It was a massive commercial success, producing five singles that achieved chart success. It is West's best-selling album in the United States, with domestic sales of 3. From a production standpoint, nothing here tops recent conquests like Alicia Keys' 'You Don't Know My Name' or Talib Kweli's 'Get By,' but he's consistently potent and tempers his familiar characteristics -- high-pitched soul samples, gospel elements -- by tweaking them and not using them as a crutch.
Even though those with their ears to the street knew West could excel as an MC, he has used this album as an opportunity to prove his less-known skills to a wider audience. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 87, based on 25 reviews. Club , Nathan Rabin observed in the music 'substance, social commentary, righteous anger, ornery humanism, dark humor, and even Christianity', calling it 'one of those wonderful crossover albums that appeal to a huge audience without sacrificing a shred of integrity'.
West delivers the goods with a disarming mix of confessional honesty and sarcastic humor, earnest idealism and big-pimping materialism.
In a scene still dominated by authenticity battles and gangsta posturing, he's a middle-class, politically conscious, post-thug, bourgeois rapper — and that's nothing to be ashamed of. Some reviewers were more qualified in their praise. Rolling Stone ' s Jon Caramanica felt that 'West isn't quite MC enough to hold down the entire disc', [66] while Slant Magazine ' s Sal Cinquemani observed 'too many guest artists, too many interludes, and just too many songs period' on what he considered a 'chest-beatingly self-congratulatory' yet humorous, deeply sincere, and affecting record.
Producer Kanye West's highlight reels were stacking up exponentially when his solo debut for Roc-a-Fella was released, after numerous delays and a handful of suspense-building underground mixes. The week The College Dropout came out, three singles featuring his handiwork were in the Top 20, including his own 'Through the Wire.
All of this momentum keeps rolling through The College Dropout, an album that's nearly as phenomenal as the boastful West has led everyone to believe. From a production standpoint, nothing here tops recent conquests like Alicia Keys' 'You Don't Know My Name' or Talib Kweli's 'Get By,' but he's consistently potent and tempers his familiar characteristics -- high-pitched soul samples, gospel elements -- by tweaking them and not using them as a crutch.
Even though those with their ears to the street knew West could excel as an MC, he has used this album as an opportunity to prove his less-known skills to a wider audience. Prior to this album, we were more than aware that West's stature as a producer was undeniable; now we know that he's also a remarkably versatile lyricist and a valuable MC. Kareem 'Biggs' Burke exec. Shawn Carter exec. Roberson co-exec. Kanye West also co-exec. Kyambo 'Hip Hop' Joshua co-exec.
West center refined the album's production and incorporated elements such as gospel choirs and string arrangements. The track is representative of his production style, in which he samples and speeds up sections from classic soul records and uses them to create melodic hooks.
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