How Kanye West’s ‘Graduation’ Changed Music

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10 years ago today Kanye West released 'Graduation,' the final piece of the education-themed trilogy that established Kanye as an icon in music. The album outsold 50 Cent’s Curtis in its first week by nearly 300,000 units after a much-publicized sales race between them, moving Kanye to a new level both musically and culturally. Check out the Genius video above that dives deeper into the impact 'Graduation' had on music.
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@Cyranek 7 жыл бұрын

pretty wild that I'm still listening to this album

@PresenceMusic 7 жыл бұрын

Cyranek hi

@Ill_Y7 7 жыл бұрын

Cyranek I see you everywhere

@aidaniswack1492 7 жыл бұрын

Cyranek love your channel

@Cyranek 7 жыл бұрын

thanks you too

@dracson237 7 жыл бұрын

Cyranek word. Graduation and the College Dropout are my favorites from him.

@vincentstaples327 7 жыл бұрын

Kanye was ahead of his time when he dropped graduation

@hussein6173 7 жыл бұрын

I Am A God Kanye was ahead of his time when he dropped all his albums lol. Except TLOP that is. It's a good album but not as innovative as his others. I know turbo grafx 16 will be 🔥🔥🔥 tho

@m.d.4231 7 жыл бұрын

Hussein PREACH, like all good artists, u never know what to expect when Kanye drops an album

@redmisteditor 7 жыл бұрын

meh Yeezus was an underground sound he made popular, didnt even exucute it that well

@LIBryda 7 жыл бұрын

he was ahead of his time with all his projects

@posesvirtualreality2758 7 жыл бұрын

tru tru tru...

@empty351 Жыл бұрын

he made graduation he made graduation he made graduation he made graduation he made graduation he made graduation he made graduation

@golumgfx8932 Жыл бұрын

its fine he made graduation

@ZeldaBlade Жыл бұрын

He made graduation

@bubadeggs Жыл бұрын

He made graduation

@pradabears Жыл бұрын

He made Graduation

@amogussus5907 Жыл бұрын

He made graduation

@Snippz 6 жыл бұрын

I remember meeting him in New York, I was like 8 or 9. My school was invited to a ABC interview. He was there as well. When he was leaving he was signing autographs, By that time I didn't know how he was. But anyway, he was signing autographs and I wanted his, just cause. Lmao. He didnt wanna sign anymore books or cd's so he lied to me saying he didnt have a Marker to sing a paper for me. So I snatched a pen from a lady that was behind me. I just took it. Lol. He looked at me and smiled 😂 He signed it an left afterwards. Later, 8 years later I started hearing his music and I'm like "Damn! I met Kanye! He lied to me, saying he didnt have a marker, he smiled at me. Best day of my life and I didnt even realize it."

@supremenovah8013 5 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of when Tupac signed my yellow balloon when I was a kid. Took me years to know who he even was 😅

@cantu7214 5 жыл бұрын

@@supremenovah8013 do you still have the balloon?

@woo_shynen8805 5 жыл бұрын

Cantu its sarcasm

@natedurinho 4 жыл бұрын

@vanshuhh last time that was said to someone, they ended up releasing The Big F̶l̶o̶p̶ Day

@ruben2108 4 жыл бұрын

That’s so sick

@youaintasbadasyouthink 7 жыл бұрын

Say what you want about Kanye, but if you love music you'll understand his significance in the industry.

@m.d.4231 7 жыл бұрын

self-absorbed as he is, 'College Dropout' is still in my top 10 hip-hop albums of all time

@m9nkind 7 жыл бұрын

Spectrum UK that's the most generic Kanye West comments that you hypebeats say

@youaintasbadasyouthink 7 жыл бұрын

Hypebeat? You're lost bro, College Dropout pushed me through some real shit during my high school years and thats why Kanye is so significant to me, I dunno where your negativity stems from but you gotta let that shit go.

