This is my initial research into My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy which I think is a fascinating album especially with all the context around having been released off the back of Kanye making a lot of controversial statements which culminated in the incident at the VMAs with Taylor Swift, He then went into self imposed exile where he recorded the album, you can draw a lot of comparisons with Justin Vernon of Bon Iver who wrote his first album For Emma Forever Ago when he put himself in self imposed exile in a cabin in the woods. Justin Vernon features on this album as well most prominently on Lost in the World which samples his track Woods heavily. It also features the lyrics...
"You're my devil, you're my angel
You're my heaven, You're my hell
You're my now, You're my forever
You're my freedom, You're my jail
You're my lies, You're my truth
You're my war, You're my truce
You're my questions, You're my proof
You're my stress, You're my masseuse."
Which I think summarise the album well in that it's a very contradictory album as he went into isolation to write and record it yet the album is a lesson in maximalist hip hop and revels in the excess of the celebrity lifestyle but still questions what it really means. I think the album is really a meditation on the public persona Kanye has created and culminates in him questioning this with Lost in the World and Who Will Survive in America?.
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