第八幕[鏡頭突然切到一個渾身穿著全紅的男孩，他拿著一支發光的紅色信號燈在鏡頭前邊奔跑，天空燃起了焰火，背景開始播放Kanye和Rihanna合作的「All Of The Lights」的Remix Edition，而他則和鳳凰一同欣賞煙花] 第九幕[為了證明自己可以喝酒，可以陪Kanye一起參加晚宴，並認識他的朋友] 第十幕[Kanye和鳳凰一同進入了晚宴現場 大家都以怪異的眼光盯著鳳凰] 第十一幕[Kanye起身，向鋼琴走去，開始彈奏「Runaway」，接著許多芭蕾舞演員從他身後跑了出來，並跟著音樂美麗地舞動] 第十二幕[大家都為Kanye的表演鼓掌，而餐會也正式開始，但是在鳳凰的面前卻放上了一隻烤好的火雞，這讓鳳凰十分惱怒，她開始扇動自己的翅膀，並大聲叫嚷...大家都離開了晚宴，這場派對草草收場] 第十三幕[鳳凰回到了自家的草坪，繼續和綿羊玩耍，而這時的Kanye雖然有一些失望，但是還是對她的美麗感到驚訝] 第十四幕[鳳凰和Kanye坐在一起，仰望天空，開始交心 鳳凰說出了自己對於這個世界的不滿 稱要通過燃燒回到自己的世界] 第十五幕[他們甜蜜的親吻...並發生了關係...第二天日出東方，Kanye站在自己的屋頂上，他知道鳳凰已經走了，但他還是希望能再見到她一次...於是他就一路跑到了發現她的地方，但她已經燃燒了自己，並向天空飛去..此時想起最感人的 "Lost In The World".]
在晚宴上（指的就是Hip-Hop圈子），鳳凰顯得如此與眾不同，但又有點格格不入，到場的來賓對這個風格迥異、行為怪異的傢伙都在竊竊私語。當一隻火雞被放到鳳凰面前時，她對於這個世界的人竟然食用她的同類感到無比震怒，（Kanye發現了這個圈子殘酷的本質，人們在乎的只是利益，而不在乎藝人的死活）所有的人都被她趕跑了，而Kanye也十分害怕沒有人會真正接受這樣一個美麗的靈魂（Hip- Hop圈裡沒人可以接受他的風格，大家都認識這傢伙不應該這麼做Hip-Hop，因為這不符合現今的潮流，所以一首「Runaway」中的「Let"s Have A Toast For The Assholes」，唱得很是痛快）。
1. 一個有趣的場景就是當鳳凰被救在他家看電視時，Kanye出現並說了句：「在這世界生活的第一法則，永遠不要相信新聞里所播報的內容。」的確，在這個由媒體控制的時代，國民意識已經降到了最低點，人們會相信他們所聽到的任何事，所有的媒體都有權勢更大的集團所掌控。而Kanye在這裡說出這句話其實也是為了和影片最後引用美國著名黑人詩人Gil-Scott Heron的演講有關，因為Gil-Scott Heron曾經也說過一句著名的話「The Revolution Will Not Be Televised」，Kanye在這裡說的其實也就是這個意思。
4. 「Mercy, Mercy me, That Murcielago 「Me Drown Sorrow In That Diablo (I Saw The Devil) In A Chrysler LeBaron
這是三句談論汽車的歌詞，Murcielago就是蘭博基尼的「蝙蝠」款超級跑車，而它的前任主打跑車就是Diablo「惡魔」款跑車，不過大家是不是以為Kanye在這部MV開頭開的車會是Murcielago呢？其實不然，其實Kanye駕駛的車是來自MV拍攝地捷克的一輛神秘跑車 Tatra MTX V8 ，具體有多神秘，賣個關子，自己去百度。。。
5. 「So much head, I woke up to Sleepy Hollow
她喜歡舔我的「頭」，起床後我的感覺就像是來到了《斷頭谷》」 「Ichabod Crane with that Lamborghini top off 我的蘭博基尼車是沒有頂的，就好比電影《斷頭谷》」-- Pusha-T
《Sleepy Hollow》是一部1999年上映的電影，故事是講18世紀末的紐約，年青的Ichabod Crane[Depp]被派到一個叫斷頭谷的小鎮辦理一起連環兇殺案。斷頭谷一直流傳著關於「無頭騎士」的傳說，兩個月內，小鎮中已經三個人慘遭毒手......而Kanye的一句「Get Some Head」正好和後面的「斷頭谷」呼應，而其實「Head」在俚語中的意思就是「口交」的意思。而Pusha-T的這一句「沒有頂的跑車」也和「斷頭」聯繫了一起，很巧妙的文字遊戲，一般的英語考到了8級也不可能知道「Get Some Head」和「Get Some Brain」的含義呢。
6. I ordered you jerk, she said 「you are what you eat」
這裡是一個紀念MJ的證明，因為這句句子是MJ在自己的一首「Wanna Be Starting Something」中唱到的，這句句子是他自己發明的，類似於非洲的土著吟唱。不過也有業內人士說，這句話是MJ直接從喀麥隆薩克斯風手Manu Dibango的 1973年打入美國市場的一張《Soul Makossa》中抄來的，所謂的「Makossa」在喀麥隆語中指的就是「舞蹈」。當MJ發行了專輯《Thriller》之後，他還遭到了Dibango的起訴，兩人在庭外和解。不過這種說法是真是假沒人知道。
Us living as we do upside down. And the new word to have is revolution. People don"t even want to hear the preacher spill or spiel because God"s whole card has been thoroughly piqued. And America is now blood and tears instead of milk and honey. The youngsters who were programmed to continue ****ing up woke up one night digging Paul Revere and Nat Turner as the good guys. America stripped for bed and we had not all yet closed our eyes. The signs of Truth were tattooed across our open ended vagina. We learned to