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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is the fifth studio album by American hip hop artist Kanye West, released November 22, 2010 on Roc-A-Fella Records.[1] The album was formerly known as Good Ass Job and tentatively Dark Twisted Fantasy,[1][2][3] before being renamed. Production for the album began in early 2010, with West spending most of his time recording in Hawaii. GOOD Music artist Big Sean was the second to announce the title of the album as Good Ass Job"[4] (after a 2005 interview with West while he was promoting his second album, Late Registration) which falls in line with the album West had planned to put out following Graduation before he released 808s & Heartbreak instead. Production will come from West himself, Q-Tip, DJ Premier, RZA, Pete Rock, Madlib, DJ Toomp, Swizz Beatz, Lex Luger, and Justin Vernon.

Background

It was revealed that outside production would be provided by Q-Tip, RZA, DJ Premier and Pete Rock.[5][6] DJ Premier has since revealed that the beat he made will not appear on the album.[7]

Based on a recent interview, DJ Premier also credits Kanye for bringing back the popularity of sampling old records.[8]

"Well, first of all, if you look at all of Kanye West's output, he actually did a lot to bring back sampling and make it cool again, even though he's more of a mainstream artist...but his new album is strictly hard beats and rhyme. He's totally done with electro. You're gonna be surprised what you hear.

— DJ Premier, Amajanese.blogspot.com

On July 24, 2010, on Kanye West's blog, a banner appeared reading "My Dark Twisted Fantasy Trailer". On July 28, 2010, Kanye announced via his new official Twitter account that "The album is no longer called 'Good Ass Job' I'm bouncing a couple of titles around now."[9] Kanye performed a few of the tracks at the Facebook headquarters including "See Me Now", "Lost in the World", "Chain Heavy" and "Mama's Boyfriend". On the same day, Kanye performed an unknown track at the Twitter Headquarters, but he did not mention the title in the performance. It was reported that Kanye has spent over $3 million of Def Jam's money on the recording of the album.[10]

The official title was announced on October 5, 2010, one day after the release date of November 22, 2010 was announced.[11][12]

Production

Fellow hip-hop pioneer Pete Rock recently confirmed being in the studio with West:[13]

"I'm working with him," Rock told radio host Peter Rosenberg. "That's all I can say is that I'm working with him. I went out [to Hawaii.] It's beautiful man, he just feels like a little brother to me. You know what I'm saying? Like, my little brother that's doing it. And we got along just fine. He's definitely hip-hop, his roots, I was testing him on joints...He takes it to another level which is dope. He had these musicians and this song, they played around my little raggedy beat and made it real. I love the way he works -- he goes from one room, writing rhymes then goes to another beat and goes to another room and does something else -- I love what he's done, I always thought he was clever. I used to bug out over the ego thing but once you get to know him, it's like 'Oh, okay, he's a sweetheart.' [laughs] We got along just well."

— Pete Rock, Noisemakers

Madlib stated that he made five beats for Kanye West for the album.[14]

Guests

The guests that were at one time or another confirmed to be included on the album are Raekwon, RZA, Dwele, Nicki Minaj, Drake, Beyoncé Knowles, Big Sean, Charlie Wilson, Justin Vernon, Jay-Z, Kid Cudi, Rick Ross, CyHi tha Prince, M.I.A., Mr Hudson, Tony Williams, Pusha T, Swizz Beatz, John Legend, Lloyd Banks, Alicia Keys, Fergie, Rihanna, The-Dream, Ryan Leslie, Elton John, Elly Jackson and Chris Rock.[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27] Also included, on the album's closing track, are large samples of both Gil Scott-Heron's poem "Comment #1," which originally appeared on Heron's Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, and Bon Iver's "Woods," which originally appeared on Bon Iver's Blood Bank (EP) [27]

Release and promotion

Singles

On Friday, May 28, 2010, an unfinished version of a speculative first single titled "Power" was leaked onto the internet. It features Dwele and is co-produced by Kanye West and S1.[28] It was officially released on July 1 on iTunes. The official remix features Jay-Z & Swizz Beatz. It was released on August 20, 2010 at 12:00 AM on Hot 97 by DJ Kayslay.[29]

On September 12, 2010, West performed "Runaway" at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards.[30] Three weeks later on October 2, West performed the song on Saturday Night Live, along with "Power". The song was officially released to the iTunes Store on October 4, 2010.[11][31] Kanye West's 35 minute movie for his "Runaway" single was released on October 23. It featured all the tracks from the album, except "Monster" and "So Appalled".

