


KANYE FRESHMEN ADJUSTMENT MIXTAPE FULL
A good amount of songs from this album give off nostalgic vibes personally when I listen to them individually, but listening back to the album in full it isn’t as cohesive as his better stuff. You can tell that a lot of the songs in this one are very radio friendly. It’s a pop/hip-hop album light in tone, it signifies a departure from soul to more electronic sounding hip-hop. Graduation is an album that I fell in love with early on in middle school and for the longest time was one of the only Kanye albums I listened to in full. Almost pure old school R&B tracks, they all mix together so well and it’s just a really smooth and easy listen.


Kanye’s Soul Mix Show is another mix-tape featuring songs picked by West and cut together with the help of Canadian DJ A-Trak. This one shouldn’t be “technically” considered, but I love it so much and it’s my list, so why not. Nothing too special or revolutionary like his later stuff would prove to be, but it is a steady and consistently good hip-hop and R&B album containing some of his better early lyrical performances. If anyone has the answer to that I’d be interested to know, but despite that the three-part mixtape features some early Kanye West at his best. Yeezus might also be Kanye’s most experimental album and for these reasons it ranks above the others.įreshmen Adjustment is a pre-college dropout mixtape album and I can’t figure out if it’s official or not. It might be the most “Kanye-loving”album he’s made and in the sense that it’s not as emotionally rich as 808s, but it’s a lot more well produced and the songs come across a lot cleaner, while still maintaining a grimy vibe. I say that it’s very similar to 808s, but the subject matter couldn’t be more different. A loud, heavily electronic, yet simple hip hop album. Yeezus is Kanye’s 808’s and Heartbreak turned up to eleven. Not something worth going back and listening to. Containing some rock and orchestrations spread throughout the album Watch the Throne manages to be a perfectly fine hip hop record without taking any risks and being just an okay listen. It does everything a hip hop album should, which in my eyes makes it also very “by the book”. So that’s why I respect people who just do whatever they want to do.”Ī collaboration album with Jay Z, Watch The Throne is a big, bombastic, highly produced studio album that just doesn’t stick for me. Now hip-hop is like a big high school or something. … Because when I had my baggy clothes and I was hip-hop, people talked about me too. Like, you know, I wear my tight jeans and stuff, and stand out, and people want to talk about me. It used to be about standing out, now it’s all about fitting in. It’s so crazy - hip-hop used to be about being fearless, and now it’s, like, all about being afraid. There’s so many signs, and I just have to follow the signs and the arrows of where he wants me to go and just be fearless about it. I think it’s a path it’s a road that’s been paved and given by God. “It was just what was in my heart,”…”The type of ideas that it was coming up with, the melodies that were in me - what was in me I couldn’t stop. However even at what I consider to be Kanye’s worst, I have to commend his reasoning for making it this way. Many other fans at the time agreed it seems. So why so low on my personal list? I just hate strongly dislike auto-tune. Going from R&B and Hip Hop to a more pop-oriented style, the album focuses heavily on electronic sound and auto-tune the album is very much an attempt by West to change his sound and the standing perception of pop music at the time. 808s & Heartbreak is an album that is the beginning of a shift in his music. Probably one of his most emotion filled albums, 808s & Heartbreak is also the only Kanye album that I actively dislike and one that was actively disliked by others at the time of its release. This is more of a ranking of Kanye’s albums from the ones I disliked to the ones I really really love. I have a long way to go before doing anything close to music analysis, but I’ll do my best here to dip my toes into it. What can I say, making these things are fun. Yeah, yeah, I know it’s my second list in a row.
