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(AllHipHop News) Kanye West was recently awarded the top spot in Rolling Stone’s year-end album issue.West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, which came out November 22nd and received a five-star rating review from the magazine, sold almost 500,000 copies in the first week of its release.Rolling Stone’s review of  Kanye’s album said that his project was filled with “music as sprawlingly messy as his life” and that songs on the project are “hip-hop epics…full of the kind of grandiose gestures that only the foolish attempt and only the wildly talented pull off.”Akron, Ohio, blues-rock duo the Black Keys, known to work along side Dame Dash, scored the number two spot with Brothers, which featured one of the year’s top songs, “Tighten Up Rock”Drake’s Thank Me Later took the #6 spot and Eminem’s Recovery took the #9 spot helping round out the top 10.