Dark Fantasy

This is the opening track from Kanye West's fifth studio album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. The song finds West musing on the relentless pursuit of hedonistic and lecherous pleasures, rhyming, "The plan was to drink until the pain was over, but what's worse, the pain or the hangover?"

That's Nicki Minaj doing the narrative in the introduction. Using an English accent, she reworks a poem by Roald Dahl that itself revisits the classic fairy tale Cinderella. In Dahl's version, the prince beheads the ugly stepsisters and Cinderella marries a jam-maker. Minaj just used the beginning of Dahl's story, which starts: You might think you've peeped the scene You haven't, the real one's far too mean Minaj also shows up on "Monster," another track from the My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy album.

This contains samples of "In High Places" by English multi-instrumentalist composer Mike Oldfield.