rapmastermind
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hrap-120;1639616 said:
Well Taylor Swift sold a million in the 1st week (So they could rub in in KanYe's face) and Bush's book is a best seller. I think it will work, KanYe will have his 4th #1 album of his career (College Dropout came in at #2).
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dontdiedontkillanyon
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REVIEW ROUNDUP: KANYE WEST – ‘MY BEAUTIFUL DARK TWISTED FANTASY’
After weeks of G.O.O.D. Friday giveaways and Twitter ramblings, Kanye West finally shares his Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy with the world. The rapper’s controversial remarks and behavior made headlines over the past year, but Mr. West lets his music do the talking on his fifth album. How did the critics respond? Unanimously.
USA Today: The audacious new My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy opens a window into an ego that is often tripping, thus exposing the insecurities and foibles that fuel West’s boundless creativity and grandiose ambitions. 4 out of 4
Entertainment Weekly: West may be obnoxious, but at least he’s interested in confronting those aspects of his identity through his music. Few stars of comparable wattage would dare do the same. A
Rolling Stone: Nobody else is making music this daring and weird, from the spooky space funk of “Gorgeous” to the King Crimson-biting “Power” to the paranoid staccato strings of “Monster.” 5 out of 5
SPIN: It’s a sinister, orchestral, hugely grandiose affair that owes as much to the artist’s self-aggrandizing ego as to the voracious id that would destroy it publicly. 9 out of 10
TIME: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, his most extravagant work, is hip-hop’s version of grand opera: a congested, constantly bustling disc stuffed with oversized drama, guest rappers, insanely eclectic samples, and backup vocals from a list of headliners that includes Alicia Keys, Elton John, and Fergie.
Chicago Tribune: What makes him so off-putting—his almost pathological allegiance to expressing his emotions, unfiltered—is also what makes him so compelling, a curious mix of bravado and vulnerability. But that same transparency makes My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy a terrific album. 3.5 out of 4
Chicago Sun-Times: That he’s rapping again, after suffering such undue abuse for his “singing” on his last album, 808s and Heartbreak, is cause for celebration not just because his vocalizing isn’t always spot-on but because his mouth is on fire again, throwing out genius rhymes and typically radical claims. 4 out of 4
The Boston Globe: Love it or hate it—and that’s probably the only range of reactions it will elicit—My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy lives up to its name. More than that, though, it’s a welcome reminder that once you settle West’s scores—and they number plenty these days—he’s a visionary and not just the jerk who interrupted Taylor Swift and pouted over his recent “Today” interview with Matt Lauer.
The Washington Post: And that’s just a freckle of the petulant genius that coats every inch of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, easily the most thrilling album of 2010 and the best of West’s career. The weird, wordy title is the only thing about this opus that he’ll live to regret—the rest is pure pop bravura, with hip-hop’s biggest ego torquing self-obsession into unapologetic new shapes.
Rap-Up’s Favorite Tracks: “Dark Fantasy,” “All of the Lights,” “Monster,” “Lost in the World”
http://www.rap-up.com/2010/11/22/review-roundup-kanye-west-my-beautiful-dark-twisted-fantasy/
After weeks of G.O.O.D. Friday giveaways and Twitter ramblings, Kanye West finally shares his Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy with the world. The rapper’s controversial remarks and behavior made headlines over the past year, but Mr. West lets his music do the talking on his fifth album. How did the critics respond? Unanimously.
USA Today: The audacious new My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy opens a window into an ego that is often tripping, thus exposing the insecurities and foibles that fuel West’s boundless creativity and grandiose ambitions. 4 out of 4
Entertainment Weekly: West may be obnoxious, but at least he’s interested in confronting those aspects of his identity through his music. Few stars of comparable wattage would dare do the same. A
Rolling Stone: Nobody else is making music this daring and weird, from the spooky space funk of “Gorgeous” to the King Crimson-biting “Power” to the paranoid staccato strings of “Monster.” 5 out of 5
SPIN: It’s a sinister, orchestral, hugely grandiose affair that owes as much to the artist’s self-aggrandizing ego as to the voracious id that would destroy it publicly. 9 out of 10
TIME: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, his most extravagant work, is hip-hop’s version of grand opera: a congested, constantly bustling disc stuffed with oversized drama, guest rappers, insanely eclectic samples, and backup vocals from a list of headliners that includes Alicia Keys, Elton John, and Fergie.
Chicago Tribune: What makes him so off-putting—his almost pathological allegiance to expressing his emotions, unfiltered—is also what makes him so compelling, a curious mix of bravado and vulnerability. But that same transparency makes My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy a terrific album. 3.5 out of 4
Chicago Sun-Times: That he’s rapping again, after suffering such undue abuse for his “singing” on his last album, 808s and Heartbreak, is cause for celebration not just because his vocalizing isn’t always spot-on but because his mouth is on fire again, throwing out genius rhymes and typically radical claims. 4 out of 4
The Boston Globe: Love it or hate it—and that’s probably the only range of reactions it will elicit—My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy lives up to its name. More than that, though, it’s a welcome reminder that once you settle West’s scores—and they number plenty these days—he’s a visionary and not just the jerk who interrupted Taylor Swift and pouted over his recent “Today” interview with Matt Lauer.
