#365songs (118 / 365)

Yeah, in 2026 we all know this guy sucks ass. But this song is legendary and I was right to be obsessed with it when My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy came out. This beat? This production? Blown out jungle drums shit, mangled vocals? Yes. YES. I plead Death of the Author. I'm using one of my Separate the Art from the Artist cards. Please let me have this one.

Because also: The verses? Every verse has aged better than the rapper responsible for it. Nicki's verse is an all-timer, of course, even though I guess she's MAGA now? Jay "stop being mean to billionaires" -Z's kind of sucks but in a hilarious way, like Kanye asked him to do a verse 15 minutes before they hit the studio and he decided to just list every kind of monster he could think of to stall for time. (I'm pretty sure I stole this joke from someone on Twitter but unfortunately Twitter isn't a website anymore.) And Kanye's verse... honestly pretty good! Not that it matters vis-à-vis my claim in the beginning of this paragraph: few things on planet Earth have aged as poorly as Kanye did between MBDTF and now.

Kanye's verse also resulted in our being blessed with this Tumblr post. How impoverished my life would have been if I hadn't known where this came from.