Graduation

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The collaboration came about when West met her bandmates Angus McDonald and Daimon Downey at a diner in Sydney while touring the country with U2 around November 2006. In addition, songs such as "Everything I Am" have been cited as "the best example of the soulful and introspective atmosphere that came to dominate the rap world, from Drake to The Weeknd". In West's attempt to accomplish this "stadium-status" endeavor, West incorporated layered electronic synthesizers into his hip-hop production, which also finds him utilizing slower tempos, being influenced by the music of the 1980s, and experimenting with electronic music.

The whole album is an enjoyable slice of 80s nostalgia, especially on tape, but this retro hip hop song stands out, even if the line about a female President in 2016 has aged like a yogurt in the sun. He ties this into his perceived overall inability to keep himself together even as he grows into an increasingly prominent figure in the public eye. The story begins on a rainy day with Dropout being awoken by his alarm clock and running out of his apartment to his car, modeled after a DeLorean.Widely considered by music critics and listeners alike to be the most radio-friendly track on Graduation, West defines the studio album's third single " Good Life" as the song with the most "blatant hit-recordness". Inspired by watching Bono open stadium tours, West concentrated on speaking volumes without using too many words on the song and delivers his raps in an exuberant, staccato manner. While he rarely listened to house at home, he still felt it was an important part of his culture and background.

Going further, a columnist for Slant Magazine asserted that the album's hip-hop beats would be "European-club-worthy" were they stripped of the vocals. Apart from Drunk and Hot Girls, this album is perfect, and when I say I’ve listened to this whole album 3 times, I say that with pride for a reason. The composition then enters an instrumental passage and finishes off with a sweeping string arrangement. Even in new, unfamiliar musical surroundings, West retained both his self-confidence as well as his close attention to sonic detail. In a retrospective, Lawrence Burney of Noisey expands on this notion by asserting that the event caused the more aggressive forms of rap music to undergo an evolution.Certain items can take longer to source than the estimated week, particularly during busy trading periods and may take longer to arrive at our warehouse. With its thick, heavy bass-line pattern, "The Glory" is an up-tempo number which revisits the " chipmunk- soul" that once defined the early production style of West. During the verses, West raps over a constant loop of the words "their eyes" while the chopped-up hook is formed from the question, "Did you realize, that you were a champion?

He worked on "Stronger" with eight different audio engineers and eleven different mix engineers around the globe and recorded over fifty versions of the track. West mixed the track seventy-five times, as he could not seem to get the kick drum to sound precisely the way that he wanted it to, amongst other issues. Three months prior to the September 11 release date, West extended his gratitude towards 50 Cent for the enthusiasm and excitement the friendly competition had produced.In terms of lyricism, he simplifies some of his rhymes after touring with The Rolling Stones on their A Bigger Bang concert tour and discovering he could not captivate the audiences as well with his most complex lyrical themes.