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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is the fifth studio album by American hip hop 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, The 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 the album's music.

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 and produced three singles that attained chart success, including US Billboard hits "Power", "Monster", and "Runaway". Upon its release, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy received general acclaim from music critics, earning praise for its varied musical style, opulent production quality, and West's dichotomous lyrical themes. As of January 9, 2011, the album has sold 915,000 copies in the United States.

Background

The album was conceived during West's self-imposed exile in Oahu, Hawaii, following a period of legal and public image controversy amid an overworked mental state at the time.[1] West later said that his fatigue from overworking led to his controversial outburst at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, his disgust with its ensuing media response, and his hiatus from recording.[1] Amid negative response to the incident,[2] his scheduled tour with recording artist Lady Gaga in promotion of his previous album, 808s & Heartbreak, was canceled on October 1, 2009, without reason.[3] The album was formerly known as Good Ass Job and tentatively Dark Twisted Fantasy.[4][5][6] GOOD Music artist Big Sean was the second to announce the title of the album as Good Ass Job[7] On July 24, 2010, on Kanye West's blog, a banner appeared reading "My Dark Twisted Fantasy Trailer". On July 28, 2010, Kanye announced via his new official Twitter account that "The album is no longer called 'Good Ass Job' I'm bouncing a couple of titles around now."[8] The official title, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, was announced on October 5, 2010.[9]

Recording

Recording sessions took place primarily at Avex Recording Studio in Honolulu, Hawaii, with additional recording at Glenwood Place Studios in Burbank, California, and at Electric Lady Studios and Platinum Sound Recording in New York City.[10] It was reported that West spent over $3 million in expenses from his record label Def Jam on the album's recording.[11] On the initial recording process, he later explained to Noah Callahan-Bever, editor-in-chief of Complex and West's confidant during his hiatus, that "he'd holed up in Hawaii and was importing his favorite producers and artists to work on and inspire his recording. Rap Camp!".[1] Recording artists reported to have participated in the sessions for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy at one time or another included Raekwon, The RZA, Pusha T, Rick Ross, Charlie Wilson, Big Sean, Prynce Cy Hi, Swizz Beatz,[12] Dwele, Nicki Minaj,[13] T.I.,[14][15] Drake, Common, Jay-Z,[16] Eminem, Lil Wayne,[17] John Legend, Fergie, Rihanna, The-Dream, Ryan Leslie, Elton John,[18] M.I.A.,[19] Justin Vernon, Seal, Beyoncé Knowles,[20] Kid Cudi, Mos Def, Santigold, Alicia Keys, Elly Jackson,[21] and Tony Williams.[22] Record producers who participated at the album's recording sessions with West included Q-Tip, The RZA, DJ Premier,[23] Madlib,[24] and Pete Rock.[25][26] Madlib has stated that he made five beats for the album.[24] DJ Premier later revealed that his beat was ultimately discarded.[26]

West, who had previously recorded at Avex for 808s & Heartbreak, block-booked the studio's three session rooms indefinitely to work on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.[1] According to Noah Callahan-Bever, who visited West during the recording sessions, "when he hits a creative wall... he heads to another studio room to make progress on another song".[1] He often worked through the night and napped in the studio, and recording engineers were present behind the mixing board 24 hours a day.[1] Prior to recording in the afternoon, West and most of his crew played games of 21 against locals at the Honolulu YMCA for leisure.[1] Kid Cudi smoked marijuana in preparation and worked-out on a treadmill, while RZA worked-out in the weight room.[1][27] West held breakfast each morning at his Diamond Head residence for his crew.[1] Throughout the album's development, West elicited other producers and musicians to weigh-in on its music with conversations and contributions at the studio.[1] In observing discussions among them during his visit, Callahan-Bever noted that "Despite the heavyweights assembled, the egos rarely clash; talks are sprawling, enlightening, and productive [...] we are here to contribute, challenge, and inspire".[1] In an interview with Callahan-Bever, Q-Tip described the process as "music by committee" and elaborated on its significance to the sessions and West's work ethic, stating:

