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.
Established the aesthetic ceiling for maximalist hip-hop production — orchestras, soul samples, cascading features, Rihanna hooks — while simultaneously being a coherent conceptual album about the psychological costs of celebrity.
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