Gold Digging (As Sampled By Kanye West) - Various Artists

Advantages: The Perfect hiphop album
Disadvantages: None at all.

...perfectly. Uplifting and upbeat, it can't help but put a smile on your face. On this tune Kanye samples the anthem that is Curtis Mayfield "Move On Up". He's taken the tune of it and added a slightly heavier beat, but the strings and horns are still there. "Touch The Sky" lyrically charts the success of Kanye from moving in his little rental van to having this fabulous lifestyle, for which he appears very grateful. "I gotta testify, come up in the spot looking extra fly." The soulful mixed with the hiphop seems to run throughout the album. It's evident on "Gold Digger" (the latest single). Jamie Foxx delivers the goods with his powerful, funky vocals like something from the Motown or Atlantic Soul days. While Kanye gives his view on the gold diggers that are ever present in the hiphop celebrity scene. Humorous but very true his lyrics... Read review

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Advantages: All the songs will grow on you
Disadvantages: Few collaborations

..."Graduation" is the most anticipated release by Kanye West. It is the third studio album by the Roc-A-Fella artist and has so much pressure to succeed as it competes aganist the sales of 50 Cent's "Curtis" which released on the same day as this. The later artist also claims that if Kanye out-sells him, he will stop making albums. Kanye differs from many Hip Hop artists if today as his style is very different to everyone else, this isn't just in his music, but also his dress-sense. West can be seen sporting the glasses shown on the album cover on occassions as well as clothes which are worn to fit the body. He isn't too bothered bout having ice on his wrists either, as he would rather add a plastic retro watch to his arm to remind him of his youth. The name for the album follows Kanye's life as the previous albums, "College... Read review

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Advantages: More quirky hiphop from Kanye
Disadvantages: Some weaker songs

...I'm not particularly good at reviewing music, but here goes. Kanye West is an international success, his Hiphop being original, with little twists that many artists would not think to add. I have been waiting for this album since I first hear Diamonds from Sierra Leone, some months ago, and I got the opportunity to get it yesterday in town, where, by the way, some irate tram driver nearly ran me and my friend over! However Tesco was clean out of the album, and I wasn't paying £13.99 in HMV, so when I got home I went to Sainsburys, only to be disappointed and nearly get run over by a car of young looking men. However I did get the album, when my mum drove out to another Tescos in Toton. So what did I think, well why not read on and find out. Track 1 - Wake up Mr West The album opens up with this introduction by Bernie Mac... Read review

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