One thing about MBDTF that's not debatable is how open and honest Kanye is. Other's Kanye spent hours and sometimes days working with, only to later change his mind and scrap their verse, or the whole song altogether, from the final cut. Working like a mad scientist, he pushed some of the other artists to the point they became so sick of edits and retakes they decided to just pass. Over that year he brought in other artists he planned to have on the album. What it lacks in definition and structure, it more than makes up for with vulnerability.įollowing the VMA/Taylor Swift debacle and meltdown, Kanye went to Hawaii and disappeared from the public eye for a year while he worked relentlessly from a recording studio he leased out. It's also the best album of the first decade of the century. It's worth an entire blog not just because it's one of the biggest rappers of all time's greatest work, but because it stands on its own as a near-perfect hip hop album. Appropriately, the Houston screw legend and Swishahouse exec manages to make Kanye sound like Z-Ro.ĭownload: Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Chopped Not Slopped)īaile Runaway Mashup (By João Brasil) from João Brasil on Vimeo.Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy turned 10 years old today. Yes, tryptophan is our promethazine, deal with it. We might have listened to it more than the real thing over the weekend due to our turkey nap priorities. First in the form of a baile funk remix of the entire 'Runaway' video (watch it after the jump), and then, even more rewardingly, with OG Ron C's 'Chopped Not Slopped' version of the whole album. Speaking of getting money, we don't, so it was a nice Black Friday surprise to get some holiday bonus Kan-tent in the form of some Dark Twisted Fantasy interpretations. You don't need to give Matt Lauer your best, PMLB, just get that money.

We actually heard he was giving away free media training to the Pedro Molina Latin Band, who came all the way from Guatemala and were a little too geeked up, to be honest. Kanye West blessed New York and NBC audiences with an appropriately gangster version of 'Lost In The World' during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade last week, but the above photo debunks reports that he was ice grilling children all the way down 7th Avenue.

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