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Universal acclaim- based on 1302 Ratings
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mikejoeOct 11, 2005Yeah this off the heeeezeeey!
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XVOct 11, 2005The ROC is still alive!
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RyanMOct 1, 2005Late registration is a fairly good album. Not quite as well put together as college dropout. I think this album lacks the same sence of urgency that college dropout had, however it is still pretty good and worth the purchase.
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ReyPNov 4, 2005Best rap album in years. Kanye West seemingly could care less about doing what everyone else is doing. On Late Registration, he does his own thing and it is a masterpiece.
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Mrs.WestOct 21, 2005
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LDotDec 17, 2005Brilliant.
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SLatrelleDec 18, 2005
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James>>>Dec 27, 2005It is just great
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MarshallMOct 22, 2005some reallly good songs, but not better then his other album. " bush doesn't care about black people!" pshh, idiot.
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RichardJDec 31, 2005
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TomYeCDec 6, 2005Yes..."what more could you ask for?...the international a**hole..."....Kanye West backed up College Dropout with a BANG!!!! 10.5/10 A must in any CD collection....Definitely a classic....Kanye the best thing that ever happened to Soul/Hip Hop since Baby Face...
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ChristopherAOct 27, 2005Great. Fantastic beats, and brilliant production/string arrangements from Jon Brion. Kanye deserves all the acclaim he receives. "Gone" shines as a daring accomplishment.
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adrianoOct 5, 2005Top Stuff, so laid back and what real hip hop is about. Rather than hearing about artists continously blabbering on about cars, bitches, and money Kanye adreeses some real issues Even with a mainstream tune like Golddigger man still gets his word across. 'My way home' could have been such a better tune if common and kanye himself had done another 2 verses, such a tease!
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AndreWOct 9, 2005I have a masters in music (majoring in popular music) and I have listening to hip-hop for over 15 years, so I am more than qualified to review this album. To say it is the best album this year is an understatment.
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RaulJAug 26, 2005Awesome
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RossAAug 26, 2005Kanye doesn't belong above Sufjan Stevens. Seriously.
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mizzodAug 26, 2005ok, a little dissapointed considering college dropout was so good and common's BE was so sonically sublime, an overated rapper kanye is! enough with the sampling already!
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[Anonymous]Aug 26, 2005not as good as the college dropout, but still sits above most hip-hop records, a slower record than the colege dropout, not as fun or as gripping, but very thoughtful, I hope the next one is more lively and fun
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JoeLAug 26, 2005Kanye you did it again!!!Album of the year.Jay-Z handed the torch to Kanye and he is running away with it!!!!
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phillAug 27, 2005
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SamLAug 27, 2005Solid album, but nowhere near being a classic.
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TomKAug 27, 2005Best Rap album of the year
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NickHAug 27, 2005Brilliant. It could have done without all those skits, however... maybe one, but not five.
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KateLAug 28, 2005Yeah, Kanye samples a lot. So do a lot of hip-hop producers. What I find so brilliant about this album is how much the way he uses his samples has changed. On College Dropout, he built a collage with samples; on Late Registration, they are instruments in his orchestra. And come on, previous commenters. As if it even makes sense to compare Sufjan and Kanye on a linear integer scale!
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ColinTAug 28, 2005
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ScoobyAug 28, 2005gave it a 10...this album is musically light years ahead of CD. Lyrically kanye will NEVER be able to match his production talent, but the latter half makes up for the former. And as for "Ross", please tell me why Kanye cant be higher than Sufjen...do hint a bit of bias?
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ssAug 28, 2005this album flows smoothly from start 2 finish kanyes juss killin the rap game right now Best tracks:diamonds, crack music, touch the sky
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StuTAug 28, 2005This is way better than Sufjan could ever hope to be, unless Kanye produces their next album. The hype is not doing the album justice. It is the best album of the year bar none.
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ByronMAug 28, 2005
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whbAug 29, 2005This generation's Bob Dylan? Is someone smoking Crack Music? Jon Brion's production is great, but Kanye's is all over the place. One minute he's socially conscious in "Diamonds" and the next minute he lets Jay-Z come on to rap about how great he is. Kanye is way to pretentious and arrogant. But he makes a good record.
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bobdAug 29, 2005this is the best album of this year ! the man is amazing and i cant wait til the next 1 !
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MikeBAug 29, 2005
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TripleLAug 31, 2005WOW, I can't stop listening to this album. I don't know how anyone can give this less than a 10. It's an 11!!! All tracks are potential singles, incredible!
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JoshNAug 31, 2005kanye is a musical genius. he uses other artists and different types of sound to create an album for the ages. this album is the epitamy of brilliance and kanye is just beginning to show that he is "pop." If you dont believe me, just listen to the cd and its brilliance.
