College Dropout has Aged Turribly

[SwagKingKong]

fukk outta here, its one of the best hiphop albums of all-time and one of the few 10+ years album I can still listen to

We don't care
All falls down
spaceship
jesus walks
never let me down
get em high
two words
through the wire
family business
last call

all dope, still to this day

 

[mobbinfms]

its one of the best hiphop albums of all-time

 

[retroracer]

1 song = an album?


want me to pull up videos of EM @ coachella playin tracks from SSLP MMLP TES to make my point like you just did


try again

you dumb motherfukker. you just said since new workout plan wasn't all that great that means there no way the album can be classic....1 song = an album fuccboi?

 

[Not Crodie]

tbh

 

[O.Red]

I still bump it sparingly.....The only issue I have with it are that the beats don't bang hard as they should. The drums were weak as fukk.

Kanye said on Juan Epstein that drums have always been his biggest weakness and n something he's always trying to improve

He says he gets it right sometimes but that shyt don't knock like Mike Will or Travis Scott

He also said that Yeezus was his excercise in drums

 

[NoHalfWay]

We Don't Care, School Spirit, Breathe In Breathe Out are prime examples of horribly aged tracks

Drums sound like when nikkas was in school dropping a beat on the desk with pencils and shyt
And the Workout Plan was always wack

 

[ROFL_GUY]

you dumb motherfukker. you just said since new workout plan wasn't all that great that means there no way the album can be classic....1 song = an album fuccboi?

 

[Wacky D]

LOL. This shyt has to be age related.

I was halfway through college when CD dropped. I fukking hated this album. Still do. You can't pay me enough to listen to this shyt from start to finish. That quasi RnB gospel pop bullshyt with weak drums and TERRIBLE rapping....hell no.

Yeah we rocked to Slow Jamz and Get Em High at parties (and I still don't mind Family Business) but this album was overrated on release.

@Big Mel correct me if I'm wrong, but all this hip hop savior shyt started with Kanye. People straight up bought this album because it wasn't gangsta rap. How the fukk do you buy something because it's not something else? But the hilarious part about it was.... the album took off because Jay-Z, the hardcore pop rapper, cosigned it.

Since then, there has been a new rapper every couple years that is supposed to be 'the guy who makes hip hop non-violent and wholesome again'.

yea. there was a communal effort to blow kanye up.

chit was so forced. i already knew what time it was back then.

to his credit tho, the album was full of hits.

 

[LunaticVillage415]

I haven't listened to College Dropout since it first dropped. But the message of the album resonates more today than ten years ago because ever since after 2008, the majority of college graduates today aren't getting good jobs for what they studied. No other Rap album before CD addressed the worthlessness of a college "education" better than this one. Ye talked about Jesus on "Jesus Walks" and materialism in the black community on "All Falls Down" and got these songs played on the radio. A song called "Jesus Walks" being played at the club in an era where everyone was trying to be a goon and a d-boy wearing a t-shirt designed as a woman's nightgown?

If anything, listening to CD is depressing at this day in age. It takes it back to a not so long ago era when somebody stepped to the plate just being themselves and offered a fresh perspective of living a somewhat morally decent life in God and avoiding fake gangsterism and materialism. Kanye got these suburb wanksters trying to live out Reasonable Doubt trapping in the 'burbs to trade their size 60 Mitchell and Ness throwbacks and 6XL Galaxy tees for Polo bear sweaters, blazers and Ralph Polo shirts. Rap nowadays is like how it was before CD dropped but worse, everybody is trying to be a thug and listens to hardcore trap shyt even though the crime rate in every city in America has hit historic lows. Everybody nowadays either drinks like a fish, sips lean a.k.a. liquid heroin or fukks with molly. The rise of social media in the mid to late 2000's has caused all sorts of fukkery. Everybody is pretending to be rich when they're really broke. Everybody is a straight thug on Facebook and everybody is a straight baller on Instagram. Whatever happened to the realness from back in the past? We need a new album like CD to drop but addressing these issues.

 

[Wild self]

yea. there was a communal effort to blow kanye up.

chit was so forced. i already knew what time it was back then.

to his credit tho, the album was full of hits.

You think that we be better off with 40 year old cats dictating the trends like Hov? While remaining stagnant from the early 00s?

 

[Foxmulder]

We Don't Care
All Falls Down
Spaceship
Jesus Walks
Never Let Me Down
Get Em High
Slow Jamz
School Spirit
Two Words
Through The Wire
Family Business
Last Call

5 mic classic Ye doing Jordan numbers 6/6 classics

 

[Wacky D]

You think that we be better off with 40 year old cats dictating the trends like Hov? While remaining stagnant from the early 00s?

are you talking about?

btw, all jay-z did was follow trends. he never set anything.

 

[Kill Dat Noize]

are you talking about?

btw, all jay-z did was follow trends. he never set anything.

this may be a bold claim, because i am sure he wasn't the first... but i believe jay was the one to POPULARIZE the hustler's mentality as it pertained to rap music.

i feel like every rapper that came out since the early 2000's that was on that "get ya paper by any means" steez was because of jay. all of sudden everyone was spittin money metaphors and hustler commandments. droppin luxury brands and equating success with $$$.

in the 80's the nicest rapper was the one with the best lyrics, but after jay came through he kinda rewrote the rules and the best rapper became the one who sold the most albums... or the one that had that made the most money... or the one that was gettin it the most before rap.

plus let's be real jay was just cool. i know he's become easy to hate on now because he's the old dude on the block still clinging onto the younger dudes, but when he first blew up around 98 there was no denying the swag. his flow, his demeanor... he was definitely the hottest rapper out and easily a trendsetter.

 

[Wacky D]

this may be a bold claim, because i am sure he wasn't the first... but i believe jay was the one to POPULARIZE the hustler's mentality as it pertained to rap music.

i feel like every rapper that came out since the early 2000's that was on that "get ya paper by any means" steez was because of jay. all of sudden everyone was spittin money metaphors and hustler commandments. droppin luxury brands and equating success with $$$.

in the 80's the nicest rapper was the one with the best lyrics, but after jay came through he kinda rewrote the rules and the best rapper became the one who sold the most albums... or the one that had that made the most money... or the one that was gettin it the most before rap.

plus let's be real jay was just cool. i know he's become easy to hate on now because he's the old dude on the block still clinging onto the younger dudes, but when he first blew up around 98 there was no denying the swag. his flow, his demeanor... he was definitely the hottest rapper out and easily a trendsetter.

HELL TO THE NAW!!!

 

[SirBiatch]

btw, all jay-z did was follow trends. he never set anything.

You'll have to explain this one, bruh.