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College Dropout |  | Artist: Kanye West
Label: Roc-a-Fella
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  907 reviews
Sales Rank: 2385
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.8 x 0.4
MPN: 602498617397
UPC: 602498617397
EAN: 0602498617397
ASIN: B0001AP12G
Release Date: February 10, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Intro | | • | We Don't Care | | • | Graduation Day | | • | All Falls Down | | • | I'll Fly Away | | • | Spaceship | | • | Jesus Walks | | • | Never Let Me Down | | • | Get Em High | | • | Workout Plan | | • | The New Workout Plan | | • | Slow Jamz | | • | Breathe in Breathe Out | | • | School Spirit Skit 1 | | • | School Spirit Skit 2 | | • | Lil Jimmy Skit | | • | Two Words | | • | Through the Wire | | • | Family Business | | • | Last Call |
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This debut from the most sought-after hip-hop producer not named Pharrell delivers the unthinkable: West magically sledgehammers home his opinions on taboo topics over beats that are equally daring. The envelope-ripping beats shouldn't come as a surprise given that he's supplied the soundscapes to monster singles by everyone from Alicia Keys ("You Don't Know My Name") to Talib Kweli ("Get By"). What is freakish is that in West's world, rhymes about strippers, God, college life, and guns can co-exist tidily and not undermine each other. On "Breathe In Breathe Out" he raps "I gotta apologize to Mos and Kweli/is it cool to rap about gold if I told the world I copped it from Ghana and Mali"--tongue firmly planted in cheek. On the catchy "Through the Wire," fuelled by a Chaka Khan hook, he spits some impeccable rhymes despite his jaw being wired shut after a near-fatal car accident. Maybe it was this brush with mortality that kicked his lyrics into high gear on "All Falls Down." The skits on here are just as potent, one poking fun at the overeducated underclass that makes a small fraction of the loot he does. With jaw-dropping cameos from Jay-Z, Common, Mos Def, and the Harlem Boys Choir plus the feel-good club tune of the year, "Slow Jamz" featuring Twista, College Dropout is as explosive, contradictory, and complex as rap music gets. --Dalton Higgins
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 The College Dropout Viny July 21, 2010
chu41
One of the records I recieved was clearly warped and in bad condition. However the other was not in unacceptable condition. Although they did a very speedy job with delivery
 "I turned around and replied, why yes but I prefer the term African American Express" February 16, 2010
Matt Jacobs (Trumansburg, NY)
Why are so many rap albums so long? I mean, Kanye got his big break as a producer when he did a few songs on The Blueprint. How did he look at that album, which has thirteen tracks consisting of fifteen three to five minute songs, and decide that the formula could be improved with several tracks of generally weak comedy and undeveloped half-songs and a coda where he rambles about his early career for eight minutes? He mostly makes up for it with the music, but the filler drags it down from a potentially great album to merely a very good one. What Kanye lacks in pure technical prowess he makes up for with some amazing production, genuinely catchy hooks, the occasional stroke-of-genius line, and an ability to get a lot of good talent working together on a song. Not every guest appearance works out, but enough do to make it a pretty fun and diverse ride throughout.
There are a few clunkers here and there, but most of the songs have at least a few good things going for them, and the album as a whole is just plain entertaining, not quite as much on the pure musical level of more dedicated emcees, but as an auditory experience. Even a track like "The New Workout Plan" which has almost nothing going for it on paper manages to be mostly listenable thanks to the bells and whistles. A bit gimmicky maybe, but there are a lot of different ways to enjoy music. The other singles are all consistently fun, with "Jesus Walks" being one of the few songs by any artist to consistently give me chills and "Through the Wire" being at the least an interesting experiment, and a successful one at that. Most of the songs that aren't singles could pass for such, and while it's my standard practice to enjoy music by listening to whole albums through, The College Dropout is definitely one of the most iPodable I've heard. The anti-education stance a lot of the lyrics take is frankly bewildering, but for the most part I'm sold on an artist I've been quietly admiring from afar for a few years now.
Surprisingly Good...This album is great! December 20, 2009
Hip Hop 2 Def (Virginia, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
By underground standards Kanye West is not very complex in terms of his lyrics. He's mediocre. He's not good enough. He's weak. He's this. He's that. FORGET THAT BS FOR THE REST OF THE REVIEW. I brought this for 1 friggin dollar used just out of curiousity. I wasn't exactly floored the first time around, but I'll admit. Its great music.
LEMME BREAK IT DOWN...
-Kanye's simplistic lyrics aren't hard to listen to. I mean, if you are a "seasoned" underground head, you could be doing calculus homework and still catch EVERYTHING he says with ease. There's no hidden messages here. Just fun, simplistically conscious lyrics. DONT EXPECT MOS DEF BOBS CALIBER.
-ALL the beats are on point. It's early Kanye. He was still a BEAST. The beats and lyrics fuse together to make the funnest ("some of em dislexic, their favorite 50 Cent song is 12 Questions" LOL), most entertaining album (I'm killin these ni**az on this lyrical s***, mayonaise colored Benz I push miracle whips" LOL AGAIN)I've listened to since Sean Price's "Monkey Barz" and "Jesus Price Superstar."
-It's not perfect. Breath In, Breath Out and Workout Plan were both garbage. NONE of the skits help out the album. They're practically useless.
-The best Outro OF ALL TIME IS "Last Call." It was genius. He told his story basically. Most outros suck, but this outro is the BEST I'VE EVER HEARD IN MY LIFE. Outro was utilized to PERFECTION.
THE FINAL VRDICT...
BUY IT. I guarentee you'll like it. If don't find something to like albut it you're either bull-headed or you REALLY HATE HIS CURRENT IMAGE. Forget that. It's 2004 Kanye. He was still himself. He made an album for the mainstream that got us underground heads lookin. I still enjoy it even though I listen to more complex lyricists such as Common, eLZHi, K-Rino etc. Kanye holds the album down lyrically still tho. I don't care.
 Best Album of his Career November 23, 2009
G. H. D. lll (Plainfield, NJ)
The College Dropout is Through The Wire, you have to Breathe In Breathe Out, and I have Two Words "Jesus Walks" I was in 10th grade and I played Socom II on PS2 and I listened to this CD everytime is played the game and I played the game a lot. Once I heard Through The Wire I knew I had to get this album. He had good Feature artist like Jay-Z, Common, Talib Kweli, Twista, Freeway, and much more. Top 5 songs Through The Wire, Jesus Walks, Slow Jamz, We Don't Care, and All Falls Down
 Racist Kanye West September 18, 2009
Cheryl D. Grant
0 out of 13 found this review helpful
Since Kanye West has made it more than obvious that he does not like white people, I suggest white people do not buy his c.d's.
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