Hypebeat? You're lost bro, College Dropout pushed me through some real shit during my high school years and thats why Kanye is so significant to me, I dunno where your negativity stems from but you gotta let that shit go.
Spectrum UK my negativity stems from the fact you said the generic thing about Kanye that all of you say which is " Love him or hate him I love him" (paraphrase)
imMD Kanye came from nothing now he sells clothes from Kmart and sells them ten times their price he went from making deep music to making music to get paid / he overall changed a lot but it's crazy how a nobody became what he is now actually now that I think about it/ Kanye changed a lot money fucked him up but he's happy and in a better place then he used to be
I Am A God Kanye was ahead of his time when he dropped all his albums lol. Except TLOP that is. It's a good album but not as innovative as his others. I know turbo grafx 16 will be 🔥🔥🔥 tho
@@Onitt222 And he definitely wouldn’t say anything nice about Austrian painters with moustaches, especially not if they were involved in any significant events in the early 1940s
No. Hip Hop and Electronic music have been closely related ever since their inception. You can trace it back to as far as the early 80's with Afrika Bambaataa and Soulsonic Force. Kanye is a great artist and producer, but we need to be real and stop bullshitting ourselves, "Graduation" didn't change music and he didn't do that much to influence or change hip hop.
Pineapple Express 808s changed the whole pop industry forever...there's no drake, no weeknd, no travis,no cudi and so on without Kanye's 808s and Heartbreak. Atleast not with that sound.
F. Lashby lemme correct you there sir Cudi wrote 4 songs on 808s, Heartless,welcome to heartbreak,Robocop, & paranoid. If you think about it that whole vibe of 808s initially came from cudder. Cudi would've been cudi with or w/o Ye.
I remember meeting him in New York, I was like 8 or 9. My school was invited to a ABC interview. He was there as well. When he was leaving he was signing autographs, By that time I didn't know how he was. But anyway, he was signing autographs and I wanted his, just cause. Lmao. He didnt wanna sign anymore books or cd's so he lied to me saying he didnt have a Marker to sing a paper for me. So I snatched a pen from a lady that was behind me. I just took it. Lol. He looked at me and smiled 😂 He signed it an left afterwards. Later, 8 years later I started hearing his music and I'm like "Damn! I met Kanye! He lied to me, saying he didnt have a marker, he smiled at me. Best day of my life and I didnt even realize it."
Things Kanye West's Graduation changed: 1. It gave rise to trap beats/instrumentals being more mainstreamed/popularized than ever since after 2007 ("Can't Tell Me Nothing"). Trap music existed before but it was mostly in the south specifically ATL, Georgia with DJ Toomp pumping out a few hits for the likes of T.I. After that record, you saw trap become a huge force even presently with Future & all these new Lil Insert rappers being some of the most popular figures in today's music let alone Hip-Hop 2. It made popular the merging of electro-club sounds with Hip-Hop/R&B ("Flashing Lights" & "Stronger"). These days you hear a lot of R&B artists such as Rihanna and The Weeknd on those electro-club type instrumentals and hear Hip-Hop songs often mixed into electro-club/trap. 3. It made "Gangsta Rap" fall out of popularity in the mainstream as we know it and instead gave rise to modern more eccentric rappers in the mainstream like a Drake, Kanye himself, Kid Cudi, Big Sean, Kendrick Lamar, Chance the Rapper, etc. 4. It made the stadium sound more important than ever in Hip-Hop and rappers like Drake, Kendrick Lamar & even Jay-Z made their albums to that standard after Graduation came out. 5. It gave rise to daft punk and the modern electro-club/dance music popularity...DJs/producers like Calvin Harris, Diplo, DJ Snake, and Daft Punk owe some of their success to the widespread and continuing popularity of the record "Stronger"
Daft Punk were legends years before Graduation though. They only rose especially in the US in the early 2010s, but looking worldwide, and especially Europe, their music was legendary and had an even bigger influence on music as a whole than Kanye.