@m9nkind 7 жыл бұрын

Spectrum UK my negativity stems from the fact you said the generic thing about Kanye that all of you say which is " Love him or hate him I love him" (paraphrase)

@bryanmoonease7678 7 жыл бұрын

imMD Kanye came from nothing now he sells clothes from Kmart and sells them ten times their price he went from making deep music to making music to get paid / he overall changed a lot but it's crazy how a nobody became what he is now actually now that I think about it/ Kanye changed a lot money fucked him up but he's happy and in a better place then he used to be

@comptometerius 7 жыл бұрын

Wonder is one of the most underrated songs ever

@UnisusMC 7 жыл бұрын

Ya boy A-Cakes I Wonder... at least get the fuckin name right

@amaribrown3752 7 жыл бұрын

Ya boy A-Cakes yesss def my favorite

@riyahworld 7 жыл бұрын

Jonathan C, it's just never gonna be that deep bro....

@MMaldonado611 7 жыл бұрын

And I wonder if you know what it means what it means to find your dreams come true?

@UnisusMC 7 жыл бұрын

Static what

@yarellygomez5893 Жыл бұрын

What an amazing album! I hope he keeps making amazing music and nothing bad will happen-

@REXae86 Жыл бұрын

Oh boyyy

@Onitt222 Жыл бұрын

He totally wouldn’t release a half assed album that you have to pay $200 to listen to officially

@TeenX- Жыл бұрын

@@Onitt222 donda was good donda 2 was DOG

@carlosmattessich3883 11 ай бұрын

@@Onitt222 And he definitely wouldn’t say anything nice about Austrian painters with moustaches, especially not if they were involved in any significant events in the early 1940s

@mkneissl8 6 ай бұрын

plot twist: VULTURES dropped🗣️🔥

@tyronewifestealer2385 Жыл бұрын

He made graduation He made graduation He made graduation He made graduation

@JustPineapple Жыл бұрын

Wait what did he make?

@siddharthshakya7426 Жыл бұрын

@@JustPineapple GRADUATION!

@ZeldaBlade Жыл бұрын

@@siddharthshakya7426 what did he make?

@Agus-uu6tz Жыл бұрын

@@ZeldaBlade GRADUATION

@ZeldaBlade Жыл бұрын

@@Agus-uu6tz I didn’t hear you WHAT DID HE MAKE?

@user-ux8du9bf1f 7 жыл бұрын

kanye did so much for hip hop

@raynerfadhilahchandra7814 7 жыл бұрын

Too much

@DS-qp7qf 7 жыл бұрын

Rayner Fadhilah Chandra explain

@Wk1__ 7 жыл бұрын

*does

@jamesmaston12 7 жыл бұрын

No. Hip Hop and Electronic music have been closely related ever since their inception. You can trace it back to as far as the early 80's with Afrika Bambaataa and Soulsonic Force. Kanye is a great artist and producer, but we need to be real and stop bullshitting ourselves, "Graduation" didn't change music and he didn't do that much to influence or change hip hop.

@muuurkyd9675 7 жыл бұрын

Then why did Hip Hop die ?

@levis5530 7 жыл бұрын

People talk so much shit about me in barbershops.. they forget to get they haircut

@esmeralda15ful 7 жыл бұрын

The streets is flarin up, cause they want gun talk or I don't wear enough..

@johnathanpotter924 7 жыл бұрын

I don't remember that part of the song

@MrKiller891 7 жыл бұрын

Baggy clothes reeboks and adidos

@DeepDimpleDemon 7 жыл бұрын

So say goodbye to the NAACP Award

@mooshe26 7 жыл бұрын

Say goodbye to the India Irie awards

@klutzy2605 Жыл бұрын

What an intelligent young man. I wonder what he’s up to now

@brendanmuller7301 Жыл бұрын

Much like many intelligent young man he's taken up the cause

@truebreakage9003 Жыл бұрын

I wonder if he loves everyone

@zmeser Жыл бұрын

and i wonder..

@mryeast104 Жыл бұрын

@Elijah I wonder if he will storm on a stage while being drunk and shout at a young women named Taylor swift, inevitably making her more famous and being hated by most of the music industry at the time

@borebowoolgold Жыл бұрын

@@truebreakage9003 love your pfp

@chrisjfox8715 6 жыл бұрын

This vid doesn't really explain how Graduation changed music. There's no comparisons of how the landscape of music sounded before Graduation and then afterwards.

@muskulpeasent 5 жыл бұрын

classic click bait shit.

