Kanye West’s new LP “Graduation” is scheduled to release on September 18th, and even his mom is pleased with the outcome. In a recent interview with MTV, Kanye and his mother spoke about the new album. “This Graduation album is his best ever — musically, as well as the lyrics,” she said. With that kind of support, and videos with Hype Williams, Kanye might just do as he says. “We already shot two videos,” “Me and Hype [Williams] went out, we shot nine days. We were out in Japan, we were out in the desert. We’re taking it serious.”
Kanye kept a lid on song titles, but he did confirm that a few of the rumored collaborations for the album were true. He has Coldplay’s Chris Martin on a few tracks, such as “Homecoming” and “The Glory”, the latter of which was originally set to appear on Commons new LP.
“I’m graduating from a school called ‘Universe City,’ ” West explained of the Graduation concept. “I think the sound is bigger this time. It’s bigger and simpler, where the notes really connect with you and I say lines … I know the power of my words, so when I rap, I know it’s gonna impact the world. I know I’m gonna be performing anywhere from the Summer Jam stage [at New Jersey’s Giants Stadium] to [New York nightclub] Speed to the House of Blues in L.A., to London to Brazil to Ireland. ...
I’m making music for somebody sitting in a car on their way to work trying to get through traffic and my music is helping them zone out, to a 60,000-seater where I’m opening up for the Rolling Stones or U2. I’m not talking about you two — I’m talking about U2 the group. Like I say, ‘Why would I do a song with you two when I just got offstage with U2? I’m not even talking to you two.’ That’s how I feel.”
“I’m ready to take over the world once again,” he added. “I have a lot to say. I got a lot more music to make. I’m still going through stuff. People are still going through stuff. I make music people can relate to every day. My music just isn’t about my story. ... There’s not one artist in the world that has as much responsibility as me. When I deliver a piece of music, it has to connect with the most genres of music. I don’t care who you name.
If you name rap artists, their only responsibility is to rap crowds. If you name a pop artist, their only responsibility is to a pop crowd. If you name some French dance music, their responsibility is to the cool crowd. But I have to deliver songs. All these people are looking at me from super-middle America to the hipsters like, ‘What’s he gonna do next?”
COMMENTS
Kanye sucks
faggot
u a fag
^ hater
Kanye is actually a good rapper imo, i'll look out for this
Kanye has a ego the size of Jupiter. I love it! That is that Gemini swagger (June 12) Can't wait for the album to drop. I will actually support that one. 5000
3rd lmao this album os gone be sick cant wait and fuck all Kanye haters
He is ryte he got alot of people 2 please out der but I hope itz gone b his best album
i might have to cop this one
He got 2 classics! Im sure Graduation will be a super classic as well! THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE SHOULD BE WAITING FOR...REAL HIP HOP RELEASES!
shout out to T.I. release too!
Okay, I know this is MAD off-topic, but does anyone know who used 2 rap "Toss It Up"? And, I'm not talkin' bout the Pac joint... I'm talkin bout the joint they be bangin @ parties and in old school mixes... Toss it up, yo, toss it up...! Come on, ANYONE... I need a meeting of the minds...
Kanye smashes the game when ever he drops shit, the guy is a hip-hop legend and he;s still got a long career ahead of him. FUCK THE HATERZZZ
I wonder if this album will be as great as his first two, he's got a lot to assure everyone. He needs to make sure he doesn't fall off like most greats. And about his big ego, it get's pretty annoying sometimes! Like he said, "If we were to make a modern-day bible, I'd have to be included"...chill with the super ego. Definitely lookin forward to Graduation though.
...."Toss it up, Toss it up", hmmmm, sorry charismatic, but I don't got a dam clue...
This shit should be nice. As long as he keeps it under 3 skits
kanye bring back hip hop.. along with 50! hi haters!
...put ya safebelts on...
to eskobar, 50 is the one that ruined hiphop and thats how it is...
lookin' forward to the Graduation (mine included :D) keep it up Kanye...