@Elijah I wonder if he will storm on a stage while being drunk and shout at a young women named Taylor swift, inevitably making her more famous and being hated by most of the music industry at the time
Something about that song instantly takes me back to the second grade when I vaguely remember hearing it on the radio. Not the best song on the album IMO but there’s something exceptionally beautiful and emotional about flashing lights for sure
Same here I love Good Life, Can't Tell Me Nothing, and Stronger, but Flashing Lights is still to this day one of my favorite songs ever. That intro and hearing "Flashing... Lights Lights" gets me every time
This vid doesn't really explain how Graduation changed music. There's no comparisons of how the landscape of music sounded before Graduation and then afterwards.
This reminds me of one of his songs "Dream Killers". One part of it, he talks about how those in the rap community thought that he was too soft and that he made nice beats but no one want to hear what he had to say. He wasn't Gangsta or lived a hard enough life, Kanye exclaiming that he would probably would have to kill someone or they wouldn't let him be a rapper. This song came out in 2004, It's weird to think that not even that long ago rap was a whole different landscape and changed because of one guy.
Kailee Walden people don't realize he's been like this since he first started. He always had a big ego. My mom even met him in person and said he had that vibe. When he hit superstar status that's when the whole world started to take notice. People don't learn to appreciate his genius though. He has a right to have an ego
mayan-kade Nelson FOR REAL!!!! I been playing graduation on repeat on Apple Music the past few weeks and this gets recommended to me on YT like wtf ahahaha
Graduation changed the landscape of hip-hop forever. He birthed a lot of these melodic acts today. Can't Tell Me Nothing is one of the songs that describe my life in a nutshell lol.
graduation is one of those albums that i can consistently listen through and not skip a track. "champion", "good life", "homecoming", "the glory", "big brother", "i wonder". all of these are iconic and it hits harder now than when i was a kid
I hate people who shit on Graduation. You had to be there to understand the impact this album had on Kanye’s career and the impact it had on hip hop. Plus the album has arguably 5 of Kanye’s best songs he’s ever made.
I Wonder lacks replay value for me. Synthesisers sound way too upbeat to be enjoyable for me tbh :/ But I guess I feel the same way about most of Graduation. As I've aged I've liked it less and less and even preferred Ye's more experimental albums like 808s and Yeezus (not TLOP though, never TLOP for me)
@glory ayara He's a great artist but defenetly not the best. There are bands and people who are better musicians and brought way more changes to music. For example the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Queen, ELO, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan and much more.
@@hxhx1456 yeah but the fact the he was all by himself and had no body to go except his mom who later passed is pretty crazy compared to the bands you mentioned full of multiple talented people.
What's amazing is that just a few days ago I decided to listen the album in it's entirety because I had only known the hit songs off the album and 1-2 others. *Man did I miss out!* I got to love songs I never heard until now like "Champion", "Barry Bonds" and my fav now *"I Wonder"* ..the outro to that song is a masterpiece. Kanye did a fantastic job with that trilogy! It influenced so much of the sounds we hear today.
I very recently got into Kanye through Graduation. I don’t approve of many of his actions. But, that doesn’t change the fact that he’s an incredibly talented artist.
3:27 is one of the most wholesome heart warming examples of Kanye and the 2000's. He holding the damn camera backwards for a selfie... Brings so many memories.
This really influenced me when I was little. This is what my dad only played in the car and I’d recognize them from the bass of it. I very much miss music like Kanye’s. 🙏 stay blessed to who’m is reading this
One of the first albums I bought as a little kid without knowing who Kanye west was. I chose it because I like the art work, and I never expected for it to be as good as it was. I still have my copy and I will always treasure it because it opened me to a lot of good music.
What a nice and confident young man I hope nothing bad happens in his personal life which would set off a chain reaction causing him to say something terrible
Graduation outselling Curtis was a turn for music; a wrench in music history. It indirectly told artists of the time what younger listeners craved, and where music would go
MBDTF wasn't his most progressive, but probably his most accessible and confident work. Personally I think either 808s or Yeezus is his best, but those are where it becomes more of an acquired taste.