[H]e'll go, ‘Check this out, tell me what you think.’ Which speaks volumes about who he is and how he sees and views people. Every person has a voice and an idea, so he's sincerely looking to hear what you have to say—good, bad, or whatever. [...] when he has his beats or his rhymes, he offers them to the committee and we're all invited to dissect, strip, or add on to what he's already started. By the end of the sessions, you see how he integrates and transforms everyone's contributions, so the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. He's a real wizard at it. What he does is alchemy, really.[1]

— Q-Tip

Pete Rock elaborated on his studio experience with West, stating "He's definitely hip-hop, his roots, I was testing him on joints...He takes it to another level which is dope. He had these musicians and this song, they played around my little raggedy beat and made it real. I love the way he works — he goes from one room, writing rhymes then goes to another beat and goes to another room and does something else — I love what he's done".[28] Rapper Pusha T characterized the album as "a collage of sounds" and found West's methods unorthodox when recording for the album, "We could easily be working on one song, thinking we're in a mode, and he'll hear a sound from someone like [producer] Jeff Bhasker and immediately turn his whole attention to that sound and go through his mental Rolodex to where that sound belongs on his album, and then it goes straight to that song, immediately".[1] BET executive vice president Stephen Hill, who was invited to listen to material for the album, commented on its musical direction as "less like 808s & Heartbreak and more like Graduation".[13] In an April 2010 interview, DJ Premier discussed the album's production in comparison to West's previous work, stating "Well, first of all, if you look at all of Kanye West's output, he actually did a lot to bring back sampling and make it cool again, even though he's more of a mainstream artist...but his new album is strictly hard beats and rhyme. He's totally done with electro. You're gonna be surprised what you hear".[29]

Music

Musical style

The album's sound has been noted by music writers for incorporating musical elements from West's previous four albums.[30][31][32] Entertainment Weekly's Simon Vozick-Levinson perceived that such elements "all recur at various points", namely "the luxurious soul of 2004's The College Dropout, the symphonic pomp of Late Registration, the gloss of 2007's Graduation, and the emotionally exhausted electro of 2008's 808s & Heartbreak".[31] Ryan Dombal of Pitchfork Media described it as a "culmination" of his past work, writing that "musically, [My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy] largely continues where 2007's Graduation left off in its maximalist hip-hop bent, with flashes of The College Dropout's comfort-food sampling and Late Registration's baroque instrumentation weaved in seamlessly".[32] Andy Kellman of Allmusic also viewed it as the "culmination" of those albums, while noting that "it does not merely draw characteristics from each one of them. The 13 tracks... sometimes fuse them together simultaneously. Consequently, the sonic and emotional layers are often difficult to pry apart and enumerate".[30] Kellman found "All of the Lights" as most representative of the album's "contrasting elements and maniacal extravagance".[30]

Lyrical themes

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy features lyrical themes concerning decadence, grandiosity, escapism, sex, wealth, romance, self-aggrandizement, and self-doubt.[33][34][32][35][36][37] The A.V. Club's Nathan Rabin described it as "darkly funny, boldly introspective, and characteristically fame-obsessed", noting "manic highs and depressive lows emotionally" in West's lyrics.[38] Alex Denney of NME characterized West as "by turns sickeningly egocentric, contrite, wise, stupid and self-mocking" on the album.[39] Music writer Ann Powers interpreted West's predominant theme on the album to be "the crisis of the jet-lagged cosmopolitan [...] the exhausted cry of one who's always new in town, chasing whatever goal or girl is in the room, fueled by consumer culture's relentless buzz, but finally left unsatisfied".[34] Powers found the album's songs to work "as pornographic boasts, romantic disaster stories, devil-haunted dark nights of the soul" and perceived West's "uncertainty about his own place in the world" to be connected to the subject of race, stating "The rootlessness West celebrates and despairs of on 'Fantasy' belongs to someone who feels unwelcome everywhere. This isn't just a personal problem. It's the curse of what the theorist Michael Eric Dyson has called 'the exceptional black man', embraced for his talents but singled out for the color of his skin".[34] Music essayist Robert Christgau found the themes of insecurity and uncertainty on the album to be West's "heart, his message, the reason he's so major", noting the tracks "Hell of a Life" and "Runaway" as examples.[33]

