"[I made a] conscious effort to take it to the next level in every form of success. More black people bought this album than any I've made. Because I made the album blacker." Said Kanye in a recent interview with Spin Magazine.
"Can't Tell Me Nothing" -- how hood is that record? "Good Life" is straight Steve Harvey, all day long. "Flashing Lights"? I never had a record that was that black. But it's white at the same time.
Certain things are so good it doesn't have to be white or black.
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That's what Graduation is. Take "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger." It's a white sample, but everything I do to it is to make it as black as possible. So I'ma make the bass as black as possible; I'ma make the lyrics as intense as possible." Kanye continued.
You can check out more of Kanye's Black and White philosophies in the Spin Mag feature here.
COMMENTS
Bitter Sweet Was Cool I Dont Get The Comment By Kanye Though
hey wuteva hes doing hes doing it....deeeee-troit
this nigga smokin' some messed up weed... it was a good album, point blank period. niggaz needa try quantify shit and add meaning to shit... just ride on your success... lol
now if u know me u know i'm like kianyes number 1 fan,,but this is dumb
dam i aint know we was listenin to white boy albums in college dropout and late registration so kanye tellin me graduation wasnt good because it was good it was hot because it was..."blacker" lol wtf
word son. i thought his first 2 albums was tight, i aint kno i was listenin to 'white' music..but wtf is "white" music anyways...aint no such thing fareal..
LMAO! Ye is just being stupid..
yea da album wuz "blacker" but Ye' u still dress white as fuck lol
He makes good music and Im glad for his sucess and sorry for the loss of his mom...but this DUDE can be a real clown sometimes...or is it that he is very over the top? I dont music should be classified as black or white...b/c that could can create a problem....what about people who dont classify themselves as black or white...then does that mean he is not making music for the "others"......
i know he sound like a 1st time weed user right now jus sit back relax and sit comfortable and get ya platinum plaque money man!
Why everything gotta be a black/White issue. Good music is good music, no matter what your ethnic background. I like Kanye but that just sounded retarted as fuck. lol
i agree with ye, he's just saying he got back to his roots. I wasn't a fan of Late Registration because he has trying too hard to cross overe with his production, it sounded contrived to me
I LOVED The College Dropout! I like it way more than the Graduation...but it could've had a lot to do with the fact that I was in college at the time....I dont think that it had much to do with black or white.
yo i feel wat Ye's saying, he probably mean dat his album wuz blacker in da sense da it wuz more grimier so to say than his previous two
college dropout is my personal fav outta ye's albums wit graduation next and late registration comin 3rd all great albums tho
Who heard Beans still goin at Ye on the new Beans CD?
talkin bout niggas wearin tight jeans a bapes in the club looking "Half 'Ye, halfway out of the closet. You dont believe me ask Sway" (Talking bout the Sway MTV interveiw were Ye was defending homosexuality and saying people used to think he was gay)
The Beans was like "whoever co-signed being a sucker need to be slapped" or some shit talking bout the Roc and how it used to be be on some street shit.
Naa he say half gay. but he is referrin to 'ye cuz of the ask sway part and the rest.
chicago stand up, we the best in the industry, look at the line up, Common(cold as hell) Lupe(cold as fuck) jus them 2 alone killin these wack ass rappers
yo kanye is my boy but i dont understand why he has to attribute things as being "black" or "white." kanye is expanding the hip hop genre by appealing to a wider demographic, and i think that is something that he should be proud of. however he seems to say things that completely negate that fact, just like this, ya dig?
WHAT DAT BOY EM SAY...."I DONT DO BLACK MUSIC, I DONT DO WHITE MUSIC. I DO FIGHT MUSIC FOR HIGH SCHOOL KIDS!" SHIT MUSIC IS MUSIC. IF ITS GOOD ITS GOOD. KANYE JUST THAT TYPE OF DUDE. HE FROM THE HOOD BUT HE AINT A HOOD NIGGA. BUT HE KEEP IT REAL. GOTTA RESPECT HIM.
All I can say is Co-Sign. Unlike Kanye, theres niggas out there that can be from the Hood, but they aint got that Hood mentality and sense....and they think that makes them hood. Ignorance. I blame society for makin niggas think bein from the Hood automatically makes them cool...it makes them different from the majority since people dont see the way we act alot cept on TV. Kanye is kinda actin weird here....not sure what to think. College Dropout was the first album that made me actually think bout what Hip Hop was and where it was going....mainly cause I grew up in the same type of situation as him.
Man that joint was just good music, not cause its blacker or whiter its a good record. Comments like this make me want to not buy shit.. cause the shit blacker...WOW... Does it matter?
i don't know bout the black music philosophy, but kanye is a genius str8 up. i can relate to him man 4 real. i still think his second effort was better than graduation...just because it had more songs on there.
YEA BUT HE DONT DRESS BLACK
if i was kanye i woulda beat the interviewer's ass savagely for asking some DUMB shit like that...
"do you feel with graduation that the album was BLACKER than your previous ones?" what the hell kinda question is that? they both buggin'
this to me is stupid! on both kanye and spin mag, how you gunna put a black/white label on your albums?
what the FUCK is kanye talkin about?? more black people bought this album because he made it blacker?? soooooo im guess your number 1 hit single sampled a techno song made it WAY more black right?? do you know how many white people LOVE Daft Punk?? then he sampled them....i'm half white myself and been in these college clubs when they played "Stronger" and "Good Life"...these frat dudes and white ho's lose their FUCKIN MIND!!!!! no if he was on the "I'm So Hood" track then we might be able to talk about him making an album geared towards the black urban culture but.......THROW YOUR HANDS UP IN THE SKY!!!!!!!
kanye's a fag.. eveyone's know that !!
