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Fortunately for the listener, West has always excelled at turning personal adversity into excellent art (as 'Through the Wire' so perfectly illustrated). Add in a mullet and some over-the-top outfits, and these last couple years have been a confusing time for our protagonist. His proclivity for awards-show interruptions came to a gruesome head at the 2009 MTV awards, culminating in the President of the United States publically referring to him as a jackass and his being made the brunt of a particularly memorable episode of South Park (ouch). Since mid-2008 or so, West's life seems to have taken a turn away from the heart-rending and into the realm of the surreal.

While 808s and Heartbreak may have helped West publically exorcise the pain of these tragedies from his life, the years between its release and his latest have been, if not as tragic, far from smooth. Prior to beginning work on his latest album, the man suffered two awful life traumas (the unexpected death of his mother and the breakup of his engagement), events which wrought themselves in caps all over the angst-laden auto-croon of his last work.

West has been a polarizing figure the last few years, but on his fifth album it is nearly impossible not to love him.Times have been tough for Kanye West of late. Stomping battle rap to the world, "Monster" features great guest appearances from soul legend Charlie Wilson, Jay Z and Nicki Minaj where she clears up what all the hype is about for anyone still unsure. Kanye proclaims, "I guess every superhero needs his own theme music", behind a marching rat-a-tat beat and anthemic choir chanting behind his chest-thumping rap on "Power", but could just as easily pick the grimy, bluesy whine of uplifting "Gorgeous" discussing racial injustices through a megaphone, "Face it, Jerome get more time than Brandon / And at the airport they check all through my bag and tell me it's random." The icy chill of the piano and naked beat sound fantastic with the soaring strings, but the concluding three-minute talk box is pointlessly long. Conflicted, "Runaway" serves as part warning, apology, and kiss-off as he begs his girl to cut and run from his self-destructive ways. John Legend dishes out a soulful hook for "Blame Game", but nearly eight-minute tune overstays its welcome with an unnecessary, unfunny two-minute phone conversation with Chris Rock learning that his girl learned her moves from Kanye. The lengthy album only drags on in two, otherwise killer, songs. He attempts to talk his religious woman to the bedroom on the smooth "Devil In A Blue Dress" over a wonderful sample from Smokey Robinson's "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow", while admitting, "Hard to be humble while you struttin' on a jumbotron". Fuelled by the fuzzed-out synth and melody borrowed from Black Sabbath's "Iron Man", "Hell Of A Life" feels inspired by the latest season of Entourage, as Kanye falls hard for a porn star and spins rapidly out of control as he plans their future.

Kanye west my beautiful dark twisted fantasy release date free#

Kanye looks to shake free of the fake life on "Lost In The World", as Bon Iver twists his creaky, wavering "Woods" into an aching hook over a dance beat. Star-studded, shadowy orchestral banger "So Appalled" begins turning up a nose at the ridiculously lavish lifestyle of an entertainment figure, but Jay-Z picks the second verse to vent frustration over being a hated rapper and the remainder of the unfocused song devolves into tales of drug dealing and affairs. West spends a fair amount of time exploring the excesses that celebrity allows. A jittery marching-band beat and blaring horns ring over the Rihanna-sung hook on "All Of The Lights", as Kanye looks to make amends with his ex after spending time in prison for domestic abuse, before coming to grips with the end of the relationship while vowing to save his daughter from 'ghetto university'. Loaded with killer beats, slick samples, clever lyrics striking a balance between braggadocio and social consciousness, Kanye is at the top of his game. West thankfully shakes his affinity for auto-tune and synth-pop, and gets back to doing what he does best. Opening track, "Dark Fantasy" asks, "Can we get much higher?" Rapper-extraordinaire, Kanye West might be asking himself that for a while following his fifth album, serving as his most consistent and best to date.