What the hell is so special about college dropout?
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LunaticVillage415
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I wouldn't just say blacks from the 'burbs. I would say middle class blacks from educated two parent families as well. Ye' spent a little bit of time growing up in the Chi. Ye' was just like Tribe Called Quest, Talib Kweli or Common. Just regular average dudes from decent homes who were also very politically conscious without coming off as preachy. The big difference was Ye' was a huge crossover artist who changed the whole game damn near single handedly. He made everybody switch their tall tees and big ass throwbacks for polos, rugbys, Polo bear sweaters etc.
ATCQ, Talib, and Common still had more of a street edge to themselves though. Kanye was like the first artist to truly embody that "i'm middle class and thats OK" type shyt. he wasn't putting on an act when he came on stage.
LunaticVillage415
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True. Ye' dressed like he was fresh from the Country club. On College Dropout he was like a doper more down-to-earth version of a Hip Hop Carlton Banks.
Common was drinking 40's and hella beers with his hat pulled low for the first few years of his career asking to borrow a dollar on the front cover of his first album. Tribe really wasn't too street to me other than maybe how they dressed from time to time. 
Tribe was more focused on positivity. They just seem like average dudes from the hood who had normal parents and a sense of guidance growing up. I didn't even know that Ye' lived out in the 'burbs since a kid because he was shouting out Southside Chi on every other song on College Dropout and black people from the hood to the 'burbs were fukking with Ye' because the music was refreshing at the time. Also, on the opening song of CD, Kanye rapping about "drug dealing just to get by" in a tongue-in-cheek kinda way. Talmbout "as a kid I looked up to the dope man, only adult man I knew who wasn't broke man". Ye' did rap about street shyt but from a childhood bystander's perspective much like K. Dot or even Wale.
RedEye Jedi
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IT WAS THE APEX OF SOUL SAMPLING.
Jimmy the gent
I'm still eatin off Lufthansa
You didnt like two words?
who killin it?
the fakes get exposed
that shyt was a fukking masterpiece
these clowns have wack ass opinions
the only chink in the CD armor is the amount of skits
Formerly Black Trash
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Are you trolling? Never heard Last Call, Family Business, Never Let You Down, Spaceship, Two Words?
This album is a classic and put Kanye on the map as a rapper.
If you think this is wack
Yeah he crazy