"So many people rate Dark Fantasy as my best album, but Yeezus and 808s are so much stronger.
But he also went on to say that the reflective nature of the album is exactly why he doesn't like the album much today. West himself admitted as much in October of this year: “It was kind of piecing together what people liked about me to make a bouquet of what people loved,” he said in an interview that aired on artist Nick Knight’s ShowStudio website. My first time listening to the music of Kanye West. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West (2010). When they come together, they REALLY come together, which is the case for roughly 80 percent of this album. It was released on November 22, 2010, by Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records following a period of public and legal controversy for West. Kanye has always been a bundle of concepts.
It’s almost as if West took every sound he had cultivated up until that point-the soul samples of College Dropout, the grand-scale and beautiful orchestration of Late Registration, the gloss of Graduation, and the auto-tuned melodies of 808s, and didn't so much as reduce them but compress them into one vision. 13 songs 1 hour, 8 minutes My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is the fifth studio album by American rapper and producer Kanye West. Kanye West - Dark Fantasy (My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy) Kanye West - Dark Fantasy (1Track of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy). My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’s mouthful of a title perfectly suits the album’s maximalist, grandiose sound.