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Title: What would you change on Graduation?
Post by: SP0RTY on September 11, 2007, 11:33:42 PM
What changes would you make to Graduation that would make it a better album in your mind.  For me, i would get rid of the tracks barry bonds and drunk and hot girls.  I would replace them with a collabo with Nas over a DJ Premier beat or something. I think you need to cover every region if your a big time artist, like kanye, to sell well, so do a track with Andre 3000 to cover the South.  For the West, have a kanye solo over a smooth terrace martin beat.  Finally, i think he needs a hometown collabo with lupe fiasco.  What do you think?
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Post by: TRG on September 11, 2007, 11:41:11 PM
yeh i was thinking take off barry bonds, add maybe a jay-z collabo on there, or common, mos def lupe fiasco collabo too maybe
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Post by: Bones01 on September 11, 2007, 11:42:41 PM
agree on taking of barry bonds, only skip able track imo
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Post by: SP0RTY on September 11, 2007, 11:46:30 PM
yea i was thinkin common 2 but kanye has that song on common's cd so i thought that was good enough
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Post by: T-Dogg on September 12, 2007, 01:56:07 AM
I'd just get rid of "Drunk and Hot Girls" and have Wayne spit a better rap on "Barry Bonds". Or better yet, have somebody else instead of Weezy on Barry Bonds.

"Drunk and Hot Girls" could be replaced by this one track Kanye did a verse + chrorus from in a concert here in 2006. It was called "Brand New", or at least that's what I'd guess from the chorus. It was upbeat, energetic and sounded dope as hell. (I don't think it's been on any mixtape or anything, or has it?) It was basically just a flossin'/ballin' -type of track, but it would've been a whole lot better than "Drunk and Hot Girls" that's basically just a badly executed version of the same idea as Eminem's "Superman".
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Post by: E-Crazy on September 12, 2007, 02:00:02 AM
^^you mean this song?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLsoabyzhNs

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Post by: 7even on September 12, 2007, 03:01:10 AM
more bass, drum effects, cut barry bonds, cut drunk and hot girls, put on jigga, common and kweli
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Post by: AnybodyKilla on September 12, 2007, 04:37:06 PM
More songs and more bass and a bit more fire!!!
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Post by: Lunatic on September 12, 2007, 04:42:46 PM
i agree with taking off drunk & hot girls, but i liked barry bonds..replace that mos def 1, with a nas collabo over a premier beat
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Post by: GangstaBoogy on September 12, 2007, 04:44:03 PM
Fuck yall, "Drunk & Hot Girls" is crack. "Barry Bonds" sucks, him and Weezy need to do a better track together.
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Post by: Twentytwofifty on September 12, 2007, 05:24:49 PM
Just cut "Drunk & Hot Girls" and "Barry Bonds" and you're good to go.
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Post by: NotoriousTDA on September 12, 2007, 07:37:16 PM
its funny cuz i like barry bonds, and hate lil wayne. Id take off the drunk hot girls song tho. That song is just unlistenable. Add that mysterious song he supposivley did with dre and thatd be one crack album!
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Post by: AboveTheLaw on September 12, 2007, 08:17:14 PM
I would of liked more variation in the overall presentation of the sound, from drum programming to synths. Thought the mixing and mastering was a bit off as it kind of reminded me of how records sounded in the 80's. I still like the album but felt it wasn't as entertaining as his previous efforts.
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Post by: Bones01 on September 12, 2007, 08:41:15 PM
Fuck yall, "Drunk & Hot Girls" is crack.
word, pretty catchy as well
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Post by: Sofa_King_Awesome on September 12, 2007, 09:16:10 PM
Fuck yall, "Drunk & Hot Girls" is crack.
word, pretty catchy as well
Drunk and hot girls is my favorite track
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Post by: SP0RTY on September 12, 2007, 09:38:06 PM
more bass, drum effects, cut barry bonds, cut drunk and hot girls, put on jigga, common and kweli
yea a kweli track woulda been nice...that dre track sounds dope and woulda been a nice change of pace and agree with a nas collabo over dj premier
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Post by: R1ZE on September 12, 2007, 09:43:44 PM
take out drunk and hot girls
take out barry bonds
put on bittersweet (without the gay flute he added)
put nas and jay on flashing lights (fuck kanye)
put common on everything i am (make him)
put lupe on the glory
put mos and kwe on good morning
put john legend somewhere
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Post by: AnybodyKilla on September 12, 2007, 10:19:00 PM
take out drunk and hot girls
take out barry bonds
put on bittersweet (without the gay flute he added)
put nas and jay on flashing lights (fuck kanye)
put common on everything i am (make him)
put lupe on the glory
put mos and kwe on good morning
put john legend somewhere

Kanye and Kweli did the song In The Mood together but it didnt make the album!!!
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Post by: SP0RTY on September 12, 2007, 10:19:55 PM
take out drunk and hot girls
take out barry bonds
put on bittersweet (without the gay flute he added)
put nas and jay on flashing lights (fuck kanye)
put common on everything i am (make him)
put lupe on the glory
put mos and kwe on good morning
put john legend somewhere
i woulda like to hear that song was it released on a mixtape?