808s gave birth to the freedom musically and artistically to create mbdtf. Before that album there wasn't anything quite like it, after is when everything became more emotionally driven and less "gangster rappy".
Kanye West is most definitely the greatest hip hop ARTIST. He has his great lyrical moments, he's not vocally amazing, he doesn't dance, but man, the man has so much musical depth and unlimited creativity. Best hip hop artist IMO.
Graduation is my favorite album of all time, so much that i even have the Graduation Bear tattooed on my forearm. Thank you Kanye for the best album of all time
I don't. I'm glad he tries different things and adapts in his own way. It's what separates him from Jay, 50 Cent, etc who aren't nearly as relevant as they used to be.
2:43 Those lyrics literally don't show his ego. He's talking about how the fame got to his head, he stopped listening to his mom, and he made bad decisions.
I think Graduation was THE hip-hop album that got me into rap/hip-hop as a kid. Champion, Flashing Lights, Good Life, Everything I Am, Glory…man good memories 😊❤
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Say what you want about Kanye, but if you love music you'll understand his significance in the industry.
self-absorbed as he is, 'College Dropout' is still in my top 10 hip-hop albums of all time
Spectrum UK that's the most generic Kanye West comments that you hypebeats say
Hypebeat? You're lost bro, College Dropout pushed me through some real shit during my high school years and thats why Kanye is so significant to me, I dunno where your negativity stems from but you gotta let that shit go.
Spectrum UK my negativity stems from the fact you said the generic thing about Kanye that all of you say which is " Love him or hate him I love him" (paraphrase)
imMD Kanye came from nothing now he sells clothes from Kmart and sells them ten times their price he went from making deep music to making music to get paid / he overall changed a lot but it's crazy how a nobody became what he is now actually now that I think about it/ Kanye changed a lot money fucked him up but he's happy and in a better place then he used to be
Wonder is one of the most underrated songs ever
Ya boy A-Cakes I Wonder... at least get the fuckin name right
Ya boy A-Cakes yesss def my favorite
Jonathan C, it's just never gonna be that deep bro....
And I wonder if you know what it means what it means to find your dreams come true?
Static what
Kanye was ahead of his time when he dropped graduation
I Am A God Kanye was ahead of his time when he dropped all his albums lol. Except TLOP that is. It's a good album but not as innovative as his others.
I know turbo grafx 16 will be 🔥🔥🔥 tho
Hussein PREACH, like all good artists, u never know what to expect when Kanye drops an album
meh Yeezus was an underground sound he made popular, didnt even exucute it that well
he was ahead of his time with all his projects
tru tru tru...
he made graduation he made graduation he made graduation he made graduation he made graduation he made graduation he made graduation
its fine he made graduation
He made graduation
He made graduation
He made Graduation
He made graduation
What an amazing album! I hope he keeps making amazing music and nothing bad will happen-
Oh boyyy
He totally wouldn’t release a half assed album that you have to pay $200 to listen to officially
@@Onitt222 donda was good donda 2 was DOG
@@Onitt222 And he definitely wouldn’t say anything nice about Austrian painters with moustaches, especially not if they were involved in any significant events in the early 1940s
plot twist: VULTURES dropped🗣️🔥
kanye did so much for hip hop
Too much
Rayner Fadhilah Chandra explain
*does
No. Hip Hop and Electronic music have been closely related ever since their inception. You can trace it back to as far as the early 80's with Afrika Bambaataa and Soulsonic Force. Kanye is a great artist and producer, but we need to be real and stop bullshitting ourselves, "Graduation" didn't change music and he didn't do that much to influence or change hip hop.
Then why did Hip Hop die ?
pretty wild that I'm still listening to this album
Cyranek hi
Cyranek I see you everywhere
Cyranek love your channel
thanks you too
Cyranek word. Graduation and the College Dropout are my favorites from him.
Yall should've done 808s& heartbreaks because ppl don't know how relevant that sound/style is & being used by almost every artist today.
mb1213 damn u didn't have to call him a dickhead bruh.
