There are two things for which you can’t fault Kanye West: ego and ambition.

They are both present on this double-disc set, where he helps out spoken word artist Malik Yusef. We’ll ignore the witless two-day concept here - you work it out - and just focus on the music.

And boy, there is a lot of it. There are so many guests, such an enormous hodgepodge of styles, that at one point it seems as if Mr West is letting anybody who happens to drop by the Good studios (cleaner, sandwich lady) have a go on the mic. And it works. Sometimes.

There are individual dope moments, like ‘Chicago’ and the lead single ‘Magic Man’ – and you can never go wrong with John Legend and Common helping you out– but it all feels a bit too much.

Yusef isn’t a half bad poet, but he spreads himself too thin on what is ultimately stuff that wasn’t good enough to make Kanye’s album.

Rob Boffard