![]() Sure, we know that Kanye ended up marrying someone else, but you cannot substitute how much Kanye shares on this track. Also it has one of Kanye’s most personal verses, where he raps about how he said goodbye to his girlfriend’s late father before he passed away, promising to one day marry her. Ivy and Jay-Z, this is one of The College Dropout’s most beautiful tracks with a great chorus and production to match it. No song in rap or even music, touches on religion, and does it as well as ‘Jesus Walks’. With this track and this album generally, Kanye showed everyone that you don’t have to rap about guns, drugs, and b*tches to make good hip-hop music. Who knows where Kanye would be without this track? Arguably his greatest song of all time, and one of the songs to really change how rap music is made. Jesus Walks – Over an unforgettable drumline, Kanye shows us his relationship with God. The production and way the song is put together is brilliant, and Marvin Gaye’s ‘Distant Lover’ sample doesn’t hurt either. Here Ye discusses the ghettos of Chicago while recruiting the help of his friends GLC and Consequence. He certainly is no Usher, but he also doesn’t need autotune either. Spaceship – One of the first times we ever found out that not only can Kanye rap and produce, but he can sing too. From Syleena Johnson’s vocals to the themes of class and wealth, ‘All Falls Down’ is 1o out of 10. It may not be a ‘club banger’, but it is rare to find someone who does not love this track, and DJs know that. He also sprinkles in some Kanye humor “and some of them dyslexic, they favorite 50 Cent song ’12 Questions.” This song, as is the entire album (no surprise), is produced by West himself of course.Īll Falls Down – A favorite of many, ‘All Falls Down’ is one of The College Dropouts singles and lasting hits that you will still hear in the club today. In this song, Kanye talks about growing up in Chicago, witnessing people sell drugs out of the sheer desperation. Now you won’t too often hear Kanye rapping about drugs, none the less celebrating them, but his first track of his first album does just that, and in a beautiful way. We Don’t Care – “Drug dealin’ just to get by, stack ya money till it gets sky high”. Instead however, not only was it pressed, but it was received with wide critical acclaim and gave us classic hip-hop tracks like ‘Jesus Walks’ ‘All Falls Down’ ‘Through the Wire’ and ‘Slow Jamz’. This album, released by Roc-A-Fella Records, was the album that people told the young producer that he could never make. This album is still today considered one of the best, if not the best, freshman albums of all time (up there with Nas’ Illmatic and 50 Cent’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’). This week it’s the classic album that introduced us to Kanye West, The College Dropout. ![]() On Thursdays we review albums that are considered “classic”.
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