@ALFirebird 5 жыл бұрын

EXACTLY

@symmetricalllama01 5 жыл бұрын

gangsta rap fell off, rappers became more interested in fashion, rap lyrics became more personal... how did this video miss all of that lol

@joaopedrobaldo3316 4 жыл бұрын

Erin Star that’s true but in terms of fashion, Pharrell was already doing that with BBC and Bape (Nigo)

@thabokgwele5268 3 жыл бұрын

@tgeezyable 7 жыл бұрын

Yall should've done 808s& heartbreaks because ppl don't know how relevant that sound/style is & being used by almost every artist today.

@aprogenji1642 7 жыл бұрын

mb1213 damn u didn't have to call him a dickhead bruh.

@f.lashby8298 7 жыл бұрын

Pineapple Express 808s changed the whole pop industry forever...there's no drake, no weeknd, no travis,no cudi and so on without Kanye's 808s and Heartbreak. Atleast not with that sound.

@tgeezyable 7 жыл бұрын

F. Lashby lemme correct you there sir Cudi wrote 4 songs on 808s, Heartless,welcome to heartbreak,Robocop, & paranoid. If you think about it that whole vibe of 808s initially came from cudder. Cudi would've been cudi with or w/o Ye.

@victormurillo6956 7 жыл бұрын

Pineapple Express Kanye gave him that clout he needed tho

@MurideGaming 7 жыл бұрын

Pineapple Express they both helped eachother out

@age-ben4910 7 жыл бұрын

Things Kanye West's Graduation changed: 1. It gave rise to trap beats/instrumentals being more mainstreamed/popularized than ever since after 2007 ("Can't Tell Me Nothing"). Trap music existed before but it was mostly in the south specifically ATL, Georgia with DJ Toomp pumping out a few hits for the likes of T.I. After that record, you saw trap become a huge force even presently with Future & all these new Lil Insert rappers being some of the most popular figures in today's music let alone Hip-Hop 2. It made popular the merging of electro-club sounds with Hip-Hop/R&B ("Flashing Lights" & "Stronger"). These days you hear a lot of R&B artists such as Rihanna and The Weeknd on those electro-club type instrumentals and hear Hip-Hop songs often mixed into electro-club/trap. 3. It made "Gangsta Rap" fall out of popularity in the mainstream as we know it and instead gave rise to modern more eccentric rappers in the mainstream like a Drake, Kanye himself, Kid Cudi, Big Sean, Kendrick Lamar, Chance the Rapper, etc. 4. It made the stadium sound more important than ever in Hip-Hop and rappers like Drake, Kendrick Lamar & even Jay-Z made their albums to that standard after Graduation came out. 5. It gave rise to daft punk and the modern electro-club/dance music popularity...DJs/producers like Calvin Harris, Diplo, DJ Snake, and Daft Punk owe some of their success to the widespread and continuing popularity of the record "Stronger"

@Nathan-np9zg 5 жыл бұрын

lol daft punk did that on their own son

@revatronprime4120 4 жыл бұрын

@@Nathan-np9zg it brought a new audience

@TheTricktracktruck 4 жыл бұрын

Agree on 2, 3 and 4. 1 and 5 are sketchy

@samueljoshua9749 4 жыл бұрын

Rihanna is a pop artist not R&B

@elvisman2000 4 жыл бұрын

Daft Punk were legends years before Graduation though. They only rose especially in the US in the early 2010s, but looking worldwide, and especially Europe, their music was legendary and had an even bigger influence on music as a whole than Kanye.

@kaiionn8555 6 жыл бұрын

Lift Yourself changed the game forever without a doubt.

@Prod.Nembutai 5 жыл бұрын

Woopity Scoop

@ErickReyesRomeroBanks 4 жыл бұрын

Nah lose yourself

@kouroshthings 4 жыл бұрын

POOP?POOP?

@ye4us 3 жыл бұрын

lmao Drake wanted that beat but Kanye trolled and released "Lift Yourself".

@omari436 3 жыл бұрын

@@ErickReyesRomeroBanks nah lift yourself

@itsallgood5314 7 жыл бұрын

Everything Kanye makes is influential to the genre and culture.