Content

The album's opening track is introduced with a narrative by Nicki Minaj, elocuting in an English accent, that serves as a retelling of writer Roald Dahl's poetic rework of "Cinderella".[34] West's lyrics on the track contain various musical and popular culture references, including those to the song "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)", the Lamborghini Murciélago sports car, rapper Nas, fashion designer Phoebe Philo, short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", the song "Sex on Fire", singer Leona Lewis, and television character Steve Urkel.[40] For the track "All of the Lights", West enlisted 11 guest vocalists, namely Alicia Keys, John Legend, The-Dream, Fergie, Kid Cudi, Elton John, Ryan Leslie, Charlie Wilson, Tony Williams, Elly Jackson, and Rihanna, who sings the song's hook.[41] In an interview for MTV, Jackson explained the layering of the song's vocals, "He got me to layer up all these vocals with other people, and he just basically wanted to use his favorite vocalists from around the world to create this really unique vocal texture on his record, but it's not the kind of thing where you can pick it out".[42]

"Runaway" features a piano-based motif comprising a series of sustained descending half and whole notes.[43] The song features self-critical lyrics that reflect on the narrator's personality and character flaws.[44][45] "Lost in the World" samples Bon Iver's "Woods",[46] and it transitions into the closing track "Who Will Survive in America".[35] "Who Will Survive in America" serves as the album's coda and is built on a sample of Gil Scott-Heron's "Comment No. 1",[39] a blunt, surrealist piece delivered by Scott-Heron in spoken word about the African-American experience and the fated idealism of the American dream.[34][37][43] Scott-Heron's original speech, which criticized the 1960s Revolutionary Youth Movement for failing to recognize the more basic needs of the African-American community, is edited to a reduced version on the track that, according to music writer Greg Kot, "retains its essence, that of an African-American male who feels cut off from his country and culture".[47]

Release and promotion

On October 4, 2010, the album's release date was announced as November 22, 2010.[9][48] Prior to its release, West initiated the free music program G.O.O.D. Fridays through his website on August 20, 2010, offering a free download of previously unreleased songs each Friday of the week, a portion of which were included on the album.[49][50] Titled after his imprint label G.O.O.D. Music, the program generated considerable publicity in the months leading up to the album's release.[49] Online marketing coordinator Karen Civil said of the program in retrospect, "It's a genius idea. He did something no one had ever done before, and at a point when he was the most hated person in music, he brought excitement back with his Friday releases".[49] G.O.O.D. Fridays was originally intended to continue through December, but was extended by West through January 2011.[51] The album was released as a digital download on Amazon.com at a list price of $3.99,[52] which coincided with the site's $3 discount promotional offer on MP3 purchases made valid through the album's release week.[53][54] On November 24, 2010, Q-Tip announced the possibility of bonus tracks "Chain Heavy" and "Mama's Boyfriend" being included on a second pressing of the album to be issued in December.[55] West has revealed he will go on tour in promotion of the album, naming possible guest performers as Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, Kid Cudi, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, and Drake.[56]

Singles

On May 28, 2010, an unfinished version of a speculative first single titled "Power" was leaked onto the internet. It features additional vocals by Dwele and is co-produced by Kanye West and S1.[57][10] The official remix, featuring Jay-Z and Swizz Beatz, was premiered on August 20, 2010 on Hot 97 by DJ Kayslay.[58] The single spent eight weeks and peaked at number 22 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.[59] The song has been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance, set to be presented at the 53rd Grammy Awards in 2011.[60] On September 12, 2010, West performed "Runaway" at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards.[61] Three weeks later on October 2, West performed the song on Saturday Night Live, along with "Power". "Runaway" was officially released to the iTunes Store on October 4, 2010.[9][62] It spent six weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 12 on the chart.[59] Rolling Stone named it the best single of 2010 in its year-end list.[63] A 35-minute short film of the same name, directed by West and containing the song's official music video, was released on October 23, 2010.[64] Filmed in Prague over a period of four days during Summer 2010,[65] the film stars West and model Selita Ebanks and features the script written by Hype Williams with the story written by West.[66] West described the video as an "overall representation of what [he dreams]" and a parallel to his music career.[65][67]

