but I get why one might think this board would skew LR.


1. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: 9.72
2. Late Registration: 8.93
3. The College Dropout: 8.65
4. Watch the Throne: 8.31
(5. Be: 8.00)
6. The Life of Pablo: 7.96
7. Graduation: 7.95
8. Yeezus: 7.79
(9. Cruel Summer: 6.73)
(10. Finding Forever: 5.68)
(11. 808s & Heartbreaks: 3.88)

I might like 808s more now that I'm older, less tied to an anti-autotune agenda than often finding artistic virtue in it and have built attachments to a couple songs outside of the album like "Robocop". I have very, very dark memories of "Amazing", "Pinnochio Story" and "Say You WIll" though.

As for the rest, my lightning round thoughts are Kanye became less of a rap performer post-MBDTF but he creates very unique records and he's consistently hilarious and more interesting than 99% of rappers in the game. I definitely listened to TLoP more than any other record released last year alongside ANTI, Malibu and Lead Poison. I still think he's a great artist, but you have to wade through some clumsiness on basically a song to song basis at this point which is a bit of a bummer considering how fire MBDTF/WTT was.

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