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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
The sprawling Late Registration is the year's most accomplished rap album, and in turn, he's done something that his heroes-- the Pharcyde and Nas, and father figure Jay-Z-- couldn't do: deliver on a promise the second time around. |
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| 8 by Aftonbladet |
På hiphopmusic.com upprepade Jay Smooth det som alltid sagts om Kanye West som artist: “Förlåt mig för att jag säger det uppenbara, men problemet med Kanye West-skivor är att det är en rappare s... |
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| n/a by NME |
By freshening up his style without entirely abandoning it, West still has the rest of the rap world playing catch-up. |
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| n/a by Billboard |
By the end of this 21-track opus, you still might not like West's self-assured declarations, but you will not be able to deny his talent. |
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| 5 by Rolling Stone |
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| n/a by www.stylusmagazine.com |
Not a dud, certainly not a work of cosmic art. It’s meekly above-average. |
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| n/a by www.amazon.com |
Late Registration can't replicate the novelty of last year's College Dropout, but otherwise, this is an impressively more mature and labored-over album. |
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| n/a by www.guardian.co.uk |
The music offers further evidence of how far outside rap's usual strictures West operates. OutKast aside, mainstream hip-hop doesn't really do ambiguity or irony, but just as West's arrogance occasionally appears to be a protracted joke, Late Registration finds him in thrillingly subversive form, working in the production booth to undercut tracks' messages and shifting their meanings. |
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| n/a by www.nytimes.com |
For much of "Late Registration," the striver has turned into a hip-hop V.I.P., and a cool arrogance has crept into the songs. [29 Aug 2005] |
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| n/a by uk.launch.yahoo.com |
"Late Registration" feels more comfortable in its own skin than its predecessor. |
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| n/a by www.eonline.com |
A dynamic piece of work. |
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| n/a by www.prefixmag.com |
The record succeeds because of the instrumentals. |
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| n/a by www.musicomh.com |
It's a cleverly and thoughtfully composed album, bereft of filler and loaded with style and substance. |
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| n/a by www.playlouder.com |
KW's album can only be thought of as even remotely good while we don't have a young, hungry KRS One, RZA, Rakim Allah, Gift of Gab or Ol Dirty Bastard to challenge him. |
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| n/a by www.avclub.com |
Late Registration, is every bit as ambitious as its predecessor, but without Dropout's strong narrative, it's less successful in realizing that ambition. |
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| n/a by www.shakingthrough.net |
West is still a better assembler of talent than he is an MC. |
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| n/a by www.cokemachineglow.com |
Late Registration really wants to be an album album, which makes all the more frustrating and undermining the fact that it mirrors the flaws of its predecessor: the glut and the stilted sequencing. |
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| n/a by www.adequacy.net |
Remarkably consistent and almost infinitely enjoyable. |
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| n/a by www.drawerb.com |
Late Registration... definitely mines familiar terrain, but West’s zeal for clever wordplay juxtaposed with his unflinching confidence makes for a charismatic and often electrifying punch. |
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| 8 by Dagensskiva.com |
På hiphopmusic.com upprepade Jay Smooth det som alltid sagts om Kanye West som artist: “Förlåt mig för att jag säger det uppenbara, men problemet med Kanye West-skivor är att det är en rappare s... |
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