Pineapple Express 808s changed the whole pop industry forever...there's no drake, no weeknd, no travis,no cudi and so on without Kanye's 808s and Heartbreak. Atleast not with that sound.
F. Lashby lemme correct you there sir Cudi wrote 4 songs on 808s, Heartless,welcome to heartbreak,Robocop, & paranoid. If you think about it that whole vibe of 808s initially came from cudder. Cudi would've been cudi with or w/o Ye.
Pineapple Express Kanye gave him that clout he needed tho
Pineapple Express they both helped eachother out
I remember meeting him in New York, I was like 8 or 9. My school was invited to a ABC interview. He was there as well. When he was leaving he was signing autographs, By that time I didn't know how he was.
But anyway, he was signing autographs and I wanted his, just cause. Lmao.
He didnt wanna sign anymore books or cd's so he lied to me saying he didnt have a Marker to sing a paper for me. So I snatched a pen from a lady that was behind me. I just took it. Lol.
He looked at me and smiled 😂
He signed it an left afterwards.
Later, 8 years later I started hearing his music and I'm like "Damn! I met Kanye! He lied to me, saying he didnt have a marker, he smiled at me. Best day of my life and I didnt even realize it."
Reminds me of when Tupac signed my yellow balloon when I was a kid. Took me years to know who he even was 😅
@@supremenovah8013 do you still have the balloon?
Cantu its sarcasm
@vanshuhh last time that was said to someone, they ended up releasing The Big F̶l̶o̶p̶ Day
That’s so sick
He made graduation
He made graduation
He made graduation
He made graduation
Wait what did he make?
@@JustPineapple GRADUATION!
@@siddharthshakya7426 what did he make?
@@ZeldaBlade GRADUATION
@@Agus-uu6tz I didn’t hear you
WHAT DID HE MAKE?
People talk so much shit about me in barbershops..
they forget to get they haircut
The streets is flarin up, cause they want gun talk or I don't wear enough..
I don't remember that part of the song
Baggy clothes reeboks and adidos
So say goodbye to the NAACP Award
Say goodbye to the India Irie awards
Things Kanye West's Graduation changed:
1. It gave rise to trap beats/instrumentals being more mainstreamed/popularized than ever since after 2007 ("Can't Tell Me Nothing"). Trap music existed before but it was mostly in the south specifically ATL, Georgia with DJ Toomp pumping out a few hits for the likes of T.I. After that record, you saw trap become a huge force even presently with Future & all these new Lil Insert rappers being some of the most popular figures in today's music let alone Hip-Hop
2. It made popular the merging of electro-club sounds with Hip-Hop/R&B ("Flashing Lights" & "Stronger"). These days you hear a lot of R&B artists such as Rihanna and The Weeknd on those electro-club type instrumentals and hear Hip-Hop songs often mixed into electro-club/trap.
3. It made "Gangsta Rap" fall out of popularity in the mainstream as we know it and instead gave rise to modern more eccentric rappers in the mainstream like a Drake, Kanye himself, Kid Cudi, Big Sean, Kendrick Lamar, Chance the Rapper, etc.
4. It made the stadium sound more important than ever in Hip-Hop and rappers like Drake, Kendrick Lamar & even Jay-Z made their albums to that standard after Graduation came out.
5. It gave rise to daft punk and the modern electro-club/dance music popularity...DJs/producers like Calvin Harris, Diplo, DJ Snake, and Daft Punk owe some of their success to the widespread and continuing popularity of the record "Stronger"
lol daft punk did that on their own son
@@Nathan-np9zg it brought a new audience
Agree on 2, 3 and 4. 1 and 5 are sketchy
Rihanna is a pop artist not R&B
Daft Punk were legends years before Graduation though. They only rose especially in the US in the early 2010s, but looking worldwide, and especially Europe, their music was legendary and had an even bigger influence on music as a whole than Kanye.
What an intelligent young man. I wonder what he’s up to now
Much like many intelligent young man he's taken up the cause
I wonder if he loves everyone
and i wonder..