our amazement untold tale of scandal. Two long centuries buried in the musty vault, hosed down daily with a gagging perfume. America was a bastard the illegitimate daughter of the mother country whose legs were then spread around the world and a rapist known as freedom free doom. Democracy, liberty, and justice were revolutionary code names that preceded the bubbling bubbling bubbling bubbling bubbling in the mother country"s crotch. What does Webster say about soul? All I want is a good home and a wife and kids And some food to feed them every night. After all is said and done. Build a new route to China if they"ll have you. Who will survive in America?
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下面是有關這五張封面的故事，來自創作者George Condo本人:
「Cubist-style portrait of Kanye」 On Kanye』s first visit to Condo』s studio, he blasted 「Power.」 「Immediately,」 Condo explains, 「I started having all ideas about these mythological creatures and volcanic landscapes. Parts and pieces from Macbeth. Parts and pieces from some sort of sci-fi landscape.」 But when Condo heard the song』s hook, from King Crimson』s 「21st Century Schizoid Man,」 he told West he wanted to paint a portrait. The next afternoon, West came back and posed. 「It』s sort of cubist, you know, this portrait with all these different dimensions to it. Like an African mask with almost a modern face. I wanted to get that feeling that he』s almost a Miles Davis-like guy.」
Naked sphinx straddling Kanye 「That』s a good painting,」 Condo says matter-of-factly. 「She』s a kind of fragment, between a sphinx, a phoenix, a haunting ghost, a harpy. And then Kanye is also in some sort of strange 1970s burned-out back room of a Chicago blues club having a beer — so far away from the real Kanye West that it』s just a scream.」 In painting Kanye in such an outrageous situation, Condo says, 「I was challenging him with the imagery as well. He said, 『I』m shocked, but I like it, and I gotta go with my gut feeling.』」 This cover』s already been banned by Wal-Mart and Apple』s iTunes Music Store, much to Condo』s disgust. 「The superimposition of people』s perceptions on a cartoon is shocking,」 Condo scoffs. 「What』s happening in their minds should be banned. Not the painting.」
Ballerina Condo remembers that West came to his studio between eight and ten times over the course of the summer. The ballerina — a concept that later worked its way into West』s 「Runaway」 film and performance at the VMAs — came from one of those visits. 「We were hanging around one night, and we were listening to that tune 『Runaway,』」 Condo recalls, when his wife, Anna, showed West a a shot of French dancer Sylvie Guillem moving in slow motion. 「And somehow Kanye grabbed onto that idea of the ballerina,」 Condo explains. 「He just said, 『Hey man, I』d like to have a great ballerina painting.』 I thought of a ballerina toasting. You know, 『let』s toast to the scumbags.』」
