It took longer than it should have but I ended up falling in love with the album and also gaining so much more respect for Kanye as a person, which I didn’t think was possible. It was such a polarising album, people seemed to love it or hate it. I was loving Kanye’s songs, I just wanted him to stick to the formula that was working for him, but that’s not who Kanye is.Īt the time I remember my friends were all so divided on whether it was good or not as well. Kanye made such a positive impact to hip hop music with his first few albums, he had quickly become one of my favourite artists. He had alienated so many people with this experimental record with weird electronic sounds and heavily auto-tuned vocals, it sounded like an amalgamation of Phil Collins and Santigold, who I am actually massive fans of, so why did I hate the album? For me, it was too different. I was disappointed and thought Kanye was crazy for changing his sound. He was on an upwards trajectory, I thought he’d continue to make smash after smash, then he dropped 808s & Heartbreak. He was groundbreaking with his production, subject matter, delivery, voice and fashion sense with videos that displayed a potential genius, long before it was self-professed by Kanye himself. When he dropped The College Dropout he was such a breath of fresh air for hip hop.
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