Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33 1/3)

By Kirk Walker Graves

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Kanye West created the most compelling body of pop music by an American artist during the period. Having risen from obscurity as a precocious producer through the ranks of Jay Z's Roc-A-Fella records, by the time he released My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (MBDTF) in late 2010, West had evolved into a master collagist, an alchemist capable of transfiguring semi-obscure soul samples and indelible beats into a brash and vulnerable new art form.

Published by Bloomsbury Academic 

0.6" H x 6.5" L x 4.7" W (0.3 lbs) 152 pages