February 28, 2010
Posted by nation
No Longer Confused
On the low, one of my favorite songs on The College Dropout is like 10 seconds long and is hidden behind a skit, so no one knows about it when you mention it.
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She wants me to get a Good Ass Job, just like everybody
I would let this play out when I rocked the album on my Sony MiniDisc (remember those?) but I recently revisited it when Kanye started dabbling in auto-tune, again. Say word that’s John Legend singing on there.
I didn’t even know that Evidence co-produced Last Call. I’m a hot mess…
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February 28, 2010
Evidence?
Hmmm, I thought Babu played a role in “Last Call”…
Either way, Ye’ was on a role with his “last track on the album” selection.
February 28, 2010
Co-sign. The ill “hidden character” track. Short and Classic.
February 28, 2010
If you look in the artwork you can see a pic of me. Rocking a polo teddy bandanna around my fitted & a red ski 92 coat.
February 28, 2010
Evidence? that caught me off guard. Now I got to go back and find the CD Booklet and read the linear notes.
February 28, 2010
When I was 12, I bet an entire summer’s pay that minidiscs were the technology of the future.
February 28, 2010
As mentioned – a few facts I found really interesting on early/mid career ‘Ye:
- For College Dropout he used Miri Ben Ari for all string violin sample replays as he couldn’t afford as full quartet.
- When he produced Keyshia Cole’s ‘I Changed My Mind’ he actually ripped the Dr. Dre Intro sample straight from,’The Chronic’ as you can still hear Dre saying, ‘Yea nigga’ under the sample.
- He spent a bit over 2 million on Late Registration and still said he was displeased with the album because he felt like he was trying to hard to show he was a producer, hence the simplicity in, Graduation.
- He originally produced, ‘Gold Digger’ for Shawna but she passed on the record (thank God).
- Common’s, ‘Go’ was actually inspired by john Mayer and Common was unsure of taking advice from someone who wasn’t necessarily African American.
- ‘Crack Music’ was actually inspired by Diddy and was supposed to be on Press Play but it didn’t fit the mood. Game had a verse but it didn’t make it (I believe it was on one of those G-Unit Tapes)
- Paul Wall & M.I.A were originally supposed to be on ‘Drive Slow’ but she passed so they went with T.I.
- Corrine Mitchell (of Can’t Tell Me Nothing fame) actually never heard of Ye nor did she like Hiphop at all, but the collaboration changed such.
That’s a small smidget from my knowledge. Enjoy, man.
February 28, 2010
that’s crazy. The College Dropout has always been and will always be my favorite album. Late Registration just sounds better and Graduation is his best album, front to back… I find
808s was cool to me but Good Ass Job has potential to be really great, if he’s really rapping again
March 1, 2010
This definitely one of the few gems found on this album. Didn’t know it was John Legend til’ a few years later. Would love to see them perform an interlude during either JL or Ye’ upcomin’ concert (in the future of course).
March 1, 2010
pssssst, nation!
There’s even a longer instrumental version of your “favorite song” on a bootlegged advance of the college dropout!
…I think that I am allowed to mention that 6 years after the LP dropped and Yeezy’s the rapper I invested most of my hard earned nickles’n'dimes in!
March 1, 2010
BTW: your blog is quite GREAT!
March 1, 2010
kind of in the same vein: the music playing during the intro of Illmatic. yes. i think i remember a Shyne mixtape track where he’s just flowing over said intro music. something about the eerieness of the track puts me in that mindframe. i’m just saying.
March 2, 2010
Hole lee shit @ theo martins. Call it weird, but I always like knowing shit like that.
Salutes nation, keep going…
March 11, 2010
@theo martins: i like this kind of Mario-bros-bonus-stage type of story too !
College Dropout was definitely a cornerstone in hiphop
@Don_Garcia: where did you found it ? Me I found the Risky Business’ “High School Graduate” tape with some eeearly Ye’s…
March 13, 2010
YESSSS!!!! I can’t lie…this is my fav song. I would play this every day driving to my shitty job at Target when I was in grad school. He was singing!! “Don’t tell anybody!”
March 21, 2010
@Hokube: I had this bootleg some months before The College Dropout actually dropped! …i renamed most of the mp3s….so I’m sorry, I don’t know anymore where it comes from!
March 24, 2010
“Say word that’s John Legend singing on there.”
Are you sure it’s John? I’ve always thought it was Tony Williams?
CD is one of the only albums that I actually listen to the skits to on every listen.
April 13, 2010
i always read the liner notes. was surprised when i saw Evidence in the credits, too. Dilated also toured with Kanye and John Legend on the College Dropout tour (and, of course, later did “This Way” with Ye).
Kanye’s also done production for some underground cats you wouldn’t really expect him to fucks with, like Apathy.
June 1, 2010
i am late as hell, but this is my favorite part of this album too, and has been since the shit came out.
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