The Washington Post: And that’s just a freckle of the petulant genius that coats every inch of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, easily the most thrilling album of 2010 and the best of West’s career. The weird, wordy title is the only thing about this opus that he’ll live to regret—the rest is pure pop bravura, with hip-hop’s biggest ego torquing self-obsession into unapologetic new shapes.
Rap-Up’s Favorite Tracks: “Dark Fantasy,” “All of the Lights,” “Monster,” “Lost in the World”
http://www.rap-up.com/2010/11/22/review-roundup-kanye-west-my-beautiful-dark-twisted-fantasy/
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I will probably still buy the album in store later but I was fiending for the HQ explicit and you can get it off Amazon for $3.99. You're still supporting Kanye. Just downloaded it..
http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Dar...rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1280413362&pf_rd_i=163856011
http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Dar...rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1280413362&pf_rd_i=163856011
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choppa_style
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rapmastermind;1639575 said:
He had the beef with Bush when LR hit and that helped him. Plus that's when albums were still going platinum more frequently. I predict 808 numbers as well. Although I think the actual number including digital sales will be a lot higher.
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dontdiedontkillanyon
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MacOne;1639816 said:
It all counts at the end of the day. I pre-ordered a digital copy from 7Digital the other day for £5 and finally downloaded it this morning. Might get a physical copy later purely for all the different artwork. Digital or physical it all counts as sales
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rapmastermind
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LOL @ people mad cause KanYe is killing it on reviews. Don't hate, congratulate, lol. Like I've said, the most anticpated rap album of the year and before I drop my review, let's be clear:
MBDTF > Recovery
MBDTF > Teflon Don
MBDTF > Thank Me Later
MBDTF > Pink Friday
MBDTF > T.I.'s album
MBDTF > Nelly's album
MBDTF > Distant Relatives (Musically their close though)
MBDTF > Reflection Eternal
= KanYe dropped the Best Rap album of the year. Dudes is lucky he missed the Grammy deadline cause he was about to clean up.
MBDTF > Recovery
MBDTF > Teflon Don
MBDTF > Thank Me Later
MBDTF > Pink Friday
MBDTF > T.I.'s album
MBDTF > Nelly's album
MBDTF > Distant Relatives (Musically their close though)
MBDTF > Reflection Eternal
= KanYe dropped the Best Rap album of the year. Dudes is lucky he missed the Grammy deadline cause he was about to clean up.
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choppa_style
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nujerz84;1640131 said:
Yeah people are really blowing shit out of proportion. It's a great album, but not the genre defining masterpiece that everyone is saying. It's not even Kanye's best.
The best part is how people hated BP3 for being too "pop" yet fall all over this shit even though Jay easily outraps Kanye any day of the week.
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I said I would buy the album to support based on principle cuz I felt it was complete bullshit what people tried to do this guy over that bitch Taylor Swift... But To me songs like Power is ok... Runaway sounds dope when premired it on TV but when I hear on the radio it doesnt sound as good... Monster is overrated cuz of Nikki bullshit voices but Kanye came correct... I dont know the name of the song that Rza where he spits "Too Many Urkels thats why your winslow" did the beat is cool and Kanye spit some clever lines but that hook is fucking annoying... Alot talk when he was making this album was that he was gonna bring back that boom bap but its sound is different layers of influences its an acquired taste imo...choppa_style;1640352 said:
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IceBergTaylor
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^Dont be a hater cause nobody is giving Nicki Garbage the same type of reviews.
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dontdiedontkillanyone;1639785 said:
I think this qualifies as an important read & I'd like to draw some attention to the reviewer, Matthew Cole, sticking it to two separate bodies of Hip-Hop's most instrumental followers' conventions of ~realness. Cole goes onto applaud the alternative, i.e. escapism, or perhaps even reassert the definition of 'realness'. Have a read:
So as to avoid sounding conspiratorial, let me be clear about who is handicapping rap in the year 2010. It's the easy-target A&R guys, sure. But it's also, more powerfully and more frequently, the fans. It's especially those fans who believe that realness is definitive of good rap and refuse to accept anything less than a one-to-one correspondence between life and lyrics. For the twentysomething black male to whom rap is most often marketed and by whom rap is most often performed, realness is as much a matter of asserting ownership as it is of relating to the music. Though, ironically, some of the people most invested in keeping rap tied to realness are middle-class white folks who like rap precisely because they don't relate in any literal sense to its message, but rather because it provides the edgiest musical escapism on the market. Keep those groups in mind and you start to realize the subversive genius of Lil Wayne's choice of protégés in Nicki Minaj and Drake: The first group finds nothing more threatening than a female rapper (except, as Nicki has pointed out herself, a gay rapper) and the second is just as threatened by a rapper who is unabashedly educated and privileged. Rap critics of many colors and income brackets also deserve some blame, for soft-pedaling paternalism when they praise rappers for "channeling raw experience" or for "unflinching realism," which can amount to saying that the best rap is either autobiographical or journalistic, but never idiosyncratic, poetic, or performative. For 20 years, rap's aesthetic has been monopolized by authenticity, and it's high time it got a bit of competition from fantasy.
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the album is #1, #2, #59 and #76 on itunes
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