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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Roc-a-Fella
Salesrank: 3389
Released: February 10, 2004 |
| Our Price: $7.05 |
| Used Price: $2.48 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The College Dropout Track Listing:
1. Intro
2. We Don't Care
3. Graduation Day
4. All Falls Down
5. I'll Fly Away
6. Spaceship
7. Jesus Walks
8. Never Let Me Down
9. Get Em High
10. Workout Plan
11. The New Workout Plan
12. Slow Jamz
13. Breathe in Breathe Out
14. School Spirit Skit 1
15. School Spirit Skit 2
16. Lil Jimmy Skit
17. Two Words
18. Through the Wire
19. Family Business
20. Last Call
Editorial Review:
This debut from the most sought-after hip-hop producer not named Pharrell delivers the unthinkable: West magically sledgehammers home his opinions on taboo topics over beats that are equally daring. The envelope-ripping beats shouldn't come as a surprise given that he's supplied the soundscapes to monster singles by everyone from Alicia Keys ("You Don't Know My Name") to Talib Kweli ("Get By"). What is freakish is that in West's world, rhymes about strippers, God, college life, and guns can co-exist tidily and not undermine each other. On "Breathe In Breathe Out" he raps "I gotta apologize to Mos and Kweli/is it cool to rap about gold if I told the world I copped it from Ghana and Mali"--tongue firmly planted in cheek. On the catchy "Through the Wire," fuelled by a Chaka Khan hook, he spits some impeccable rhymes despite his jaw being wired shut after a near-fatal car accident. Maybe it was this brush with mortality that kicked his lyrics into high gear on "All Falls Down." The skits on here are just as potent, one poking fun at the overeducated underclass that makes a small fraction of the loot he does. With jaw-dropping cameos from Jay-Z, Common, Mos Def, and the Harlem Boys Choir plus the feel-good club tune of the year, "Slow Jamz" featuring Twista, College Dropout is as explosive, contradictory, and complex as rap music gets. --Dalton Higgins
The College Dropout Reviews:
Surprisingly Good...This album is great! 
2009-12-20 - By underground standards Kanye West is not very complex in terms of his lyrics. He's mediocre. He's not good enough. He's weak. He's this. He's that. FORGET THAT BS FOR THE REST OF THE REVIEW. I brought this for 1 friggin dollar used just out of curiousity. I wasn't exactly floored the first time around, but I'll admit. Its great music.
LEMME BREAK IT DOWN...
-Kanye's simplistic lyrics aren't hard to listen to. I mean, if you are a "seasoned" underground head, you could be doing calculus homework and still catch EVERYTHING he says with ease. There's no hidden messages here. Just fun, simplistically conscious lyrics. DONT EXPECT MOS DEF BOBS CALIBER.
-ALL the beats are on point. It's early Kanye. He was still a BEAST. The beats and lyrics fuse together to make the funnest ("some of em dislexic, their favorite 50 Cent song is 12 Questions" LOL), most entertaining album (I'm killin these ni**az on this lyrical s***, mayonaise colored Benz I push miracle whips" LOL AGAIN)I've listened to since Sean Price's "Monkey Barz" and "Jesus Price Superstar."
-It's not perfect. Breath In, Breath Out and Workout Plan were both garbage. NONE of the skits help out the album. They're practically useless.
-The best Outro OF ALL TIME IS "Last Call." It was genius. He told his story basically. Most outros suck, but this outro is the BEST I'VE EVER HEARD IN MY LIFE. Outro was utilized to PERFECTION.
THE FINAL VRDICT...
BUY IT. I guarentee you'll like it. If don't find something to like albut it you're either bull-headed or you REALLY HATE HIS CURRENT IMAGE. Forget that. It's 2004 Kanye. He was still himself. He made an album for the mainstream that got us underground heads lookin. I still enjoy it even though I listen to more complex lyricists such as Common, eLZHi, K-Rino etc. Kanye holds the album down lyrically still tho. I don't care.
Best Album of his Career 
2009-11-23 - The College Dropout is Through The Wire, you have to Breathe In Breathe Out, and I have Two Words "Jesus Walks" I was in 10th grade and I played Socom II on PS2 and I listened to this CD everytime is played the game and I played the game a lot. Once I heard Through The Wire I knew I had to get this album. He had good Feature artist like Jay-Z, Common, Talib Kweli, Twista, Freeway, and much more. Top 5 songs Through The Wire, Jesus Walks, Slow Jamz, We Don't Care, and All Falls Down
Racist Kanye West 
2009-09-18 - Since Kanye West has made it more than obvious that he does not like white people, I suggest white people do not buy his c.d's.
Great CD! In great shape!
2009-09-11 - bought this for my daughter.. she loved it
and had no problems with it!Great price too!
Album dropoff 
2009-08-23 - 2 1/2
The relatively fresh producer debuted with a strongly sampled single in Wire, but is very inconsistent and overly assured in his weakly-rhymed album, balancing out a majority of club blabberings with a few real standouts... becoming singles, of course.