The third single "Monster" was sent out to radio on September 21,[68] and it was released to the iTunes Store on October 23, 2010.[69] The song was originally released on August 27, 2010 as part of West's music program G.O.O.D. Friday.[70] It spent five weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 18 on the chart.[71] Rolling Stone ranked it number 10 on its list of the Best Singles of 2010.[63] The song was performed at Jay-Z's and Eminem's "Home and Home" concert on September 14, 2010, along with Nicki Minaj.[72] West announced through his Twitter account that "All of the Lights" will be the album's next single.[73] Following the album's release, the song debuted at number 92 on the Billboard Hot 100,[74] and album track "Dark Fantasy" entered the chart at number 60 the same week.[75] "All of the Lights" will be released as a single on January 18, 2011 in the US and on February 21, 2011 in the UK.[76][77]

Cover art

On October 17, 2010, Kanye West revealed through Twitter that My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy had been rejected by certain stores because of the cover art.[78][79] The artwork (a portrait by George Condo) shows West being straddled by an armless winged white female (a phoenix).[80] Both characters are depicted nude, and one nipple of the phoenix's breasts and her buttocks are visible. The artist later said that Kanye wanted a cover image that would be banned.[81] The painting is centered with a thin yellow border on a red background. The artwork follows along the apparent theme of the album, as well as West's music film Runaway.[82] According to an interview with MTV News, this is one of five album covers; all of them will be included with its purchase.[80] A second cover, with a painting of a ballerina by Condo, was posted on the Amazon.com pre-order page.[83] It was intended to be the original artwork for "Runaway," but West used a photograph of a ballerina instead.[83]

George Condo and Kanye West meet up for several hours where they listened to tapes of his music, and over the next few days Condo made eight or nine paintings for the album. Two of them were portraits of West, one in extreme closeup, with mismatched eyes and four sets of teeth. Another showed his head, crowned and decapitated, placed sideways on a white slab, impaled by a sword. There was also a painting of a dyspeptic ballerina in a black tutu, a painting of the crown and the sword by themselves in a grassy landscape, and a lurid scene of a naked black man on a bed, straddled by a naked white female creature with fearsome features, wings, no arms, and a long, spotted tail, the last one being the orgional album cover.[81]

According to New York, a new painting for the album, entitled “The Priest”, was completed by artist George Condo, who is also responsible for the five covers that have already been revealed.[84] Condo stated that the piece is an attempt to bring depictions of religious figures into the modern world.[84]

Reception

Commercial performance

The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 496,000 copies in the United States.[85] It is West's fourth consecutive US number-one album, and its debut week serves as the fourth-best sales week of 2010.[85] The album also entered at number one on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop Albums,[86] Rap Albums,[87] and Digital Albums charts.[88] In its second week, it dropped to number seven on the Billboard 200 and sold 108,000 copies.[89] The album sold 66,500 copies and dropped to number 14 in its third week on the chart.[90] In its fourth week, it sold 66,000 copies at number 22 on the Billboard 200.[91] The album sold 86,000 copies and moved up to number 19 on the chart in its fifth week.[92] In its sixth week, it sold 58,000 copies and moved to number five on the Billboard 200.[93] In its seventh week, the album sold 33,000 copies and dropped to number seven on the chart.[94] As of January 9, 2011, the album has sold 915,000 copies in the United States.[94] On January 11, 2011, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, for shipments of one million copies in the United States.[95]

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy attained respectable international charting. In Canada, it entered at number one on the Top 100 Albums chart, with first-week sales of 29,000 copies.[96] In its second week, the album dropped to number 13 on the chart.[97] The album debuted at number 16 on the Top 100 Albums chart in the United Kingdom.[98] It dropped to number 42 in its second week on the chart.[99] On December 10, 2010, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry, for shipments of 60,000 copies in the UK.[100] In Australia, it entered at number six on the ARIA Top 50 Albums and at number two on the Top 40 Urban Albums chart.[101][102] It moved to number 12 in its second week on the Top 50 Albums chart.[103] On December 20, 2010, the album was certified gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association, for shipments of 35,000 copies in Australia.[104] In New Zealand, the album debuted at number 10 on the RIANZ's Top 40 Albums chart.[105] In its second week, it moved to number 16 on the chart.[106] It also charted at number four in Denmark,[107], at number 18 in Ireland,[108] at number 11 in Norway,[109] at number 10 in Switzerland,[110] at number 21 in Belgium,[111] at number 19 in Germany,[112] at number 19 in Sweden,[113] and at number 17 in the Netherlands.[114]