Yea ima def get this wen it comes out, Kanyes ego is huge tho! An that U2 you two part in the middle was sum confusin shit lol
I cant wait for this album.
girl rider, how did 50 kill hip hop. by sales right ,lol
no, he killed it by snitchin
charismatic — about 9 hours ago
Okay, I know this is MAD off-topic, but does anyone know who used 2 rap "Toss It Up"? And, I'm not talkin' bout the Pac joint... I'm talkin bout the joint they be bangin @ parties and in old school mixes... Toss it up, yo, toss it up...! Come on, ANYONE... I need a meeting of the minds...
COME ON Y'ALL? WHERE MY HIP-HOP HEADS @?????
50 preserve hiphop when all dem other weak artist da flop
Kanye shit gone B crack he n my top 5 right now...think wut he brings to the game creativly,lyrically & he makes his own beats
Not N Order After Jay-Z
Jay-Z
Papoose
Lil Wayne
Kanye
Joe Budden
Kanye west really takes his music seriously. U gotta respect that!
just imagine whats to come of his beats with lil wayne.... will it be a diff flow on diff beat style? or the same weezy? i think if he hits us with us some diff shit but still keepin hot lines it will foreal change some haters perspective some, but still not the point to get past his voice
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kanye cool and all, but he too fucking arrogant. ima change the world. the world is dependin on me
kanye is Classic
Kanye is the biggest faggot ever, he plays that "I'm black, so I struggle" shit way too much, when he comes from the Suburbs, he's got too big of an ego to be what he says he is. He's trying to sell Jesus in music, and it's disgusting. Fuck 'em, he needs to kill his chipmunk lookin' ass.
i'm sure his tracks will be tight, too bad he doe'nt write all his shyt he has ghost writers, common,rhymfest,jayz,mos def...so he gets no respect as a rapper, but as a producer he's sick
CHARIZMATIC
the song you're lookin for may be
Zhigge-toss it up
KW is the wat hip hop WANTS. hip hop is tired of beefing. and b4 yahll start g uniting and dipseting das wats killin the music. thats why eryone iz feelin the southern movement they giving dance music, something thats entertaing. 50, Cam, Tru and the rest of them noise makers is why HIP HOP is just about DEAD!!!!
Kanye gonna die a legend...graduation will b sick
i'm sure his tracks will be tight, too bad he doe'nt write all his shyt he has ghost writers, common,rhymfest,jayz,mos def...so he gets no respect as a rapper, but as a producer he's sick
^^^^^^naw man Kw dont hav a ghost writer
KW is the wat hip hop WANTS. hip hop is tired of beefing. and b4 yahll start g uniting and dipseting das wats killin the music. thats why eryone iz feelin the southern movement they giving dance music, something thats entertaing. 50, Cam, Tru and the rest of them noise makers is why HIP HOP is just about DEAD!!!!
^^^^^Ur rite homie...Ny aint hot rite now cause alot of hatin and beefin...in da south everyone luvs another look at "We takin over"...wat if 50 (who i personally dont like), Nas (best rapper alive), Jay, Busta, Ja, Fat Joe, Pap, Juelz, Jimmy got on 1 song...shit b classic
kanye west is real hip hop, i dont kno y ppl hate him. his swagger? so what
oh well like they say d game aint complete till the haters hate, but i will always be around to say fuck yall hate shit talkin faggots
@ Charismatic - the Toss it up old school I know and its parties is by Zhiggie, and if that isn't the artist or song your looking for, give more lyrics and I can find out but thats the only one I can recall off the top
On topic about the article I am really anticipating this album, and I know Kanye will not disappoint. I'm looking for that Kanye and Jay collabo , and the sick beats. No one found what he said here hot? I thought it was sick
" I’m opening up for the Rolling Stones or U2. I’m not talking about you two — I’m talking about U2 the group. Like I say, ‘Why would I do a song with you two when I just got offstage with U2? I’m not even talking to you two" - nice word play.
Kanye is nice on tha mic...he has a right to be arrogant to a certain extent. Everytime he brings a hit to tv or tha radio, its at tha top. Everyone sings his song...im cop'n "graduation"! BET DAT!
kid242 — about 4 hours ago
CHARIZMATIC
the song you're lookin for may be
Zhigge-toss it up
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CrazedHipHop — "Hug Me Baby One More Time" — 44 minutes ago
@ Charismatic - the Toss it up old school I know and its parties is by Zhiggie...
