College Dropout has Aged Turribly

[hatechall]

Who cares if an album ages well? That's not the point of dropping an album. Did Illmatic age well? What about Ready to Die?

Being creative is what matters. Nobody was making songs like, "Hey Mama" or "Family Business" in 2004.
Overall it wasn't a great album, but it had 3 or 4 beautiful records that compensated for the mediocre stuff.

 

[milik_19]

Still love this album, but surely not the classic album everyone claims. Solid 8/10 album. But yes, the drums are very wack.

 

[mrken12]

Who cares if an album ages well? That's not the point of dropping an album. Did Illmatic age well? What about Ready to Die?

Yes they did.

all of kanyes albums dont hold up to today. hell even MBDTF sounds dated as fukk.

 

[SirBiatch]

Who cares if an album ages well? That's not the point of dropping an album. Did Illmatic age well? What about Ready to Die?

Being creative is what matters. Nobody was making songs like, "Hey Mama" or "Family Business" in 2004.
Overall it wasn't a great album, but it had 3 or 4 beautiful records that compensated for the mediocre stuff.

I used to play the shyt out of Family Business, even though I hated the album from jump street (still do). I still think it's a top 3 Ye song.

 

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

just stay outshinin kanya . look @ the blueprint

The best songs on The Blueprint were produced by Kanye.

all of kanyes albums dont hold up to today. hell even MBDTF sounds dated as fukk.

MBDTF is actually the most time tested album out of his whole catalog

 

[TruDatz]

Album didn't age well because ye ain't the same. Can't listen to dropout without turning that shyt off. Look at what ole boy dun turned into.. Smh

 

[TheDarceKnight]

The best songs on The Blueprint were produced by Kanye.

It's hard for me to call it. I think it's even. Heart of the City through Song Cry is one of the best 3 song runs in hip-hop, and they both have production on there. U Don't Know is one of the top 5 hardest joints of Jay's career, and THE song that brought chipmunk beats into the picture. Basically every other vocal sample on the album isn't even sped up. Hard for me to say whether Kanye or Just did better on there. Everything both of them did was bulletproof. Kanye had 5 beats on there to Just's 4, so I guess you could say Ye had "more" heat on the album.

 

[ROFL_GUY]

@Don Jesus

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

This is timeless music. The only thing that didn't age well was Koonye

 

[DrX]

sped up soul samples n general didn't age well

 

[Olu Dara]

Who cares if an album ages well? That's not the point of dropping an album. Did Illmatic age well? What about Ready to Die?

 

[Tetris v2.0]

The mix on the album is rough as hell. Listen to it front to back with all the skits and mixing changes exposes it's flaws. Some tracks were edited cause of the samples, and some samples were recreated from the original leak.... Can't take away from the impact of the album at the time and what we've seen since... It introduced Kanye to the mainstream and the rest is history

 

[NoHalfWay]

The best songs on The Blueprint were produced by Kanye.

Just Blaze and Bink smashed Ye's beats.

 

[DrX]

yall nikkas so use to listening to bullshyt yall downing the greatest sound in hiphop history....2000 soul sample era is the greatest era in hiphop as far as production go


every producer became legends except for bink hahahaha

 

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

It's hard for me to call it. I think it's even. Heart of the City through Song Cry is one of the best 3 song runs in hip-hop, and they both have production on there. U Don't Know is one of the top 5 hardest joints of Jay's career, and THE song that brought chipmunk beats into the picture. Basically every other vocal sample on the album isn't even sped up. Hard for me to say whether Kanye or Just did better on there. Everything both of them did was bulletproof. Kanye had 5 beats on there to Just's 4, so I guess you could say Ye had "more" heat on the album.

"Heart of the City" Alone is Probably Top 3 of All time Kanye and Jay Collabo.

"Breathe Easy" was the best on there and it was a bonus/throwaway track