How Kanye's 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' Saved His Career | Genius News
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- Опубліковано 21 лис 2020
- Kanye West’s 5th album 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' was the culmination of a year in exile after interrupting Taylor Swift during the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. The project was immediately welcome with critical acclaim and featured standout verses from Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj, Raekwon, JAY-Z and many more. Ye also included a slew of producers, notably RZA, MIKE DEAN, Pete Rock and others. The album remains one of the brightest spots in Kanye’s 20 year career. Watch the video for background on how it saved his career.
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Say what you want. Kanye is a certified legend
YES SIRRR
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Man this was great
he is a legend for sure just nowadays he needs to chill out but it doesnt change the fact that he made the one of the greatest works of all time
Dude’s a legend but mans crazy rn
Genius: MBDTF was one of the brightest spots in kanye west's 20 year long career
Anthony Fantano: I'm feeling a strong 5 to a light 6 on this one
Which goes to show how he has some absurd takes lmao
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That’s why nobody should take him serious.
@@numbvox that’s one of the worst takes I’ve heard
@@mikeaintdead you can tell that he doesn’t even like rap
No matter what he does outside of music. Kanye is a legend in the rap industry. You cannot deny that.
Music industry*
@@mariohachicho9368 Good correction.
I’ve literally been preaching this message for 10 years
@@mariohachicho9368 Dare I say art in general. I think Ye might be the most influential artist of the last 30 - 20 years.
@@kwick2085 same wit me he the greatest to every do it he made a GENERATION od ARTIST not jus RAPPERS
The akira shirt is such a smart subtle connection towards ye. Akira being ye's favorite anime
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Fav movie*
yes!!
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明らかにアキラ
Rick Ross on Devil in a New Dress is a verse for the ages.
Steady Life fax
Cherry red chariot, success is just my character
All black tux, nigga shoes lavender
He killed the beat more than Kanye
@@mugenpower7545 excess *
Nobody and I repeat NOBODY makes better quality songs than Kanye. Support HIM while he’s here cause when he’s gone y’all gon feel it fr
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Bro you every where💯
Preach man 😢
exactly like people can’t sit here and say he’s not a musical genius and changed music forever
Facts
MBDTF is a masterpiece, the production quality was A1. The GOOD Friday tracks leading up to the album were gold. This was a hell of a roll out for an album and he did not disappoint at all.
production is 10 years ahead
@@JSAUC3 not really
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I’m ahead of my time sometimes years out
@@eliasdejene2779 The sound of that album is well over 10 years ahead and if you dont think so you probably listen to juice wrld
Why do I love hearing Obama say "He's a jackass"😂😂 someone sample that into a song
obama’s voice is just so interesting🤣
Imagine how hard it would be if Ye used it as well
in the demo of Black Skinhead
it is actually sampled
it cuts off right after obama says
“he’s a” - black-skin-head
@@SquatBenDeadlift really? What version and where can I find it?
Lmao takes one to know one
THE GREATEST ARTIST OF OUR GENERATION
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Kanye is arguably the greatest artist of all time
All time
Facts!
Is nicki
He's a genius
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Lol these bots.
@@cheddar8825 Tell me about
^ Don’t click any of these link the song is trash
Knowing kanye means knowing your true self.
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So is Kendrick
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That album changed life
THIS
Didn’t know 2pac worked at genius
😂
I ain't even peep bra till I saw your comment 😂
Nah bruh that's 1pac wym?
Bruh💀
This album is ageless, I still listen heavy... one of the best albums I’ve ever heard in my life🔥
Same 🔥
U cute 👀
@@SweaterSwagg simp
The guitar solo on devil in a new dress🔥🔥🔥
Same
Kanye’s a genius.
factz
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Although some songs are not my favorite on MBDTF, the sheer power of Runaway, Devil in a New Dress, and well POWER makes this an album for the decades.
GORGEOUS??
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blame game
Devil in a New Dress for sure is the highlight of the album.
@@MrZachgonz true gorgeous is second tho
easily the best hip hop album of the 2010s. TPAB fans don't hurt me.
If it's easily the don't mention tpab
chl chl agaye bdd
Tpab>mbdtf
@A. B. ya no
Truth the album was smooth
Blame Game is one of Hip-hops most legendary songs ever. Legendary. Same with Runaway.
Ryan Matson fax
Yup, best tracks on the album.