@friendlychicken5119 7 жыл бұрын

It's all good shut up

@itsallgood5314 7 жыл бұрын

friendly chicken cool

@brennan4876 7 жыл бұрын

It's all good ive always thought that every album ye has made, except maybe pablo tbh, has had a huge impact on rap and it’s culture

@brennan4876 7 жыл бұрын

Ice Mombay you right man those soul and gospel samples that kanye flipped on pablo were incredible

@bigbrainanime9485 7 жыл бұрын

This reminds me of one of his songs "Dream Killers". One part of it, he talks about how those in the rap community thought that he was too soft and that he made nice beats but no one want to hear what he had to say. He wasn't Gangsta or lived a hard enough life, Kanye exclaiming that he would probably would have to kill someone or they wouldn't let him be a rapper. This song came out in 2004, It's weird to think that not even that long ago rap was a whole different landscape and changed because of one guy.

@Rebecca-iy6zg 7 жыл бұрын

This album is literally a part of my childhood. One of my favorites of all time.

@swervin6422 5 жыл бұрын

Fr man I grew up listening to graduation, man on the moon and get rich or die tryin 🔥

@kinghiei4022 3 жыл бұрын

Definitely for sure part of my childhood too & one of my favorite albums of all times

@RunawayYe 9 ай бұрын

People here talking about how listening to "Drunk and hot girls" as kids is something positive. Your parents failed you there.

@pelonmartinez579 6 жыл бұрын

Something about Flashing Lights. Literally could be the greatest song ever.

@eweiser7354 4 жыл бұрын

Something about that song instantly takes me back to the second grade when I vaguely remember hearing it on the radio. Not the best song on the album IMO but there’s something exceptionally beautiful and emotional about flashing lights for sure

@blovett0814 3 жыл бұрын

Same here I love Good Life, Can't Tell Me Nothing, and Stronger, but Flashing Lights is still to this day one of my favorite songs ever. That intro and hearing "Flashing... Lights Lights" gets me every time

@Simplyykev 3 жыл бұрын

Simplyy gta Iv

@ssonicdeafmonkey 2 жыл бұрын

God Synths

@josejohn8279 2 жыл бұрын

It do be better Kanye songs

@nickbrown801 4 жыл бұрын

This album could of come out yesterday and still sound like modern music, Graduation is and forever will be a timeless classic.

@geraldgibson1896 4 жыл бұрын

I couldn’t agree more, this is my favorite album

@ummmhelloo01 Жыл бұрын

yes i hope this stays a classic and nothing wrong will happen

@shivansh7152 Жыл бұрын

@@ummmhelloo01 still a classic. Separate art from the artist

@saqib7965 11 ай бұрын

Kanye really dropped 5 classics back to back 04 to 2010 genius

@justajobro1266 11 ай бұрын

The first time I listened to some graduation songs I though they were like new songs lmao then I was like 2007?!

@mayan-kadenelson1326 7 жыл бұрын

Bruh i swear youtube stalking me, i been listening to graduation so much lately

@mountainman6172 7 жыл бұрын

mayan-kade Nelson healthy stalking

@jerrygodeep4787 7 жыл бұрын

mayan-kade Nelson same bro lol

@jamesmitchellcorpuz3089 6 жыл бұрын

Mountain Man haha

@ejfreeman7 6 жыл бұрын

mayan-kade Nelson Same

@Slesaint17 6 жыл бұрын

mayan-kade Nelson FOR REAL!!!! I been playing graduation on repeat on Apple Music the past few weeks and this gets recommended to me on YT like wtf ahahaha

@7032jd 7 жыл бұрын

Synths...strings...non gangster talk...fashion...don't u get it..:revolutionary

@loganmartin3396 6 жыл бұрын

Wow sounds like stuff that every other genre of music has been doing for decades...truly revolutionary

@WavyGamer18 6 жыл бұрын

Logan Martin but as a rapper it's impressive

@mchlfx 6 жыл бұрын

People try so hard to downplay Kanye's accomplishments and his influence on music. Hate him or love him, he shaped today's music.

@neomcdoom 5 жыл бұрын

Logan Martin LMAO never heard anything that sounds like graduation from the fucking Rolling Stones nigga

@abrahamsanchez7455 2 жыл бұрын

@@loganmartin3396 old head

@ZbJeeBies 4 жыл бұрын

graduation is one of those albums that i can consistently listen through and not skip a track. "champion", "good life", "homecoming", "the glory", "big brother", "i wonder". all of these are iconic and it hits harder now than when i was a kid

@postshanna 7 жыл бұрын

Kanye is more important to hip hop than Jay Z

@gjrkt6057 6 жыл бұрын

postshanna Straight facts

@lame6848 6 жыл бұрын

its debatable not a fact. without jay z, we wouldnt hear about kanye

@foreverlearning3182 6 жыл бұрын

Without Andre 3000 there would be no Kanye

@kaylabey 6 жыл бұрын

That’s VERY debatable. It depends on what’s “important”

@nickiev1745 6 жыл бұрын

postshanna For sure

@SSZS10 7 жыл бұрын

when haven't I changed the game

@rogerbecker9731 7 жыл бұрын

KANYE WEST EXACTLY

@user-gh1wd2up9l 7 жыл бұрын

KANYE WEST Well, U used to Work with the Game but, he still doing his Gangster-Rap Y'know...

