Is Kanye West's Graduation top ten or top 20 Greatest Hip-Hop album of all time

[jesusshuttlesworth34]

Just the fact that half of his rhymes on Graduation were recycled from his early mixtapes turned me off completely.
The dude couldn't even come up with brand new material for the album....

Ha this dude said he recycled HALF....gross overstatement. He reused Home for Homecoming (the two songs sounded nothing alike with the finished products) and some other bars.


Graduation was a solid CD at the time and for that period. He has some classic songs on there, but I don't consider it a top 20 CD of ALL time.

 

[dauldierce]

LATE REGISTRATION IS ONE OF THE GREATEST HIP HOP ALBUMS OF ALL TIME!

LATE REGISTRATION IS HIS BEST WORK.

 

[cj863]

LR> GRD > CD for me.

Late Registration is the only one that would peek into my top 10.

 

[k2theablam]

Just the fact that half of his rhymes on Graduation were recycled from his early mixtapes turned me off completely.
The dude couldn't even come up with brand new material for the album....

Ha this dude said he recycled HALF....gross overstatement. He reused Home for Homecoming (the two songs sounded nothing alike with the finished products) and some other bars.


Graduation was a solid CD at the time and for that period. He has some classic songs on there, but I don't consider it a top 20 CD of ALL time.

way to go, you effectively corrected my hyperbole and then turned around and made the same point I made in my post.

Kanye says thanks for defending him online.

 

[supa vegetto]

Late Registration > Graduation > College Dropout > 808s > MDTF

In terms of replay. I listen to LR the most and MDTF the least.

 

[essential1]

No certain order. I got bored after 80. I’ll let someone else fill in the last 13.

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

1. Reasonable Doubt – Jay-Z
2. Blueprint – Jay-Z
3. Black Album – Jay- Z
4. American Gangster – Jay-Z
5. Illmatic - Nas
6. It Was Written – Nas
7. The Lost Tapes - Nas
8. Me Against the World – 2Pac
9. The 7 Day Theory – Makaveli
10. All Eyez on Me – 2Pac
11. Ready to Die- B.I.G.
12. Life After Death – B.I.G.
13. Chronic – Dr. Dre
14. 2001 – Dr. Dre
15. Doggystyle – Snoop
16. Distant Relatives – Nas & Damien Marley
17. Marshall Mathers LP – Eminem
18. Power of the Dollar – 50 Cent
19. Get Rich or Die Trying – 50 Cent
20. Beg for Mercy – G-Unit
21. Death Certificate – Ice Cube
22. The Predator – Ice Cube
23. Straight Outta Compton – N.W.A.
24. Thug Motivation 101 – Young Jeezy
25. Enter the 36 Chambers – Wu-Tang
26. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx – Raekwon
27. Liquid Swords - GZA
28. Supreme Clientele – Ghostface Killah
29. College Dropout – Kanye West
30. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy – Kanye West
31. Late Registration – Kanye West
32. Low End Theory – A Tribe Called Quest
33. Midnight Marauders- A Tribe Called Quest
34. The Score – The Fugees
35. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill – Lauryn Hill
36. Capital Punishment – Big Pun
37. ATLiens – Outkast
38. Aquemini - Outkast
39. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below – Outkast
40. The Fix- Scarface
41. We Can’t Be Stopped- GETO Boys
42. Paid in Full – Eric B & Rakim
43. Follow the Leader- Eric B. & Rakim
44. Long Live the Kane- Big Daddy Kane
45. It’s a Big Daddy Thing – Big Daddy Kane
46. Criminal Minded- Boogie Down Productions
47. By All Means Necessary – Boogie Down Productions
48. Run- DMC – Run DMC
49. Raising Hell – Run DMC
50. Radio – LL Cool J
51. Mama Said Knock You Out- LL Cool J
52. E. 1999 Eternal – Bone Thugs-n- Harmony
53. Capital Punishment – Big Pun
54. Yo! Bum Rush the Show – Public Enemy
55. It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back – Public Enemy
56. Fear of a Black Planet – Public Enemy
57. Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star – Black Star
58. Black on Both Sides- Mos Def
59. Train of Thought – Reflection Eternal
60. Quality – Talib Kweli
61. Illadelph Halflife- The Roots
62. Things Fall Apart – The Roots
63. The Infamous – Mobb Deep
64. H.N.I.C. – Prodigy
65. Naughty by Nature – Naughty By Nature
66. Strictly Business – EPMD
67. It’s Dark & Hell is Hot – DMX
68. Internal Affairs – Pharoahe Monch
69. Doe or Die – AZ
70. 3 Feet High and Rising – De La Soul
71. De La Soul is Dead – De La Soul
72. Road to Riches – Kool G Rap
73. Resurrection – Common
74. Like Water for Chocolate – Common
75. Be- Common
76. The Great Adventures of Slick Rick – Slick Rick
77. No One Can Do it Better – D.O.C.
78. Enta Da Stage – Black Moon
79. License to Ill – Beastie Boys
80. Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous – Big L
81. Return to the 36 Chambers – Ol’ Dirty
82. Trap Muzik – T.I.
83. One For All – Brand Nubian
84. ’93 til Infinity – Souls of Mischief
85. He’s The DJ, I’m The Rapper – DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
86. Operation: Doomsday - MF Doom
87. D.I.T.C. – D.I.T.C.

 

[8pm at msg]

My favorite album in Kanye's catalog. Definitely NOT top 10 or 20.

 

[nicelikechrist]

LR>MBDTF>CD>>Graduation>808s