Critical response

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[30]
Robert Christgau(A)[33]
Entertainment Weekly(A)[31]
The Guardian[115]
The New York Times(favorable)[116]
Pitchfork Media(10.0/10)[32]
Rolling Stone[117]
Slant Magazine[36]
Spin(9/10)[37]
The Village Voice(favorable)[118]

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy received general acclaim from music critics.[119] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 94, based on 40 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".[119] Andy Gill of The Independent gave it five out of five stars and called it "one of pop's gaudiest, most grandiose efforts of recent years, a no-holds-barred musical extravaganza in which any notion of good taste is abandoned at the door".[120] Entertainment Weekly's Simon Vozick-Levinson complimented West's "outrageously hedonistic lyrics" and stated "West has tricked out these tracks with sharper verses and grander instrumental interludes, then lined them up in a sequence that demands to be heard from start to finish [...] essential components of a soundly built structure—easily his most consistently compelling full-length since 2005′s Late Registration".[31] Los Angeles Times writer Ann Powers called West's music "Picasso-like, fulfilling the Cubist mandate of rearranging form, texture, color and space to suggest new ways of viewing things".[34] Steve Jones of USA Today gave the album four out of four stars, calling it "an epic, adventurous aural mélange that easily outstrips anything he's done".[43] David Browne of Time cited it as West's "most extravagant work [...] congested, constantly bustling" and wrote that it "reasserts the fact that few combine disparate elements as smoothly as West".[121] The Washington Post's Chris Richards dubbed it his "masterpiece [...] pure pop bravura, with hip-hop's biggest ego torquing self-obsession into unapologetic new shapes".[122] Dan Vidal of URB stated "Kanye (much like Miles Davis) has the ability to bring out the strengths of his collaborators — squeezing out the essence of their artistic persona as highlights for the music that he creates".[123]

Kitty Empire of The Guardian criticized its lyrics regarding "women as ruthless money-grabbers", but called the album "herculean... a flawed near-masterpiece".[115] Despite noting an inconsistency in West's rapping, Allmusic writer Andy Kellman described it as "a deeply fascinating accomplishment" in West's catalogue, stating "As fatiguing as it is invigorating, as cold-blooded as it is heart-rending, as haphazardly splattered as it is meticulously sculpted, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is an extraordinarily complex 70-minute set of songs. [...] As the ego and ambition swells, so does the appeal, the repulsiveness, and – most importantly – the ingenuity".[30] Rolling Stone writer Rob Sheffield cited it as West's best album and "his most maniacally inspired music yet, coasting on heroic levels of dementia, pimping on top of Mount Olympus [...] Nobody else is making music this daring and weird".[117] Sputnikmusic's Channing Freeman noted "a zest for life in these songs that is really quite beautiful" and viewed the album as "the first album in which he's truly lived up to his potential in every way - as a rapper, as a lyricist, as a songwriter".[124] Jon Caramanica of The New York Times called West "a better rapper than he’s ever been" and described it as "a startlingly maximalist take on East Coast rap traditionalism".[116] The Village Voice's Sean Fennessey commented that "Kanye is rapping and singing better and with more tenacity than he ever has on Fantasy" and described the album as "a staggering, often breathtaking work [...] masterfully engineered and sequenced, each song bleeding over like some long night out into the hazy morning after".[118]

