Monster, “I’m living in the future so the present is my past. I won’t be satisfied til all my niggas get it, get it?” Gorgeous, “I treat the cash the way the government treats AIDS “Who will Survive in America?” is a great ending to the album.ĭark Fantasy, “So much head, I woke up in Sleepy Hollow”
“Hell of a Life” sounds like a bonus track, but a very good one. The album gets soulful to a point where the commercial artists just can’t access. I thought Mos Def, Common, or Q-Tip would appear on the album. It would have been great track if RZA had a verse, his chorus made the song in the end though. With so many foreign verses on this track, it sounded very normal compared to the rest of the album.
“So Appalled” also featured Prince Cy Hi and Pusha T. He is a little too loud for the track but I had studio headphones on. But in “Devil in a new Dress” Rick Ross is on point as he adlibs that “uh” he is so known for. Moving on to Rick Ross, the intro to “Monster” drowns out his little intro.
Let me be clear, his verses were good, but not amazing. Jay-Z is slowly making it very obvious that he can’t stand next to Kanye on the verses in “Monster” and “So Appalled.” Jay-Z’s best line in “appalled’ was a line from The Dark Knight. Jay-Z on this album is, well, signs of things to come. If it was any longer, I would have said “Why is Fergie on this album?” That being said, her verse was cool. Thank God Fergie’s verse in “All of the Lights” is so short. I dare you to pick them out in that song. Instead of everyone having a verse though, Kanye just mashes up there harmonies. I can’t talk about features without mentioning the buff track “All of the Lights” featuring Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Elton John, Fergie, John Legend, The-Dream, Tony Williams, Kid Cudi, Charlie Wilson, Ryan Leslie and La Roux’s Elly Jackson. Besides those two negatives, in general, the production is great. Sonically, even though Kanye plays with new sounds in most of his tracks, it is very hard to appreciate the experiments because they just aren’t mixed well. Yes, it is his album, but why does he think we want to listen to this for 180 seconds? I had to skip that part after the second time. Kanye gets very pretentious with this ending. “Runaway” is murdered with it’s three minute auto-tune long harmony. We got enough of that with 808s and Heartbreak. This album makes the samples feel more original. This is saying a lot because Kanye’s use of samples was always integrated very well into his previous works. Kanye’s use of samples is so much more integrated than ever before. I say this because the content focuses a lot on porn, monsters, and having sex with nuns, among other things. The main theme of the rapping focuses more on romancing the devil. Kanye’s verses were more about being in tune with the emotion behind the words than how cool the lines sounded. There are several cases where Kanye mumbles his words and just continues to the next line. Most of the verses don’t sound as polished as the guests verses do. Not to say that he did not sit down and write it, but when he recorded it, it is as if he felt that one take was enough. Kanye sounds like he is holding his balls while rapping.
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