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The criticism wasn’t just words Lady GaGa actually cancelled their joint tour.

Why does Kanye still have such a potent platform in 2018? Because he came back, and he used 2010’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy as a tool, a door, a path back from a love or hate album ( 808s & Heartbreak) and an awards show incident with Taylor Swift that drew ire from everyone, a night Ye claims was the “beginning of the end” of his life. “Let me show you guys what I can do, and please accept me back. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: Hypothesis Kanye Consciously Used My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy to Reassert Himself Within Mainstream Rap My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: The Album The rest of the Yeezy Season Series is available here. Dive into the data that shows why Kanye’s opus My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was such a massive moment for hip hop. Each era had its own characteristics and promotional strategies that evolved as Kanye himself did. With Yeezy Season 8 in full effect, Ben “Data Daddy” Carter is taking a closer look at the rollout for every single one of Kanye West’s albums. This approach led Yeezy to create his magnum opus: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. His goal was to deliver a “backhanded apology” with a classic album that was “80/20” 80% what he wanted, 20% what he thought the fans wanted.

Songs labeled with (N) were excluded due to either not containing rap verses (only choruses), or me not being able to locate the actual lyrics.After Kanye’s massive gamble paid off on 808s & Heartbreak, he began devising a path to reassert himself at the top of mainstream hip hop with a new album. Note: Below is a list of all the songs used for verse extraction. It definitely seems like a fun dataset to mess around with. Inspiration: It'll be interesting to see what analysis people can do on this dataset. Past Research: Ran the data through a RNN to try to generate new verses that sounded similar to Kanye's existing verses. The data has been cleaned to remove any unnecessary words or characters not part of the actual verses.Īcknowledgements: The lyrics are owned by Kanye West and his label, but the dataset was compiled by myself using Rap Genius. Context: Kanye West Rap Verses (243 Songs, 364 Verses)Ĭontent: All verses are separated by empty lines.