The College Dropout

[MFer]

It's been 10 years, come on let's celebrate!


Kanye West - Through The Wire



Kanye West ft Talib Kweli Common - Get Em High



Kanye West - Jesus Walks (Version 2)



Kanye West - Spaceship [The Real Official Video]

 

[Incandenza]

Always found "Through the Wire" unpleasant to listen to. I can just picture the spittle coating the microphone.

 

[Smartly Pretty]

"We Don't Care" was my favorite song in the 6th grade. I still listen to this album from time to time. I'd probably rank Kanye West albums (excluding Watch The Throne) as such:

1.My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2.Yeezus
3.The College Dropout
4.Late Registration
5.Graduation
6.808's and Heartbreaks

5 seems low for Graduation but I'm not gonna over think it.

 

[Incandenza]

808 (Fuck all y'all)
Graduation
MBDTF
Yeezus



TCD













LR

 

[Byron The Bulb]

808s
MBDTF
Graduation
College Dropout
Yeezus


















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[Byron The Bulb]

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Late Registration

 

[Smartly Pretty]

808 (Fuck all y'all)

Isn't this actually kind of a common opinion? I always kind of felt like there must have been something about 808's that I'm just not getting. I feel like everyone likes it a lot more than I do.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

In high school I thought "Never Let Me Down" and "Two Words" were the best songs on the album, but time has taught me that "The New Workout Plan" reigns supreme.

 

[Incandenza]

808 (Fuck all y'all)

Isn't this actually kind of a common opinion? I always kind of felt like there must have been something about 808's that I'm just not getting. I feel like everyone likes it a lot more than I do.

More directed to this board, which seems to hold it in low esteem compared to the rest of his output.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

My Beautiful, Dark Twisted Fantasy
808s and Heartbreak
Graduation
Late Registration
The College Dropout
Yeezus

#1 and #2 flip back and forth constantly. Love all of them except Yeezus (which I like alright but haven't spent a lot of time with).

TCD came out during the peak of my hip hop fandom. Just a breath of fresh air.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

In high school I thought "Never Let Me Down" and "Two Words" were the best songs on the album, but time has taught me that "The New Workout Plan" reigns supreme.

That said "Never Let Me Down" contains both the last truly essential Jay-Z verse (the second one) and a line that, in retrospect, can be seen as forecasting all the terrible garbage he'd release in the ensuing decade ("the Jeff Gordon of rap/back to claim pole position"). So, an interesting historical document.

 

[MFer]

Damn, for all the outside praise on old Kanye, this board sure rates College Dropout and especially Late Registration low.

 

[Incandenza]

That'll change when Brooklyn Zoo shows up.

 

[Incandenza]

Here I'll mention that Yeezus was in my workout-music regular rotation for awhile.

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

Yeezus
808s and Heartbreak
Late Registration
Graduation
The College Dropout
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

 

[Mickey Massuco]

808s
Graduation
TCD
Yeezus

Haven't really heard MBDTF, guess I should give it a spin. LR was p. mediocre aside from a couple of tracks, I won't even rank it.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

Haven't really heard MBDTF, guess I should give it a spin.

wth

 

[canadianbrandon]

MBDTF
The College Dropout
Late Registration
Yeezus
808's
Graduation

 

[OG]

1. The College Dropout
2. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
3. Yeezus
4. Graduation
5. Late Registration
6. 808's and Heartbreaks

 

[MFer]

I'm out on an island with Late Registration, but fuck it:

MBDTF
Late Registration
College Dropout
Graduation
808's

Haven't listened to all of Yeezus, but I can't imagine it'd be that high for me.

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

1. The College Dropout

2. MBDTF
3. Yeezus
4. Graduation
5. 808s

6. Late Registration

I like all of the albums, but I need to re-listen to Late Registration. The middle four are interchangeable.

 

[Edwin]

MBDTF

808s
College Dropout
Graduation
Yeezus

Late Registration

I actually like Late Registration's high points quite a bit, but that's basically the first third of the album and "Gone." TCD is pretty much burned into my head forever and benefits greatly from all the guests, which is something I almost never say about rap albums.

 

[still fly]

College Dropout is really overrated and didn't age well.

I like that Kayne has evolved as an artist.

 

[Fökai]

1. MBDTF

2. College Dropout
3. 808's
4. Graduation

5. Yeezus

6. Late Registration

I'd have them set up in sections like that, too. The amount of love I have for MBDTF is equal to the amount of hate I had for Late Registration - only liked a single track ("Heard Em Say") on that album.

I also don't think College Dropout aged well, just in its simplicity and repetition, but it's the easiest of the albums for me to digest - one section goes All Falls Down -> Spaceship -> Jesus Walks -> Never Let Me Down -> Get Em High -> Workout Plan -> Slow Jamz. A seamless flow.

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

I'm surprised to see My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy being rated so highly. I remember it being the only Kanye album I didn't enjoy very much at all, constantly felt like his reach was exceeding his grasp. A revisit is in order.

 

[Incandenza]

It's cohesive in a way his early long records were not. The first two albums were basically a handful of singles padded out with a bunch of filler (much more so in the case of Late Registration) because of the unspoken dictate that hip-hop albums must run at least 70 minutes.

MBDTF is long, and it doesn't always work, but I'm never bored listening to it.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

If he'd cut that stretch from "Breathe In, Breathe Out" to the "Lil Jimmy Skit" and just had "Slow Jamz" lead right into "Two Words" the album would be nearly perfect. But, man, that's a truly dire 10 minutes.

 

[Edwin]

College Dropout is really overrated and didn't age well.

I like that Kayne has evolved as an artist.

Why do people refer to him as Kayne. I remember that being a thing back in the Blueprint era and I didn't get it.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

Journalists and music reviewers used to misspell his name on a semi-regular basis

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/4549-quality/

While Talib's new beatmakers (which include Kayne West and DJ Quik) are amongst the hottest and most creatively viable in the game, the fear was that their slicker and generally more aggressive styles would somehow taint the honesty and intimacy that has been key to Talib's success.

 

[Incandenza]

I know I made that mistake a few times when his name first started popping up.