Grade: B-
With boldly titled tracks like “New Slaves,” “I Am a God (featuring God)” and “Black Skinhead,” Kanye West’s sixth studio album was worth the wait for long-time fans. However, if you can’t take the heat, don’t listen to “Yeezus.” There will definitely be a lyric, maybe even a whole track you’ll find offensive to your race, your religion or your gender. When broken down, love, hate, justice, heartbreak and egotism are the main themes of this album, which are also the attributes that seemingly make up the Kanye West psyche. The production of the album is filled with elements that make it hard to listen to at times including high-pitched screams and the overuse of synthesizers, which give it an overall nightmarish quality. In a way that only he can master, Kanye has, yet again, taken listeners into his mind and continues to tell his dark and twisted fairy tales.