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Album: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Artist(s): Kanye West
Official/Original Drop Date: November 22, 2010
Grade: C+
Blade(s): 5.5
Bottom-line: Die-hards will love him; Others will save their money.
Review: Let’s put Kanye West’s cock & gold/diamond teeth away and focus on his latest project. As some would like to get swept away by West’s latest stunts, I’d like to remain focused to that task at hand. We realize he’s fighting for ‘Coon of the Moment/Year’ title, but hopefully there’s an album worth salvaging for 2010. I suppose that at this juncture West has succumbed to a newbie’s downfall, F.A.O.D. (Feature Artist Overdose). He’s allegedly a “senior” in the game at this point, so why all the guest artists? Does he need other faces to help lift the illusion of his rap game? Many will claim that he’s giving others time to shine. I’ll ignore that joke.
When I heard some comments from the overexposed MTV jokers that sat and discussed West’s talent compared to Eminem or anyone else in the game, currently, I had to laugh. This album only proved my thoughts; West is good for controversy and production, not rhyming skills. A few ‘catchy’ lines does not make a lyricist. Apparently MTV forgot that or perhaps they never knew it to begin with. “Monster” was a good piece mainly because Nicki Minaj was featured, hopefully her own album will be worth listening to. We’ve seen artists who have performed stronger as “guests” rather than “headliners” before.
That ridiculous 40 minute waste of time that was known as ‘Runaway: The Movie’ to some and ‘Runaway: From the Over Exposed‘ to me was a cut and paste of the different songs on this album. We could have saved time and made the review of the video replace this album review all together. Either way I’ll take up the challenge and say that there is not much “wow factor” in this album – yet again, that is what I have come to expect from West. Despite a few lyrics here and there, the over all project left me holding a bag of underwhelmed emotions. The contradictory lyrics that continue to come from West is hysterical as he he speaks of only needing “religion and pu**y” and then has a snippet of Gil Scott Heron’s Comment 1. WTF? From pu**y to revolution. And folks claim this is not a contradictory message? No focus. All over the map. Whateva…
Aside from the drums drumming out most of the words I’d play just this track and keep it moving. West has a style but it was not connected to him being a great rapper. Simply a performer who caught folks attention. He knows he can’t sing or dance, but no one wants another delusional Diddy running around. So, on that note…
C+ and a 5.5 because the music and some production of the album is good but the focus and lyrics are ehh…
Get into Gil Scott Hermon. There is knowledge to be learned…
Excerpt from Comment 1:
And the new word to have is revolution. People don’t even want to hear the preacher spill or spiel because God’s whole card has been thoroughly piqued. And America is now blood and tears instead of milk and honey. The youngsters who were programmed to continue fucking up woke up one night digging Paul Revere and Nat Turner as the good guys. America stripped for bed and we had not all yet closed our eyes. The signs of Truth were tattooed across our open ended vagina. We learned to our amazement untold tale of scandal. Two long centuries buried in the musty vault, hosed down daily with a gagging perfume. America was a bastard the illegitimate daughter of the mother country whose legs were then spread around the world and a rapist known as freedom, free doom. Democracy, liberty, and justice were revolutionary code names that preceded the bubbling bubbling bubbling bubbling bubbling in the mother country’s crotch and behold a baby girl was born, nurtured by slave holders and whitey racists it grew and grew and grew screwing indiscriminately like mother like daughter everything unplagued by her madame mother.
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