My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is the fifth studio album by American rapper and producer Kanye West. It was released on November 22, 2010, by Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records. Guest vocalists on the album include Nicki Minaj, Bon Iver, Jay-Z, Pusha T, Rick Ross, Kid Cudi, John Legend, and Raekwon. It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 and sold 496,000 copies, eventually reaching three million for a triple platinum certification.
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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is the fifth studio album by American rapper and producer Kanye West. It was released on November 22, 2010, by Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records. It follows a period of public and legal controversy for West, who retreated to a self-imposed exile in Hawaii in 2009. Guest vocalists on the album include Nicki Minaj, Bon Iver, Jay-Z, Pusha T, Rick Ross, Kid Cudi, John Legend, and Raekwon. The album was produced primarily by West, along with a variety of high-profile producers such as Mike Dean, No I. D., Jeff Bhasker, RZA, S1, Bink, and DJ Frank E. It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 and sold 496,000 copies, eventually reaching three million for a triple platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America. It has been ranked in several professionally curated lists as the best album of the 2010s and among the greatest of all time according to NME and Rolling Stone. George Condo’s accompanying artwork – illustrating West straddled by an armless winged female – has beenranked among the great album covers. West spent over USD 3million provided by his record label Def Jam to record the album, making it one of the most expensive albums ever made. He later explained the initial recording process to Noah Callahan-Bever, Complex editor-in-chief and West’s then-confidant, who said “he’d holed up in Hawaii and was importing his favorite producers and artists to work on and inspire his recording camp” The album won Best Rap Album at the 2012 Grammy Awards but was not nominated for Album of the Year, which was viewed as a’snub’ by several media outlets.
West released free songs through his weekly GOOD Fridays series and four singles – \”Power\”, \”Runaway\”, \”Monster\”, and \”All of the Lights\” – all of which were top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. He said later that fatigue from overworking led to his controversial outburst after Taylor Swift was awarded Best Female Video at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. He was disgusted with the ensuing media response, which led to a hiatus from recording. West also released a musical short film, Runaway, set to music from the album. In its first week of release, My Beautiful Dark twisted Fantasy debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200. It also reached No. 2 in the UK and No. 3 in the Australian charts. West said he made five five-minute mixtapes during the recording sessions with producers who participated in the sessions with West: Q-Tip, Rza, R&B singer Elly Jackson, DJ Madlib, Statik Selektah, and Pete Madlib. He also said that he made a five five minute mixtape with producers including RZA and RZA.
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