Late Registration [VINYL]

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Despite this, West revealed that the song is regarded by Jay-Z as his favorite on Late Registration. The original version is included as a bonus track, featuring West linking Sierra Leone's civil war to the jewellery trade. The New York Times critic Jon Pareles believed West's elevated status undermined the underdog quality that had accentuated his debut, writing that "for much of Late Registration, the striver has turned into a hip-hop V.

In early 2006, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) awarded the album a triple platinum certification, indicating sales of 3,000,000 copies in the US. A columnist for The Guardian described the song as evoking "the lavish 1970s psychedelic soul of Rotary Connection". He had written the chorus from a female first-person viewpoint, though Shawnna ultimately passed the song on to him.In the album booklet, Dropout Bear appears in the university, sitting alone in classrooms and reads books before exiting. In its first week of release, Late Registration debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 with first week sales of 860,000 copies, selling over 600,000 more copies than Tony Yayo's album Thoughts of a Predicate Felon at number two.

It's weird because I couldn't find any other pressing that has this number on the B-Sides of both records 25169. West enlisted film score composer and record producer Jon Brion for Late Registration, resulting in Brion serving as co-executive producer for several tracks.A widespread critical success, Late Registration has often been viewed as a progression from The College Dropout and a pivotal release in hip hop. Sean Fennessey of Pitchfork felt West provided a worthy successor to The College Dropout with an "expansive, imperfect masterpiece" that draws on his enthusiastic, ambitious, and scattered personality.

On June 6, "Drive Slow" was released on a 12" vinyl as the album's fifth and final single by Roc-A-Fella and Def Jam. Over the last few months he has disarmed packed rooms of rowdy concert goers, leaving them silent as they hold fast to every syllable sung. West's production approach is simplified for "Drive Slow", a song that contains a looped sample of the alto sax from Hank Crawford's recording of the 1973 track " Wildflower" by Skylark, [39] [40] before slowing down the sample towards the end, which is antithetical to West's "chipmunk soul"-styled loops. Billboard senior editor Gail Mitchell said that with its combination of socially conscious hip hop, club, and personal reflections, the album "represents a watershed moment in rap music history", [100] while Kitty Empire from The Observer viewed it as an important milestone for the genre, declaring West "the Brian Wilson of hip-hop" and observing that he "plays up the struggle between conscience and covetousness, the pop mainstream", and what is achievable within hip hop's traditional boundaries.We Can Make It Better" contains a sample of "Make It Easy on Yourself" as performed by The Three Degrees. A6: Paull Wall appears courtesy of Swisha Blast Entertainment + GLC appears courtesy of Good Music/Sony Records + Contains a sample from Hank Crawford recording, used courtesy of Sony BMG Music entertainment and Nettwerk Songs publishing. In September 2005, Def Jam announced tour dates across North America from October to December of that year for West's Touch the Sky Tour, titled after the song. The two had previously collaborated on a remix for " This Love" (2004) that Maroon 5 commissioned West to work on and later became good friends when sitting together on a flight to Rome for the 2004 MTV Europe Music Awards. He explained, "It helped revitalize sampling soul music, it stitched together pop music themes generally attributable to the easily ignorable 'conscious rap' quadrant ('Gold Digger' is secretly a clever examination of the effects money has on relationships), and it created a precedent for the larger-scale gazing he'd go on to do.