My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 22, 2010
Recorded2009-2010
Genre
Length68:34
LabelRoc-A-Fella, Def Jam
ProducerKanye 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
Kanye West chronology
VH1 Storytellers
(2010)
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
(2010)
Watch the Throne
(2011)

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.[1] It won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album.[2] 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.

  1. "Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy". Pitchfork.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-02-13. Retrieved 2012-02-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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