不论是 Kanye 自掏腰包花了 65 万美金为歌曲《Jesus Walk》拍摄的后两部 MV;还是第四十五届格莱美奖上《Jesus Walk》与当时还是他老板的 Jay-Z 作品《99 Problems》的针锋相对,《The College Dropout》制造的争议话题一路领跑,高调地奏响了「大学三部曲」的序曲。 Late Registration Album Cover Morning Breath ...
Artist: Kanye West (feat. Syleena Johnson) Album: The College Dropout Song: All Falls Down Lyrics : [Chorus - 4x] Oh when it all, it all falls down I'm telling you ohh, it all falls down [Verse - Kanye West] Man I promise, she's so self conscious She has no idea what she's...
Kanye West was born into a middle-class family in Atlanta on June 8, 1977. At the age of three, his parents divorced and Kanye moved to Chicago with his mother. At the age of five, Kanye began writing poetry. At the age of eight, he developed a strong interest in rap and painting....
wrestling with his own internal contradictions and self-doubt on “The College Dropout” before blossoming into one of hip-hop’s most expansive talents; and Cole, the Jay-Z protege who was the first artist signed to his Roc Nation label, and who repaid that...
The College Dropout, 2004 Kanyehas never been shy about his God complex, but humility, not hubris, made “Jesus Walks” hip-hop’s finest gospel testimonial. The production is stunning – built on a sample of a Harlem choir cresting above a martial beat – as West avoids easy pieties an...
See the TLOP artwork re-imagined with other Kanye album titles (i.e. Yeezus, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and The College Dropout).
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The College Dropoutpresented an artist who was already extremely well-known as a beatmaker. But Kanye’s carefully crafted persona as the bridge between mainstream rap and the underground — "First n— with a Benz and a backpack," as he put it — meant that he appealed to pretty much eve...
Behind the weight of "Through the Wire", "Slow Jamz", and "All Falls Down", The College Dropout moved crazy units, and "Jesus Walks" struck the FM dial. With earnest lines like "Lord, show me the way cuz the devil's trying to break me down" and a beat like a Shawshank two-...