Graduation

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The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The album’s not without the occasional goof--"Drunk and Hot Girls", a boozy tale set to the tempo of an Eastern European drinking song, is something Outkast could more comfortably handle. Going further, a columnist for Slant Magazine asserted that the album's hip-hop beats would be "European-club-worthy" were they stripped of the vocals. West debuted the album's lead single "Can't Tell Me Nothing" on the New York radio station Hot 97 on May 15.

Irish rock band U2 has imparted that touring with West on their Vertigo Tour in turn had a significant effect on their own music as well in regards to the band's twelfth studio album No Line on the Horizon (2009).

We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our site, provide personalised content and advertising, analyse our traffic, and ensure you see more of what you love. Graduation became West's second consecutive studio album to top the Billboard 200 and also debuted at number-one on the album charts in the United Kingdom and Canada. These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy. He then held a secret concert with Barbadian singer Rihanna for an audience of over five hundred fans and invited guests at Westminster Central Hall in London, England on August 20.

Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Kanye West made a conscious decision to abstain from the widespread recording practice of excessive rap albums saturated with skits and filler and instead filled Graduation with significantly fewer tracks. Pretty Young Thing)" by pop star Michael Jackson , with the tempo slightly decreased and the pitch raised to the point its sound resembles squealing shrieks. Through acting as his own producer, West managed to maintain quality control over the album's music to ensure that "his productions build momentum even when they revolve around a handful of repeated samples [and] nearly every song on Graduation is memorable for both its hooks and its overall sound".The album was considered the favorite to win Album of the Year, [194] [195] [196] [197] [198] and its failure to win was considered by many publications to be a snub.

West imparted that he had sought out to make the hip-hop variation of the rock band's " City of Blinding Lights". The visual story concludes with Dropout Bear being shot out of a cannon from the university into the sky into another stratosphere on the back cover. Kanye's savvy enough (as he loves to remind us ad nauseum) to know that this music's place in mainstream culture has changed. The album received widely positive reviews from music critics, with several of them praising the production, and earned West his third Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, as well as his third nomination for Album of the Year. West juxtaposes the glitchy, mechanical sound of an 8-bit beat with the more elegant, traditional sound of a classical piano.

He also chose to scale back on the guest appearances, limiting himself to just one single guest rap verse on the entire studio album. As he races down sidewalks, populated by multi-eyed, living mushrooms, Dropout is pursued by a monstrous rain cloud that attempts to swallow him whole.