I’ve always assumed Bink! cooked up the beat as a modern update on “Slow Jamz”, ready to receive some filthy sex bars and not much more. The molasses-slow soul vamp is credited to Bink!, by all accounts one of the main inspirations to the man rapping over that gorgeous sample and noodly prog guitar. “Devil in a New Dress” is the greatest Kanye West beat that wasn’t actually made by Kanye West. –Rowanįrom the album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

In the album proper that becomes obvious and grating, but for four pulse-pounding minutes it’s a thing to be glad of, even if I’m just pretending to like the Desiigner bit because “Real Friends” somehow didn’t make our list. There’s no cohesion or unifying purpose to any of this.

I mean they’re like a quickfire montage of unfinished songs dating anywhere from 808s through to Yeezus, featuring not one but two of West’s greatest choruses that could easily grace chart-topping stadium hits, but in very Life of Pablo fashion instead wrap around the famous bleached asshole, a West rap that lasts about 20 seconds in total but manages to cut deep all the same (“market crash/hurt him bad/people get divorced for that”) and a diversion into just straight up being “Panda” by Desiigner for like a fourth of the overall runtime. Check out our carefully curated list, and be sure to comment with your own!īoth parts of “Father Stretch My Hands” are a ridiculous fucking mess. There are sure to be predictable entries as well as some surprises. Our staff grew up listening to his music, so we’ve decided to take his his entire body of work into consideration for the construction of a Top 10 Songs list. Kanye’s rise to stardom coincided with the growth of internet culture, and as such, his footprint is all over Sputnik. Is there an artist from the 2000’s who is bigger than Kanye West? If not, he’s at least somewhere in the top 5…and regardless of whether or not you love him or hate him – whether you find his antics annoying or endearing – the man can sure as hell write music. Top 10 National // Top 10 Say Anything // Top 10 Thrice // Top 10 Kanye Sputnikmusic Staff Rankings: Top 10 Kanye Songs

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