"I liked the way that brought a group outside of hip-hop and made hip-hop," says Sickamore, senior vice president of A&R and creative director, Interscope Records. The bright colors of the art coupled with the heavy synths of Daft Punk marked the hard left Kanye was taking in hip-hop. Staring into the Takashi Murakami-designed album cover while listening to "Stronger" is the heart of the synesthestic experience on Graduation. It's got all of the elements that the street records have." 3. "It has the swagger, it's got the grime, it's got the hustle.
"'Champion' was the one thing that epitomizes the crystallization of the theory that Graduation was the album that took out gangster rap," writer/author Kris Ex explains. While Kanye sampled yacht rock pioneers and GRAMMY winners Steely Dan ("Kid Charlemagne") on "Champion," so much of his lyrics were rooted in the bravado of gangster rap, though sonically packaged for the mainstream. It was so different for everyone." - Aminé, recording artist 2. " Graduation was one of the few hip-hop albums where I saw my skate/indie friends talk about it with me. "It was one of the first times where I started to hear bright, positive, hip-hop." "'Good Morning' was a song that just made me feel good and I could still turn it on today," said rapper Aminé.
The coos from the Elton John sample ("Someone Saved My Life Tonight") accent this both light and dark cut of Kanye graduating to the next phase of his career. "On this day we becoming legendary," West declares on the Graduation opener. While the whole is still greater than the sum of its parts, each song is a Polaroid in the life of the "old Kanye": budding megastar, future tortured genius. Perhaps that's why Graduation is regarded by most as the greatest West album to date. Many considered it the last pure moment of Kanye West before the effects of fame would seemingly muddy his spirit. 11, 2007, directly competing with 50 Cent's Curtis and later beating him by a gross margin - thereby declaring the death of gangster rap. West bumped his album up a week to release on Sept. It scored big at the 50th GRAMMY Awards, with a nomination for Album Of The Year and winning Best Rap Album, taking home two other awards for "Stronger" and "Good Life." Ten years ago, we would bid farewell to that West on his third studio album Graduation. It's a cheeky adieu to our first iteration of West: producer turned rapper turned demigod, whose ambitions and passions were bookmarked in the story of a man who just wanted to be heard.
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