On October 23, 2010 , "Monster" was released as the third single on iTunes.[32] The song was originally released on August 27, 2010 as part of West's music program "GOOD Friday". The song was performed at Jay-Z's and Eminem's "Home and Home" concert on September 14, 2010 along with Nicki Minaj. [33]

The fourth single from the album will be "All of the Lights".[34]

Cover art

On October 17, Kanye West revealed through Twitter that My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy had been rejected by certain stores because of the cover art.[35][36] The artwork (a portrait by George Condo) shows West being straddled by an armless winged female (a phoenix). Both characters are depicted nude, and one nipple of the phoenix's breasts and her buttocks are visible. The painting is centered on a red background with a thin yellow border. The artwork follows along the apparent theme of the album, as well as West's music film "Runaway".[37] According to an interview with MTV News, this is one of five album covers; all of them will be included with its purchase.[38] A pixelated censored version of the cover is used on iTunes Store.

A second cover, with a painting of a ballerina by Condo, was posted on the Amazon.com pre-order page.[39] It was intended to be the original artwork for "Runaway," but West used a photograph of a ballerina instead.[39]

Kanye revealed all 5 different covers via a UStream conference. Four of the five album covers had been previously released using the same artwork of the album's singles "Power" and "Runaway". Although the fifth cover had yet to be released at the time of the conference, it has since been released.

According to NYMag.com, a new painting intended for Kanye’s soon-to-be-released My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy album has surfaced. The painting, entitled “The Priest” was completed by artist George Condo, who is also responsible for the five covers that have already been revealed. Condo stated that the piece is an attempt to bring depictions of religious figures into the modern world.[40]

Critical response

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[41]
Chicago Tribune[42]
Entertainment Weekly(A)[43]
The Guardian[44]
The Independent[45]
Pitchfork Media(11.0/10)[46]
The New York Times(favorable)[47]
Rolling Stone[48]
Slant Magazine[49]
Spin(9/10)[50]
The Village Voice(favorable)[51]

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy received general acclaim from most music critics.[52] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 100, based on 7 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".[52] Andy Gill of The Independent gave it 5 out of 5 stars and called it "one of pop's gaudiest, most grandiose efforts of recent years, a no-holds-barred musical extravaganza in which any notion of good taste is abandoned at the door".[45] Entertainment Weekly's Simon Vozick-Levinson complimented West's "outrageously hedonistic lyrics" and stated "West has tricked out these tracks with sharper verses and grander instrumental interludes, then lined them up in a sequence that demands to be heard from start to finish [...] essential components of a soundly built structure—easily his most consistently compelling full-length since 2005′s Late Registration".[43] Henry Adaso of About.com gave it 5 out of 5 stars and described it as "a gracefully structured, wonderfully produced manifesto on how to meld style and substance".[53] Steve Jones of USA Today gave the album 4 out of 4 stars and called it "an epic, adventurous aural mélange that easily outstrips anything he's done".[54] David Browne of Time called it "his most extravagant work [...] congested, constantly bustling" and wrote that it "reasserts the fact that few combine disparate elements as smoothly as West".[55] Chris Richards of The Washington Post dubbed the album as West's "masterpiece", calling it "pure pop bravura, with hip-hop's biggest ego torquing self-obsession into unapologetic new shapes".[56]

Kitty Empire of The Guardian criticized some of its lyrics regarding "women as ruthless money-grabbers", but ultimately found the album "herculean... a flawed near-masterpiece".[44] Rolling Stone writer Rob Sheffield cited it as West's best album and "his most maniacally inspired music yet, coasting on heroic levels of dementia, pimping on top of Mount Olympus [...] Nobody else is making music this daring and weird".[48] Sputnikmusic's Channing Freeman noted "a zest for life in these songs that is really quite beautiful" and viewed the album as "the first album in which he's truly lived up to his potential in every way - as a rapper, as a lyricist, as a songwriter".[57] Jon Caramanica of The New York Times called West "a better rapper than he’s ever been" and described it as "a startlingly maximalist take on East Coast rap traditionalism".[47] The Village Voice's Sean Fennessey viewed that "Kanye is rapping and singing better and with more tenacity than he ever has on Fantasy" and called the album "a staggering, often breathtaking work [...] masterfully engineered and sequenced, each song bleeding over like some long night out into the hazy morning after".[51] Allmusic writer Andy Kellman noted inconsistency in West's rapping and the album's "contrasting elements and maniacal extravagance".[41] He described it as "the culmination of Kanye West's first four albums" musically and elaborated on its significance in West's catalogue, stating:

As fatiguing as it is invigorating, as cold-blooded as it is heart-rending, as haphazardly splattered as it is meticulously sculpted, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is an extraordinarily complex 70-minute set of songs. Listening to it... is a laborious process. [...] The 13 tracks... sometimes fuse them together simultaneously. Consequently, the sonic and emotional layers are often difficult to pry apart and enumerate. [...] As the ego and ambition swells, so does the appeal, the repulsiveness, and – most importantly – the ingenuity. Whether loved or loathed, fully enjoyed or merely admired, this album should be regarded as a deeply fascinating accomplishment.[41]

