This release was widely rejected by hip hop heads but to me it's really Kanye's best album up to then. This is mainly due to the fact that the factors that made his previous offerings rather annoying are missing here - no endless skits about how West dropped out of college, no Puff Daddy style productions that are completely based on obvious samples of old songs. Instead we get 12 tracks (which is more than enough, most hip hop albums are too long anyway) of synth pop with some hip hop influences here and there, which is great because West is far from being an exceptionally good rapper, but he is a pretty good pop artist.

Ibm System P5 Serial Connection Baud. Most of the melodies are catchy and even the autotune doesn't sound stale here. The only thing I could have done without is the last track, a boring freestyle that goes on for way too long.

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