Kanye West - The College Dropout
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Free Music Notes for The College Dropout
Free Music Review: A mataphor?
Hit: 1 Stars
The title must be a metaphor for West himself, because only someone as uneducated and stupid as he is would think as much of this garbage and himself as he does.Free Music Review: Good Stuff
Hit: 4 Stars
I think Kanye is the best rapper currently out there- fresh rhymes, intelligent, and would sound good even without the beats.Free Music Review: damn near perfect 4.9 stars
Hit: 5 Stars
i have never heard a perfect cd before but this ranks among all the 4.9s
this is a cd where i honestly couldn't skip a song. it was in my cd player all of the 07 summer.
just buy it. each song is great. the skits are short and sweet and not retarded [like most skits on hip hop albums]...
buy it.
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Free Music Review: I Loved it at first, but some of that same Love has faded...
Hit: 4 Stars
I like some of the skits but 4-5 is too much. Spaceship is an obvious highlight. It's about working at a dead end job not getting paid enough having big dreams and because of all of that walking the hell out of that mother____er!
I like His style in that song. And the production is super-solid. The singer actually singing is great too. 5.5/5 11/10 His lyrics are OK in places, shine on 2-3 tracks and are really lacking on some such as The Workout Plan which isn't a bad song by any means. But to put it plain and nicely You will only like this if You like Your Hip-Hop funny and shallow. It's OK for what it is I suppose. 3.5/5 7/10
Next, is Jesus Walks. It's solid but nothing great. It's religiously-themed which is OK, I suppose. But I'm basically an Atheist, that Believes sometimes. Agnostic Anyone? 3.75/5 We Don't Care is pretty solid. It's a serious subject, made funny and many people would NOT appreciate what Kanye did here. I'm one of the thousands that don't give a flying s*** about Him rapping about Kids selling drugs (*LOL*). Nice lyrics, relate-able even if You don't sell. 4.25/5 8.5/10
All Falls Down is a ballad(?) and it's very great and even more recognizable. The video is crazy good and features the beautiful Stacy Dash. 4.5/5 9/10 Slow Jams is as solid as the fore-mentioned track All Falls Down. It's a slowed-down-sexy-groove-alicious treat for R&B junkies. Features the smooth-vocaled crooner Jamie "nice behind in The Replacements" Foxx and Twista "the "fastest" rapper alive" (which I DON'T Believe for a second! He ain't THAT fast.). 4.5/5 9/10
Never Let Me Down is decent. It featured Common I Believe. I like the Guy at the end Who gives off a powerful speech. I enjoyed that the most. The rest was OK and slightly forgettable. 4.5/5 * 9/10 The New Workout Plan is like the original but so much "funnier". LOL sure! 3.25/5 6.5/10 Get Em High is with Ludacris(?). It's OK and far from solid. 3.825/5 6.5/10 Breathe In Breath Out is strictly about weed and maybe sex. I like the latter, could care so much less about the former. 3/5 6/10
Family Business Through The Wire and Last Words are in the top 6 best songs here. Family Business touches on a barbecue setting where Kanye's family get to show Their personalities when socializing eating and dancing. Sometimes His "Aunt Sheila and Aunt (?) get heated at every house warming..." 10/10. Through The Wire definitely has trouble keeping up with that track. It's very catchy, has a nice Chaka Khan "Through The Fire" sample and has decent lyrics. Kanye's trademark song. 9/10 Lastly, Last Words Features simple and quick-look-it's-JayZ-on-the-track-oh-no-Hes-leaving! vocals on it. It talks about Kanye's troubles before He became a well known Rappin'-Producer.
==> Love his swagger, attitude, big ego sometimes, his decent vocals, decent but over-bloated lyrics and his sign; Gemini, Gemini (The Twins)
==> Love most of the samples, namely Spaceship and Through The Wire
==> The guest appearances were gold
==> In my top 10 favorite rappers
==> The cover rocks; a cute yet sad, lonely, and maybe distraught bear - I kinda felt that way in 2004. It didn't hit me fully, till mid-2005, the worst year of my life E-V-E-R
==> His middle name is Omari, which rocks so much \m/
<== Songwriting improves considerably, but not till his next project, LR
<== John Legend lends NO vocals to this project
<== Some songs were kinda wack
<== Kanye's songwriting isn't all that great sometimes
<== Too many skits
Cover Art: A+
Inside Art: A (his school mates are in the book, but no lyrics, docked a point).
Songwriting: C
Vocals: D+
Vocal Emotion: F
Production: A-
Length: C+
3.8 stars.
Overall: C+
Free Music Review: a masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars
Let me start off by saying I am not a fan of rap or hip hop at all. I think 99% of it is total crap and I never liked it. I am 43 years old and a music fanatic. I own about 1,000 CD's and I love all types of music (except most Rap & Country music). With that being said, Kanye West is a musical genious and this CD is phenomenal. His lyrics are witty and the music is very uplifting. It always puts me in a great mood! I own all 3 of his CD's and they are all great. This one or Graduation are his best. Even if you don't like rap music, give this one a try because it is great. HIGHLY recommended.