After all of the twists and turns that have seen him go from villain to hero back to villain again, Kanye West has to be somewhere smiling. Not only has he released what many have called a classic album, but he has just received Album of the Year honors from Rolling Stone magazine. When the highly respected music magazine released its year-end rankings, West was sitting comfortably on top with the album of the year.
The magazine proclaimed: “With My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West made music as sprawlingly messy as his life. When he wasn’t feuding with Matt Lauer or bugging out on Twitter, Kanye was building hip-hop epics, songs full of the kind of grandiose gestures that only the foolish attempt and only the wildly talented pull off. The more he piled on — string sections, Elton John piano solos, vocoder freakouts, Bon Iver cameos, King Crimson and Rick James samples — the better the music got.”
In total, seven albums of note made the Top 30 list for 2010. Check them out below.
30. Rick Ross
Teflon Don
Def Jam
29. The Roots
How I Got Over
Def Jam
21. Big Boi
Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Def Jam
19. M.I.A.
Maya
N.E.E.T./Interscope/XL
9. Eminem
Recovery
Aftermath/Interscope
7. Drake
Thank Me Later
Cash Money/Universal
1. Kanye West
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam
So what are your thoughts? Does Kanye deserve top albums honors? And if not him, then who? –djr
