To celebrate the unceremonious but still noteworthy seventh anniversary of the project, we decided to handpick the seven best tracks.Ĭall it the MBDTFEP! Track 1 - “Dark Fantasy” As in, say, a pair of masterpieces - one a classically vibrant production bed and the other, a scatterbrained lyrical awakening.

because yo, there is shit-ton of contributing musicians), emerged with something like a masterpiece. Couple that with his Taylor Swift mic-snatching fiasco at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, and he had every right to market the title of Public Enemy #1.īut after weeks of holing up in Honolulu, Hawaii (you owe it to yourself to read/revisit Complex’s in-depth coverage of the making of the album), Kanye (& Co. Kanye’s pause on rapping immediately sprung campaigns to bring back “the Old Kanye” just a year removed from his 2007 smash, Graduation. Revisionist history is a mofo and if you were to compare the number of people who praise the Auto-Tuned buffet of 808s & Heartbreak in 2017 to the ones who did in 2008, you’d think you were conversing with clones. A project that is widely considered his magnum opus and one that returned a positive public perception back on the gleam of Yeezy’s dome. Those were the words from Kanye West himself referencing HipHopDX’s original review of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

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