@rdiclst6908 6 жыл бұрын

There is a 20% chance you're doing an undercover video with GQ

@bojoreacts5563 6 жыл бұрын

yur not even the real kanye

@moneymadecam6752 6 жыл бұрын

I miss the old Kanye

@TheLifeOfBryan_ 7 жыл бұрын

yep. he changed hip hop and people still hate on him just cause everybody else does. don’t follow a train on the wrong track

@kaileewalden3586 7 жыл бұрын

+Bryan Lorenzo People hate on him because he acts like a douchebag sometimes.

@airbatsenoj 7 жыл бұрын

Kailee Walden people don't realize he's been like this since he first started. He always had a big ego. My mom even met him in person and said he had that vibe. When he hit superstar status that's when the whole world started to take notice. People don't learn to appreciate his genius though. He has a right to have an ego

@juankemps5978 7 жыл бұрын

They don't hate on him because everyone else does, they just don't like him because that's their personal opinion.

@CJ2107 7 жыл бұрын

"Don't follow a train on the wrong track" Best fucking quote ever bro.

@TheBootyBandit69 7 жыл бұрын

Bryan Lorenzo i used to like him, not anymore i still listen too Graduation, Biggie, Bones N Harmony, Tupac and old stuff

@thelazyy1 Жыл бұрын

“But sir, my client made Graduation!”

@mrsmilyy704awesome6 Жыл бұрын

He made graduation He made graduation He made graduation He made graduation He made graduation

@DroughtFX Жыл бұрын

And Taylor Swift made Reputation

@kdubfresh23 7 жыл бұрын

Graduation changed the landscape of hip-hop forever. He birthed a lot of these melodic acts today. Can't Tell Me Nothing is one of the songs that describe my life in a nutshell lol.

@rikitikitavi7454 6 жыл бұрын

Skinny Hardaway pure facts

@yoshi5817 7 жыл бұрын

957.000 sales in the first week top 1 of hot200...10 years later and Graduation still on hot 200 Kanye is unstoppable🔥🔥

@deshaundozier 6 жыл бұрын

Lucas Carvalho Ferreira is it really? That's crazy

@samihanna7719 6 жыл бұрын

deshaun dozier it's not lol

@adamjohnston6642 6 жыл бұрын

It had a slow recurrence due to the 10 year anniversary.

@nikeneon3188 4 жыл бұрын

@@samihanna7719 It's back to the bottom of hot 200 now and then

@kafkaontheshore9102 Жыл бұрын

Your honor, my client made graduation. He deserves to walk free, with a 2.5 trillion reparation.

@restrada1231 5 жыл бұрын

“Did you realize that you were a champion?!” - I play it every single time at the gym, at work or anywhere I need inspiration. Thanks Kanye.

@dylant8056 7 жыл бұрын

Homecoming gives me the feels

@Wickedkitty-kn2eo 7 жыл бұрын

Special Snowflake yes I loved homecoming

@CFxSlowlyY 7 жыл бұрын

Graduation is a fuckin mastapiece

@Joela393 7 жыл бұрын

CFxSlowlyY it's not

@2jsanc681 7 жыл бұрын

CJ alicea fuck off

@Joela393 7 жыл бұрын

deagle 44 fuck off? How about YOU fuck off.