— Andy Kellman

The Boston Globe's James Reed described it as "a fun house of styles and sentiments, as self-involved and overstuffed as you’d expect from him but also progressive and universal in its themes".[58] Chris Martins of Spin characterized its production "loud and proud, but also poignant and gripping" and described the album as "a sinister, orchestral, hugely grandiose affair that owes as much to the artist's self-aggrandizing ego as to the voracious id that would destroy it publicly".[50] Chicago Sun-Times writer Thomas Conner gave the album 4 out of 4 stars and noted West's "difficulty in communicating" as "pretty compelling on record".[59] Chicago Tribune writer Greg Kot perceived the album's feel as "a collision of opulence and emptiness" and complimented West's transparency, stating "What makes him so off-putting – his almost pathological allegiance to expressing his emotions, unfiltered – is also what makes him so compelling, a curious mix of bravado and vulnerability".[42] Nitsuh Abebe of New York called the album "adventurous, fierce, and full of vitality", writing that "Its guiding principle seems to be to go in harder on every front: Be more opulent and arty, be more vicious and aggrieved, be more 'complicated' and self-lacerated".[60] Slant Magazine's Matthew Cole viewed the album as a milestone in hip hop music and lauded its themes of "self-aggrandizement and self-effacement", writing that it "allows Kanye a thematic palette broad enough to confront his pride and anguish".[49] [46]

Track listing

The track listing was confirmed by Amazon.com.[61] Production list from liner notes in the booklet.

No.TitleProducer(s)Length
1."Dark Fantasy"RZA, Kanye West; No I.D. (co); Jeff Bhasker, Mike Dean (add.)4:40
2."Gorgeous" (featuring Kid Cudi & Raekwon)Kanye West, No I.D., Mike Dean; Ken Lewis (add.)5:57
3."Power" (additional vocals by Dwele)S1 of Strange Fruit Project, Kanye West; Mike Dean, Jeff Bhasker, Andrew Dawson (add.)4:52
4."All of the Lights" (Interlude) 1:02
5."All of the Lights" (featuring Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Fergie, The-Dream, Ryan Leslie, Elton John, Charlie Wilson, Kid Cudi, John Legend, Tony Williams & Elly Jackson)Kanye West; Jeff Bhasker (co)4:59
6."Monster" (featuring Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj & Bon Iver)Kanye West, Mike Dean, Plain Pat, Jeff Bhasker (co)6:18
7."So Appalled" (featuring Jay-Z, Pusha T, Prynce Cy Hi, Swizz Beatz & The RZA)Kanye West, No I.D.; Mike Dean, Jeff Bhasker (co)6:38
8."Devil in a New Dress" (featuring Rick Ross)Bink!; Mike Dean (co)5:52
9."Runaway" (featuring Pusha T)Kanye West; Emile, Jeff Bhasker, Mike Dean (co)9:08
10."Hell of a Life"Kanye West, Mike Caren; Mike Dean (co)5:27
11."Blame Game" (featuring John Legend)Kanye West, DJ Frank E, Mike Dean (add.)7:49
12."Lost in the World" (featuring Bon Iver)Kanye West; Jeff Bhasker, Ken Lewis, Anthony Kilhoffer (co)4:16
13."Who Will Survive in America"Kanye West; Jeff Bhasker, Ken Lewis, Anthony Kilhoffer (co)1:38
iTunes bonus track
No.TitleProducer(s)Length
14."See Me Now" (featuring Big Sean, Beyoncé & Charlie Wilson)Kanye West, No I.D., Lex Luger6:03
Notes
  • Deluxe edition contains DVD with film "Runaway".
Samples Used

"Dark Fantasy"

"Gorgeous"

  • Contains portions of the composition “You Showed Me” by Gene Clark

"Power"

  • Contains elements from the Cold Grits recording “It’s Your Thing”
  • Contains elements of “Afromerica” (Francois Bernheim/Jean-Pierre Lang/Boris Bergman)
  • Contains material sampled from “21st Century Schizoid Man” performed by King Crimson

"So Appalled"

  • Contains samples of the Manfred Mann’s Earth Band recording “You Are – I Am”

"Devil In A New Dress"

  • Contains samples of the recording “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” as performed by Smokey Robinson

"Runaway"

  • Contains a sample of “Expo 83” performed by Backyard Heavies
  • Contains excerpts from Rick James ‘Live at Long Beach, CA’ 1981

"Hell Of A Life"

  • Contains samples of the Mojo Men recording “She’s My Baby"
  • Contains portions of “Iron Man,” written by T. Butler, A. Iommi, J. Osbourne and W.T. Ward

"Blame Game"

"Lost In The World"

  • Contains a sample of the recording “Think (About It)” as performed by Lyn Collins
  • Contains samples of “The Woods” performed by Bon Iver

Personnel

Credits for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy adapted from Allmusic.[62]

Musicians

Production

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