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Good LOOKIN! I knew I'd get help on defsounds! This is ONE of the reasons I love this site! I appreciate it! The answer was correct! That's the joint I was lookin' 4!
P.S. Now that I've actually seen the fight, I kinda liked Oscar... I can't believe all three judges scored Round 6 for Mayweather... WHAT???? That's insane... And Oscar WON rounds 8 & 9 but lost 10 & 11 ... Round 1 is ?able... I don't know, I like Oscar because he was the aggressor the whole fight... Neither really landed anything... This was a good fight, not a great fight...
kanye west is a piece of shit nuff said
ite kanye do ur fing ur big wen it comes to making beats too am out
YOUR AN INTERNET BANGIN ASS MIGGA^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yes yes yes.
One more album to add to the list of coppables.
"...I got the right to be a *lil bit* snobbish..."
Meh.. College Drop out Was pure heat. i loved that CD. i dont remember the name of his latest CD. but i know i didn't like it that much. It was tooo Polished. The Production was really good... There was just too many Sampled songs. And his Swagger gets on my nerves. The arrogance, and the cocky attitude that he has is just tooo annoying
"ya ya. i made a video with Pam am, and i spent a mill on it so crown me the new king of pop".
But ill give Graduation a Download. to C whats up
Kan't go wrong with Kanye mayne thats my nigga..... ima get this... since College Dropout he's came with the heat.. Late Registration was fiya too....
Kanye is a Mastermind. I'm definatley looking foward for this album.
Yo ya'll talk about how arrogant he is what do you think makes an MC, every MC SHOULD think he is the BEST. But all these rhymers got yall confused cause the say Im a Hustler not a MC to take up for there lyrical weakness, and they got yall believen that fuckin lie. A MC should be judged lyrically LINE for LINE not how good his hook is. Study ya art, and learn the 5 elements of hip-hop.
fuck kanye, lil homo rapper, aint even about that gangster shit.. touch the sky fuckin homo yall dickriders can go fuck off kanyes a fuckin goof
^^^ stick 2 country music u fuckin fruitcup...... kanyes that nigga
To all the Kanye Haters- Get ya rap ears up! and what i mean is you need to figure out what you r listenin for. Kanye gives beats, lyrics,entertainment. in the end, that's what a rapper is- an entertainer. some of this rap out here is only for gettin crunk, and some is for laid back listening. A true rapper should give you lyrical content, energy, and entertainment! if kanye doesnt give that, who does!??
blackwall get off kanyes dickk he is country ass music jus like mi nigga hustle said touch the sky FAGG nd gold digger 2 fuckin chick songs he should stick to pop nd blackwall havin ice cube the muthafuckin dawn as ur avatar u should be ashamed for sayin kanye that nigga obviously u dont know rap u fuckin faggot go suck a dick... no homo
blackwall23<--- your a fuckin goof usin words like fruitcup, and callin kanye "that nigga" lil gold digga.. fuckin fag and a half doin songs with the guy from maroon 5, commercial ass nigga def not gangsta. An what with the ice cube pic your trick ass nigga, u aint worthy to have a piture of ice cube, stick to kanyes country ass, an get a picture of some other fagg brooklyn rapper
hustletrees420 , stop e-thuggin. it's not working. Kanye aint from the country.
New York would DEEEEESTROY wherever it is you cumin from, dick. NY is the birthplace of rap. would you ever disrespect your maker?
YEAH NEW YORK MIGHT BE THE BIRTHPLACE, BUT
IT AIN'T THE WHERE YOU FROM IT'S WHERE YOU END UP.
NOBODY STAYS IN THE SAME PLACE THEY ARE BORN; IF THEY DO
SOMETHING'S WRONG. YOU WERE BORN IN A HOSPITAL, DO YOU STAY THERE?
