
Unlike the heavily compressed, loop-based hip-hop of the late 2000s, MBDTF is cinematic. It breathes. Songs like “Dark Fantasy” open with a celestial choir before crashing into Nicki Minaj’s fairy-tale-referential verse. “Power” samples the groovy 1970s track “Afromerica” by Continent Number 6 and layers it with a 21st-century symphony of synths and King Crimson drum breaks.