Kanye is BACK

    
  In my opinion, when it's all said and done and musical historians are reviewing the music of our generation, Kanye West will go down as one of the greatest musicians of our generation. Throughout his career he's been able to make music that's popular, but still prolific and has constantly pushed at the boundaries of what hip hop is and what it can be. For instance, with "Stronger," he was one of the first to fuse electro and hip hop and even though the song eventually was overplayed, it was unbelievable.
     He lost a lot of people with his last album, "808's and Heartbreaks" because it was too sentimental and slow. Personally, I loved it because I thought the songs were beautiful and honest. With the album, he created a new mini-genre- that of the half-singing, half-rapping angsty musician. I don't know what to call the genre, but Kid Cudi also fall into it.
    In his new album, "My Dark Twisted Fantasy", Kanye is back in full force. He raps with power--literally (see Power), but he still hasn't lost his sentimental touch and so the album is full with a refreshing eclecticism. He has straight hip hop songs where he raps about how "this shit is ridiculous" ("So Appalled"), and then he has a few that were meant to be top 40 ("All of The Lights" which is actually unbelievable but its sure to be overplayed), and then he has sentimental songs like "Lost in The World" which samples Bon Iver (WHAT?) and its beautiful. My personal favorite is "Runaway" which is a nine minute piano ballad where Kanye expresses his dissatisfaction and toasts douchebags and assholes in a slightly pitchy, un-autotuned crone. I've probably listened to this album 15 times in the past week and everytime I hear it I find something new.

You can buy the album here. 



  All Of The Lights by Albou88

  Lost In The World - (With Background ringing sound) by anthonynani