, songs full of the kind of grandiose gestures that only the foolish attempt and only the wildly talented pull off. The more he piled on — string sections, Elton John piano solos, vocoder freakouts, Bon Iver cameos, King Crimson and Rick James samples — the better the music got. Never has Kanye rhymed so hilariously ("Have you ever had sex with a pharaoh?/I put the ***** in a sarcophagus") or been so insightful about his relationship-torpedoing faults. From the bracing prog-rock of "Power" to the spooky grandeur of "Runaway" to the shape-shifting "Hell of a Life," he made all other music seem dimmer and duller. Is the album dark? Sure. Twisted? Of course. But above all, it's beautiful.
isn't monster just a digital buzz single in the same way romans revenge is for pink friday on itunes? i wasn't aware it was receiving an official physical release or video or anything. i thought all of the lights was going third.
i forgot to mention that i love the album cover. It's like NAS wanting to name his album the N word, but changing it to untitled only after fans knew that it was supposed to be so.
Interview with Oprah is big. Any rapper getting one from her is LEGENDARY!!!
►CONFIRMED: "See Me Now" featuring BEYONCÉ & Big Sean.
Big_Sean Big Sean
So if u want Kanye's "See Me now" ft. Beyonce n Me pre-order or just buy his album on ITunes.... Or just buy the song Boi!
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