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It takes a lot more than that, if you'd listen further or read more upthread.

Huh, I always thought Donald Fagen was saying "Italian," not "champion."

Does "Stronger" sound any different from the single version on anyone's copy of the album? Kanye said in a few recent interviews that he had Timbaland re-do the drums for the LP version of the song at the last minute, but it sounds exactly the same as it did before on the copy I downloaded. Maybe it'll be the new version on the retail CD next week, though?

-- Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 16:46 (2 hours ago) Link

my version of stronger sounds the same, too.

Huh, I always thought Donald Fagen was saying "Italian," not "champion."

-- jaymc, Tuesday, September 4, 2007 7:00 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

lol @ "did you realize you were Italian in their eyes." paging Passantino...

i just spent like 30 seconds trying to figure out what 'raging passantino' meant

-- and what (ooo), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:57 (10 months ago) Link

lol

yeah, i don't think 'stronger's sounds any different either. BUT it is different to me in that i heard it out the other night and it suddenly made total trashtalking dickhead/way insecure drunken sense, like how the way the sample's so big and confident and clumsily executed with all the "god put you in front of me / so how the hell could you front on me" stuff

still not good sober, mind.

i feel the same way about cant tell me nothin

pretty happy with the album really. i think the thing with kanye is he always treads that very fine line wrt him being a completey annoying arsehole, and it's the very small things that validate that stuff in your head; i wz kinda dreading another overblown 'late registration' epic (even though that was still great at the time) as much as i feared a shiny jap hipster dinky toy horror like where 'stronger' and the mixtape suggested he was at, and so even though you do still get all of that stuff in this one the presence of the simpler oldskool roc type stuff leaves you with the impression of the dorky likeable kanye from 03 you like to think still exists somewhere, or ever existed even. haha like smiling/shaking yr head to that "buy any jeans necessary" line for instance.

xp 4real i never got that irl chance with 'nothing' but i can totally imagine the same thing happening, yeah

hearing t-pain and kanye together is really satisfying too, i always kinda thought when t-pain came out it was like a rnb kanye in that same really talented outsider dork vibe

and you know t-pain's next album is probly gonna be some ridiculously overambitious carcrash too

Oh and why the fuck isn't Mos Def rapping anymore i swear that man needs a slap to make him stop making films and doing odd singing and get back to writing fantastic lyrics. Wanker.

rtc totally otm

like, point by point

I'm not sure if this has gone unmentioned because it's blindingly obvious or if I really am the only one to notice, but: "Big Brother" is a MIDI "Dead Presidents."

"I Wonder" is fuckin great.

He uses the 'word' "apologin"!!

a rapper NOT USING THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH??

my stars! i passed out with the vapors on my fainting couch when i heard the news..luckily my butler stepped in to loosen my cravat! however, this news weighed heavy on my mind, i was scarcely able to enjoy rigoletto that night at the opera.

it's not that he used a gramatically incorrect slang word, it's that he dropped a syllable out of a word to force a stupid fucking rhyme.

I'm better than my competa, you mean competitor, whadeva!

omg, i'm fighting off a gang o lols; ilm's gonna get me kicked outta the public library wtf

^^^fennessey??

don't you wish, ethan!

oh wait, did you mean "are you, beatrix kiddo, laughing at all the sean jokes? or the ye dialectic?" it's the former, i promise.

it's not that he used a gramatically incorrect slang word, it's that he dropped a syllable out of a word to force a stupid fucking rhyme.

EXACTLY!

I'm totally behind Umbrella ('cause that extra syllable is for a good cause)

fuck yall kweli haters he just dropped a gem with styles

http://www.zshare.net/audio/33132426817093/

my mistake, it ain't

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h62/freshcrunkjuice/03/01/SSNCOVER.jpg

david banner will kill em both

chris martin singing about fireworks at lake michigan makes me roffle.

kenny chesney wins.

she feels booze like she bombed at the apollo

whipped it out, she said "i never seen snakes on a plane"

i like 'good morning'

I absolutely loved Late Registration all the way through, but I've always hated College Dropout and what I've heard from the new one sounds pretty bad too. And by pretty bad I mean absolutely terrible. Maybe I'm just weird.

Kanye a Can fan though? That's pretty cool and somewhat of a surprise.

i hated this on first listen but now it pleases meh.

the totem/scrotum line rhyme is mindblowing even by his standards.

kanye is the zima to my book club.

easily my favorite kanye album. I love it in kind of an embarrassing, drooly way.

kanye is the zima to my book club.

-- TynanTynan, Monday, September 10, 2007 6:17 PM (4 hours ago)

^ip check?

hi krl0pper
kaknye west is dead to me forever for ruining sing swan song; i listened to it like one half-minute and i felt the tremor of damo suzuki's large and frail body collapsing somewhere on the other side of the earth

i like "drunk hot girls" mostly because all the can lames hate it

'everything i am' has the weakest cardboardest drums of anything premos name was ever on - sounds like that john mayer joint

The packaging opens from the left.

Halfway through, and I am fucking impressed.

"I Wonder" is fuckin great.

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, September 5, 2007 12:25 AM (Wednesday, September 5, 2007 12:25 AM) Bookmark Link

The packaging opens from the left.

-- The Reverend, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 15:47 (34 minutes ago) Link

kanye reaches out to the hebrews?

"Common passed on this beat/ I made it to a jam"

Common otm

'i wonder' is dogshit

if youre feeling this, stop listening to rap music

why isnt that joint with nas and krs and r on this

if theres room for dude from coldplay and mos def singing his lil heart out for 4 minutes over vanessa carlton pianos you can fit a rakim verse on this bitch

only good morning, stronger, cant tell me nothin & the steely dan joint actually please meh