![]() ![]() Trying to milk out the good parts from this guy. People'd buy it, because it's Kanye, and everything would be fine. Yeah, I think that'd be cool and he could do it really well. I think the best thing, for my liking, for Kanye to do would be to.uh.actually do an instrumental album and using auto-tune solos and things like that. That was an album where I got a bad vibe right before it came out, and I didn't get it. And then I think the "Gold Digger" beat is pretty cool. I think the only great beat is the "Diamonds From Sierra Leone" beat. I mean, Jay-Z had one of the best little parts on the one song he's on, and that's saying something (I pretty much don't like Jay-Z, though he has his moments here and there). And even when there are decent beats, the raps aren't there. The beats are stale, sterile, and annoying for the most part. And while listening to it, I realized that I had listened to it once before this as well. Well I just finished listening to Late Registration. You're missing out as a Kanye fan until then. Honestly, listen to Late Registration, perhaps the greatest hip hop album of all time. ![]() And as an album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy works on so many levels, the most basic one being that it sounds so great. Just look at Sly & the Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin' On, an album whose sum is so much greater than its parts. That's an inanely basic way to look at music. I think the hip hop crowd is very simplistic when it comes to criticism: you grade the production and then you grade the raps. But I've never heard him spit like he does on "Monster" and "Power" is his most lyrically confident song since "Can't Tell Me Nothing." None of this would matter if it didn't all sound great and if he wasn't still saying interesting things. An Auto-Tuned, cathartic vocoder solo? A minute-long guitar solo followed by Rick Ross? A four-minute long hip hop song with only one verse? It's impressive how far Kanye can push the limits-and succeed. ![]()
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