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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Roc-A-Fella Records
Salesrank: 4044
Released: September 11, 2007 |
| Our Price: $6.00 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Graduation Track Listing:
1. Good Morning
2. Champion
3. Stronger
4. I Wonder
5. Good Life feat. T-Pain
6. Can't Tell Me Nothing
7. Barry Bonds feat. Lil Wayne
8. Drunk and Hot Girls feat. Mos Def
9. Flashing Lights feat. Dwele
10. Everything I Am feat. Scratches by DJ Premier
11. The Glory
12. Homecoming
13. Big Brother
Editorial Review:
Graduation is the 3rd installment in the Kanye West series of ground breaking albums, targeting every school kid, from those that have dropped out (Debut Album, College Dropout), to those late registrants (sophmore album Late Registration), to those that have gone on and completed school (current album Graduation). Though technically this earmarks a junior year, West's approach to crafting this album was very much senior. Kanye teams up with veterans Daft Punk and Edwin Birdsong on "Stronger"- Graduation's forthcoming single; as well as enlisting a little help from current chart topper T-Pain on "Good Life". Chris Martin of Coldplay appears on a track called "HomeComing" as well. Kanye has continued to prove his understanding and appreciation for a wide array of music and musical influences. What makes GRADUATION so special? Like most Kanye titles, his fearlessness and blindness to inhibiting boundaries, coupled with his fan driven core competence is evidence that he knows exactly what people yearn for...great music, perspective, and a voice to be heard.
Description of Graduation:
Kanye West's third in a whimsical trilogy of "scholarly" albums, Graduation wears its predecessors' badges of success on its sleeve. Matriculation has its rewards, apparently, and it's time to take stock. Lyrically, there's plenty of self-congratulation to attend to, but the real fun comes in the collabs, and West chooses co-conspirators like a kid in a candy store--John Legend ("Good Life"), Coldplay's Chris Martin ("Homecoming"), Mos Def and the Section Quartet (both adorable choices for the foreboding "Drunk and Hot Girls")--and plucks samples with A-list braggadocio: Elton John, Steely Dan, Daft Punk, Can, Michael Jackson, Public Enemy. Nothing here quite captures the superlative symbiosis of West's past best beats (think "Gold Digger"), but the central motif remains: No one ever accused Kanye West of being too cool for school, and Graduation still knows how to party. True, Kanye West will happily whine about the pitfalls at the top of the heap, clear his throat and try to rhyme it with Barry Bonds, or diss fish in a barrel all day, but that can't stop a shameless good time, and Graduation maintains an unshakeable knack for producing it. --Jason Kirk
Graduation Reviews:
Dope diploma 
2009-11-22 - 3 1/2
Some of West's most compelling, albeit highly synthesized samples to date are enough to keep things fresh, though the constant self-absorption via weak delivery can grow tiresome.
It's okay.
2009-09-27 - I remember first listening to Late Registration, possibly one of the greatest albums I have ever heard. I was excited to get Graduation to get more Kanye. I was not that impressed, the album definitely has more of a commercial sound(Stronger, Can't Tell me Nothing, Good Life, Drunk and Hot Girls). It's still a good album, but I love Lat Registration so much more.
Excellent 
2009-08-18 -
One of the best CDs I've purchased in years. A must for any Kanye fan.
worth every penny, and then some 
2009-04-27 - I bought "Curtis" instead of this when they had the sales showdown. Ended up buying "Graduation" used on Amazon like six months later. I would pay $30-40 for this CD if necessary.
This album is very good. The beats are so natural sounding and Kanye's raps go perfectly with them. "Drunk and Hot Girls" is kind of a stupid song but all others are great. Nice change from gangster rap.
So much better than Curtis.
good effort from kanye
2009-04-17 - A solid album from Kanye at the height of his commercial success. Production is a lot more polished.
This album is good for people who like his "pop" stuff, but probably beyond those who got with him early.
These songs were all over the radio and club, so you probably know what you're getting into here. :)