Head with sword 「I really like that idea of a Shakespearian thing,」 West told Condo about this painting of a severed head wearing a crown. The piece』s two contrasting styles -- 「cubism and classicism forged together in a single painting」 — dovetail, Condo says, with West』s music, with its 「layers of different styles happening simultaneously.」 What did Kanye see in the picture that made him like it? 「His tragedy was a kind of exile that Kanye imposed upon himself,」 Condo says. 「He was free from exile by having the cathartic moment in the image. He』s alive in the painting, you know what I mean? In a strange way it』s like, he opened his eyes.」
Headless Crown 「He』s lost in the world,」 Condo says. 「All of a sudden, he was gone. The crown was there, the sword was there, but his head had disappeared. You feel his presence but you don』t see him. He』s been somehow reduced to symbols.」 He describes this painting as 「a variant, like an outtake,」 and hints that it may not in fact be the fifth cover. (Just before getting on the phone, Condo was visited by a Def Jam representative with the album』s final packaging.) 「That』s the funny thing,」 he says lightly. 「This will all come out and there』ll be a few surprises. You can always trust Kanye for a surprise.」
Devil In A New Dress，穿了新裙子的魔鬼。去翻翻專輯封面，有一幅對應的。又是主線又是主線，faint。但是採樣很舒緩，這才是Kanye West，這才是Kanye West！大段采騷靈，修飾一點兒bass，前半段是剛出道的kanye，後半段bass加電吉他，鋼琴切進來，外加騷靈女聲點綴，我直接搖擺了。
Lost In The World。開始各種Auto-Tune，電聲折騰了好一會兒鼓點響起來的時候，這簡直就不是嘻哈了。不說了，聽吧。
Who Will Survive In America。幻想是如此離奇而酣暢，背景里點綴著非洲手鼓，讓人不禁想起了非洲人是如何來到美洲大陸並書寫傳奇壯美畫面的。這種東西黑人兄弟最買賬了，就憑最後一首歌估計專輯銷量就能增加10%。「不用費那個勁去韋氏詞典查Soul這個詞的意思了，其實我只是想有個家，有個妻子生幾個孩子，每天有足夠的食物可以吃......」意思很明確，很多東西，比如布魯斯比如爵士，並不是飽暖思淫慾創作出來的，還不是為了混口飯吃。
這張專輯牛逼在無法被局限在嘻哈裡面了，正如樓上所說，說它是另類嘻哈還不錯。
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 更新：這張專輯現在聽來，牛逼在幾個地方： 1.鼓的音色和律動的嘗試，all of the lights就不用說了吧，monster也是，雖然rick ross唱第一段讓我覺得太蠢，但是monster這首製作確實吊。 2.利用吉他失真代替bass，和鼓一起填滿低音部分，但是吉他失真和bass不同，比如在disco裡面bass也是有一重節奏可以走的，但是吉他失真就沒有，當然kanye有時會加入鋼琴起到這個功用。 3.在製作複雜化、工程化的同時依舊保持融合度。 4.暗黑審美的構建，從音樂、MV到封套裝幀，概念完整，經常讓你感受到清醒和瘋狂之間的轉換，比如runaway電吉他切入的時候。
另外封面是5張，是他請一個美國的藝術家幫忙畫的，實體的專輯，裡面封面5張都給你，你可以任意換的。5張裡面有幾個其實是單曲的封面。
黑人酒鬼干著白人天使，曲風雜交。配樂極為豐富，甚至可以聽到管弦樂，這在以往的hiphop中很少見。
基本上還算是Pop Rap和Midwest Rap，其實挺典型的中西部說唱的玩兒法。
kanye west這張專輯可以說作出了一定的妥協 雖然別譽為生涯最佳 但我覺得808s heartbreak 和 yeezus 才是他的生涯代表作
""if you are a fan of Kanye West, you are not a fan of mine, you are a fan of yourself."" - Ye 也許是這張專輯愛者極愛的原因，信仰加成。
GQ評選出來的21世紀頭十年最偉大專輯，不用多說什麼了吧，各家音樂網站評分基本都是五星
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