Anslem Samuel of XXL gave the album a maximum rating of "XXL" and praised it "Sonically and lyrically [...] intricately constructed tracks framing his heartfelt outbursts and honest inner reflections".[125] Alex Denney of NME called it "an utterly dazzling portrait of a 21st-century schizoid man".[39] Chris Martins of Spin noted its production as "loud and proud, but also poignant and gripping" and called the album "a sinister, orchestral, hugely grandiose affair that owes as much to the artist's self-aggrandizing ego as to the voracious id that would destroy it publicly".[37] Chicago Sun-Times writer Thomas Conner gave it four out of four stars and commented that West's "difficulty in communicating" is "pretty compelling on record".[126] Chicago Tribune writer Greg Kot perceived the album's feel as "a collision of opulence and emptiness" and complimented West's transparency, "his almost pathological allegiance to expressing his emotions, unfiltered... a curious mix of bravado and vulnerability".[47] Nitsuh Abebe of New York called the album "adventurous, fierce, and full of vitality", writing that "Its guiding principle seems to be to go in harder on every front: Be more opulent and arty, be more vicious and aggrieved, be more 'complicated' and self-lacerated".[127] Slant Magazine's Matthew Cole viewed it as a milestone in hip hop music and lauded its themes of "self-aggrandizement and self-effacement", writing that it "allows Kanye a thematic palette broad enough to confront his pride and anguish".[36] Pitchfork Media's Ryan Dombal called it "a hedonistic exploration into a rich and famous American id".[32] Giving it a 10 out of 10 rating, David Amidon of PopMatters complimented West's dichotomous themes and noted "there are few more human albums in hip-hop".[35]

Accolades

The album appeared on numerous music critics' and publications' end-of-year albums lists.[128] Chicago Tribune writer Greg Kot included it at number seven on his list of the year's top albums, writing that it "turns contradictions into strengths, a mix of classical opulence, grimy beats, boldness and vulnerability".[129] PopMatters named it the year's fourth best album in its year-end list, calling it "Kanye West’s self-portrait, in Cubism: complex, petulant, somewhat paranoid, but bursting with ideas and never boring".[130] Chris Yuscavage of Vibe ranked it number one on his list of the 10 Best Albums of 2010.[131] Paste named it the fourth best album of 2010, and the publication's M.T. Richards called it "a nuanced, intimately personal record wherein even ostensibly boastful tracks are tangled with insecurities, both personal and professional [...] perhaps this century’s definitive portrait of torment, vanity, self-delusion, and pathos".[132] Nitsuh Abebe of New York named it the eighth best album of the year.[133] The Guardian included it at number two on its list of 2010's top 40 albums and commented that West "remains, on record, one of the most compelling artists of our time".[134] NME ranked the album number 34 on its list of 75 Best Albums of 2010.[135]

Several critics and publications named it the best album of the year.[128] Spin placed the album at number one on its 40 Best Albums list for 2010.[136] In naming it the album of the year, the publication's Charles Aaron wrote that it "is 2010's album of the year because Kanye dramatizes... with a budget-averse musical imagination that's ominous, symphonic, heartsick, riff-ravaged, and driven by the most technically legit rapping he's ever managed".[136] Billboard, Time, Slant Magazine, Pitchfork Media, and Rolling Stone also named it the best album of 2010 in their year-end lists.[137][138][139][140][141] Both Chris Richards and Allison Stewart of The Washington Post named the album the best of 2010.[142][143] The New York Times' Jon Caramanica, Nate Chinen, and Jon Pareles all included the album in their individual top-10 albums lists.[144][145][146] The A.V. Club ranked the album at the top of its year-end list, stating "Fantasy is an idiot-savant smash, an example of a musician overreaching, yet triumphing through dumb bravado and an imagination gloriously unfettered by logic. Kanye actually set out to make the album of the year when nobody listens to albums anymore".[147]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Dark Fantasy"Kanye West, Robert Diggs, Ernest Wilson, Jeff Bhasker, Mike Dean, Malik JonesThe RZA, Kanye West, No I.D., Jeff Bhasker (add.), Mike Dean (add.)4:40
2."Gorgeous" (featuring Kid Cudi & Raekwon)West, Wilson, Dean, Jones, Che Smith, Corey Woods, Scott MescudiKanye West, No I.D., Mike Dean5:57
3."Power"West, Larry Griffin Jr., Dean, Bhasker, Andwele Gardner, Ken LewisS1, Kanye West, Jeff Bhasker (add.), Mike Dean (add.), Andrew Dawson (add.)4:52
4."All of the Lights" (Interlude)  1:02
5."All of the Lights"West, Bhasker, Jones, Warren TrotterKanye West, Jeff Bhasker (co)4:59
6."Monster" (featuring Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj & Bon Iver)West, Shawn Carter, Patrick Reynolds, Dean, William Roberts, Onika Maraj, Justin Vernon, BhaskerKanye West, Mike Dean (add), Plain Pat (add)6:18
7."So Appalled" (featuring Jay-Z, Pusha T, Prynce Cy Hi, Swizz Beatz & The RZA)West, Wilson, Dean, Carter, Terrence Thornton, Cydell Young, Kaseem Dean, DiggsKanye West, No I.D., Mike Dean (co)6:38
8."Devil in a New Dress" (featuring Rick Ross)West, Roosevelt Harrell, Dean, Roberts, JonesBink!, Mike Dean (co)5:52
9."Runaway" (featuring Pusha T)West, Emile Haynie, Thornton, Bhasker, Dean, JonesKanye West, Emile (co), Jeff Bhasker (co), Mike Dean (co)9:08
10."Hell of a Life"West, Mike Caren, Wilson, DeanKanye West, Mike Caren (co), No I.D. (co), Mike Dean (co)5:27
11."Blame Game" (featuring John Legend)West, Justin Franks, Khloe Mitchell, Dean, John StephensKanye West, DJ Frank E, Mike Dean (add.)7:49
12."Lost in the World" (featuring Bon Iver)West, Bhasker, VernonKanye West, Jeff Bhasker (co)4:16
13."Who Will Survive in America"West, Bhasker, Gil Scott-HeronKanye West, Jeff Bhasker (co)1:38

