Fellow rappers, such as Rick Ross, said Minaj gained their respect from her song-stealing verse on “Monster.” Minaj’s debut album Pink Friday dropped the same day as MBDTF, topping the Billboard 200 in its 11th week.
It pushed the genre forward by taking rap in a new direction and production values, sampling and collaborations to new heights.
The album has had a lasting influence in the hip hop community. West also used another 18 additional vocalists, including Rihanna, Charlie Wilson, Alicia Keys, Drake and Elton John, all of whom made uncredited appearances on “All of the Lights.” Twenty musicians also contributed to the project with four only providing handclaps. The album featured 11 collaborators, including Jay-Z, John Legend, Nicki Minaj and Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon. The rapper estimates that “Power” took “5,000 man hours” alone to produce, and claims to have put as much energy to the other 12 tracks. Nineteen engineers were used with 11 producers putting their touches on the tracks. Fifty-two songwriters were featured through the album’s 13 tracks. West spent meticulous hours upon hours planning and recording the project, including 14 hour days in the studio and by having a strict no social media policy.
Elton John called it “a genius record,” while Paul McCartney said, “That was the record of Kanye’s that I really envied.” Comedian Chris Rock called MBDTF , “The best album of the last 50 years. It was also highly regarded by some of music’s biggest entertainers. It received seven points higher than his debut, The College Dropout. It obtained a 94 out of 100 at Metacritic, the fourth-highest score of any hip hop album in history. On the performance side, the album became West’s fourth in a row to top the Billboard 200, selling 496,000 copies in the US in its first week.
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