Revisiting Kanye West "The College Dropout"...

[The-Leak (aka) kingwell (bka) JULES]

I think that Jesus Walks is arguably his best track to date.

Yup.  Jesus Walks, musically, coulda been on Late Registration.

[Blood$]

man this album brings back too many memories just thinking about it... definitely a classic, at least for me personally

my favorite songs that I pretty much considered classics were "We Don't Care", "All Falls Down", "Spaceship" (this being my favorite), "Jesus Walks", "Never Let Me Down", "Get Em High", "Slow Jamz", and "Through The Wire"  

[Action!]

also, if this is a classic album i think it reflects on kanye's ability to align himself with a great roster of talent like dr.dre has done before him.   Ye has admitted post the release of album but before late registration to not giving full production credit when due and has since changed his tactics (there's been producers who accused him of not giving proper credit).  A lot of the songs reflect ghost writers rather than Ye (consequence, common, rhymefest).  Plus, Ye's flow and vocals were pretty amateur.  With all that said Kanye is a great leader with much enthusiasm, heart, and ability to reflect this through his recordings.

edit: basically, what dr.dre was to the west coast and what RZA or Premier was to the east coast Kanye West is to the mid-west.

double edit: but unlike some of them he has tried to be more hands on as a MC.  taking reign of writing his own lyrics which he proudshimself on Graduation and of his production (from late registration tinkering of jon brion's compositions to the 808s style)

I think 808s reflects kanye the most, despite the obvious influenced and possibly ghostwritten or edited verse by mr.hudson/cudi.  That's to say 808s was the album he had done mostly everything on without outside producers/influences/etc.

[Meho]

Classic for me. Could've done without the skits but that's it. Kanye got an impressive discography (808's included). Can't wait for the new album, you just know you're not gonna get some fast food project.

[13th Duke]

An absolute classic. Just a shame he hasn't dropped anything decent since Late Registration.

[Portugoal]

Apart from the song with Ludacris (which is plain awful) every single song is 4.5/5 or 5/5 to me. Classic album. Late Registration was even better.

[Leggy Hendrix]

An absolute classic. Just a shame he hasn't dropped anything decent since Late Registration.

[Invincible]

For me, All Falls Down and Spaceship ruin it for me. The rest is classic shit.

[virtuoso]

A few bland songs on here, but overall very good album

[V2DHeart]

Classic IMO. I bought this after seeing the "Through The Wire" video, and I bumped it fully when I was out in the car at weekend nights - for pretty much a good number of weeks, which was rare... It revivied my interest in Hip Hop again. It had Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Common, John Legend, Jamie Foxx - they all became, or looked like a click.

It was refreshing, to see an album of new mainstream sound, that was actually listenable and enjoyable, from an artist/producer/song writer - The videos also showed Kanye's insecurities on the camera, IE: too shy to look directly in or have his face shown too much or shown at all, and that was a fantastic characteristic to have a the person behind the album, because Hip Hop was pretty much full of big heads in love with themselves and their inflated ego's. Look at All Falls Down video for example. WHo would have known that he himself would grow into such an arrogant prat of a man

But This album was and is a classic, and I refrain from listening to it only because it reminds me of a period in my life that I loved. (I don't like to listen to certain music if I've bumped it too much at a certain time period)

[Lunatic]

10. Keep The Receipt feat. Ol Dirty Bastard
11. I Need To Know
19. My Way

Never heard these..Seems to be the only 3 tracks that missed the cut. Can U hook them up?

[LodiDodi]

10. Keep The Receipt feat. Ol Dirty Bastard
11. I Need To Know
19. My Way

Never heard these..Seems to be the only 3 tracks that missed the cut. Can U hook them up?

Yeah fo sho.  Gotta take care of some things right now but I'll hook them up a lil later today

[Lunatic]

10. Keep The Receipt feat. Ol Dirty Bastard
11. I Need To Know
19. My Way

Never heard these..Seems to be the only 3 tracks that missed the cut. Can U hook them up?

Yeah fo sho.  Gotta take care of some things right now but I'll hook them up a lil later today

Preciated

[LodiDodi]

10. Keep The Receipt feat. Ol Dirty Bastard
11. I Need To Know
19. My Way

Never heard these..Seems to be the only 3 tracks that missed the cut. Can U hook them up?

Yeah fo sho.  Gotta take care of some things right now but I'll hook them up a lil later today

Preciated

Kanye West - I Need To Know.mp3 - 5.4 Mb

Kanye West - My Way.mp3 - 4.7 Mb

Kanye West - Keep The Receipt feat. Ol Dirty Bastard.mp3 - 4.7 Mb


and a lil bonus....original version of All Falls Down with the Lauryn Hill vocal sample:
Kanye West - All Falls Down (Original).mp3 - 4.4 Mb

[Lunatic]

^ +1  bro.

I Need to Know is decent. Glad it was cut though.

I like My Way better but still glad it was cut. Not sure it would fit in anywhere or is good enough to replace any track. Love the hook though.

Keep the Receipt is interesting, didn't know Kanye did a record with ODB. This shit is pretty hot! thanks.

Thanks for the bonus, never knew such a track existed. It's a dope idea (Lauryn Hill) but I like the final version with Syleena Johnson better.