Graduation Leaks
Kanye West’s “Graduation” came early for fans of the Chicago MC this week. The highly anticipated 3rd album from the Rocafella rapper has leaked in its entirety.
The leak, which comes as a strong dent in Kanye’s plans of outselling 50 Cent on September 11th, started around 1:00 am on Thursday morning.
No details yet as to how the album ended up online two weeks before its release date.
“Graduation” will be available for retail purchase on September 11th.
Q Tip & Common Form Group
In other news, A Tribe Called Quest frontman, Q-Tip,has revealed to XXL Magazine that he’ll be forming a new group with Common entitled “The Standard.”
Me and Common [are] getting ready to form a group,” Q tells XXLMag.com. “We’ll probably run it through the Uni [Universal Records] joint because we’re both on Universal.”
The group, which came as an idea from Common, we’ll start recording material for an album once the two start touring together. According to Q Tip, production will be handled mostly by him however they will be getting Kanye West for a couple of tracks.
“I’m probably gonna do a lot of it,” ‘Tip tells XXLMag. “And we’ll get Kanye [West] on a couple things, but you know, that cat is busy.”
COMMENTS
Fuuuuuck not gonna say it
I bet 50 was behind it... lol j/p
Q-Tip and Common?? Interesting.. I'd like to see that
yeah 50 did that bullshit cuz he knows curtis is soundin wack.
yo scrill would you suck waynes dick if he asked you to?
How do albums leak anyways? Most stuff now days leaks before it drops.... Sucks for the artists.
some that gets his hands on it legally or illegally and decides to upload either for an individual or for everyone in general...
WORKIN IN THE GAME FOR A MINUTE I FIGURED OUT HOW THE ALBUMS ARE GETTING LEAKED. THE CD MANUFACTORING COMPANIES ARE LEAKING THESE ALBUMS. THINK ABOUT IT, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OR MILLIONS OF COPIES NEED TO BE PRESSED UP AND SHIPPED TO STORES BEFORE THE RELEASE DATE SO THE MASTER GLASS DISCS ARE SENT TO THE MANUFACTORING PLANT AND YOU KNOW THERE'S SOMEONE THERE THAT'S GONNA SNATCH A COPY AND UPLOAD IT.
SOMETIMES IT'S JUST PROMOTIONAL PRESS ADVANCES THAT GET UPLOADED.
WHOA! Q-Tip + Common = REAL HIP HOP
should of kept better track of his stuff
man thats fuckin gay as lil wayne i was lookin forward to the 911 showdown
For some1 who hates on lil wayne's lyrical talent so much u sure like to bring him up alot... even in posts that have nothin to do with him... damn dawg u got a crush on him or somethin... bet u got the picture of him kissin baby on your desktop... fuckin homo... lose that lame as avy too
dawg get off my nuts, i was just tryn to express how gay that this leak is, plus it kinda rhymes..weird
Yea this leak is fuckin lame... i was lookin forward to dat shit 2
yo scrill would you suck waynes dick?
Yea talkin bout wayne is about as gay as kissin a nigga....wait no its not. lol damn ima fool
50 shit got leeaked to I downloaded every song except for come & go and smile.
shut yo lyin ass up dawg
O.K. what I got to lie about?
roc check Ares i got em all too its iight i dnt rele like this nigga no more he tryin to hard
i got it too! its WHACK kanye cd is 10x better. im a fif fan..
thats why people dont sell as much anymore cause too many of their cds just get downloaded for free. listen to Andre 3000 in "what a job" by devin the dude its the realest verse of the year
Way too many DJs get their hands on the records before they are out, it's simple how they leak you gotta be stupid not to figure it out- it's just an album this ain't the federal reserve.
and.......... 50 cent sells more than kanye. 2 bad 2 kanye fans =( ................ CURTIS SEP 11TH
hey stupid what u talkin about, 50 cannot sells more than kanye
50 sold more than kanye on all his albums..... what make u think he can't do it now when kanye shit is leaked???
yeah i know that 50 sold more than him on his previous albums, but now he can't sell more than him right now, because kanye make good music on this album than him
50's last album sold more than jay z's last album has so far in only a few weeks...and jay iz kanye's boss, yall niggaz iz ignorant
not feelin it
well..all i can find is mostly the clean version..but i found a few tracks that are dirty...and this cd is terrific..very creative...Good Morning is an amazing opening....also you guys should check out the remix of Cant tell me nothing with Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes...its not on the cd..im actually not sure what its on...but shit is tight
Where you download it from cause I cant find nothing on limewire except for snippets and shit thats already out.