@MMaldonado611 7 жыл бұрын

CJ alicea Yeah, you fuck off

@gabrielsauceda9744 7 жыл бұрын

all his albums are. Even Yeezus

@DalvinderK0 7 жыл бұрын

love him or hate him, you gotta give the man respect where it's due

@a.s.6517 6 жыл бұрын

Poopy di scoop scoop diddy whoop

@lustrous_feature 2 жыл бұрын

@@a.s.6517 best song oat

@ummmhelloo01 Жыл бұрын

i hope later in life too 😀

@julieta5773 5 жыл бұрын

No words will ever describe how genius and skilled this man is

@RoseyCandor Жыл бұрын

@sarkasztic 3 жыл бұрын

I hate people who shit on Graduation. You had to be there to understand the impact this album had on Kanye’s career and the impact it had on hip hop. Plus the album has arguably 5 of Kanye’s best songs he’s ever made.

@bollejoost 3 жыл бұрын

but it also had barry bonds and drunk and hot girls i recognise the album for what it is, but it's not ye's best album for me

@bp2000k 2 жыл бұрын

„ I wonder“ & „tell me nothing“are songs for motivating. Def a Top 10 songs imo by Kanye.

@sangeetadhaniaignoremyjtar2346 2 жыл бұрын

@@bollejoost Ok boomer

@nikkojetofficialmusic2222 2 жыл бұрын

On God!!

@carl3305 7 жыл бұрын

thought this was vox at first

@gilespeterson6832 7 жыл бұрын

Carl Both are great content creators

@boogiexo 7 жыл бұрын

Carl vox's video on Kanye is amazing though

@ferragamodurag 7 жыл бұрын

LeverWerks04 Otherwise known as BremenSnax Vox needs to stick to music tho. Fuck politics

@Bigshlongdinglidong 7 жыл бұрын

Imnotsharingmyrealnameonthiswebsite W

@somespaghetti9301 7 жыл бұрын

Same

@dangmasey5756 7 жыл бұрын

I love graduation

@xxevilellisonxx Жыл бұрын

3:00 chord progression got me weeping. Ain’t even the first time I heard it

@syd16packchicken 7 жыл бұрын

The end of the vid got me sad. Rest in paradise donda. Thanks for making the greatest man to touch this earth yet.

@jasongames11 6 жыл бұрын

syd16packchicken who’s donda

@nickiev1745 6 жыл бұрын

eG Kiing His mother, she passed away when Kanye was around 20. :(

@tamasbotragyi7940 7 жыл бұрын

Kanye West is a living legend!❤️

@stardaboi8944 7 жыл бұрын

Even though he's a dickface irl

@Dior-ex6zs 7 жыл бұрын

StarDaBoi even though you've never met the man in real life.

@maxz9204 7 жыл бұрын

Tamás Botrágyi he's a walking living legend man he's feel like kobe

@jangelnar5624 7 жыл бұрын

*God

@nickycruz3 7 жыл бұрын

Zoey Billy he said Kobe

@lyon4507 7 жыл бұрын

the life of pablo is very underrated

@tobi7559 7 жыл бұрын

Gfdb Ff RIGHT

@PaulGLarsson 7 жыл бұрын

Gfdb Ff it's super inconsistent imo

@EduardoMoroni-uq9ht 7 жыл бұрын

Gfdb Ff It's his worst album, and i'm a big Kanye Stan

@tonatiuhcortes9968 7 жыл бұрын

Paul Jesus it is very inconsistent. It has high notes such as 30 Hours and Ultralight Beam and then there is the trash like Facts and Pt 2

@ericcivitella6309 7 жыл бұрын

Shit, I thought I was the only Kanye stan

@luisgonzalez1637 5 жыл бұрын

I graduated high school in 2007. I feel bad for kids who graduated this year, the best selling album this year is Scorpion lol

@Stef77777 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I graduated in 2018. But my fav albums were astroworld, nasir, taboo, rolling papers 2 and daytona

@cris7621 5 жыл бұрын

NCC13 it must’ve felt great graduating high school from 2007-2010 lol great years for music

@lucascongdon309 5 жыл бұрын

NCC13 so do I

@tudor1ka Жыл бұрын

he made graduation.

@ZeldaBlade Жыл бұрын

Say it with me y’all He made graduation

@SARDBoi Жыл бұрын

He made graduation

@Ellwoo Жыл бұрын

He created the very popular album named graduation which ended the education themed album trilogy.

