Graduation

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kanye teams up with veterans daft punk and edwin birdsong on 'stronger' - graduation's first single; as well as enlis It was named as one of the best albums of 2007 by multiple publications, including Rolling Stone and USA Today.

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". Due largely to these factors and the inclusion of layered electronic synthesizers, West believed that his record took hip-hop in a different direction. Graduation was later included on Rolling Stone 's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, landing at 204 on the 2020 update. Murakami later reproduced the artwork designs through the use of cel-shaded animation within a three-minute animated music video for the opening track " Good Morning". At the end of May, Island Def Jam pushed forward the release date for Graduation up from September to an unspecified late August date, a decision that West first announced on the introductory track of his Can't Tell Me Nothing mixtape.

Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. Everything I Am" is a song of self-examination, in which West attempts to confront his fallacies by surveying the consequences of his outspokenness ruminating over various ways people expect him to conduct himself. With his two wins at the ceremony, West was the second biggest winner, behind Chris Brown with three awards to his name.

In comparison to previous albums, Graduation features fewer guest appearances from other recording artists. The critical reception and commercial success of Graduation left a profound influence on both hip-hop culture and popular music. In terms of lyricism, he simplifies some of his rhymes after touring with The Rolling Stones on their A Bigger Bang concert tour and discovering he could not captivate the audiences as well with his most complex lyrical themes. Slant Magazine critic Eric Henderson found West's lyrics "only transparently expressive", saying that the songs' hooks "grab your ear on the first listen (notably bypassing your brain), your balls on the second, and your soul from there on out", and described West's production as having "adopted a beefy, synth-glam sheen".The collaboration between the two came about when West visited Murakami's Kaikai Kiki studio during a brief trip to Asaka, Japan. Opening with a gradual, rising crescendo of symphonic strings, "Flashing Lights" emits synth twinklings before transforming into a moderately-paced, synth-driven beat. On July 19, the album's release date was changed once more and moved to September 11, 2007, the same US release date as rapper 50 Cent's third studio album Curtis. In addition, songs such as "Everything I Am" have been cited as "the best example of the soulful and introspective atmosphere that came to dominate the rap world, from Drake to The Weeknd".

The visual story concludes with Dropout Bear being shot out of a cannon from the university into the sky into another stratosphere on the back cover. Kanye's savvy enough (as he loves to remind us ad nauseum) to know that this music's place in mainstream culture has changed. While hosting a listening session for his second studio album Late Registration on August 3, 2005, at Sony Music Studios, West revealed that he wanted to schedule the release of Graduation sometime around October 2006. West admitted that he actually did not really care for the single, but he was pressured into releasing it by his record label Def Jam Recordings. West crafted the album to contain less ornate production, not have any hip-hop skits, and be sequenced to produce a tighter, more cohesive package.

Stronger" is built around a sample of " Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" by Daft Punk, while its echoing deep, hallow drums affect the electronic sound. Graduation marked a musical progression towards synth-based production in regards to the art of crafting hip-hop beats. Although "Bittersweet Poetry" appears as a Japanese bonus track on Graduation, it was actually one of the very first songs crafted for Late Registration.