Based on 146 individual year-end top ten lists compiled by Metacritic , '' Yeezus '' was the most critically acclaimed album of 2013 , appearing on 61 lists and being named first on 18 of them . In October 2013 , '' Complex '' named '' Yeezus '' the sixth best hip hop album of the last five years . '' Yeezus '' was rated as album of the year by nine publications . '' Spin '' named it the best album of 2013 , writing , " '' Yeezus '' was a thorny tangram puzzle of boxy headbanger blats that exemplified a year of equally stripped-down , basal pleasures . " '' The A.V. Club '' named it the best album of 2013 saying " It 's magnificent , and it sounds like absolutely nothing else " . '' Rolling Stone '' named it the second best album of 2013 , comparing it in concept to Reed 's polarizing 1975 album '' Metal Machine Music '' : " No wonder the late , great Lou Reed embraced '' Yeezus '' , since it 's basically the '' Metal Machine Music '' concept translated into futuristic hip-hop , all industrial overload and hypertense egomania and hostile vibes . " '' Exclaim ! '' also named it the hip hop album of the year . '' NME '' named it the second best album of the year calling it " his most sonically challenging album to date " . '' Stereogum '' , '' Time '' , and '' Complex '' also named '' Yeezus '' the best album of 2013 . It was also nominated in two categories at the 2014 Grammy Awards including for Best Rap Album and Best Rap Song for " New Slaves " . West responded unfavorably to this due to not receiving more nominations . He then addressed the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences at one of his concerts and referred to it as patronizing
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