try albumbase.com
Yea this is true tho... leaking has become a major problem with hip-hop and it is because of these fuckin DJs that are supposed to love the rap game and be promoting it but all they really do is kill rappers sales and make shit get played before its even released... damn shame
cosign
ooopsy
i happy they got together q-tip been gone for a while i cant wait to hear the album
damn that sucks for ye but imma still cop both so it don't matter to me
NOBODY COP THE LEAKED SHIT WE NEED TO SAVE HIP-HOP GO BUY IT, ITS WORTH THE MONEY IM SURE
COSIGN ma homie,
I downloaded it cos I was too curious too listen to it but God knows I already made up my mind that when it drop I'll cop one for me and one for my girl. Theres nothing better than having an original of a classic album!
SEARCH AROUND PEOPLE....
CLEAN VERSION OF CURTIS LEAKED TOO.....
DIRTY VERSION IS HOURS AWAY
i already got dirty curtis im lookin for kanyes
yeah, the dirty version is out. Already got it but I can't wait for September 1 to cop both 50 and Kanye. Thats what a hiphop fan does, a real hiphop fan!
CURTISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS / Graduation
september 11!
damn thas a major blow to kanye. i cant understand y albums b leakin. i suppoert the artists i listen to anyway so im still gon buy his album wen it drop...
damn that just killed all the competition on 9/11....now it wont be a suprise 2 any1 when 50 (OBVIOUSLY) outsellz kanye...now all the speculation is gone except if def jam could pull s trick outta the bag (which i doubt)
Be a fucking adult...cop a damn album...
just downloaded it... it's a good album so i'll still buy it...maybe
curtis also leaked.
i got both. so yea, BOTH curtis and graduation have leaked!
he's tellin the truth...just downloaded Curtis. This really kills 9/11 for me...but I'm still pickin up Graduation...plus, The leaked version of graduation is getting pulled currently.
wrd niggas dnt download them shits go cop both them albums.....
imma still cop his album, and download curtis (maybe)
I can't find Curtis... but Graduation was easy to find
Graduation is crack
now hows dat gonna help hip hop
bet 50 was behind it... lol j/p
Q-Tip and Common?? Interesting.. I'd like to see that
(50 probaly was)
dats making me mad now 50 most likely will win kanye has 2 b goin crazy rite now (50's glad). but dis is crazy sum1 needs 2 hurry up n leak curtis (dat wud b gud 4 kanye)
funny
It's funny but people STILL gone buy the album. I pre-ordered mine off I-Tunes..and I'm gonna buy it from the store.. Real Talk on September 11th, the CD would of leaked any dang way... and the same people that won't buy it now, wouldn't buy it then...
why would you go to the store, if you knew by the same date, it would be online anyway, if you never planned to buy it?
My plan for curtis until I get money came out was to wait till september 11th and download it.. but I pre-ordered that too when I get Money and Follow My Lead Leaked.
Don't be too alarmed the CLEAN verson is the one that leaked. I don't think too many people would be interested in that. So I wouldn't count kanye out yet
Curtis CLEAN leaked too.. haha
SIKE i have the Dirty version of the Graduation
im still gonna buy it!
Its really the same amount of songs as Dropout and Late Registration
It just dont have all those silly skits and interludes!
13 with 2 bonus tracks is good enought!
50 cent aint fuckin with his album
That Curtis is good too...it aint fuckin Kanye cd!
I WONDER WHEN SOULJA BOY COMING IN THE FORUM! lol
HMMMMM.... DONT WORRY BOUT ME!!!
I AINT WORRIED ABOUT KANYE SHIT LEAKIN....
THATS FUCKED UP FOR HIM, BUT I DOESNT MATTER CUZ SOULJA BOY GONNA OUTSELL HIM ANYWAY!!!!
YYYUUUAAAHHH!!!!
so far I got the dirty version of Graduation and the clean version of Curtis...they both hot but personally I like Curtis better....
where did u guys download the curtis? I cant find it..
I CANT TELL YOU! U might be the police! or 50
and yeah 50 i aint buying ur album cuz it sounds like The Massacre
just like Tha King it sounds similar to TI vs TIP a little!
The Kanye Cd, in my opinion....is fucking fantastic. It is worth buying. You feel him throughout the album....and its production is awesome...not one bad song on the entire cd. Evryone of Curtis tracks sounds like a club song....too mainstream not enough creatvity....
co sign!
