Produktinformation Produktabmessungen : 14.2 x 12.4 x 1 cm 80. Mit seinen Vorabsongs 'Power' und 'Runaway' lieferte Kanye perfekte Vorboten für sein heiß erwartetes neues Studioalbum. Swallowing the chaos wrought by his public persona and digesting it as a grandiose allegory of self-redemption, Kanye sublimates his narcissism to paint masterstroke after masterstroke on MBDTF, a 69-minute hymn to egotistical excess. Mit seinem Album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy knüpft er nun an seine Erfolge an und kehrt dabei zu seinen Rap- und HipHop-Roots zurück. In a cloud-based and on-demand culture – a place of increasing virtualization, loneliness, and hyper-connectivity – West straddles this critical moment as what David Samuels of The Atlantic calls "the first true genius of the iPhone era, the Mozart of contemporary American music." In the land of taking a selfie, honing a personal brand, and publicly melting down online, Kanye West is the undisputed king.
A look at the arc of his career, from the heady chipmunk soul exuberance of The College Dropout (2004) to the operatic narcissism of MBDTF, tells us about the march of pop music into the digital age and, by extension, the contradictions that define our cultural epoch. That was my take on it, to make the best of that era, and close it out, Anthony Kilhoffer, Kanye’s engineer from College Dropout to Ye, told HNHH over the phone. Having risen from obscurity as a precocious producer through the ranks of Jay Z's Roc-A-Fella records, by the time he released My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (MBDTF) in late 2010, West had evolved into a master collagist, an alchemist capable of transfiguring semi-obscure soul samples and indelible beats into a brash and vulnerable new art form. On this day 10 years ago, Kanye Omari West gave to the world one of the most influential, celebrated albums of the decade, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (MBDTF).The rapper's maximalist fifth. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Kanye West created the most compelling body of pop music by an American artist during the period.
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