- Question
- What is Kanye West's best album?
This position names Yeezus Kanye West's best album. Though his most jarring work sonically and lyrically, it argues the record was his boldest commercial gamble, confronted racial issues with rare urgency, and deliberately challenges the listener throughout.
Supporting arguments · 3
- Yeezus challenges the listenerUnlike other albums, which offer listeners something more similar to what they have heard from other artists, Kanye West takes a bold new direction in Yeezus. By offering something new and different, this work is Kanye West's best.
- Kanye took on racial issues with the urgency they deserveAs hip-hop is so strongly tied to race, the album that best encapsulates the realities of racial struggle should be the best. While Kanye West had rapped about race on many other albums, his boldest statements come on Yeezus, on tracks such as "New Slaves," "Black Skinhead" and "Blood on the Leaves."
- Yeezus was Kanye's boldest career move commerciallyFor all of his other albums, West likely made an effort to sound accessible in order to make a profit. However, with Yeezus, he opted to forgo making a simple album in order to make something that was less likely to sell copies. Yeezus was therefore the most purely artistic work of Kanye's career.