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American rapper, producer, and fashion designer whose 2000s hip-hop work — particularly 808s & Heartbreak and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy — fundamentally altered the sound and emotional register of popular music.
Kanye West's 2010 fifth studio album, universally praised as one of the greatest hip-hop albums ever made — a maximalist, self-referential meditation on fame, power, sexuality, and mortality.