Kanye West - Power

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"POWER" is the lead single from American rapper Kanye West off of his fifth studio album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. The song features singer Dwele and is co-produced by Kanye West and Symbolyc One. The song features samples of "21st Century Schizoid Man" by British progressive rock band King Crimson, "Afromerica" by Continent Number 6, and "Its Your Thing" by Cold Grits. "POWER" was West's comeback single following his 2008 album 808s & Heartbreak and his controversial incident with Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. The song received acclaim from music critics and was listed among the best tracks of 2010 by several publications, including Time, Pitchfork Media, Spin, and Rolling Stone. Critics described it as a return to form for West, praising its intricate production, lyrical merit, and scope. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance at the 53rd Grammy Awards. The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at position 22 and thereafter declined. The track was promoted by a music video, which was directed by Marco Brambilla. The video features a long take of the camera pulling away from West. The video received positive reviews from critics and received two nominations for MTV Video Music Awards. West performed the song on Saturday Night Live, at the 2010 BET Awards, at the 2011 Coachella Music Festival, and his Watch the Throne Tour. A remix of the track featuring Jay-Z was released on August 20, 2010, as a part of West's weekly GOOD Fridays series. In an outtake from the 2012 documentary "Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap" directed by rapper Ice-T, West mused that he had never actually written down his lyrics before, and that "Power" represented a turning point in his songwriting process: “I didn't write my raps down for my first four albums — like at all, I did it from the head straight to the booth. But on this last album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, I wrote it. I really put myself in the zone that my life was dependent on the success of this album. With that being the case, I said, ‘You know what? No matter what anybody says about me, they won’t — I can write something that can make someone that hates me the most have to really respect or love the song.’ So even a song like ‘POWER,’ I spent 5,000 hours writing it, and it’s really the psychology behind the lyrics; it’s not just blatantly, ‘I’ve got all the power’ — ‘No one man should have all that power.’ It’s worded in a really sensitive way that opens it up for everyone. Even if I use first person and say ‘I, I, I,’ it’s always for everyone." West also declared influence from his previous singles "Stronger" and "Good Life" from his third album Graduation stating that the track was meant to be inspirational for the listener. According to West, he wanted his music to be appealing in an economy facing a recession. On June 30, 2010, the single was released on iTunes for digital download. The cover artwork for "POWER" was produced by American visual artist George Condo, who also designed the artwork for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. The artwork depicts a decapitated bleeding head wearing a crown, pierced with a sword through it. The single had two other alternate cover designs, both produced by Condo. A second one was released featuring a depiction of West with a gaping, demented mouth. In a January 2020 interview with GQ, West claimed that "Power" was his weakest first single to ever be released because he "felt like it was bowing to the expectations." West explained, viewing the track as "the ultimate Kanye West song" but claiming that it was a mix of his previous works, rather than one of his "songs that people never heard before." "POWER" marked a stylistic return to hip-hop for West after the sparse electro of 808s & Heartbreak. It has been described as surreal, frightening, dark, and strange in nature. The production of "Power" centers on samples of "21st Century Schizoid Man" by English progressive rock band King Crimson, "Afromerica" by French disco act Continent Number 6, and "It's Your Thing" by American funk band Cold Grits. The song's production is reinforced with a vocal harmony provided by Dwele, with a line delivery mostly inspired by braggadocio rapping methods. The song has been described as dark thematically and was called "apocalyptic." According to Alex Denney of NME, the track is the first moment of catharsis on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, stating that the track made use of "tribal fanfare and supercharged lyrics." He mused that lines like “I guess every superhero needs his theme music” appear to be West's imagining of a warm welcome to heaven. Pitchfork Media's Ryan Dombal described West's delivery as urgent, summarizing the production; "More than ever, though, "Power" has Kanye internalizing his multiple minds and coming to an ecstatic peace with them. "Power" is not a bitchfest. It's an exaltation. All of his various guises-- King of the Assholes, drama queen, Red Bull'd 12-year-old, Next Chappelle, strangely relatable Megaman-- are mashed up in this proudly