KANYE WEST

KANYE WEST
Graduation
Roc-A-Fella Records
www.rocafella.com
www.kanyewest.com

RATING 4 out of 5
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Finally going through the stages of Kanye's life on "College Dropout" and "Late Registration" he finally has graduated on "Graduation". The 13 song album has different flavors for every music lovers taste. Kanye introduced the album with the mellow song "Good Morning" and it was followed by an good feeling track named "Champion". With many albums under his belt for production, Kanye definitely delivered great quality beats on this album. One of the most amazing songs on the album would have to be the "Good Life" song that features the hot producer/rapper T-Pain. Kanye did a good job on the sample, which is from the pop icon Micheal Jackson's "P.Y.T." When Def Jam decided to land Kanye's album release date to September 11th, that fired up 50 Cent to go to war with Kanye on record sales. Though the beef between them really helped out 50 Cent and maybe a little with Kanye, but Ye already had two hot singles on the airwaves. "Can't Tell Me Nothing" was Kanye's first single off of this album and in the video, he had one car and one girl and they were in the middle of the desert, talk about pushing videos to the envelope. There weren't many guest appearances on this album just Lil Wayne, Mos Def, Dwele, T-Pain and DJ Premier who scratched over the track "Everything I Am". His second single, "Stronger", knocked everything off of the tracks with its futuristic sound. This album is a good listen, though its a notch under Late Registration, Kanye put everything he had into this album.

HIGHLIGHT TRACKS: "I Wonder", "Flashing Lights", "Big Brother", "Drunk Hot Girls",