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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy won awards for both Album of the Year and Reader's Choice: Best Album at the 2010 HipHopDX Awards, receiving over 50 percent of the vote for the latter. [176] The album was awarded CD of the Year at the next year's BET Hip Hop Awards , while it was nominated for Outstanding Album at the 2011 NAACP Image Awards .
"Dark Fantasy" is a song by American hip hop recording artist and producer Kanye West from his fifth studio album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010). The song serves as the opening track of the album, and was written by West, Ernest Wilson , Jeff Bhasker , Mike Dean and Robert Diggs .
The song debuted and peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at position 12 and is the centerpiece of Runaway, a 35-minute short film featuring the majority of songs from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. The song's nearly ten-minute music video features ballet dancers performing elaborate choreography. The music video received mostly positive reviews ...
Following the release of the album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, the single re-entered the chart at number 57 and as of 23 October 2010 has spent a total of five weeks within the Top 100. [49] In 2011, the single re-entered the UK singles chart and urban chart, at number 38 and 12 respectively. [50] [51]
"Hell of a Life" is a song by American hip hop recording artist Kanye West from his fifth studio album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010). The song was produced by West, Mike Caren, No I.D. and Mike Dean. The song features a number of samples and contains backing vocals by Teyana Taylor, signed to West's G.O.O.D. Music label.
Rick Ross recorded his verse for "Devil in a New Dress" within a very close proximity from when the album had to be turned in to the record label.. Following some media controversies, West chose to record the majority of his fifth studio album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy in a reclusive manner in Oahu, Hawaii. [9]
The Guardian ' s Kitty Empire cited the song as "the album's most magnificent high", writing that it "backs up operatic levels of sound with great drama". [ 31 ] Ann Powers of NPR included "All of the Lights" in her list of the Top 10 Top 40 singles of 2011, commenting "its like an action painting: the artist scatters elements across its canvas ...
"Gorgeous" is a song by American hip hop recording artist Kanye West from his fifth studio album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010). The track features a hook provided by Kid Cudi, a recording artist formerly signed to West's label GOOD Music, and a rap verse provided by the Wu-Tang Clan member Raekwon.