Kanye West - Dark Twisted Fantasy

i deny you, lj, for not getting the hugeness of "power" and "lost in the world", or for thinking that it's the wrong kind of hugeness or whatever. not gonna try to say that it's a great album overall, cuz it ain't, but shit man, "so appalled" is hardly the scale attained. no more drugs for me, pussy and religion is all i need.

Billboard article about the album's big drop down the charts (but doesn't make the obvious connection about the lack of huge singles previous Kanye albums had): http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/retail/why-have-sales-of-kanye-west-s-my-beautiful-1004137168.story

i don't need yo' pussy bitch i'm on my OWN DICK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYgIp06nFh4#t=01m33s

1:33

surround sound audiophile headphones lol

"monster" video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKTtfwYqyd4

so nearly amazing but not quite there. feels way too static. as with the song the nicki section's all you really need, that actually is a bit whoa, though it really should've ended with her beheading herself or something a bit more dramatic

2:27 in that video there's a picture of a cloudy sky + moon + GETTY IMAGES logo??

i wonder if this is the final cut -- i doubt at least that kanye is putting out a video where one shot has a getty images watermark on it

yeah exactly

assuming this is pretty much the real thing it's not amazing or anything but i'm glad that someone is doing something on the "put your hands where my eyes can see" tip

nicki's part is great tho

i imagine jay showing up to this shoot and being all

http://i42.tinypic.com/zoezyx.jpg

jay-z looks like he just randomly wandered onto the set

i'm guessing the getty images moon shots are just placeholders

the THOUSANDS OF YOUNG SINGLES IN YOUR AREA youtube popup is pretty jarring juxtaposed w/hanging models

otoh maybe the watermarked part is meant to be ironic commentary on how phoned-in the jay-z intro is

def think kanye is on track by world premiering his newest video via his yHiTz3 youtube account

getty images perfectly sums up how i feel about yeezy in 2010 :)

<3 nicki, feel like i should download more by her.

is this nsfw or

no titties, just lots of dead womenz

and gettyimagez

so basically yeah

god that rick ross part is disgusting and stupid

my beautiful dark twisted stock fantasy

still think the ross line ends with something like "kanye west sample/here's one for you to sample", but the alternative "kanye west sample/here's an example" isn't really that much better

true, but it's still the latter

"here's one for example"

this video looks like shit, you guys seriously can't wait for someone besides yHITZ3 to drop something decent looking, fuck

the das racist flash video game was way cooler than this

like seriously

the das racist flash video game

m@tt you my og but...

haha it was kinda funny tho! this kanye video just blows

the das racist flash video game was about as good as the burger king xbox games that cost like $5

damn, caramanica dropping truth bombs:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/arts/music/03kanye.html?_r=1

haha feel like caramanica was just like"smh, gotta use my position to fight for good, and not evil"

well he said it's his #3 album so i don't think he's really coming at it as a total crusader, just trying to talk some sense

yeah - his point about institutions needing to give this a perfect score is sort of what I have been arguing since the beginning

eh i like caramanica but hey dude it's your third favorite album, you're part of the problem, stfu

“My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam) remains, six weeks after its release, a phenomenal album, third on my own year-end list, textured enough to still be revealing new crannies upon repeated listens, and alluring enough still to warrant those repeated listens.

PART OF THE PROBLEM

yup

caramanica didn't go hard enough, because he actually liked the album

i also can't take that dude seriously after he wrote an actual new york times article about pitchfork reviews reviews - just thinking about the pitching/commissioning process behind that makes me want to indict both him and his editor for crimes against journalism

lex since you're here can i tell you i enjoyed your top 30 albs list a lot :)

lex his #1 album was ross ;)

:D call all destroyer

:o at the idea of anyone's no 1 album being rick ross - PART OF THE PROBLEM

i think even i would take dark stupid fantasy over the ross album

I pretty much read this thread once, before I heard the album.

Now that I've listened to it several times, I'm considering reading the whole thread again.

What do you think? Go for it? Or terrible idea?

idk i think this thread is meant to be experienced once and then forgotten as if it never existed

Main reason I'd re-read it, I guess, is to find out if others also wish Ross got more clock on "Monster."

His little bit is one of my favorite things on the album, despite the sample/example rhyme.

http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2011/01/on-white-she-devils/68822/

Ta-Nehisi throws his hat in the ring.

Nicki Minaj is a terror, and her closer on Monster called me back to Busta in the era of "Scenario."

wait...and not nicki on roman's revenge???