NO DISRESPECT TO NY, BUT ALOT OF RAPPERS FROM THERE HAVE THE BIG HEAD
ABOUT HIP HOP BEING FROM THERE. NY RAPPERS AREN'T RELATING TO THE REST OF THE
COUNTRY ANYMORE. TO BE HONEST, THERE REALLY AREN'T ANY TIGHT RAPPERS FROM NY
NOWADAYS. MOST OF THE BEST RAPPERS IN NY GOT A MAJOR DEAL AT LEAST 7 TO 10 YEARS
AGO. I AIN'T ANTI-NY BY NO MEANS. BUT AS I SEE THE GAME RIGHT NOW THAT'S HOW IT IS.
IT AIN'T SOMETHING FOR THE CITY OF NY TO TAKE PERSONAL, IT'S FOR ARTISTS IN GENERAL
TO TAKE SERIOUSLY. NOWADAYS IT'S ALMOST WACK TO BE FROM NY.
I agree New York is the Birthplace, and they have the best artists historically and of all time.
HOWEVER!
currently the best artists DO NOT! come from New York City.
They Come from Chicago, Philadelphia, Detriot
Best NY Rappers NOW: Loaded Lux, Millz, Pap, Remy, Joell Ortiz (Only 1/4 can actually write a GOOD song)
I Think thats it...If I missed some please let me know.
Best Chicago Rappers NOW: Lupe Fiasco, Bump J, Kanye West (Lupe Best Lyrical rapper in the game)
Best in Philadelphia NOW: Beanie Sigel, Cassidy, Reed Dollaz
(They'll Rap Circles around 90% of rapper in the game)
Best in Detriot PERIOD: Royce da 5'9"
(He'll REALLY destroy your favorite rapper)
New York gotta step it up. They gotta get they own swag stop copying offa niggas, they run this shit. Too much spitters not enough songs. I know I forgot people but this was something I did real quick.
Kanye be doing doing his thing....I like his originality....He nice with his words too....And oh yeah Chaos96....New York aint running NOTHING!!! The South gotta grip on the music scene and it aint going nowhere anytime soon.... I mean yeah, they got some nice lyrics and all...but you cant hate on what dudes lke Weezy F. and T.I. are doing.....And ya'll can come with that bull.....but them too alone is smashing ANY east coast rappers right now!! I GOT LOVE FOR EM" ALL!!! Just speaking the facts!
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Well i personally know my nigga kanye and he's nothing like what he appears to be! The ego is all a act so i Say Kanye is Hip Hop right now! He's the only 1 (besides 50) proving to me that he can be bigger than Pac or bigger than Biggie he's like the Quincy Jones of Hip Hop Real talk! But n e way i wont buy his album cuz ill get it 4 free but um yeah he better live up to his "ego" He's definitely making Hip Hop sell and that's what it is about it's not about what u got it's about who's listening to u! if u dont have a voice in Hip Hop what's the use of being a artist?
Um All dem rappers is wack real talk! Especially Lux WTF he's not the hype he has! The south is runnin rap but they still shit to! N everybody think they selling but they not REAL TALK! Weezy is trash n e body can rhymne like LIL Wayne REAL TALK! he's not doing nothing that hasnt been done (punchlines and metaphors) combining a eastcoast and southern flow so technically Lil Wayne took A Eastcoast flow. TI is officially done wit that Big things Poppin Shit! The South Sounds The Same! & now one is selling niggaz get radio play but no one's selling and that's the reason Hip Hop Is Dead!
i hope people dont download this kanye is the best! downloading is killing music stop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2 somepimp and hustletrees420
i aint about that internet gangbangin like you 2 are about... but alls ima say is i fucks with good music Cube is my fuckin idol ... and kanye lays his shit down so fuck ya'll niggas and how u gonna disrespect NY like that?? u got a fuckin death wish kid??
2 somepimp and hustletrees420
what do u think makes Kanye countrY? name one other country artist that can drop shit as hot as kanye...[Can't Tell Me Nothing]...dumbasses...get ur facts straight..no ones country for making one song like dat....if u call Kanye country wut u call Timbo cuz hes worked with everybody....
blackwall nd wheeziana suck a muthafuckin dick no homo
I'm so excited about this album right here!!!!