nothing is a reach when you read about the life or death stakes kanye put on the success of this album.

i recommend season 2 of dissect if you have spotify to see how much thought kanye put into this. all the braggadocio in the first half makes sense as soon as 'devil in a new dress' splashes through and the reality sets in.Įverything that needs to be said about the album has already been said. after all his antics, i cant help but feel for the guy.

the macbeth-ian figure kanye presents himself as on this album man. Never have i heard a rapper sound so egotistic and vulnerable at the same time. the sheer opulence and indulgence in the sounds of this record would be extremely hard to replicate even 9 years later, it'll just sound too try hard, but for kanye, it just flowed out of him effortlessly it seems. as in auction-worthy, billionaire-splurging, louvre-worthy hip hop, all without collapsing under its own weight. ive heard no album even try to sound like this. this album, to me, is exempted from the Seinfeld effect. Im baffled when people say this sounds generic.

the sequencing is literally perfect to me, and there are details in the compositions that 9 years later im still picking up on. its probably the best cautionary tale on fame ever put on record, an extremely subtle concept album and no one really gives it that credit. To me this is one of those albums that is dangerously close to perfection.

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