Kanye West’s most famous speech may be the cognac-fueled rant he gave on Taylor Swift’s time, but after hearing the praise listeners will surely give My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, West should seriously consider writing a “Thank You” letter to all of the help he gets on from the guests on his fifth studio LP.

The list of additional artists featured on the album seems endless: Elton John, Alicia Keys, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, Jay-Z, and John Legend all do their part; Hell, Chris Rock even manages to make it onto the tape with a nearly three-minute schpeel at the end of “Blame Game” that is both hilarious and depressing. West goes officially unassisted on only two tracks (“Hell of a Life,” “Dark Fantasy”), and while he may be the man responsible for the production of tracks like “All of the Lights,” and "Devil In A New Dress," Yeezy gets outshined and out-rhymed a few times over the course of the hour-long album.

Nicki Minaj opens the 13-track offering with a spoken word fairy-tale intro on “Dark Fantasy,” but she really earns her paycheck on album highlight, “Monster.” Although the six-minute track opens with Kanye’s synthesized voice singing, “I shoot the lights out,” the cut’s heart-pounding bass is barely as dominating as Minaj’s minute-long verse where she violently proclaims awesome absurdities like, “first things first I’ll eat your brains/then I’ma start rocking gold teeth and fangs/cause that’s what a motherfuckin’ monsta’ do.” She may simply be declaring how badass she is, but her aggressiveness on the microphone is easily the album’s most memorable moment.

Still, for all the help West gets on the disc, he does do good for himself on a few tracks. His blunt introspection reveals layers of insecurities on “Runaway,” and the track gets becomes more and more emotionally telling with each listen. “Hell Of A Life” even finds him successfully channeling The Prince of Darkness’s “Iron Man,” and if “Power” becomes Dark Fantasy’s next single before the New Year, then West will have easily drafted 2010’s biggest – and best – radio hit.

He samples King Crimson’s “21st Centrury Schizoid Man” on the nearly five-minute track, and even though West has schizophrenic tendencies of his own, he sounds most like rapper we know and love on the nearly five-minute track, which finds him benching his gift for crafting cutsey one liners, and letting his mouth run loose on dichotomous rhymes that are both humbling and overtly egotistic.

So on an album with his name on the spine, it’s quite telling that West raps, “No one man should have that power,” because while ‘Ye is clearly the man responsible for providing the wheels and gasoline, it’s no secret that this ride wouldn’t be as fun if he didn’t bring his friends along.