I just wish Ye would of done more musical interludes like he did on Late Registration...It's fantastic, It just feels like something is missing... I ALREADY BOUGHT THE CD on I-Tunes, and I'm buying the CD dor good measure, so i don't feel bad for being impatient.
button needs ta get on his shit, how dont u know where them downloads be at playa
i've tryed limewire and soul seek...None of it is coming up for me...
gotta get at them torrents
no competition with Curtis before and after da leak
haha did hear graduation?? man its straight, not the typical club bangers like curtis got, ye actually had somethin to say
do u think 50 gonna sell over 9.8 thiz time
just got the graduation torrent, and Curtis is leaked too btw, check the torrents, only the clean version is out tho, looks like there both out.
ok u coackroches 1 a ya better give me a link for both coz i tried for 20 mins on internet n 20 mins on limewire sorry if i aint no hiphop geek fak dat shit im busy but i want 2 reach graduation specially even tho im plannin on reachin it on sept 11th
u just pissed niggas that are on their shit are sick of songs by the time u think they hot
this probably didnt happen, but what if fif and ye were counting on their albums being leaked, and used new material for the ones that really drop on sept.11
and not to go off topic, but summer is over and school has started, whatever happened to camrons crazy summer claim?
I got graduation and i'll still buy it on the 11th fuck 50
leaks are really killin the sales game right now, i remember all i used to buy was bootlegs cds back a couple years ago, and artists were still going gold, platinum, multi plat. but nowadays, its this internet shit that killin hiphop sales. damn, now i be buyin real albums just to support artists, but only from real artist. this past year, i bought big L's first album, bone thugs greatest hits,bone thugs strenght and loyalty, dr dre greatest hits, dms its dark, outkast stankonia, bun b trill, tupac all eyez on me, project pat ghetty green,beanie sigel the b.coming. but if you wack, i will always bootleg ya shit.notice, i didnt buy nobody shit that dropped this year except for bone. i might go out and get young bucks, and if papoose ever drop.
///there are even sites out now that let you see movies before the even come out, i saw transformers and the simpsons before they came out, but i still went to the movies and saw them too.
ya i try to support artists i like too but sometimes i think if the situation was in reverse fif wouldnt be buyin my shit when he could bootleg it
i would still buy ye if it didnt come out in september but shit that 13 bucks is goin towards halo 3 now and ill still be bumpin that kanye while i play hahaa
hell yeah thats were i see all movies right here at home with some cheap popcornn cause movies cost way too much nowadays. am i layin?
Albums I've purchased this year and my rankings:
1. Fugees - The Score; I KNOW, this is UNFAIR, but hey, I DID buy it (again, lol) this year.
2. RAPP-MURR-PHOBIA (The Fear of Real Hip-Hop) - Keith Murray
3. Red Gone Wild - Redman (It's there lyrically and motivationally (ala DMX's 1st 2 albums!))
4. T.I. vs. T.I.P. - T.I. (T.I.'s album is here because it's MORE EXCITING than the 1's below.)
5. Finding Forever - Common (Track 3, For The People, is the best, most uptempo, in my opinion.)
6. Eardrum - Talib Kweli - But even Talib said in the intro: "They say you can't please everybody."
7. From Nothin' To Somethin' - Fabolous (...was a good album, FOR FAB)
I'm BOUT 2 COP THAT FERGIE, THE DUTCHESS.... That joint is FIRE!
I wanna share something with the real homies on this site. Go cop Curtis and Kanye or whichever one you want when they come out september 11 cos if you have aspirations of entering the game, you gotta cop albums so when urs drop, people will not just be downloading the shit out of it. What goes around comes around. I already downloaded Curtis and Graduation (and they are really awesome) but I know that I'ma cop one for me and my girl when they finally come in stores!!!
CURTISSSSSSSSSSSS / Graduation
September 11
the day that 50-cent's albums don't go Gold, is the day you'll know that bootlegging has gone too far.
co mother fuckin sign!
i like both 50 and Ye...u can't compare'em cuz they got two different styles so ima buy both(maybe 2 YE's lol), even if i do download'em first...but by now rappers should just expect they albums 2 get leaked cuz grimy mu'fuckaz is gon find a way 2 do it...but this whole Sept.11 showdown is good for hip-hop cuz i can't remember the last time i was excited for an album 2 drop so i can wake up early on tuesday and bang that shit all day...2 me it really doesn't matter who sales the most, its about bringin' life back 2 hip-hop...let's get these numbers up!
q-tip & common collabo should be hot, plus q-tip gotta new cd comin out called renaissance..work it out single iz tha shit
..damn tat musta really hit kanye hard when he heard bout tat leak, niggaz in tha rap game need ta be careful who they let listen to they cd b4 it com