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drepAug 30, 2005best hip hop cd of the year!
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jyotirmayadAug 31, 2005Contrived and boring -- can't seem to decided if he wants to do rap music or other kinds of music.
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APBAug 31, 200518 songs. just about everyone is great. how could you not like this album?
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KingcosmosAug 30, 2005
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edfromtorontoAug 30, 2005kanye has just dropped the album of the year. amazing
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CoreyCAug 30, 2005"Heard Em' Say" is one of the best hip-hop tracks i've ever heard.
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JimmyHAug 31, 2005Everytime an album is applauded, people gotta say, "It's not the great." This is commonly know as "hatin."' Late Registration is worth every single dollar you spend on it. Most artists can't produce one entire album of good songs - Kanye has done it twice.
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LavalucaAug 30, 2005you probably have heard this already, but this album is definatly worth a 10. Rap is not just about cussing and sex, and this album shows that there is more. its somthin that most albums fail in greatly. this album like he said in Diamonds From Sierra Leone, "You got to love somebody still speaks from his soul"
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mikebAug 31, 2005best rapper out right now! and also exceptional album!
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yuyuiyAug 31, 2005everythin in this album is perfect except for the beat of hey mamma but little defect is over shined by everything else
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JohnWAug 30, 2005To start, "Heard 'Em Say" is the hip-hop track of the year. This CD is almost perfect, with the exclusion of the tracks "Drive Slow" and "Crack Music" being slightly mediocre because they're just not Kanye. Everything else is gold. Highlights are Heard 'Em Say, Diamonds, Roses, Bring Me Down and Hey Mama. Buy this album.
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RODNEYSSep 1, 2005Ok, so we have the following hot songs: #1 Golddigger #2 Diamonds Remix w/Jay Z #3 Um... #4 Hmmm...? #5 I guess track #2 is ok... you know, what's it called? Well, the point is that other than the tracks featuring help from Jamie Foxx and Jay Z, this album IS overrated and forgettable.
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Reignstorm_UKSep 1, 2005Best Hip Hop Album out right now>>>>>Scratch that best album for 2005. Talk your noise Kanye, you are a genius. This is not just an album, it's a soundscape....better yet a soundtrack for life......Thanks for making great music Ye!
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EricESep 10, 2005
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AlexCSep 11, 2005KW has redefined rap music with this killer album. I don't appreciate much rap music, especially modern rap, but for some reason this album just hits me like a freight train. His lyrics are self-reflective rather than self-assured, and the music is simply magnificent (particularly his use of brass instruments).
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Al.Sep 11, 2005I really have no idea why anyone wouldn't like this album honestly,unless they are having problems with their hearing.its way better than 95 percent of the major release this year or i could say these few years.Someone just can't bear to witness good things happening to others so they just have to induced some negativity,Yeah like those who gave this album less than an 8.
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RyanFSep 1, 2005This is a great album! So many rap and hip-hop albums are full of filler. Not this one. Every track is an excellent tune (except the skits, but even those are hilarious). I can't get that "Gold Digger" song out of my head! "We Major" is also great, with super cool brassy horn samples, and Nas (who would have guessed it?) dropping some great lyrics. Get this album!
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carltSep 1, 2005mas-ter-piece. don't bother with those indie reviewers who know nothing about hip hop, or those silly enough to complain about kanye's rapping. this isn't rap, it's pop. brilliant pop.
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SlaqishaBSep 1, 2005
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chris`V.Sep 10, 2005it is a good cd
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MattcSep 12, 2005This cd works because its not like his first. He changes it up and makes a completely different record which is essential to great hip-hop and music.
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BryanMSep 12, 2005This is one of the best cds this year. I love just about every song on this cd. No doubt, some may say it didn't pass up the orginal (College Dropout) But know this, it's not very far behind at all. A great cd overall.
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KaylaSep 1, 2005
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ColageEdukatidSep 1, 2005Hip-hop album of the year? I'm not quite ready to say yes - since MF Doom and DangerMouse's collaboration drops in October, and let
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JamieASep 14, 2005No immediate sellers like Dropout has but balanced quality through tracks, hit again Kanye!
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jonoSep 18, 2005This cd is his best work ever since it shows his own on the cd
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AlbertPSep 21, 2005Finally I can hear hip hop with style. Yeah for 'Ye
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KatieP.Sep 2, 2005
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vivaySep 2, 2005just classic fire music
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craighSep 22, 2005
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antoniocSep 24, 2005Undeniably the best album in stores right now. tme late registration tops the college dropout with tracks like Addiction, Hey Mama, and Crack Music Kanye's in a class by himself
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GeorgeBushJr.Sep 27, 2005I'm GW Bush and I approve this album! --
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AdamCSep 3, 2005This album is absolutely an amazing sophomore album. Its beats and vibe are awesome and Kanye West can talk his shit again.
