Though he has a lingering obsession with college-the album’s title, the series of skits where Kanye takes aim at the black male experience in higher education-this time around he’s more focused on execution than self-delusion. What remains: a continued dialogue with himself that’s sincere enough to hook the whole world into his psyche. And only now are we getting somewhere near the truth: Dropout wasn’t a five star album, but it wasn’t totally an early De La Soul-mimicking piece of hype-trite either. He kept telling everyone about his genius. The public told him to shut up when he pouted at award shows like a preppy kid who just got waitlisted at Dartmouth. Jay-Z called him the future of rap-not for his voice, but for his middle-class/nouveau riche background. Galvanizing doesn’t begin to describe the musical, pop cultural, sociological, and economic reaction to Kanye West and his vanity-piece turned musical touchstone turned target turned “instant classic” otherwise known as 2004’s The College Dropout. Let’s everyone take a big step back, inhale deeply and try and make sense of this. When a rap star who has no history of dealing drugs or shooting people can create an album so powerful that you get on the cover of TIME magazine, then you know you've made it. However for a Sophomore effort Kanye puts himself on a great path to a long very successful career. Though this disc is still exceptional it lacks that certain "I waited my whole life to write this disc" factor. Kayne talks about how the government created AIDs and how the diamond mining in Africa has contributed to the world being more dysfunctional.įor those of you expecting a repeat performance of The College Dropout, be prepared to be slightly disappointed. In addition to more musical elements of the disc the lyrical content has also been stepped up.
The second of the two being what I think to be Kanye's finest song to date. The stand out tracks on this disc are most defiantly Roses and Hey Mama. The disc is packed with your usual skits about being a member of the fraternity Broke Fi Broke, loads of guest appearances Twista, Cam'Ron, Nas and Jay-Z just to name a few. Primarily John Brion (producer of Fiona Apple) who has given this disc a layer or sound that Kanye lacked in his spectacular debut disc The College Dropout. Kanye is back and he brought some new friends with him.
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