schizoid roll call. Every sound is ready for the arena, and every couplet is ready for the 140-character treatment, including this one: "I don't need yo pussy, bitch, I'm on my own dick/ I ain't gotta power trip, who you goin' home with?" He knows the answer, and so do we." The song takes several influences from previous projects by West and was called a summation of his prior styles. The song takes cues from the militant chants of West's song "Jesus Walks" from his first album The College Dropout, the drum style of "Crack Music" from West's Late Registration, the inspirational aspect of "Stronger" from Graduation, and the atmospheric piano and strings featured on 808s & Heartbreak. The chorus is "simultaneously boastful, condemning, and anxious," and anthemic in nature, featuring a wordless vocal chant. West utilizes a military-inspired, "take-no-prisoner" approach to the song, purposely failing to be apologetic, even going as far as mocking some of his critics. Other topics discussed in the song include social commentary on the state of the United States and his thoughts on race issues. The lyrics of the song have been cited as "classic Kanye," featuring many of the traits that have been exhibited in his lyricism in the past. Themes that have defined much of his work, such as egotism, cultural criticism, and personal issues, are featured prominently in the song. West self-described the song as "superhero theme music," with the track darting back from being depressing and bombastic in nature, with the sample occasionally cutting through the song in an abrasive manner. The track seemingly culminates with the suicide of its main character, ending with a menacing laugh provided by West. During an interview with New York radio station Power 105.1, West said he spent thousands of hours working on this carefully crafted song. "A song like 'POWER' took 5,000 hours, like literally 5,000 man-hours to do this one record." During the week entering 8 July 2010, "POWER" charted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 22 which was also the song's peak: named the week's Hot Shot Debut. The song remained on the charts for 16 weeks, By 2017, Official Charts Company revealed that "POWER" was the 83rd best-selling hip-hop song of all time in the UK. In 2018, Spotify named the song the fourth most popular workout song of all time, while West's "Stronger" was third on the list. As of October 24, 2019, the former ranks as West's seventh most popular track of all time on the UK Singles Chart. The New York Times previewed a clip of the music video directed by artist Marco Brambilla, featuring Irina Shayk, Jessica White, and African-American albino fashion model Diandra Forrest. The video premiered on MTV on August 5, 2010, preceding a new episode of Jersey Shore. The "POWER" video commences with a portrait-view headshot of West staring intensely into the camera with illuminated eyes and wearing a large, low-hanging gold chain necklace with an equally large pendant of Horus. As the music begins, the camera slowly tracks out in one continuous take to reveal West standing at the end of a hallway of black columns, and surrounded by partially dressed female characters. Some kneel before him, some embrace, four figures wear ibex-like horns; and some are inverted, pouring water that flows upward. Two horned, staff-bearing figures, loosely resembling interpretations of Isis and Hathor, stand on either side of West; each slowly strikes the ground with their staff, in time to the music. The Sword of Damocles hangs over the rapper’s head, while other slowly moving figures appear ready to strike West with blades. The various figures within the painting are presented in poses similar to the Major Arcana and Minor Arcana of the Etteilla occult tarot deck. Anthony Beningo of Daily News described the ending of the video: Music video director Marco Brambilla described his "POWER" video as personal and apocalyptic in nature, stating that the video exaggerated the message of the song. "The focus of the video turns out to be West's death. After a few close-up shots of the rapper's surroundings, Brambilla's camera pulls back and everyone disappears, leaving only West and the two warriors. Realization dawns that they aren't swinging at each other, but rather converging on King Kanye. But before they can decapitate him, however, the video cuts to black." West has called the video a "moving painting." Brambilla mused about the video that “it’s kind of apocalyptic, in a very personal way," and that "it’s a very exaggerated hyper-sensational version of what the song is saying.” The video is much shorter than the actual song, lasting less than two minutes and only covering the first verse. It was later revealed that the 103-second video, which invokes cultural references from the Renaissance period to Greek mythology, is a teaser for a longer clip, though the full-length version of the video never surfaced. One of the reasons proposed why the full version never was released was because "POWER" was also used during Runaway, a 35-minute music video directed by West set to music from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. As of September 23, 2020 POWER has been certified 4x Platinum by the RIAA

