My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

***My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy*** is the fifth studio album by American rapper Kanye West. The album was released on November 22, 2010. The album peaked at #1 on the Canadian Albums Chart, US _Billboard_ 200, US _Billboard_ R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and US _Billboard_ Rap Albums. Music critics gave it very good reviews. Pitchfork gave it ten out of ten. It won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. In 2012 _Rolling Stone_ magazine put the album at number 353 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

The making of the album came after the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. During Taylor Swift's speech for Best Female Video, West interrupted to say Beyoncé should have won the award. After the incident, West went to Hawaii to rest from stress. Most of the songs were created during this time.

## Singles

Four singles were released from the album. The first single "Power" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance.

## Track listing

- Notes and sample credits
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- <sup></sup> signifies a co-producer
- "Dark Fantasy" contains samples of "In High Places," written by Mike Oldfield and Jon Anderson, and performed by Oldfield.
- "Gorgeous" contains portions and elements of the composition "You Showed Me," written by Gene Clark and Roger McGuinn, and performed by The Turtles.
- "Power" contains elements from "It's Your Thing," performed by Cold Grits; elements of "Afromerica," written by Francois Bernheim, Jean-Pierre Lang, and Boris Bergman, and performed by Continent Number 6; and material sampled from "21st Century Schizoid Man," composed by  Robert Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald, and Peter Sinfield, and performed by King Crimson.
- "So Appalled" contains samples of "You Are—I Am," written by Manfred Mann, and performed by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
- "Devil in a New Dress" contains samples of "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow," written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin, and performed by Smokey Robinson
- "Runaway" contains a sample of "Expo 83," written by J. Branch, and performed by Backyard Heavies; and excerpts from _Rick James Live at Long Beach, CA, 1981_.
- "Hell of a Life" contains samples of "She’s My Baby," written by Sylvester Stewart, and performed by The Mojo Men; samples of "Stud-Spider" by Tony Joe White; and portions of "Iron Man," written by Terence Butler, Anthony Iommi, John Osbourne, and William Ward.
- "Blame Game" contains elements of "Avril 14th," written by Richard James, and performed by Aphex Twin.
- "Lost in the World" contains portions of "Soul Makossa", written by Manu Dibango; a sample of "Think (About It)," written by James Brown, and performed by Lyn Collins; samples of "Woods," written by Justin Vernon, and performed by Bon Iver; and samples of "Comment No. 1," written and performed by Gil Scott-Heron.
- "Who Will Survive In America" contains samples of "Comment No. 1" performed by Gil Scott-Heron.

## Infobox (album)

- **name**: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
- **type**: studio
- **artist**: Kanye West
- **released**: November 22, 2010
- **recorded**: 2009-2010
- **genre**: *Hip hop music, Hip hop
*Experimental music, experimental
*Contemporary R&B, R&B
- **length**: 68:34
- **label**: Roc-A-Fella Records, Roc-A-Fella, Def Jam Recordings, Def Jam
- **producer**: Kanye West (also exec.), Jeff Bhasker, Bink, DJ Frank E, Emile, Jay-Z (exec.), Kyambo Joshua (exec.), L.A. Reid (exec.), Lex Luger, Mike Caren, Mike Dean, No I.D., Gee Roberson (exec.), The RZA, S1
- **prev title**: VH1 Storytellers (Kanye West album), VH1 Storytellers
- **prev year**: 2010
- **next title**: Watch the Throne
- **next year**: 2011