Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret. In an interview with The New York Times, West commented on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: In listening to Yeezus, I hear anxiety, stress, anger and also a breathtaking display of freedom. It’s a scream that has been building up since the death of his mother, Donda West, and incredulously, the Taylor Swift Incident. I think of Yeezus as a prolonged scream, some of which started in 2010’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. It’s the point at which there is nothing to say and the only articulation left is the scream. It documents a rupture, a point in which language ceases to convey the depth of either emotion. West utilizes the scream as an expressions of two very different emotions: fear and joy. This time it’s exuberant – loose and free – with a hiccup as it launches into a sing-songy cadence. On “ Otis,” the lead single from West’s and Jay Z’s collaboration Watch the Throne, another scream is heard. When I hear those screams, I get a tightness in my chest, a claustrophobia that makes it difficult for me to want to listen to “I Am A God.” But I listen to it anyway. Strained and desperate, they remind me of the screams that come during a nightmare – that feeling of your consciousness trying so hard to wake you up, to break free. There’s a moment toward the end of “ I Am A God” where Kanye West lets out several anguished screams.
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