Overall I am not the biggest Kanye fan and that certainly hasn’t changed after listening to My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. In “Blame Game” he misogynistically tells a potential mate “stick around, some real feelings might surface.” In that story though, West ends up being the one with the broken heart: he even goes so far as to call out his siren, Chloe Mitchell, by name. When he’s not taking strange detours West occasionally paints vivid portraits of a William Randolph Hearst type character – a man who has it all, or does he? West’s inability to connect with a partner seems to be at the center of his woes – he makes no apologies for his voracious sexual appetite but in the same breath cries over the lack of depth in his relationships.
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For instance more discerning rappers might have cut out the Napolean Dynamite line from “Monster” or the sqeaky voiced “satan, satan, satan” line in “Devil in a New Dress.” But I have to say, while I think West’s lyricism is full of odd choices, I do generally find it a lot more interesting than most rapper’s run of the mill “hustla” fare. I no longer think that West is a bad lyricist – I think he can be great – it’s just that, as in his rambling stream of thought social networking, West doesn’t seem to know when to self-edit. And while I have been guilty of calling West a bad lyricist, I definitely admire his willingness to be bizarre, with puzzlers like “have you ever had sex with a pharaoh” or “no more drugs for me / pussy and religion is all I need” making for excellent would-be tweets. And while West’s raps and his tweets are technically two completely different platforms, on new record My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy the two seemingly collide, with West’s lyrics often coming off similarly to his 140 character aphorisms. Worldwide Twitter star Kanye West has a little known side project – turns out the verbose social networker also fashions himself as something of a rapper. So in an effort to offer an expanded perspective in such a medium, here are four reactions, four impressions, Four Takes on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West. Bias can tilt a review, as can personal taste, history and just about everything else that is unique to the person writing it. It can be difficult to gain a balanced perspective on an album after reading a single summary of the music.