The avril 14 sample is 👌
@@nostopping aphex twin
“YeeZy tAugHt mE”
I forgot how many legendary moments this album has, truly a classic
tired of these girls saying taylor swift ended kanye 😪
It’s even more annoying hearing them say Taylor made Kanye 😢
Its girls who haven’t had a walk outside in years while munching on bread
If you annoyed by it then they clearly doing a good job since that's why they're saying it
@@kevinross6235 they the ones with Kanye living free rent in their heads
@@anacleto_wzrd9144 No, not at all ❤️
Amazing
HIGHLIGHT HEAVEN WHAT
Yoooo
Highlight heaven confirmed wavey
I'm the reason
@@piokj1 w
Devil in a new Dress might be the greatest song of all time
No kizzy
underatted
You mean Runaway
@@virgilebeats3041 you mean power
@@RetryYT you mean every song of MBDTF ?
Lost in the world got lost in the world unfortunately
Uhm
They don’t want songs like that touching people’s ears. They know it’s moving 💯
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One of the most underrated Kanye songs ever
Anyone who denies Kanye is a GOAT has no realistic perspective on hip hop music.
He has THE STRONGEST discography in hip hop, ever. Truthfully one of the strongest discographies in music, period.
Greatest artist of all time
Top 3 for me Drake, Kanye and Michael Jackson
@@majesticmajesty359 just leave Drake and we're cool
Greatest artist of all time is Michael Jackson
No
@@tobiaszgrzesiak7775 nah
Kanye run from 04-10 solo wise is fucking insane . Even in 2011 with Watch the throne with Jay cannot be match. Musically and as a artist he’s an game changer hands down!! He pushed gangsta rap away from mainstream and he shaped the sound and style! And won against 50 🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️ no other rapper around 07 could have done that.
As great as this album was, it would’ve been even better if Christian Dior Denim Flow made the cut.
Yo I’m sayin!!!!!
Like I don't understand how it didn't it's one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard in my life
didn't fit the concept
@@muffinzezyproductions116 i dont see how when personally i thought it fit in perfectly
@@ManniLive it’s mostly about fashion and girls. Fits life of Pablo a lot more
dark fantasy is so underrated. i love all the verses on it especially "i fantasized bout this back in chicago" and "how you say broke in spanish? me no hablo"
This dude looks straight out of 1996
Pac's lost son
That’s tupac
I was 21 when all of this happened. Can’t imagine what someone that age today listens to and if it’ll have the same reverence 10 years later
Bullshit u I wish I was older when mbdtf dropped
i’m 21 rn and music is a mess 🤦🏾♂️ still fw mine tho @duragkev hehe (but fr tho, the industry is getting more and more wack with plants poppin up, it’s really about connections and antics now, not the real cold music)
He never had to save his career. He's always been the G.O.A.T.
Well he have to because he about to get cancel by the pop culture and beside he's not G.O.A.T. until MBDTF released. No hate it just my opinion, Love Kanye
Gorgeous is criminally FUCKIN UNAPPRECIATED AND UNDERRATED MAN
ONE OF THE BEST RAP SONGS EVER PERIODT!!
*2019 : Stay away from negative people*
_2020 : Stay away from positive people._
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Don't get it
@@hackerulroman COVID 19
@@thejoker194 oh how tf did i not get this then
@@hackerulroman idk
Most unruly's documentaries make genius look like amateurs
LMAO yeah he do be going in
Agreed.
I forgot about this album but hearing these songs gave me goosebumps. It’s rare that I like every single track on an album but this is such an incredible piece of art, all the way through, each song.
The day Taylor Swift makes an album that's as legendary as MBDTF is the day Judgement rains down on the human race
Half of Taylor’s albums are more iconic than MBDTF the fuck you mean
@@prisonmike1139 she may see this, bro, keep trying
@@TheyCalllMeVincenzo yeah I will 🤣 you stan a rat I stan a queen
@@prisonmike1139 I don’t Stan a grown ass man lol, just funny how you’re defending someone you’ve never met, again though bro, keep trying, she’ll be here one day
@@TheyCalllMeVincenzo you know whats up! Lol gotta degrade himself to win female approval
MBDTF wasn’t the album from Ye that really pushed me to live, but Ye was the album that saved my life. Ye is forever a legend and deserves way more respect than he gets. Y’all unappreciative asses better show love now cus some day he’ll be gone
same but mine was 808 & heartbreak. the album changed me completely.
Graduation for me even tho I rank it kinda low for him
I love ye to it’s me ye
Love it. What’s your favourite song?
Every Kanye album from 808s & Heartbreak shifted my life in someway.