@Elijah I wonder if he will storm on a stage while being drunk and shout at a young women named Taylor swift, inevitably making her more famous and being hated by most of the music industry at the time
@@truebreakage9003 love your pfp
Something about Flashing Lights. Literally could be the greatest song ever.
Something about that song instantly takes me back to the second grade when I vaguely remember hearing it on the radio. Not the best song on the album IMO but there’s something exceptionally beautiful and emotional about flashing lights for sure
Same here I love Good Life, Can't Tell Me Nothing, and Stronger, but Flashing Lights is still to this day one of my favorite songs ever. That intro and hearing "Flashing... Lights Lights" gets me every time
Simplyy gta Iv
God Synths
It do be better Kanye songs
This vid doesn't really explain how Graduation changed music. There's no comparisons of how the landscape of music sounded before Graduation and then afterwards.
classic click bait shit.
EXACTLY
gangsta rap fell off, rappers became more interested in fashion, rap lyrics became more personal... how did this video miss all of that lol
Erin Star that’s true but in terms of fashion, Pharrell was already doing that with BBC and Bape (Nigo)
Fr
Everything Kanye makes is influential to the genre and culture.
It's all good shut up
friendly chicken cool
It's all good ive always thought that every album ye has made, except maybe pablo tbh, has had a huge impact on rap and it’s culture
Ice Mombay you right man
those soul and gospel samples that kanye flipped on pablo were incredible
This reminds me of one of his songs "Dream Killers". One part of it, he talks about how those in the rap community thought that he was too soft and that he made nice beats but no one want to hear what he had to say. He wasn't Gangsta or lived a hard enough life, Kanye exclaiming that he would probably would have to kill someone or they wouldn't let him be a rapper. This song came out in 2004, It's weird to think that not even that long ago rap was a whole different landscape and changed because of one guy.
Synths...strings...non gangster talk...fashion...don't u get it..:revolutionary
Wow sounds like stuff that every other genre of music has been doing for decades...truly revolutionary
Logan Martin but as a rapper it's impressive
People try so hard to downplay Kanye's accomplishments and his influence on music. Hate him or love him, he shaped today's music.
Logan Martin
LMAO never heard anything that sounds like graduation from the fucking Rolling Stones nigga
@@loganmartin3396 old head
This album is literally a part of my childhood. One of my favorites of all time.
Fr man I grew up listening to graduation, man on the moon and get rich or die tryin 🔥
Definitely for sure part of my childhood too & one of my favorite albums of all times
People here talking about how listening to "Drunk and hot girls" as kids is something positive. Your parents failed you there.
Lift Yourself changed the game forever without a doubt.
Woopity Scoop
Nah lose yourself
POOP?POOP?
lmao Drake wanted that beat but Kanye trolled and released "Lift Yourself".
@@ErickReyesRomeroBanks nah lift yourself
Kanye is more important to hip hop than Jay Z
postshanna Straight facts
its debatable not a fact. without jay z, we wouldnt hear about kanye
Without Andre 3000 there would be no Kanye
That’s VERY debatable. It depends on what’s “important”
postshanna For sure
yep. he changed hip hop and people still hate on him just cause everybody else does. don’t follow a train on the wrong track
+Bryan Lorenzo People hate on him because he acts like a douchebag sometimes.
Kailee Walden people don't realize he's been like this since he first started. He always had a big ego. My mom even met him in person and said he had that vibe. When he hit superstar status that's when the whole world started to take notice. People don't learn to appreciate his genius though. He has a right to have an ego
They don't hate on him because everyone else does, they just don't like him because that's their personal opinion.
"Don't follow a train on the wrong track" Best fucking quote ever bro.
