Graduation

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In comparison to previous albums, Graduation features fewer guest appearances from other recording artists. Kanye West made a conscious decision to abstain from the widespread recording practice of excessive rap albums saturated with skits and filler and instead filled Graduation with significantly fewer tracks. The album prematurely concludes the education theme of West's first two studio albums, The College Dropout (2004) and Late Registration (2005), as his aborted "Good Ass Job" album would have concluded the concept album's themes as a tetralogy, rather than a trilogy. Chris Martin sings the chorus and supplies a gospel-style piano motif while West raps over heavy yet buoyant drums on " Homecoming".

are deeply rooted in the Kanye of old, using nostalgia-inducing samples, elegant pianos and strings, and gospel choirs". Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy.West debuted the album's lead single "Can't Tell Me Nothing" on the New York radio station Hot 97 on May 15. com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US. At the end of the concert, a shower of silver confetti and ticker tape reading Touch the Sky fell from the ceiling onto the audience while the actual " Touch the Sky", which was the fourth single from Late Registration, was played on the speakers. Pitchfork critic Mark Pytlik complimented the accessibility of West's sonic experimentations, finding it impressive and innovative how he assembled seemingly disparate elements on the songs. By late September 2005, West had already completed three songs for the album, which he intended to contain a total of twelve tracks.

While written by West, who envisioned its concept and chorus while riding an elevator, the soul-baring Jay-Z dedication " Big Brother" stands as the only song on Graduation that he didn't produce. Dave Heaton from PopMatters felt that though the album is good, it lacks the epochal feel of Late Registration, with songs that "aren't as richly dressed" and he claimed that West "doesn't seem to be trying as hard".On January 10, 2008, the album was certified double platinum by Music Canada for sales of 200,000 copies. Omar Edwards – piano (tracks 4-5, 10), keyboards (3, 11) synthesizer (4-5, 8), synthesizer bass (8). Following a break, the song enters a passage where its heavily manipulated hook echoes in and out before the coda draws the composition to a close. Though he continued to use vocal samples, West gleaned them before also pushing the samples underneath the synths, causing them to "sound like voices trapped in a huge machine, not like organic, subliminal connections to a mythical black-music past". West injected distorted synth- chords, house beats, electro- disco rhythms, and a wide array of audio-effects into his hip-hop production.

Everything I Am" was yet another song intended for Common but was passed on, a fact which West addresses within the opening lines. Jay-Z went on to say that he also thought that the song was "brilliantly written" and voice the belief of it being West's best song since "Jesus Walks" as far as structure and emotion. The outcome of the highly publicized sales competition between 50 Cent's Curtis and West's Graduation has been accredited to the commercial decline of the gangsta rap that once dominated mainstream hip-hop. Most importantly, Greene perceived that West had developed an affinity with electronic synthesizers.

When first presented with the proposal of his label moving the release date of his album yet again as well as the idea of a sales competition between him and 50 Cent, West initially expressed his indifference towards the thought, saying, "When I heard that thing about the debate, I thought that was the stupidest thing.