“‘MBDTF’ showcases many eclectic sounds and unthought-of features that work in harmony. Boundaries are something that are always being blurred, pushed and taken to a diverse level with Kanye, whether it’s fashion or music. “This clean, crisp, well-structured look almost contradicts what can be regarded as one of Ye’s greatest albums. A Hedi Slimane silhouette sitting obscurely in a Dali painting comes to mind. The Rosewood Fashion Movement that Kanye and his clique, the Rat Pack of culture, championed surrounding the release of ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ was a spirit of arrival: ‘We are here, with a new found graceful contemporary etiquette.’ A movement named in homage to the successful, self-sufficient black people who where racially attacked and murdered in the 1920s. “What a sharp, slim-fitting Dior Homme number does project is a man of style, success and celebration. The genre tends to attract negative attention, and a rebellious stigma is simultaneously attached to it: low-slung jeans, not-well-fitted single pleat wool trousers. “A sharp, fitted suit is not often associated with hip-hop.
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On Kanye and GOOD Music’s Rosewood movement… – – – The Fashion, by Clothsurgeon head designer Rav Matharu That’s something that is lacking in rap at the moment people are scared to be vulnerable, and everybody is scared to take down their cool.” To put that in a way where every song has a story and it’s real vulnerable, that’s dope. “I really relate to the personal aspect – with women, every man can relate, but maybe me more so than others because I really go through that shit. It’s one of the reasons that I never try to do the same thing twice you do it, you done it, do some new shit. I definitely felt that on ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’.
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You have to know what each detail sounds like, because you need to know how to attack your bars. I try to work in that way myself, especially with producers I’m really big on my production and a real stickler on that. He used a lot of different people literally like instruments he didn’t use them just because of how big their name was. “I related to the collaborative spirit of it. And listening to that album I was like, ‘This is going to make people’s taste level go up a little.’ Certain times in rap music a project, person or area will really push everybody else to do some different shit. “That was my first thing: Kanye was always a top dude and polished, but this is polished beyond polished! It didn’t really hit me properly until I was riding around to it. When he was doing the GOOD Friday records, I was like, ‘What the hell is he doing?’ But after listening to the album first time through you can tell every part of that album, whether massive or minute, it was thought about and calculated. Kanye was going in a whole different direction to the previous album. “Prior to its release, I didn’t really know what to expect from ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’. On how Kanye brought all of the elements together… – – – The Process, by Atlanta rapper Rome Fortune
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To highlight and analyse the influence of the album, we have invited a diverse range of different artists and creative individuals to share their experiences of Kanye’s opus, and its impact on their own work. And it worked West put her in the background.īelow, a closer look at the mother, actress, singer, and dancer.On his fifth studio LP, Kanye takes the role of a traditional music producer and focuses on sourcing the best cast to assemble his fairy tale. West connected with Taylor in 2010 while he was in the studio working on “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.” Taylor told Complex, that he originally sought her fashion advice for the video, but she was determined for him to notice her singing chops, too, so she hummed along. Her first video appearance though was in 2007, when she was a background dancer for Jay Z’s “Blue Magic.” And in 2008, she debuted her first single, which was appropriately titled: “Google Me.”
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Taylor’s husband, Cleveland Cavaliers basketball player Iman Shumpert, also makes an appearance in the video for a very sensual shower scene.īorn in Harlem, New York, one of Taylor’s first forays into the spotlight was on MTV’s My Super Sweet Sixteen, so she’s really come full circle. Let’s call it Kanye’s new new workout plan. And despite the video taking place in a fitness studio, there’s more sweaty gyrating than working out.
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In “Fade,” Taylor makes viewers’ jaws drop as she flexes Flashdance style in nothing but a sports bra and thong, which highlights her absolutely killer, super athletic body. Instead, the star is 25-year-old Teyana Taylor, who West signed to his GOOD Music label in 2012. (Only after a four minute speech, of course.) West does not make an appearance in the video, however. On Sunday night, Kanye West debuted the music video for his “Life of Pablo” single, “ Fade,” at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards.