Late Registration

who did though I gotta think Lupe Fiasco kind of did I think or maybe that was just two albums wait what is first you gotta explain what Kanye's concept trilogy project is he

talk about dropout graduation or is it college dropout late registration okay yeah something like that yeah

I mean, kind of.

I think Kanye, by graduation, dropped the entire premise of that trilogy concept.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think late registration.

I think he had one.

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Late Registration would be four.

Uh-

You're nuts.

Number four, I'm going 808 and Heartbreak.

That's number four.

Number three, now this is where it's tough for me at, man, 'cause I love, I love College Dropout, I love Late Registration.

I'm gonna go Late Registration number three, Graduation number two, number one College Dropout.

And now that's me not really, you know, in this space, maybe not, um, thinking about historical artists that maybe I wasn't, uh, listening to back in the day, but man, ooh, it's hard to touch those first three albums.

Uh, my f- my absolute favorite Kanye West album is Late Registration, but Graduation is like right behind there.

Mm.

Um, I wanna say I have both of these albums.

Now I feel bad.

Because I feel bad, let me note here parenthetically that Jon Brion co-produced the best song on Kanye West's 2005 album Late Registration.

A song that sounds like a depressed merry-go-round is about to kick your ass up and down the street.

You motherfuckers better do your job and roll up And watch how we roll up and I can't control it, can't hold it, it's so nuts I take a sip of that yak, I wanna fuck I take a hit of that chronic, it got me stuck

Toxic, yeah.

March 29th, Mariah Carey releases her second single, We Belong Together, from her 10th studio album, The Emancipation of Mimi.

The song would hold the number one position of the Billboard Hot 100 for 14 weeks, the highest record for the entire decade.

On this same day, Will Smith releases his fourth studio album, Lost and Found.

Wow.

Forgot about that album.

Kanye also coming up right now.

Here come the hits.

kind of don't understand why I'm doing what I'm doing, like what's the goal, what's the end goal, I just lose motivation.

So what happened was I was living in Burbank, my school's in Pasadena, and Kanye West had just released his new album, Late Registration, and essentially I would drive from Burbank to Pasadena, album was not over, and I didn't want to go to algebra class because I found in that moment that I was getting more out of sitting in my car listening to this music I went to a class that I didn't understand why I had to take that class.

So it wasn't until I met my wife that she kind of helped me piece the puzzle together.

Yeah,

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the Late Registration album.

Like I miss that Kanye.

But Vick, you know how they, when these people start making more money and start doing stranger things, honey, they change.

And I don't know.

It, it was just like- I was really interested in how the beat sounded, and the next thing you know I'm listening to The College Dropout for the first time, and then I'm listening to, uh, Late Registration, and then I'm listening to Graduation, and then, like, I get it...

And then boom, next thing you know I'm listening to Illmatic, I'm listening to Bonita Applebum by A Tribe Called Quest.

Like, I'm listening to all of these things that I wouldn't...