Bryan Lorenzo i used to like him, not anymore i still listen too Graduation, Biggie, Bones N Harmony, Tupac and old stuff
Bruh i swear youtube stalking me, i been listening to graduation so much lately
mayan-kade Nelson healthy stalking
mayan-kade Nelson same bro lol
Mountain Man haha
mayan-kade Nelson Same
mayan-kade Nelson FOR REAL!!!! I been playing graduation on repeat on Apple Music the past few weeks and this gets recommended to me on YT like wtf ahahaha
when haven't I changed the game
KANYE WEST EXACTLY
KANYE WEST Well, U used to Work with the Game but, he still doing his Gangster-Rap Y'know...
There is a 20% chance you're doing an undercover video with GQ
yur not even the real kanye
I miss the old Kanye
This album could of come out yesterday and still sound like modern music, Graduation is and forever will be a timeless classic.
I couldn’t agree more, this is my favorite album
yes i hope this stays a classic and nothing wrong will happen
@@ummmhelloo01 still a classic. Separate art from the artist
Kanye really dropped 5 classics back to back 04 to 2010 genius
The first time I listened to some graduation songs I though they were like new songs lmao then I was like 2007?!
Graduation changed the landscape of hip-hop forever. He birthed a lot of these melodic acts today.
Can't Tell Me Nothing is one of the songs that describe my life in a nutshell lol.
Skinny Hardaway pure facts
graduation is one of those albums that i can consistently listen through and not skip a track. "champion", "good life", "homecoming", "the glory", "big brother", "i wonder". all of these are iconic and it hits harder now than when i was a kid
thought this was vox at first
Carl Both are great content creators
Carl vox's video on Kanye is amazing though
LeverWerks04 Otherwise known as BremenSnax Vox needs to stick to music tho. Fuck politics
Imnotsharingmyrealnameonthiswebsite W
Same
“Did you realize that you were a champion?!” - I play it every single time at the gym, at work or anywhere I need inspiration. Thanks Kanye.
love him or hate him, you gotta give the man respect where it's due
Poopy di scoop scoop diddy whoop
@@a.s.6517 best song oat
i hope later in life too 😀
Kanye West is a living legend!❤️
Even though he's a dickface irl
StarDaBoi even though you've never met the man in real life.
Tamás Botrágyi he's a walking living legend man he's feel like kobe
*God
Zoey Billy he said Kobe
I love graduation
I hate people who shit on Graduation. You had to be there to understand the impact this album had on Kanye’s career and the impact it had on hip hop. Plus the album has arguably 5 of Kanye’s best songs he’s ever made.
but it also had barry bonds and drunk and hot girls
i recognise the album for what it is, but it's not ye's best album for me
„ I wonder“ & „tell me nothing“are songs for motivating. Def a Top 10 songs imo by Kanye.
@@bollejoost Ok boomer
On God!!
“But sir, my client made Graduation!”
957.000 sales in the first week top 1 of hot200...10 years later and Graduation still on hot 200 Kanye is unstoppable🔥🔥
Lucas Carvalho Ferreira is it really? That's crazy
deshaun dozier it's not lol
It had a slow recurrence due to the 10 year anniversary.
@@samihanna7719 It's back to the bottom of hot 200 now and then
I Wonder is the best on the album IMO
Seany ThiccBoi how you gonna say that when there's flashing lights on the album?
Personal Preference
I Wonder lacks replay value for me. Synthesisers sound way too upbeat to be enjoyable for me tbh :/
But I guess I feel the same way about most of Graduation. As I've aged I've liked it less and less and even preferred Ye's more experimental albums like 808s and Yeezus (not TLOP though, never TLOP for me)
Seany ThiccBoi thought I was the only one that thought this
Seany ThiccBoi Flashing Lights has the beat beat tho
No words will ever describe how genius and skilled this man is
.
Say it with me y’all
He made graduation
He made graduation
He created the very popular album named graduation which ended the education themed album trilogy.
@@Ellwoo good
nah, he made the first three albums
He also made antisemitic comments
The end of the vid got me sad. Rest in paradise donda. Thanks for making the greatest man to touch this earth yet.
syd16packchicken who’s donda
eG Kiing His mother, she passed away when Kanye was around 20. :(
Kanye the goat 🔥🔥🔥
No
Franio Lenart Definitely not
Franio Lenart for sure bro🔥🔥
W
Franio Lenart no
Graduation is a fuckin mastapiece
CFxSlowlyY it's not
CJ alicea fuck off
deagle 44 fuck off? How about YOU fuck off.