 • (co) Co-producer
 • (add.) Additional production

iTunes bonus track
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
14."See Me Now" (featuring Big Sean, Beyoncé & Charlie Wilson)West, Sean Anderson, Beyoncé Knowles, Charles WilsonKanye West, No I.D., Lex Luger6:03
Deluxe edition bonus DVD
No.TitleWriter(s)Director(s)Length
1."Runaway" (short film)Hype WilliamsKanye West35:00
Sample credits
  • "Dark Fantasy" contains samples of "In High Places" by Mike Oldfield.
  • "Gorgeous" contains portions and elements of the composition "You Showed Me", written by Gene Clark and Roger McGuinn.
  • "Power" contains elements from "It's Your Thing" by Cold Grits, contains elements of "Afromerica" by Continent Number 6, and contains material sampled from "21st Century Schizoid Man" performed by King Crimson.
  • "So Appalled" contains samples of "You Are – I Am" by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band.
  • "Devil in a New Dress" contains samples of "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" as performed by Smokey Robinson.
  • "Runaway" contains a sample of "Expo 83" performed by Backyard Heavies, and contains excerpts of from "Rick James ‘Live at Long Beach, CA’ 1981".
  • "Hell of a Life" contains samples of "She’s My Baby" by the Mojo Men, contains samples of "Stud-Spider" by Tony Joe White, and contains portions of "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath.
  • "Blame Game" contains elements of "Avril 14" by Richard James.
  • "Lost in the World" contains portions of "Soul Makossa", written by Manu Dibango, contains a sample of "Think (About It)" as performed by Lyn Collins, contains samples of "The Woods" as performed by Bon Iver, and contains samples of "Comment No. 1" performed by Gil Scott-Heron.
  • "Who Will Survive In America" contains samples of "Comment No. 1" performed by Gil Scott-Heron.

Personnel

Credits for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy adapted from Allmusic.[148]

Musicians

Production

Charts and certifications

Chart procession and succession

Preceded by Canadian Albums Chart number-one album
December 11–18, 2010 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
The Gift by Susan Boyle
 US Billboard 200 number-one album
December 11–18, 2010 		Succeeded by
The Gift by Susan Boyle
Preceded by
Loud by Rihanna
 US R&B/Hip Hop Albums number-one album
December 11–25, 2010 		Succeeded by
Preceded by US Rap Albums number-one album
December 11–25, 2010 		Succeeded by
No Mercy by T.I.

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