Kanye and Kweli did the song In The Mood together but it didnt make the album!!!
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Post by: AnybodyKilla on September 13, 2007, 01:32:27 AM
take out drunk and hot girls
take out barry bonds
put on bittersweet (without the gay flute he added)
put nas and jay on flashing lights (fuck kanye)
put common on everything i am (make him)
put lupe on the glory
put mos and kwe on good morning
put john legend somewhere
i woulda like to hear that song was it released on a mixtape?

Kanye and Kweli did the song In The Mood together but it didnt make the album!!!

Got it right here for u homie, this is for the What A Job track u hooked me up with, it was sick lol!!!

In The Mood - Kanye West Ft Talib Kweli (Didnt make Graduation)
http://www.zshare.net/audio/36234423e3e133/
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Post by: NeoSoul on September 13, 2007, 05:41:20 AM
In The Mood was on Talib's new album Eardrum... you should def check it out its dope
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Post by: K.Dub on September 13, 2007, 09:25:15 AM
Trentman and SPORTY are on point
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Post by: MontrealCity's Most on September 13, 2007, 09:52:19 AM
I always loved Kanye's beats he's got some of my favorite beats but for real as a rapper i dont like him rhymes i think there weak and i think his flow his terrible. WIth that said what i would do with graduation is take all those beats and put another rapper on it. Saigon maybe.
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Post by: T-Dogg on September 13, 2007, 10:08:06 AM
^^you mean this song?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLsoabyzhNs



Oh snap, I never knew they put it out.

It sounded way different then though. But it was live, he had the live strings, DJ A-Trak doing the live scratches... It just sounded better. Plus he didn't say it was a track with Rhymefest, so I guess didn't know where to look for it.

But anyways, I still would've put that track on the album instead of Drunk and Hot Girls, even though that didn't sound nearly as dope now as it did live back then.
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Post by: BuddenzNasir on September 13, 2007, 11:27:53 AM
agreed MTL, his rhymes r simple as hell and his flow is so fucking annoying. Its the kind of flow you teach to a kid who cant figure out how to rap to a beat. Ridin the beat like that just gets old. the Barry Bonds track is fucking awful btw.
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Post by: everlast1986 on September 13, 2007, 12:06:11 PM
I'd pick a different beat for "Stronger" thats not sampling Daft Punk, pick a faster/better beat for "Drunk And Hot Girls" and have Mos Def actually spit a verse.
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Post by: MontrealCity's Most on September 13, 2007, 12:15:03 PM
agreed MTL, his rhymes r simple as hell and his flow is so fucking annoying. Its the kind of flow you teach to a kid who cant figure out how to rap to a beat. Ridin the beat like that just gets old. the Barry Bonds track is fucking awful btw.

props
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Post by: SP0RTY on September 14, 2007, 10:32:42 PM
take out drunk and hot girls
take out barry bonds
put on bittersweet (without the gay flute he added)
put nas and jay on flashing lights (fuck kanye)
put common on everything i am (make him)
put lupe on the glory
put mos and kwe on good morning
put john legend somewhere
i woulda like to hear that song was it released on a mixtape?

Kanye and Kweli did the song In The Mood together but it didnt make the album!!!

Got it right here for u homie, this is for the What A Job track u hooked me up with, it was sick lol!!!

In The Mood - Kanye West Ft Talib Kweli (Didnt make Graduation)
http://www.zshare.net/audio/36234423e3e133/
thanks homie!!!
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Post by: 4dgspot on September 15, 2007, 02:29:34 PM
i have strippers give lap dances insted of hand shakes
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Post by: Sikotic™ on September 15, 2007, 02:31:10 PM
Get rid of Big brother.
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Post by: 4dgspot on September 15, 2007, 02:37:53 PM
have a song featuring 50 cent
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Post by: devil_may_care on September 15, 2007, 02:58:26 PM
Just overall improve the quality of his raps. He has shining moments but a lot of the time he's not saying much.
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Post by: M Dogg™ on September 15, 2007, 08:42:26 PM
sadly, this album is not as good as College Dropout, but then again, it's hard to top a personal classic. Overall, after giving the album a few days, just two things, maybe three. Get rid of Weezy on Barry Bonds, I actually like the song, but Weezy is AWFUL. Get rid of Drunk Hot Girls all together, Mos can't save it rapping, and add two of the leftovers on there, like Classic if he had the rights to that song.
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Post by: Wessia4LiaNia Chieee Chieee on September 16, 2007, 09:13:09 AM
barry bonds but... shit, the album is so daaaaamn dope ! I just like it the way it is. + this topic is sumthin like "what would you do with 1 billion dollaz? or better "what would you have change in your life until now"
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Post by: Turf Hitta on September 16, 2007, 02:51:54 PM
I would take Kanye West off of it.
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Post by: BANANAS on September 16, 2007, 03:11:47 PM
more collaborations, atleast one or two beats that followed his old style with the sped up soul
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Post by: SP0RTY on September 16, 2007, 03:43:50 PM
sadly, this album is not as good as College Dropout, but then again, it's hard to top a personal classic. Overall, after giving the album a few days, just two things, maybe three. Get rid of Weezy on Barry Bonds, I actually like the song, but Weezy is AWFUL. Get rid of Drunk Hot Girls all together, Mos can't save it rapping, and add two of the leftovers on there, like Classic if he had the rights to that song.
yea having classic on there woulda been dope