kanye west graduation

Jazze Pha makes more sense in the context of a UGK album way better than Lil Jon or Swizz Beatz.

I'm not anti-skits per se (hell, I quoted a De La skit a few posts ago), but I do admire Kanye for going for skit overboard on his first album (the two consecutive skits really pissed me off) to no skits at all on his third.

going for = going FROM, obviously

also NONE of kanye's skits have ever really been funny

"If this is P, lemme hear you say unnnngh"

xp "broke phi broke" is negative funny

Kanye's skits are good context-builders to his more conceptual albums

except that his "concepts" are annoying and not really interesting! o man a college degree is useless!! thanx kanye!!1! drop some more wisdom pls!!

it warmed my heart when I read that at a listening party Kanye said that the album would feature "no fake Bernie Mac!"

Actually, Graduation only has one less song than either of his first two albums, it's just that they have, like, ten mins worth of skits on them.

With the bonus tracks, my count comes to 15 songs on the record. Which is not short.

Mine doesn't have any bonus tracks.

Mine neither.

Did you get it at Best Buy or ZShare?

best buy one doesn't have bonus tracks.

college dropout--1:16:13 (14 tracks, incl. 12 minute final track, 7 skits)
late registration--1:10:26 (17 tracks (1 bonus) 5 skits)
graduation--51:18 (13 tracks (no bonus) 0 skits)

these are the editions i have

help i cannot stop listening to "flashing lights" k thx bye

Yeah Late Registration has 16 songs if you count "Late" and both versions of "Diamonds."

I didn't get "Flashing Lights" on the first couple listens but it really stuck with me today.

he hates the paparazzis even more than the nazis

and he HATES nazis, so you know he means business.

Davey D, are you this Davey D?

Did you get it at Best Buy or ZShare?

Neither (I got it at Fred Meyers, which is the only place in town you can buy cds at 7AM when I get off from work.)

I wasn't counting bonus tracks on Late Registration.

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I always assumed so. If so, thanks for all the links that Paper Thin Walls gaffles on the daily.

I believe the bonus tracks are on the import version?

Davey D, are you this Davey D?

No, but I am a different Davey D.

Pay up, Whiney.

I was secretly hoping he was the one who wrote all the Kurtis Blow and Spoonie G songs

I have Davy's Ride on cassette, but i haven't gotten around to listening to it.

Looks like the UK version has one bonus track and the Japanese version has two.

Rev can use the money he just won to buy the import version of Late Registration

What's weird about Graduation is that I just get next to no vibe/impression from it AT ALL, I play it through and eventually it's over and that's it and I have no desire to listen again. It's like air. Usually when I say "it's like air" i'm referring to some shit I've heard, way, way too much but I've only listened to this album like 4-5 times since buying it yesterday.

An analogy no-one will agree with:

CD: a fun, zany, microbrew
LR: a big glass of strong red wine you can never finish at one sitting
G: a glass of water

Your tolerance is weak, dood.

I mean, I love the video an all, but fuck, I cannot listen to "Can't Tell Me Nothing" without picturing Zach Galifianakis and Will Oldham prancing around (especially when the hype man goes "ha-ha" - it's all about Bonnie Billy yo).

After two listens, I think "Big Brother" is easily the worst thing on here. Not sure why anyone likes it.

Unless they really wish they could kiss Jay-Z's ass personally or something.

It's ass-kissing, but it's also kinda wounded. Which is either one of Kanye's most egregious "look at me and empathize with me" plays on the record, or it's pretty honest. Maybe it's tacky to write about someone is your hero and hurt your feelings, but he did, and there's a certain amount of balls to that whatever his intention.

It just comes across as genuine and relatable, unlike a lot of the paparazzi-baiting on the rest of the album.

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I guess I should just be grateful there aren't already four decades worth of songs with the word "Clive" in them.

hold up fennessey otm

Nice. Shows how it might have been, at least. Agreed with Vibe, that beat is crazy good.

That backing track could be me farting over it, and you'd still say it's good.

Yeah, I found "Big Brother" to be the most honest track on the record.

"flashing lights" is totally this album's darkhorse

i'm sorry but when has good rap had anything to do with "honesty"

reading your livejournal over some draggy metal pomp is not commendable

putting scarequotes around a word noone else has even used in the thread: classic or dud

look two posts above mine, dude. and kenan's too. wtf.

ctrl + f has failed me :(

yeah I added a "y", sorry.

Is that Chris Martin playing the barrelhouse pianner? If so, I want him doing session work.

anyway I agree that "Big Brother" is kinda lumbering and is probably gonna end up really overrated. but in the context of the album it really does cut through all the vague 'universal' stadium rock lyrics on the rest of the album. (xp)

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