“Monster” is the third official single from Kanye West‘s fifth studio album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. It features Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Justin Vernon of indie folk group Bon Iver, and Nicki Minaj.

The music video was directed by Jake Nava and officially released on June 4, 2011 on West’s official website. A promotional trailer (for the music video) was released online December 8, 2010. Justin Vernon of Bon Iver doesn’t physically appear in the officially released video.

The nearly six-minute clip features an onslaught of depraved scenes: hanged models dangling from the ceiling on chains; West rapping while casually holding a woman’s severed head; a bloody amputated hand; and Jay-Z rapping with a semi-nude, necrotized woman in heels splayed across a couch. It then goes on to Nicki Minaj, where she enters a room and interrogates her pink-wigged ego the “Harajuku Barbie” strapped to a chair.

The single contains snapping synth-splashed beats as each performer takes their turn rapping over the track. Nicki Minaj contributed 32 bars to the song and recorded the track in Hawaii, after writing it on the plane-ride there. Rapper & collaborator Rick Ross praised Nicki Minaj’s verse by stating “That was the day Nicki Minaj earned my respect as a lyricist. Before that day she was a great entertainer, but for me to get in the studio with my own two eyes and see her write her verse, I knew that was gonna be one of the greatest verses of this year.”

The song was first released as a free download through West’s “GOOD Friday” initiative, in which the rapper showcases a new unreleased song for free every Friday until the album’s release. It was officially released on iTunes on October 23, 2010.

Listen to: Kanye West feat. Rick Ross, Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj & Bon Iver – Monster

Lyrics for Kanye West feat. Rick Ross, Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj & Bon Iver – Monster

Bon Iver:
I shoot the lights out
Hide til it’s bright out
Whoa, just another lonely night
Are you willing to sacrifice your life?

Rick Ross:
B**** I’m a monster no good blood sucker
Fat m*********** now look who’s in trouble
As you run through my jungles all you hear is rumbles
Kanye West samples, here’s one for example

Chorus:
Gossip gossip
N**** just stop it
Everybody know (I’m a m*********** monster)
I’ma need to see your f****** hands at the concert
I’ma need to see your f****** hands at the concert
Profit profit, n**** I got it
Everybody know I’m a m*********** monster
I’ma need to see your f****** hands at the concert
I’ma need to see your f****** hands..

The best living or dead hands down huh?
Less talk more head right now huh?
And my eyes more red than the devil is
And I’m bout to take it to another level b****
Man, I hear you go again, ain’t nobody as cold as this
Do the rap and the track tripled up and no assist
But my only focus is staying on some bogus sh-t
Argue with my older b**** acting like I owe her sh-t
I heard the b****** sayin raps are gettin trap chain
Bought the chain that always give me back pain
F***** up my money so yeah I had to act sane
Chi n**** but these hold of my accent
She came up to me and said this the number 2 dial
If you wanna make it number one you’re number 2 now
This that goose an’ malibu I call it Malibooya
God damn Yeezy How we hit em with the new style
Know that m*********** well, what you gon do now
Whatever ever I wanna do, gosh it’s cool now
Nah gonna do, uhh its a new now
Think yo m*********** really really need to cool down
Cause you will never get on top off this
So mommy best advice is just to get on top of this
Have you ever had s** with a pharoah
I put the p**** in her sarcophagus
Now she claiming that I bruised her esophagus
Head of the class and she just want a swallowship
I’m living the future so the presence is my past
My presence is a present kiss my a**

Kanye West – Chorus:
Gossip gossip
N***** just stop it
Everybody know (I’m a mutha******* monster)
I’ma need to see your f****** hands at the concert
I’ma need to see your f****** hands at the concert
Profit profit, n**** I got it
Everybody know I’m a m*********** monster
I’ma need to see your f****** hands at the concert
I’ma need to see your f****** hands at the

Jay-Z:
Sasquatch, Godzilla, King Kong
Lochness, Goblin, Ghoul, a zombie with no conscience
Question what do all these things have in common
Everybody knows I’m a m*********** monster
Conquer, stomp ya, stop your silly nonsense
None of you n***** know where the swamp is
None of you n***** have seen the carnage that I’ve seen
I still here fiends scream in my dreams
Murder murder in black convertibles
I kill a block I murder the avenues (ah)
Rape and pillage a village, women and children
Everybody wanna know what my achilles heel is
LOVE I dont get enough of it
All I get is these vampires and blood suckers
All I see is these n***** I’ve made millionnaires
Milling about, spilling they feelings in the air shot at Beanie?
All I see is these fake f**** with no fangs
Tryna draw blood with my ice cold veins
I smell a massacre
Seems to be the only way to back you bastards up

Chorus:
Gossip gossip
N***** just stop it
Everybody know (I’m a m*********** monster)
I’ma need to see your f****** hands at the concert
I’ma need to see your f****** hands at the concert
Profit profit, n**** I got it
Everybody know I’m a m*********** monster
I’ma need to see your f****** hands at the concert
I’ma need to see your f****** hands

Nicki Minaj:
Pull up in the monster
Automobile gangster
With a bad b**** that came from Sri Lanka
Yeah I’m in that Tonka, colour of Willy Wonka
You could be the King but watch the Queen conquer
Ok first things first I’ll eat your brains
Then I’mma start rocking gold teeth and fangs
Cause that’s what a m*********** monster do
Hairdresser from Milan, thats what monster do
Monster Giuseppe heel that’s the monster shoe
Young money is the roster and the monster crew
And I’m all up all up all up in the bank with the funny face
And if I’m fake I ain’t notice cause my money ain’t
So let me get this straight wait I’m the rookie
But my features and my shows ten times your pay
50k for a verse no album out!
Yeah my monies so tall that my barbie’s gotta climb it
Hotter than a middle eastern climate
Find it, 20 mataran dutty whine it
While it, Nicki on them t******, wanna sign it
That’s how these n****s so one-track minded
But really really I don’t give a F-*-*-*
Forget barbie f*** Nicki sh-she’s fake
She on a diet but my pockets eating cheese cake
And I’ll say boy the Chucky is Child’s play
Just killed another career it’s a mild day
Besides ‘Yay they can’t stand besides me
I think me, you and (?) should menage friday
Pink wig thick a** give em whip lash
I think big get cash make em blink fast
Now look at what you just saw this is what you live for
Aaahhhh, I’m a m*********** monster!

Bon Iver:
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