Jesus Is King (2019)Įasily the least formidable of Kanye’s eleven studio albums to date, his latest released Jesus Is King feels more like an act of public relations than a rap album. This piece will be ranking each of his eleven albums from his most flaccid disappointments to his greatest triumphs.

From Mos Def and Chris Martin to Elton John and Travis Scott, a new Kanye album was awaited in the knowledge that it would shape and define the hip hop of the coming moment. He embraced collaborations like no one else resulting in albums that felt like rich, layered opuses, something anyone who was anyone in music had come together to take part in. Having arrived on the scene as a producer for Jay-Z’s label Roc Nation, Kanye refused to fit the mould of a mainstream rapper, from the way he dressed to the fact he openly admitted to using writers to help him with his lyrics. Nonetheless, the sound and style he broke through with in the early 2000s went on to have an enormous impact on mainstream music of the following two decades. It doesn’t exactly play into his hands that his music in this period has taken a sharp nosedive too, with recent tracks “Wash Us In the Blood” and “Nah Nah Nah” going directly into the internet’s collective recycling bin. The general quality of his music has kept his fans on side through any number of public dramas, however, he’s begun to haemorrhage support over the last few years with his move into politics under a far-right platform being one step too far for many. Thanks to the overwhelming brilliance and versatility of his canon, and the general instability of his public persona, as well as mental health, he’s achieved a level of infamy few other celebrities have or would want.

2020 presidential candidate, fashion “designer” and sometime recording artist Kanye West is one of the most controversial and celebrated figures of the last decade, not only within hip-hop but just our modern world today.

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