CJ alicea
Yeah, you fuck off
all his albums are. Even Yeezus
Kanye West is a genius, don't @ me
Nicholas Friscia he defo is, I think he is imo, the greatest artist in the past 50-100 yrs
Who da Fook nope
@glory ayara He's a great artist but defenetly not the best. There are bands and people who are better musicians and brought way more changes to music. For example the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Queen, ELO, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan and much more.
@@hxhx1456 yeah but the fact the he was all by himself and had no body to go except his mom who later passed is pretty crazy compared to the bands you mentioned full of multiple talented people.
@@glory2002-GC HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA and very local: nowhere known outside of us
Great video!
How about "How Every Single Kanye Album Changed Music"
Jesus is king not
Cristian ramos mañas yes it did
Royal_JJ_17 how
@Daniel Martinez but I'm sure with the new Donda the best Kanye will be back
@@Cristian-cd2rc i hate to say this, but jesus is king is flopped
the life of pablo is very underrated
Gfdb Ff RIGHT
Gfdb Ff it's super inconsistent imo
Gfdb Ff It's his worst album, and i'm a big Kanye Stan
Paul Jesus it is very inconsistent. It has high notes such as 30 Hours and Ultralight Beam and then there is the trash like Facts and Pt 2
Shit, I thought I was the only Kanye stan
Homecoming will forever be my favorite Ye track. Graduation is my favorite Ye album and I personally think it's his best
I graduated high school in 2007. I feel bad for kids who graduated this year, the best selling album this year is Scorpion lol
Yeah I graduated in 2018. But my fav albums were astroworld, nasir, taboo, rolling papers 2 and daytona
NCC13 it must’ve felt great graduating high school from 2007-2010 lol great years for music
NCC13 so do I
Your honor, my client made graduation. He deserves to walk free, with a 2.5 trillion reparation.
Homecoming gives me the feels
Special Snowflake yes I loved homecoming
Still listening to Through the Wire, Slow Jams and Overnight Celebrity daily!
What's amazing is that just a few days ago I decided to listen the album in it's entirety because I had only known the hit songs off the album and 1-2 others. *Man did I miss out!* I got to love songs I never heard until now like "Champion", "Barry Bonds" and my fav now *"I Wonder"* ..the outro to that song is a masterpiece. Kanye did a fantastic job with that trilogy! It influenced so much of the sounds we hear today.
2007 was an important yr in music period
YES! THANK YOU
true
It was the year both Kanye West and Rihanna became superstars, and it was the year Kanye would change the rap game.
Now it’s been 17 years
his music tells me I AM THE MAIN CHARACTER. idc what anyone else says but that's the only thing i need in a song
2020 and the album still sounds so relevant
Kanye makes timeless music
he made graduation.
I very recently got into Kanye through Graduation. I don’t approve of many of his actions. But, that doesn’t change the fact that he’s an incredibly talented artist.
Same
Kanye = 🐐
Poopy di scoop scoop diddy whoop
3:27 is one of the most wholesome heart warming examples of Kanye and the 2000's. He holding the damn camera backwards for a selfie... Brings so many memories.
3:00 chord progression got me weeping. Ain’t even the first time I heard it
This really influenced me when I was little. This is what my dad only played in the car and I’d recognize them from the bass of it. I very much miss music like Kanye’s. 🙏 stay blessed to who’m is reading this
My Top 5 Kanye Albums
1.MBDTF
2. Late Registration
3. College Dropout
4. Graduation
5. 808s & Heartbreaks
TCD over Graduation?