Beanie said it..LMAO
Kanye is a fucking moron
dude can produce some nice tracks and make crazy beats, but shouldnt be giving interviews
hahaha god damn wtf is homeboy talkin about "i made my album blacker"this nigga is on some silly shit for real makes good song and good beats but damnnn silly as all hell
how can u make music more blacker?
racist az kid
we bought ur album cause ur lyrically good we can care less what skin color u are
College Dropout>>>>Graduation
Graduation was a great album but it really was over-hyped/overrated with the whole 50 cent battle for better sales shit. Musically College Dropout is better than Graduation.
One more thing, I think Kanye is wrong about more black ppl buying Graduation. Every single white person I know has Graduation. LOL Real Talk. Only like 2 of my niggas actually bought Graduation the rest of us bootlegged that shit, just like we did wit Curtis. We didn't fall for the media hype, both albums were overrated. 50's first two albums were better than Curtis and Kanye's first two albums were better than Graduation.
kanye iz tha ignorant foo..
but id say sum shit lyk dat..
jus cuz im arrogant and i could say sum shit lyk dat and git away wit it when u famous..
what the fuck is he talking about? Graduation was a wack cd. There are only a couple good songs, out of the 13 tracks, not to mention every track has a sample from a previous hit by someone else. Didnt Diddy try and do this same shit like 10 years ago. Graduation is garabe son!!! Go peep the new Chamillionaire or Freeway. Kayne should be suckin 50 off for gettin him all those record sales. just wait and see. next time kayne drops, its going to be straight into a toilet!
IF HE STICKS TO HIS WORD IT WOULD PROBABLY BE HIS BEST ALBUM
first of all Graduation was an incredible album. Secondly why is everyone hating on Kanye for saying this shit? They are having a discussion of the social demographics of hiphop and how Kanye tried to penetrate that through his music. That is reality, especially in the U.S. And music can be whiter or blacker. Black music is obviously from Africa and is very rhythm and drum based. White music stems from Europe with is more about harmony and melody. That is how jazz was invented: when Africans and Europeans started living amongst eachother for the first times in the U.S they blended there forms/styles of music and jazz was created. Black and white audiences are still very important today - sure there are other racial groups that listen to rap, but since hip hop is considered black ("urban") music and it is now fully exposed to the mainstream (WHITE AMERICA) how is this not a legit topic to discuss???
AND one more point relating to the samples he chose: Elton John, Daft Punk and Steely Dan - these artists are obviously considered more "white" than "black" especiallly if we're talking about their audiences. But Kanye adds crazy beats/rhythms/drums making it pure hiphop ie BLACK MUSIC. This is not only creative for hiphop but also a genius way to expand his audience and popularity across the globe. But he doesn't only use "white" samples - artists like Labi Siffre, Michael Jackson and Jackson 5 give the album a soulful (BLACK) sound too. Then he adds in beats like Big Brother, Barry Bonds and Can't Tell Me Nothing which are way more hood and appealing to real hiphop heads. Kanye thought about the songs he was going to put on this cd b/c he wanted it to be a global success and that is what he did, DON'T HATE
THANXS FOR THE SPEECH PROFESSOR"I FINALLY TOOK SOME TIME FROM WACKING OFF TO TALK SOME INTELLIGENT SHIT FOR A CHANGE!!!!!!!!
I think college dropout was alot more blacker. He needs to go back to his soulful beats he straid away very very far from it. Now we got stronger not bad but not all falls down or threw the wire. Those are classics I mean by me a spaceship and fly. Matter fact im going to pop that in right now album to nice. Kanye get your college drop out on man.
hahahaha thats funny because graduation is a really white album and the majority of his sales from it were white people.
THE MAJORITY OF EVERY FUCKIN RAP ARTIST SALES ARE FROM WHITE FOLKS YOU FUCKIN NIMWIT!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAT ON YOUR HEAD LOOKIN LIKE A TROJAN ON MY DICK........TIGHT THAN A MUTHAFUCKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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lol His first two albums were better than Graduation...& they were 'blacker'...they had soul, a classical Chi Town sound & a bit of black comedy too lol...Graduation was good, but it wasn't the same as the other two.
Dis Nigga Still Make White Music 2 Me!!! They Still B Bangers Doe
I don't understand the point in sayin "white" or "black" music...hip-hop is hip-hop..if u listen 2 something based on how "black" it sounds u limit yourself alot and miss tons of good material out dere..but big props to Ye on da Graduation
fuck kanye, soft ass nigga
How the fuck would he know how many black people bought his album???? When you buy it at a store, do you sign a paper, as a black person buying it???? I'm sick of this weak ass female, and all the ignorance he spews on a regular basis.
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well mayb he doesnt mean he has numbers sayn X amount of blackz bought his ablum but the awareness of the black community to his music...n yea at times he's ignorant but u cna't deny his talent..
still Lupe Fiasco next up n my book doe
this comment has nothing to do with anything. the album is great, but if anything i can say his other 2 albums were blacker..Crack music on late reg
all the real hip hop is coming from the Chicago you gotta luv it
i think this is the most bullshit ive ever heard. Black and White, who gives a shit??? If you like the damn record than just buy it. Damn Ye, you got grammy's be greatful. Its like hes trying to convince people that hes black or something. We know youre black bro!!!!
I think what kayne was trying to express is that he made his album more soulful. Im feeling what he saying.
Glad more people are supporting him and his music but he needs to stop while he is ahead sometimes.
R.I.P to his mom dukes who passed away recently... but i giv him props for doiin his thiing and not takiin shit out on erbodii else around hiiM
'Ye always got some off the wall shit to say. If blacker is better, I hope he names the next album the same title as Nas's new joint.