Third album deep, already making drastic changes in the hip-hop industry. Some people, at this point in his career, haven't had the chance to enjoy that truly amazing album. This is the type of album that will always have a revered spot on our iPhones playlist's. For those of you that don't know who the great Kanye West is, a Chitown native, raised by a single mother who West attributed most of his work; Kanye started rapping in the third grade dreaming of someday aspiring to become a rapper. Early in his career he was taken more seriously as a hip-hop producer catching the eyes of already established artist like Jay-z and getting signed to Roc-A-Fella in 2002 West was able to release his first album 'The College Dropout' in 2004. West has progressed through his career in the small but significant changes in each album thus far, bringing us Graduation. The third album in his solo artist career as a rapper, Kanye composes an array of instrumentals and samples to make an upbeat production with a soulful feel, West really shows his producing talent in this Album along with his vocals and use of auto tune.
Being Kanye West fans we really enjoy the whole Yeezus following and his devoted fans. Kanye does truly make wonderful music, but to get to this point he had to break down many barriers many of which he did in this album, for example the single 'Stronger' one of his well known tracks, he brings in electronic production synths that are in many Baroque type songs. He then collabs it with his own drum beat making a drastically changed "hip-hop" beat, moving hip-hop into far new genres and dialogs.
Working with other artist such a John Mayer on the track "BitterSweet Poetry" you can really see how Kanye is reaching to brighten the dark world of hip-hop. We can leave out the great radio singles that this album brought along with it, such as Good Life (Ft T-Pain) hitting it really hard with auto-tune starting to be used more and more in the industry this song was extremely popular on the radio. With all these changes that he put together artistically he was still able to come hard with his rapping talent especially on the track "Barry Bonds" where Yeezy and Wayne both go in on a rather classic rap beat which is still just as enjoyable as his attempts to change the stereotype songs of this creative album.
Graduation is with out a doubt one of our favorite albums with such a vast variety of samples and collabs it is pure art. Completely deserved all the awards Graduation won, but then again Kanye is one of the greats of this era and this type of album quality cements him even deeper into the Rap Hall of Fame secure his spot of Legendary.