Kanye dun went next level after they found 💖 a u t h e n t I c v i e w s 💖
MBDTF and GKMC are the two greatest albums of the last decade.
GKMC ...
If you don't know, you need to NOT miss class, anymore
Instead of GKMC i would put TPAB
Kanye wasn't wrong about that statement.
exactly, no ones remembered that Taylor vid but single ladies is iconic
doesn't matter, actually. he shouldn't have done that, and he knows that too.
@@notnoice4615 bruh delete that
@@Bigman-sr6zm 404 Not found when I click the link. what did it say
@@thomasnelson5758 its an ip grabber, a fake link, the person who commented that now has ur location
this is very well documentated, btw kanye was right, beyonce literally had one of the best music videos of all time, that's what not a lot of people speak about tho, *he was right.*
MBDTF is easily among my top ten favorite albums of all time across all genres. I've never been able to really figure out why it resonates so deeply with me, but it does. Whenever I listen to it, I just feel it, like it's part of me, like it's part of my soul.
10 years down the line and absolutely no other hip-hop sounds like MBDTF. a testament to the uniqueness of this album and kanye's vision. completely and forever timeless.
devil in a new dress is one of the most gorgeous songs in kanye's career. 💖 💖
my favorite song by him. everything about it is perfect
Facts
If anyone's a big fan of this album I highly recommend the "Dissect" Podcast's breakdown of this album, it's great. Also "The Most Unruly" has great documentary style videos on most of Kanye's albums, good stuff.
bless ur heart
Why is Rick Ross' verse on devil in a new dress so underrated. BEST RAP VERSE OF ALL TIME
It’s good, but nowhere near greatest verse of all time
plsss 😂
No you’ve gone too far
chill
Lol the best verse from a officer Ricky?
My favorite all time kanye moment was him performing that year at the VMAs. After the whole T swift debacle, after everyone calling him a douche bag, asshole, etc. he went away for a year completely and the next time we saw him was on that stage performing runaway. The perfect song and performance to maybe the greatest comeback in rap music ever.
"Saved his career" kanye west 2022:
He's gonna need to drop another MBDTF pretty soon 😬
GREATEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME
Nah , not even the best rap album of all time , not even top 20
@@archithbinoj24-89 actually it’s in the top ten greatest album of all time, you can look it up
@@tyjeanharris2991 ok , but imo there are more than 20+ rap albums of the 90s I consider better .
@@archithbinoj24-89 i can respect that 😌
@@archithbinoj24-89 No
You cannot erase Kanye he's a god in the music industry, the man has always been a perfectionist in his craft from heavy bass drops to beautiful 808s and making good instrumentals... He's one of the greatest artist to ever bless the Earth, you should be honoured by his lateness
FUN fact kanye made rick ross do his verse over on devil in a new dress because he felt as though is wasnt raw enough and now we have the most perfect verse from him THANK YOU KANYE❤️
knowing that bey, ashley and ebony rehearsed for weeks and filmed single ladies 28 times to get the perfect one-take video shot still blows my mind to this day. shoutout to frank gatson and jake nava too. and tina for designing and sewing the outfits herself! that video went viral before virality was even a thing. there were flashmobs and challenges across the globe for weeks, all in the pre-social media era! it was insane. a real moment in pop culture, and music history in general, that’s still referenced to this day. can’t deny it's impact, regardless of whether or not it won a VMA.
Anthony really gave this project 6/10 lol.
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Opinions
That melon 🤦♂️, I’m convinced that he’s the reason people don’t make their own opinions anymore
As he should.
I've heard this story about 5000 times. But its still kanye so whatever 🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
Here before the Anthony Fantano Comments
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kanye is one of the best hip hop artists not rapper artists this album literally shaped the whole 2010s although I love kanye we wont get this kanye anymore
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Never again that’s what’s sad
Happy 10th anniversary to this timeless work of art🔥🔥
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Devil in a new dress 👏 Who else remember how we had the leaked version without Ross and how crazy everyone went with the full version dropped? Love it
ik people love to hate the “i’m god’s gift to the earth” kanye, but he is an artistic genius and just happens to be aware of it lol
Lol yep. Kanye's biggest flaw is he refuses to be humble about it. But when there was a time where people were shutting him down and telling him he'll never make it that self-confidence was all he had. So when you're constantly dropping opuses like this in spite of history telling you you're over, you'd act out from time to time as well
The siblings genius and madness often walk hand and hand.
