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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Roc-a-Fella
Salesrank: 5058
Released: February 10, 2004 |
| Our Price: $8.25 |
| Used Price: $1.76 |
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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:
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.
XXL
2009-07-23 - *WOW* I just got this the other day. There are enough in-depth reviews here. Just get it, it's unique, positive, fresh...still. Nothing less than a XXL.
I don't know 
2009-05-31 - I don't know how I feel about him sampling one of the greatest songs ever written (lyrically speaking). All Falls Down is a lyric from Mystery of Iniquity by Lauryn Hill which is one of the most convicting/life giving songs I have ever heard. that woman loves the LORD like CRAZINESS and her Unplugged record reflects it. Get it. Soak in what she is saying. You won't regret it. That album has brought me to tears time after time.