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- Wow

One of the best albums ever released. The lyrics are super deep but entertaining. You can tell that Ye put in countless hours into this. It shows. The apex of rap albums. Mind blown.

- Phenomenal masterpiece

Pinnacle of Kanye’s creativity and genius in the music industry. Simply one of the best music albums ever created🤷‍♂️

- ☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻

One of the best rap albums of all time

- Amazing

Definitely has the most iconic music production

- r/Kanye

THIS IS THE BEST ALBUM OF THIS CENTURY AND IF YOU DISAGREE DM ME

- LOVE KANYE

great album

- Ratttt

🐀

- He

The Goat

- MBDTF

i don’t even need to say anything y’all already know how good this album is

- AOTC

Album of the century. We love you Kanye! -The Apple Store❤️

- Kanye west

President 2020 -2024

- Best mf album this century

Yeezus Christ

- You can’t ignore this

Goat

- Best album ever

Kanye at his finest, art piece of an album

- Great album

It’s one of those albums where you don’t skip a song

- TEN YEARS OF MBDTF

A HISTORICAL ALBUM

- Unskippable

None of the tracks on this album can be skipped. The emotion in some of Kanye’s lyrics are unmatched. Truly one of the greatest albums ever.

- GOATED🙏🏻

Please stop with the slander on this incredible body of work. Go back to your trash playlist and leave this album tf alone. This and TPAB will go down as the single greatest pieces of art that the 2010s spawned.🔥💯

- greatest album of all time

like by far. greatest album of all time

- Sad

Album is gold

- 8===D

Best album I’ve heard

- Solid 6.

Yeah, I give it a solid 6.

- Greatest album of all time

What more can I say

- Perfect Album

Literally the most sonically rich piece he has ever released

- “4.5 out of 5”

Sadly, Even though Kanye West used to be popular. But It’s only has 19/20 Reviews, snd it’s awesome.

- Best ye album

Closest you’ll get to a no skip album

- KANYE

he’s the 🐐 just buy the album It was the best purchase I’ve ever made

- Beautiful just beautiful

Beautiful one of my favorite albums and the 3rd best Kanye album

- Gossip gossip

IM LOST IN THE WORLDDD

- Amazing

PERFECT

- ❤️

❤️

- Unmatched

Simply the greatest album every created

- GREATEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME

Simply the Greatest musical Performance of all tome

- Wow

Such a creative album

- Kanye

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- One of the most overrated hip hop albums of all time

I've seen so many people calling this a classic and the best hip hop album of all time, or the album that got them into hip hop, or even 'the only hip hop album they'd rate higher than a 7/10.' And you know what all these people have in common? They all know nothing about hip hop, or about good hip hop. This is basically hip hop music for people who don't really like hip hop. Just look at the features, rick ross and nicki minaj, that's all you need to know this is a joke. Listen to some actual good hip hop or just good music ingeneral.

- Mbdtf

A masterpiece better than another projects nowadays

- Love u Nicki

Nicki killed it

- BRING BACK SEE ME NOW

Please BRING IT BACK, OR ELSE IM PIRATING! I LOVE THIS ALBUM SO MUCH, SCREW YOU APPLE MUSIC!!!!!

- Garbage

Trash ass music

- Album of the decade

This > TPAB Kendrick Lamar, Ha! More like Kendrick LameBar ha!!

- Classic Kanye

Iconic

- Historical

Almost 10 years and it is still amazing

- This is good.

Good this is.

- THE BEST ALBUM

THIS SHOULD VE BEST ALBUM OF DECADEEE! FRICK TAYLOR SWIFT!

- Greatest album of all time

the goat

- Kanye’s best album

Definitely a fantastic listen

- “No one man should have all that power”

Granted, this album still has issues. As grand and operatic as it wants to be, it does feel redundant and overly padded at times. Yet with those issues just adds to the appeal of this truly odd, ambitious, and incredibly idiosyncratic record. Almost Kubrick-esque with its lavish production value yet still feels like a rap album. I remember listening to it the first time having no idea what to make of it. Years later, I still claim that there’s literally no other rap album like it.

- One of the best rap albums of all time

This album is just so imperfect than its perfect.

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