Vice Magazine’s record reviews make me laugh my ass off. I found this one of the Kanye West album and agree completely.
I still don’t understand why anyone wants to hear an emotionally arrested, megalomaniacal (but insecure!) 33-year-old man whine for 70 minutes. The production on Fantasy is undeniably on-point, but it feels purchased, not inspired. Tyler, the Creator, churns out better slap on the school-library computer. Remember when Kanye lifted that whole Daft Punk song a few years ago? He does the same thing here with Aphex Twin. People just love this shit for the soap-opera drama. If you want to hear an infantile yuppie wah-wah about how bad it sucks to be a famous, spoiled, amoral woman beater, here’s your record.
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