The intoxicating beat of “Power,” the way Kanye turns even his struggles into a rallying cry and just owns that shit, it really takes me to another level where even doing laundry feels like I’m conquering the fucking world. What a coincidence! Kanye uses screams from the haters as his superhero theme music I use this song as my theme music when I’m feeling like a superhero. He’s far from blameless in the way the media portrays him, but I can’t help but think that the amount of ridicule he gets is at least partly because he doesn’t look like what much of white America wants the musical prodigy of this generation to be.īy Audiomack “Do it better than anybody you ever seen do it / Screams from the haters, got a nice ring to it / Guess every superhero need his theme music”

With a simple but powerful play on words, he questions the contradiction between his revered place in the entertainment world and his continuing struggle to achieve true recognition and acceptance for what he’s done. In “Gorgeous,” one of the most lyrically compelling songs of his career, Ye really nails what he’s going through. “What’s a black Beatle anyway, a fucking roach?” The age-old question: Is numbing whatever shit you’re going through really worth the excruciating pain of waking up to your roommate Chip inhumanely making breakfast with no regard for your fragile eardrums, or worse? While Kanye’s troubles are probably way different than ours, his dilemma’s a very human one, one that most of us can sympathize with. “The plan was to drink until the pain over / But what’s worse, the pain or the hangover?” Here are five of the darkest, most twisted, but mostly memorable lines to come out of MBDTF.

It’s big, jarring, and beautiful, almost like it’s not part of real life but really is a convoluted dream-a dark twisted fantasy.Īs you might expect, plenty of controversial and brilliant lyrics emerged from that fantasy. Those clashing emotions and musical impulses came together to produce an album of colossal scale, laced with equal parts vanity and regret. The result was Ye’s greatest masterpiece since his debut.

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