Conflicted, "Runaway" serves as part warning, apology, and kiss-off as he begs his girl to cut and run from his self-destructive ways. John Legend dishes out a soulful hook for "Blame Game", but nearly eight-minute tune overstays its welcome with an unnecessary, unfunny two-minute phone conversation with Chris Rock learning that his girl learned her moves from Kanye. The lengthy album only drags on in two, otherwise killer, songs. He attempts to talk his religious woman to the bedroom on the smooth "Devil In A Blue Dress" over a wonderful sample from Smokey Robinson's "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow", while admitting, "Hard to be humble while you struttin' on a jumbotron".
Fuelled by the fuzzed-out synth and melody borrowed from Black Sabbath's "Iron Man", "Hell Of A Life" feels inspired by the latest season of Entourage, as Kanye falls hard for a porn star and spins rapidly out of control as he plans their future. Kanye looks to shake free of the fake life on "Lost In The World", as Bon Iver twists his creaky, wavering "Woods" into an aching hook over a dance beat. Star-studded, shadowy orchestral banger "So Appalled" begins turning up a nose at the ridiculously lavish lifestyle of an entertainment figure, but Jay-Z picks the second verse to vent frustration over being a hated rapper and the remainder of the unfocused song devolves into tales of drug dealing and affairs. I was so excited to be trying out for that song.West spends a fair amount of time exploring the excesses that celebrity allows. I was so nervous when I played it for Kanye. That’s not a DJ thing when you hear my voice go like that. I did all the scratches and the cuts myself with my voice. He put me in another room by myself and said, “Go.” I came back with a whole intro and chorus. So then he tells me to do “Dark Fantasy.” At the time it was pretty empty, just verses. Like I said, we were more fashion friends.
Yo, can you put some backgrounds on this song ‘Hell of a Life’?” He knew I was signed to Pharrell and all that, but I guess he didn’t know what I could really do. So he hears me and is like, “You can really sing. I came in there humming! I knew what I was doing. He’s like, “I knew you’d like this!” Then he started playing his album and I start humming and doing some little runs to what I’m hearing on the sly tip. I’m not even a morning person and he wanted me to come at 9 a.m. Even though the invite really was to check out clothes, I had told myself I was going to get on that album-whether he knew or not.
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