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ZachSep 3, 2005I'm not a fan of most rap, but this C.D. is amazing. Kanye West is by far the best rapper out there these days
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ConiseuerSep 3, 2005In a word...boring. In two words...highly overated. In three words...don't bother buying.
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BillySep 4, 2005just garbage. rascist mother ****er
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TimSSep 4, 2005The first time i listened to this cd, i thought it was good, but not as good as College Dropout, but after the 2nd, 3rd, and 20th time listening to it, i realized that this album is much better, Kanye found a way to better himself from his already great first album, which is rare today. And i happen to like all those skits.
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BenV.Sep 4, 2005An undeniable failure of an album. The only redeeming factor I can find is that Kanye's arrogance hasn't matched other so-called rappers of this decade, but it's getting close.
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NavdeepASep 4, 2005Yeah, Kanye West is wicked!!
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XavierBSep 6, 2005Not worth it if you like music.
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JonDSep 6, 2005Kanye does it again. Masterpiece of an album. No one does it better that kon the louis vuitton don
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BobRSep 6, 2005The album is a musical masterpiece. Celebration and Late are probably the only average tracks. The rest are supurb. And surprisingly, the skits are more entertaining than cumbersome this time around. Overall a fantastic album.
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JaredBSep 8, 2005OutKast tried, but this is Rap's Sgt. Pepper. Experiments and breaks barriers while still sounding polished
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richardkSep 9, 2005the beats were hot but the album lacked integrity and the personal drive the other album had. it feels more hollywood than hood
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johnaJan 11, 2006its fuckin awsume
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marqusnJan 11, 2006
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TylerHJan 22, 2006Nice now that you showed us you can rap you can go back to producing and bring hip hop out of this "southern era" before i kill myself.
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DanADec 5, 2006Musically this album has far better production than The College Dropout. But some of the lyrics are hardly passable on some tracks. But this is still a near perfect album. Kanye is easily the best artist of the hip hop genre today.
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LeifSJan 8, 2006I am not a big fan of rap music, but i do like this album. I have a lot of respect for Kanye West. This album does not beat college dropout, but it is very close.
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KyleighHFeb 11, 2006This is a very good album. Kanye West does absolutely excellent with this album. I love the songs "Gold Digger" and "Heard 'Em Say". They are both really, really, extremely good songs. Congrats to Kanye West at the Grammys. You go, Kanye! Keep on making the music that we all love!
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RaymondUFeb 13, 2006Another classic by kanye west. All his songs always have a meaning deep inside. I couldn't give it less than a 10.
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LucaAApr 2, 2006Kanye West is my life.Late Registration is the best album of the hystory.From Italy
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irvincJul 26, 2007late registration is brilliant, a superb triumph of hard labor of 'Ye and Jon Brion's behalf
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jaymSep 4, 2009C L A S S I C
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staciew.Nov 25, 2005Amazing album, great beats, outstanding lyrics, go see him live too if you get a chance!
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JosephSNov 26, 2005People say this is better than the first album because they're out of touch and they need to pretend to like at least one rap artist to compensate.
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kizzaDec 11, 2005This album just makes you feel good. The originality is inspiring and his rap's just flow.This is my new IT album, and will always be a classic.
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alexandertthegreatOct 21, 2005perfect
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bobbobsonDec 16, 2005
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Hervin........Dec 27, 2005I think that Kanye West is one of the few artists that puts her all into albums.Heis rhymes is so amazing and it is the truth .
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DanielCDec 29, 2005Great Album. Much better than "College Droput."
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JustinDDec 4, 2005All of the tracks on this album are good. he should of gotten 5 mics.
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EdgarMAug 26, 2005I don't care what anyody else says, this cd is the best album i have ever heard. which just goes to prove rap is still alive!
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davegAug 26, 2005not quite up to par with college dropout, but a very solid sophmore album.
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douglasmAug 26, 2005it's better than almost every hip-hop release this year, even though it's not mind-blowing. more of the same from kanye. and ross, don't worry about it getting a higher score than sufjan. i'm sure there will be more sites to review it and bring down the average. don't be so naive.
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VascoAug 26, 2005melhor disco de sempre
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Feb 17, 2011Late Registration's salvation (and, undoubtedly, Kanye's own) are when it basks in the sunshine after the rain.
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Jan 3, 2011Each of these songs offers more exquisite details than I could earmark in twice this space, many of them literary, which the English prof's dropout son rightly claims as his calling. But secret brilliance is more likely to emerge from the sops to his hip-hop base.
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Late Registration can't replicate the novelty of last year's College Dropout, but otherwise, this is an impressively more mature and labored-over album.