Album · 2010
by Kanye West
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is an album by Kanye West, released in 2010 on Def Jam Recordings, with 13 tracks.
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13 tracks · 69 min
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Exiled in self-inflicted disgrace, Kanye responded with maximalism as penance: prog samples, King Crimson, Nicki Minaj's career-making "Monster" verse, nine-minute songs about being awful and knowing it. MBDTF is hip-hop's grandest self-portrait — ego and self-loathing fused at symphonic scale. The decade's consensus masterpiece, and the consensus is right.
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is the fifth studio album by American hip hop recording artist Kanye West, released November 22, 2010, on Roc-A-Fella Records. Recording sessions for the album took place primarily at Avex Recording Studio in Honolulu, Hawaii during 2009 to 2010. Production was handled by West and several other record producers, including Jeff Bhasker, RZA, No I.D., and Mike Dean, among others. Following a hiatus from his music career, West worked on the album through a communal development that involved him and various other musicians and producers contributing collectively to its music. Noted by music writers for its varied elements, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy incorporates musical components from West's previous works, including soul, electro, and symphonies, and features themes regarding excess and celebrity. The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 496,000 copies in its first week in the United States. It achieved respectable international charting, including top-10 chart positions in several other countries. It produced four singles that attained chart success, including US Billboard hits "Power", "Monster", "Runaway", and …
