
I hate to admit it, but I'm actually kinda disappointed at this
Graduation album. I mean its straight, but there's nothing really
THAT special about it. There's really no track on here that blows me away like majority of the tracks on
The College Dropout or
Late Registration did. Okay, well first off there is only 13 songs and that had me like WTF when I saw it because
The College Dropout had 15 and
Late Registration had 16 (both numbers without the skits of course...hell this album doesn't even have skits! Weird). Once I got past that and pressed play it was pretty lackluster and really just made me wanna go listen to
Late Registration.
On top of that,
Graduation featured two possible worse for Kanye albums: 1.
Drunk And Hot Girls was
terrible and possibly the worst song featured on a Kanye album 2. Lil Wayne's verse on
Barry Bonds was
terrible and possibly the worst verse featured on a Kanye album lol (people think I'm "hatin" on Lil Wayne, but he's really just not that hot anymore, sorry). Oh yeah, and what the hell was up with
Homecoming??? Those were the same damn lyrics from
Home with John Legend and that shit has been on the net since around the time College Dropout dropped. Quite frankly, I liked the original better, I mean Chris Martin did his thing but John Legend KILLED that shit and the beat isn't as soulful.
I dunno maybe I'm just being a bad fan and had too high of expectations... who knows but its time to give this shit a 2nd listen, peace.
AFTER THE 2nd LISTEN...Okay, after the 2nd listen I felt a little more connected to the music, but that's pretty much the only difference. I'm still not blown away [like I expected to be] like when I heard
Late Registration,
The Black Album, or
The Eminem Show (a few albums that I loved instantly).
Drunk And Hot Girls was still awful (aside from Mos Def's part, but he didn't even rap), Lil Wayne's verse was still trash (he sounds WAY out of his league on the song, and album in general), no DeRay skits was just awkward, and I'm still indifferent about Ye recycling
Home for
Homecoming. Personally, I think
The Glory should of been the last song,
Drunk And Hot Girls shouldn't have made the album (or have even been made for that matter lol), and
Barry Bonds could've been replaced by a new Kanye/Hov or Kanye/Nas collabo. Oh well, hopefully it'll grow on me more because I'm still gonna cop it to support good music since it is better than every other album this year besides
Finding Forever.
4/5