![]() “Monster” vaulted Minaj into hip-hop’s upper echelon, a place she was almost certainly heading anyway. Fortunately, on this particular occasion, West checked his ego and let Minaj’s verse stand-a decision that would have major implications for the next decade of popular music. Kanye told Sway in 2013 that he “knew people would say was the best verse on the best hip-hop album of all time, or arguably top ten albums of all time,” and he couldn’t live with that. Ye’s impetus, naturally, was fear of being upstaged. As he put the finishing touches on “Monster,” the gloriously strange and stitched-together posse cut that served as the third single off his groundbreaking fifth album, 2010’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, West nearly cut the final verse, a dazzling 80-second barrage of accents, personalities, and crazy-quilt rhymes from Nicki Minaj, then a promising newcomer with only a handful of mixtapes and singles to her credit. ![]() Frankenstein, Kanye West felt himself losing control of his creation. In honor of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary year, we’re looking back at the top artists, songs, albums, and producers of “The Genius Era,” 2009 to the present. ![]()
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