This is undoubtedly one of the greatest albums of all time, any genre. It is the epitome of Kanye’s genius. And I’m just gonna leave it at that.
This is one of my favorite albums by Ye. He’s a genius. I love how he can make music into a visual story ❤️
Who’s gonna tell Kanye that Hawaii is still America
It is. .But it’s not your typical American state 🤷🏾♂️
He knew. That’s why when he said he came back the the states. He moved to Hawaii for 6 months. Comprehension
you misunderstood, it clearly says in the snippet that he left the US and then returned to Hawaii.
He went to Japan, then Rome. He interned at Fendi for a bit.
Stay deaf.
@@cryisfree510 ah yes, mb
@@abaileyjr97 It is though.
Excellent video. I remember Good Music Friday - what a time... great music, every song on the album!
I remember that vma performance so vividly. Iconic.
Y’all made me fall back in love with Kanye’s music 🎶
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You fell out to begin with? Yikes 😯
@@SweaterSwagg like the song
all of the lights will honestly stay one of my favorite songs ever, such a great album.
7:05 The real reason MBDTF was given a 6: Dream was on the album
the magnum opus of kanyes discography, sounds like literal gold and royalty and is perfect from the album art and visuals for the music videos, the live performances and every single song is just outstanding, a classic album that i will cherish forever
Ross verse in Devil in a new dress is so underrated
One of the best albums ever
Lost in the world is easily the most underrated song on the album and it deserves more hype...
I wonder if Kanye is capable of doing this comeback ever again.
there’s nothing to come back from
it’s kanye, he 100% could.
@@phatrick It is now
definitely lmao bro boutta drop Donda
Travis, Cudi, Pusha T, Future, Carti and rocky been at the same studio space like a month ago
MBDTF gets better everytime you listen to it
The crazy thing is he made fire throwaways on that Christian dior denim flow and don't look down was insane
That performance of Runaway at the VMAs was epic
I been waiting on this one
All always say it. Jacques is my favorite guy at genius
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Kanye is someone who will never be cancelled no matter what
Yea he can never be cancelled but flopping is different from being cancelled and he floped hard!
@@neetuchauhan636 lol how SWAY
haha about that
lmao this def didn't aged well
@@zackzallie8735 he’s not canceled
I remember I heard So Appalled with just Kanye verse, I already knew what time it was
Fantastic video more stuff like this please
Gorgeous was legendary,... can’t get enough of the song....
THAT ALBUM IS TIMELESS
AIN'T NO QUESTION IF I WANT IT I NEED IT ‼️‼️‼️‼️
Although I didn’t ever agree with the idea that Single Ladies was the greatest video of all time, I still agree it was A LOT better than that Taylor Swift video (if it’s the one I’m thinking of). From at least what I remember, that Taylor Swift video looked like some really corny anti bullying video from middle school.
Love these kind of videos
mbdtf 2 IS COMING
Greatest album of all time , man i can't believe it's been 10 years already 😅
An artistic masterpiece of an album that tells a story about the beauty and dangers of fame and love presented in amazing ways with extremely realistic musical elements with pianos and orchestral sounds, and amazing usage of sampling small elements of some know/unknown 1960’s, 1970’s & early 1980’s old school songs to make something completely original. Also extraordinary mature subject matter used very well lyrically throughout the album. Whether you like Kanye or not this thing is thing is a masterpiece that won’t be forgotten.
I’ve only heard power and gorgeous. Need to check this album out.
Gorgeous hits me in my heart
Kanye went harder then any rapper when he said that about Bush on Katrina relief
Eminem also has lot of bush references
Man Ye is an inspiration to Hip Hop. And this project is still gold, i stated listening to it again. Thank u Genius, a team of Geniuses
Amazing video great job!
Love the Akira shirt !
I remember Good Friday’s.... ahhh memories and good times😭🥺
This man has the best discography of this century regardless of Genre
as a solo artist yes maybe only michael jackson and elvis are up there
Masterful video Genius! Bravo!
Super vid, superb album!!
Kanye has never dropped a bad project,
Even JIK is enjoyable
@@cdfactory no one will think JIK is a masterpiece bro. face it. it wasn't good
@@rafaelamaya9643 it sounds so clean man. “Hands on” is my favorite.
Kanye is kanye. Me and other love him for who he are.
I hope Ye will rise again.
I remember this album being dissed the time it got released and I was out there freaking vibing to it . A classic !!!
This album should’ve sold more than 2 million. It’s one of the best hip-hop albums ever