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.
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