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| 3.5 by Rolling Stone |
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| n/a by uk.launch.yahoo.com |
There will be few better albums released this year. |
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| n/a by www.stylusmagazine.com |
Throughout The College Dropout, Kanye subverts cliches from both sides of the hip-hop divide, which again isn’t unprecedented, but still refreshing and revelatory coming from someone who could have just as easily stood pat on his massive Midas-producer stacks. |
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| n/a by www.nytimes.com |
2004's first great hip-hop album. [9 Feb 2004] |
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| n/a by www.theonionavclub.com |
With sterling quality to match its massive advance hype, The College Dropout is one of those wonderful crossover albums that appeal to a huge audience without sacrificing a shred of integrity. |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
That level of "realness", the way that the songs ring true whether he's bragging or self-criticizing, joking or praying, is what makes The College Dropout more than worthy of all of the attention that it's getting. |
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| n/a by www.tinymixtapes.com |
College Dropout contains some of the most intelligent and clever lyrics hip-hop has produced in a while, be it mainstream or underground. |
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| n/a by www.amazon.com |
West magically sledgehammers home his opinions on taboo topics over beats that are equally daring. |
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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
A flawed, overlong, hypocritical, egotistical, and altogether terrific album. |
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| n/a by www.villagevoice.com |
West's witty, self-produced solo debut, College Dropout, frolics in this space between should and can, between playful hyper-awareness and young, willful naïvete. |
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| n/a by www.vibe.com |
Delivers both ass-shakers and contemplative cuts. |
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| n/a by www.newyorkmetro.com |
A sprawling and undisciplined mess... but it’s fully attuned to what made West so compelling in the first place, namely chunks of samples that feel raw and convey an underdog sensibility. |
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| n/a by www.shakingthrough.net |
College Dropout is a competent if overlong debut, which serves up solid but by no means groundbreaking production work a little too dependent on familiar hooks from '70s R&B staples. |
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