![]() ![]() Guest vocalists on the album include Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, Bon Iver, Jay-Z, Pusha T, Rick Ross, Kid Cudi, John Legend, Elton John, and Raekwon. Thematically, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy explores West's status as a celebrity, consumer culture, race, and the idealism of the American Dream. Critical commentaries note the resulting music's maximalist aesthetic and opulent production style that utilizes various elements from West's previous work, including soul, pop, baroque, electro, and symphonic sounds, as well as progressive rock influences. The album was produced primarily by West, alongside a variety of high-profile producers such as Mike Dean, No I.D., Jeff Bhasker, RZA, S1, Bink, and DJ Frank E. Additional recording sessions took place at Glenwood Place Studios in Burbank, California, and at Electric Lady Studios and Platinum Sound Studios in New York City. Retreating to a self-imposed exile in Hawaii in 2009, he recorded the album at Honolulu's Avex Studio in a communal environment involving numerous contributing musicians. It was released by Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records on November 22, 2010, following a period of public controversy for West. The final line is blunt and a shout out to his 'haters.' Whether you love him or loathe him, we are lucky to have him.My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is the fifth studio album by American rapper and producer Kanye West. first hand, you can only really agree with him. However, he goes on to say something mildly prophetic as he talks about the future and how he lives in it, a claim he has made many times over and if you are a Kanye fan and watched his impact on the industry, technology etc. All very clever, if not the most highbrow. He uses word play and double meaning here playing off the idea of oral sex, with academic achievement. Kanye talks about his girth which obviously has caused his female companion issues in their oral sexual encounters. Also there is a brilliant verse by Nicki Minaj on this track for largely the same reasons. The real skill here is the use of inflection, intonation and rhythm. Now she claiming that I bruised her eosophagus Head of the class and she just won a swallowship I'm living in the future so the present is my past My presence is a present, kiss my ass He then talks about stealing from shops (we've all been there, eh? Sorry Mum.), and being patted down by aggressive security guards, yet when some black customers walk in he finds himself maneuvered back to the front of the store by his over-zealous and ethnically-sensitive manager. He goes 'ghetto' by threatening to attack the manager before stealing from the cash register. Kanye notoriously worked at the Gap and uses this as a reference point for how he perceives inequality. ![]() If my manager insults me again I will be assaulting him After I fuck the manager up Then I'm gonna shorten the register up Let's go back, back to the Gap Look at my check, wasn't no scratch So if I stole, wasn't my fault Yeah I stole, never got caught They take me to the back and pat me Askin' me about some khakis But let some black people walk in I bet you they show off their token blackie Oh now they love Kanye, let's put him all in the front of the storeįrom his eponymous debut album, here we see Kanye in full flow. Here Kanye is depicting how some people in black communities may not be academically smart, but use 'street smarts' to get themselves out of poverty. In addition, he references Chicago drug dealer lingo ('rocks, blow, weed, park'), a phrase used to inform potential buyers what was purchasable at the time. ![]() ![]() Here Kanye opens his debut record by slaughtering the education system and indeed the teachers who judged Kanye for being 'slow.' He makes the point about after-school programmes being ceased wrongly before attacking the educators and attitudes to those who are not academic. One of the reasons people seem to love 'The Old Kanye' is his focus on social issues and insights into black, working class culture (All Falls Down). You know the kids gon' act a fool When you stop the programs for after school And they DCFS, some of 'em dyslexic They favorite 50 Cent song "12 Questions" We scream: "rocks, blow, weed, park", see, now we smart We ain't retards, the way teachers tho ught Hold up, hold fast, we make more cash Now tell my momma I belong in that slow class ![]()
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