The Chris Rock outro is hilarious, as well. For those, like me, who thought we’d never again hear the self-conscious, backpacker Kanye of the mid 00s, check out “Blame Game.” Listening to Ye go at it with his lady, and himself, over such a soulful tune will remind you why we put up with the guy in the first place. “Power” and “So Appalled” sees Ye wrestling with fame, again spitting some of the best rhymes of his career, while “Devil In a New Dress” and “Blame Game” detail his constant relationship woes. “Dark Fantasy,” the sinister album opener produced with the help of the RZA and No I.D., shows us that Kanye has grown leaps and bounds lyrically from his early days in the teddy bear costume: “The plan was to drink until the pain over/But what’s worse? The pain or the hangover/Fresh air, rolling down the win-dow/too many Urkels on your team, that’s why your Wins-low.” That might be my favorite line of the year.Īs the album continues to delve into Kanye’s psyche, it becomes a reflection of all his tabloid mishaps of the past two years. And it’s a reflection of Kanye’s long, strange journey. All those ridiculous stunts have paved the way for Kanye’s fifth album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (what’s with all the long, bizarre, comma-less album titles this year?).
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