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| tracklisting |
| 1. Intro |
| 2. We Don't Care |
| 3. Graduation Day |
| 4. All Falls Down feat. Syleena Johnson |
| 5. I'll Fly Away |
| 6. Spaceship feat. GLC, Consequence |
| 7. Jesus Walks |
| 8. Never Let Me Down feat. Jay-Z, J-Ivy |
| 9. Get Em High feat. Talib Kweli, Common |
| 10. Workout Plan |
| 11. The New Workout Plan |
| 12. Slow Jamz feat. Twista, Jamie Foxx |
| 13. Breathe In Breathe Out feat. Ludacris |
| 14. School Spirit - Skit 1 |
| 15. School Spirit |
| 16. Spirit School - Skit 2 |
| 17. Lil Jimmy Skit |
| 18. Two Worlds feat. Mos Def, Freeway, The Harlem Boys Choir |
| 19. Through The Wire |
| 20. Family Business |
| 21. Last Call |
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| Armed with a gang of soul records and a sense of humor Kanye West delivers one of the best hip hop albums of 2004. This album should had been released in 2003 but Roc-A-Fella kept pushing it back. That might have helped things. It gave Kanye plenty of time to redo things, to obsess
over everything, until they were just right. If he had label guys constantly telling him that he needs to get this album out right away we might have got a different album. |
| Although there are many guest appearances on "College Dropout" it is his album, his vision. You feel his struggle in "Spaceship" you laugh as he tries to kick game over the phone to some girl on "Get Em High" and you feel his passion on
"Jesus Walks". Kanye succeeds in making this a personal album. |
| There are no weak tracks on "College Dropout", some are better than others, but there is no wackness. Kanye delivers dope beats one after another and changes up his delivery from time to time which keeps things fresh. |
| There are many nice tracks on this album but the one that stands above the others is "Spaceship." Kanye, GLC and Consequence (who steals the song) talk about the struggle of trying to make it over a beat with a sick Marvin Gaye sample. "Spaceship" is the
new working mans anthem with a chorus of "I've been workin' this grave shift/ and I ain't made shit/ I wish I could/ buy me a spaceship and flyyyy/ past the skyyyyyyyyyy" Other highlights include "We Don't Care" where Kanye gets help from the Harlem Boys Choir and "Never
Let Me Down" which features Jay Z. "First I snatched the streets/ then I snatched the charts/ first I had they ear/ now I have their heart" raps Jay over a soulful Kanye beat. But not all the songs on "College Dropout" are soulful "The New Workout Plan"
will get the women dancing and "Breathe In Breathe Out" with Ludacris and "Two Words" with Mos Def and Freeway are grimey. |
| On "College Dropout" Kanye is able to go from introspective to materialistic, he can make a nice track with Jay Z or Mos Def. There is no telling if Kanye can keep it up. Regardless what he does in the future he will always have at least one dope album. |
| review: charlie bucket |
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