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Lyrically, the song expresses often disturbing, horror film influenced concepts, with some comparing the tracks eerie aesthetic to the Michael Jackson song Thriller. The song contains an atmospheric, drum heavy composition, notable for featuring no samples. Originally released through Wests GOOD Friday initiative, a weekly free music giveaway started by the rapper to promote My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, the song was later confirmed to be featured on the album, and was released as a digital download on October 2. The song was listed amongst the best tracks of 2. NME placing it at number 5. Best Tracks of the Past 1. Years. The song debuted and peaked on the Billboard Hot 1. The track was promoted with a music video directed by Jake Nava. The music video had several references to horror films and featured extensive horror imagery, with zombies, decapitated corpses and heavily atmospheric cinematography. The music video was widely controversial, being banned from MTV. The video has been criticized for its portrayal of women, and the content of the video was described as weird and disturbing in nature. BackgroundeditTo promote his upcoming fifth album, West launched GOOD Fridays, a weekly free music giveaway. The intention was to release a free new song every Friday for a few months, and the weekly tracks generally featured various rappers from his label, GOOD Music, and other artists he usually collaborated with. In the first week West released onto his website a remix of the albums first single, Power, and Monster was released on the second week. The song was promptly removed from his website and replaced with another track, with Monster being uploaded as a digital single onto i. Tunes. 2 West announced that Monster was actually intended for his collaborative album Watch the Throne with Jay Z. Wests announcement failed to surface however, and the song actually appeared on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and was released as the albums third single. RecordingeditFollowing some media controversies, West chose to record his fifth studio My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy in a reclusive manner in Oahu, Hawaii. Like the majority of the album, Monster was composed there. Rapper Rick Ross was invited to Hawaii to work with West, because West was set to produce the song Live Fast, Die Young, which appeared on Teflon Don, an album by Ross. While Ross was there with West in his recording studio, he actually walked in on West while recording another song. Ross was not initially intended to be featured on Wests album, however Ross was so impressed with what he heard he decided to record a quick, though short verse. Ross had the concept of the song explained to him by West, which according to Ross, blew him away in presentation. West was so impressed by Ross that he invited him back to his studio during the final stages of the album, where he also appeared on Devil in a New Dress. While Ross was there, both Jay Z and Minaj were recording their verses. Ross expressed his admiration for Minaj, who impressed him during the recording. He stated that what he had observed had earned him respect for Minaj, who called the recording process a moment of history. Rap artists Rick Ross left and Nicki Minaj right are both featured on the song. Ross was impressed with the songs concept and asked if he could deliver the intro. Minaj appeared on the song due in part to her admiration of Jay Z. Ross expressed admiration for Minaj, and praised her lyricism. Minaj expressed excitement when approached to collaborate on the song, and she had contributed 3. Her main inspiration behind working on the track was the possibility of meeting Jay Z, with whom she was obsessed since a young age. According to her, she literally couldnt have a conversation without quoting a line by him, and it was a dream come true to collaborate with the artist. Minaj had recorded her lines around four months before the lyrics finally appeared on the song. Minaj described both Jay Z and West as icons, and stated that she was blessed to be working with them. In an interview with Rap Up, Minaj mused never in a billion years wouldve thought that I wouldve not only been on a song with one of them but both them. Justin Vernons involvement on the song stemmed from being approached by West directly. West first got into contact with Vernon when he directly phoned him, with the intention of sampling his song Woods. The two talked on the phone for about 4. West explained some of the concepts for the project, and invited him down to his studio in Hawaii. Colette Full Movie In English. West is a big admirer of Bon Ivers album For Emma, Forever Ago, and was impressed with Vernons unique use of auto tune. The two artists became friends while playing games of basketball together, and West introduced him to Jeff Bhasker, one of his main producers. Vernon was sampled on another song from the album, Lost in the World and appears on vocals on Monster. While there during recording sessions, he had reportedly recorded 1. He watched Minaj record her verse, and he too, expressed admiration for Minajs performance on the song, however he noted that initially he had no idea who she was. Vernon described the process as highly artistic, stating that the fourteen hour day recording schedule allowed for a lot of fun and creativity. West, talking about recording the song with Vernon, stated that he was similar to me, where he just does shit just so people would be like, Oh shit, how did you do that How did that happen Hes just a really cool guy to be around. CompositioneditA 3. Monster which features the closing lines of Kanyes verse and the beginning of the chorus. Steven Universe Season 2 Episode 22 Dailymotion. The production has been described as unnerving, with several tonal shifts in frequency. Problems playing this file See media help. Considered a horrorcore song,1. Monster has been described as brooding, disturbing, creepy and the weirdest A list event rap posse cut in recent memory. The song begins with an ominous, distorted vocal roar, sung by Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, with Vernon declaring I shoot the lights out, which sets up the dark atmosphere of the track. The intro of the song is followed by a brief verse given by Ross, delivered in the rapping style of boom bap. In a deep voice, Ross asserts the lines bitch, Im a monster, no good bloodsucker, fat motherfucker, now look whos in trouble, over the eerie production featured during the beginning. Following the introduction by Ross, West then provides the songs hook, singing everybody know Im a motherfuckin monster in a heavily distorted manner. Watch Bone Dry Online Facebook here. West then launches into a full verse. Chicago Sun Times writer Thomas Conner stated that West rhymes esophagus with sarcophagus, commenting that it was surely a hip hop first. Jay Z appears on the song after Wests verse, and raps in a more forceful, sinister flow. During his verse, Jay Z references several different horror characters, including the Sasquatch, Godzilla, King Kong, the Loch Ness Monster, goblins, ghouls and zombies. Lyrically Jay Z discusses his discontent at former associates, and concludes his verse by admitting that his achilles heel is love. Minaj is the final rapper to appear on the song, who delivers her lines in an urgent, energetic manner. Minajs delivery has been described as surreal, changing delivery in mid line.