Premiering with a Marco Brambilla-directed music video, which West calls a “moving painting,” features a portrait-view headshot of West staring intensely into the lens with illuminated eyes while wearing a large, low-hanging gold chain with a pendant of Ancient Egypt god, Horus. Notoriously a polarizing public figure, Ye's return to the spotlight was expected to be monumental.

It was the Chicago artist’s first work released after his self-imposed exile to Oahu, Hawaii, following media crucifixion due to his controversial outburst at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, when the emcee intoxicatedly interrupted Taylor Swift’s Best Female Video acceptance speech. It was August 5 I was in an Orlando, Florida, hotel room on a family trip to Disney World, sitting in front of the television screen in full anticipation for MTV's exclusive premiere of Ye’s latest single, “Power.”

I’ll never forget the beginning of the My Dark Twisted Fantasy rollout.

Needless to say, Kanye West’s influence on me was undeniable from the beginning. I was a victim of the Shutter Shade trend prompted by the “Stronger” music video. My first iPod in 2008 was loaded up with all of Ye’s releases up until that point, including 808s and Heartbreak. least challenging.Kanye West became my favorite rapper the very moment I heard 'Jesus Walks'. 'Power' was the least progressive song that I've ever had as a first single. 'So many people rate Dark Fantasy as my best album, but Yeezus and 808s are so much stronger. But he also went on to say that the reflective nature of the album is exactly why he doesn't like the album much today. West himself admitted as much in October of this year: “It was kind of piecing together what people liked about me to make a bouquet of what people loved,” he said in an interview that aired on artist Nick Knight’s ShowStudio website. It’s almost as if West took every sound he had cultivated up until that point-the soul samples of College Dropout, the grand-scale and beautiful orchestration of Late Registration, the gloss of Graduation, and the auto-tuned melodies of 808s, and didn't so much as reduce them but compress them into one vision. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’s mouthful of a title perfectly suits the album’s maximalist, grandiose sound.

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