@@sigurdvickery3523 TCD is supposed to be #1 tf are you talking about
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Mbdtf
College dropout
Graduation
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1. Mbdtf
2. Late registration
3. Graduation
4. College dropout
5. Throne
6. 808s
7. Yeezus
8. Jesus is king
9. Ye
I would put college dropout in 2, put 808s in 1 and graduation in 3 tbh
HE MADE GRADUATION AHHHHHHHHHHH
Only record from ‘07 that’s still relevant imo
Graduation completely changed the pace of Kanye's discography and his production style only got better and so did he
This is kanyes best album. It's timeless, I listen to it still today
I miss the old kanye
Chop up the beats kanye.
Still listen to it
The album is perfect for driving at night with sunglasses on
Saul Goodman: your honor, my client made Graduation
He made graduation but he supportd someone who failed graduation
Art school dropout
"Flashing Lights" is still my favorite Kanye song. Thank you for Graduation Ye 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Kanye is a genius. One of the most talented and influential dudes of our generation.
2021 and i’m still hearing this album.
One of the first albums I bought as a little kid without knowing who Kanye west was. I chose it because I like the art work, and I never expected for it to be as good as it was. I still have my copy and I will always treasure it because it opened me to a lot of good music.
What a nice and confident young man I hope nothing bad happens in his personal life which would set off a chain reaction causing him to say something terrible
Kid cudi helped influence his sound too
Danny Bravo Yeah he influenced 808s
Not graduation just 808’s, graduation influenced Cudi
Graduation outselling Curtis was a turn for music; a wrench in music history. It indirectly told artists of the time what younger listeners craved, and where music would go
Hands down still my favorite Kanye album
Graduation and Blueprint 3 are my favourite ever albums.
Flashing Lights, I wonder, Bittersweet Poetry Still my favorite song
Graduation was great, but I feel like 808 is where Kanye really changed his style.
jeebs621 And MBDTF is his best work
All albums. But MBDTF other level.
MBDTF wasn't his most progressive, but probably his most accessible and confident work. Personally I think either 808s or Yeezus is his best, but those are where it becomes more of an acquired taste.
808s gave birth to the freedom musically and artistically to create mbdtf. Before that album there wasn't anything quite like it, after is when everything became more emotionally driven and less "gangster rappy".
The Glory is criminally underrated
And exactly 14 years later it’s release I see this vid on my recommended
And Stronger is diamond. Ye is always ahead of the curve.
Kanye West is most definitely the greatest hip hop ARTIST. He has his great lyrical moments, he's not vocally amazing, he doesn't dance, but man, the man has so much musical depth and unlimited creativity. Best hip hop artist IMO.
Graduation is my favorite album of all time, so much that i even have the Graduation Bear tattooed on my forearm. Thank you Kanye for the best album of all time
3:57 the jaws wasn't stopping either one!
He made graduation He made graduation He made graduation He made graduation He made graduation
Someone throw this dude in the asylum
Flashing Lights is definitely a top five Kanye song
I Miss the old Kanye
When Kanye dropped Graduation, people were saying "I miss the old Kanye"
J3r3m1ah
That's all it was Kanye, we still love Kanye
I don't. I'm glad he tries different things and adapts in his own way. It's what separates him from Jay, 50 Cent, etc who aren't nearly as relevant as they used to be.
We all do
Great song.
He made graduation he made graduation he made graduation he made graduation
This album sold 900k+ units in a single week. Let it sink in
graduation ended the gangsta rap and the 50cent era it feels like
2:43
Those lyrics literally don't show his ego.
He's talking about how the fame got to his head, he stopped listening to his mom, and he made bad decisions.
he made graduation
808's and heartbreak I think really changed the game. And kinda paved the way to bring about a lot of the artist we have today.
They wouldn’t accept 808s and heartbreak if it wasn’t for the graduation though you gotra peep the sounds
HE MADE GRADUATION
HE MADE GRADUATION
HE MADE GRADUATION
You didnt explain how he changed the industry through Graduation. You just talked about its impacts on music.
I think Graduation was THE hip-hop album that got me into rap/hip-hop as a kid. Champion, Flashing Lights, Good Life, Everything I Am, Glory…man good memories 😊❤
Can’t believe it’s been 13 years since flashing lights came out ..... sounds fresh every time I hear it