Summary Of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye has always been a very outspoken rapper and with My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy he isn’t afraid to show the world his opinions on divisive issues. Through powerful songs the album is able to go into difficult topics ranging from racial tensions to monsters in the industry and describe them from a different viewpoint. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is used to inform its listeners on what is really going on in the world and how it may not be as great as it seems. The album leads off with the song “Dark Fantasy” which sets the mood for the whole album; exclaiming how the idea of being famous is not all what it seems. Going so far as to say how the image of fame was made up years ago. The song describes how Kanye bought into this idea, dreaming of a
This song is practically a call to action to shine more light into the lives of famous people. Rhianna especially calls for more lights since this happened after the Chris Brown beating incident. Having more of the listeners look into the shadows of these people’s lives can bring about a positive change. In recent times especially prevalent with Harvey Weinstein and all of the sexual assaults that happened. This song also helps transition into the next with this idea that famous people have their own private lives. These private lives however are described to be not that pleasant in the song “Monster”. The track brings in multiple artists all depicting themselves as monsters. These big name artists, Jay Z, Rick Ross, and Nicki Minaj show that even though they are so adored by all their fans, they can be down in the gutter. Whether it be terrorizing new competition, to being overly arrogant the lives of these artists are described in troubling ways. Now point of this song wasn’t to throw these people under the bus, rather it was to shed light on how celebrities aren’t saints which they sometimes are depicted as in the