@ZeldaBlade Жыл бұрын

@@Ellwoo good

@youarethebluestlight Жыл бұрын

nah, he made the first three albums

@johnwhitnel6961 Жыл бұрын

He also made antisemitic comments

@isaacr7416 7 жыл бұрын

How about "How Every Single Kanye Album Changed Music"

@Cristian-cd2rc 4 жыл бұрын

Jesus is king not

@royal_jj_1712 4 жыл бұрын

Cristian ramos mañas yes it did

@ortox409 4 жыл бұрын

Royal_JJ_17 how

@Cristian-cd2rc 4 жыл бұрын

@Daniel Martinez but I'm sure with the new Donda the best Kanye will be back

@samuelfransiskus2768 4 жыл бұрын

@@Cristian-cd2rc i hate to say this, but jesus is king is flopped

@Jo_jo409 7 жыл бұрын

Homecoming will forever be my favorite Ye track. Graduation is my favorite Ye album and I personally think it's his best

@klockWorkz92 7 жыл бұрын

2007 was an important yr in music period

@jonathanmerino9251 7 жыл бұрын

YES! THANK YOU

@josephbh8712 6 жыл бұрын

true

@jonathand.9555 4 жыл бұрын

It was the year both Kanye West and Rihanna became superstars, and it was the year Kanye would change the rap game.

@miketyson6938 7 жыл бұрын

Kanye the goat 🔥🔥🔥

@donkilla5708 7 жыл бұрын

@Yung_Mango 7 жыл бұрын

Franio Lenart Definitely not

@ashirahmed854 7 жыл бұрын

Franio Lenart for sure bro🔥🔥

@waltermymala9654 7 жыл бұрын

@OTorgersrud 7 жыл бұрын

Franio Lenart no

@hipass_ 2 жыл бұрын

Only record from ‘07 that’s still relevant imo

@jamatre4209 3 жыл бұрын

Still listen to it

@MrBESTINTHEWORLD316 Жыл бұрын

Saul Goodman: your honor, my client made Graduation

@jasondmarajh 7 жыл бұрын

What's amazing is that just a few days ago I decided to listen the album in it's entirety because I had only known the hit songs off the album and 1-2 others. *Man did I miss out!* I got to love songs I never heard until now like "Champion", "Barry Bonds" and my fav now *"I Wonder"* ..the outro to that song is a masterpiece. Kanye did a fantastic job with that trilogy! It influenced so much of the sounds we hear today.

@NickFrish 7 жыл бұрын

Kanye West is a genius, don't @ me

@gloryayara7914 5 жыл бұрын

Nicholas Friscia he defo is, I think he is imo, the greatest artist in the past 50-100 yrs

@nanobruv 4 жыл бұрын

Who da Fook nope

@hxhx1456 3 жыл бұрын

@glory ayara He's a great artist but defenetly not the best. There are bands and people who are better musicians and brought way more changes to music. For example the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Queen, ELO, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan and much more.

@JA-cj5kt 2 жыл бұрын

@@hxhx1456 yeah but the fact the he was all by himself and had no body to go except his mom who later passed is pretty crazy compared to the bands you mentioned full of multiple talented people.

@rokka929 Жыл бұрын

@@gloryayara7914 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA and very local: nowhere known outside of us

@evanclephane7685 5 жыл бұрын

This really influenced me when I was little. This is what my dad only played in the car and I’d recognize them from the bass of it. I very much miss music like Kanye’s. 🙏 stay blessed to who’m is reading this

@lemonpepp 3 жыл бұрын

his music tells me I AM THE MAIN CHARACTER. idc what anyone else says but that's the only thing i need in a song

@real_bakerman 7 жыл бұрын

Still listening to Through the Wire, Slow Jams and Overnight Celebrity daily!

@immesurbel1274 Жыл бұрын

He made graduation but he supportd someone who failed graduation

@greenbrickbox3392 Жыл бұрын

Art school dropout

@rvdaone2335 7 жыл бұрын

3:27 is one of the most wholesome heart warming examples of Kanye and the 2000's. He holding the damn camera backwards for a selfie... Brings so many memories.

@oVerdrive-pt5uk Жыл бұрын

HE MADE GRADUATION AHHHHHHHHHHH

@Sean-yq1wm 7 жыл бұрын

I Wonder is the best on the album IMO

@parabolicpanorama 7 жыл бұрын

Seany ThiccBoi how you gonna say that when there's flashing lights on the album?

@Sean-yq1wm 7 жыл бұрын

Personal Preference

@KaizerMan 7 жыл бұрын

I Wonder lacks replay value for me. Synthesisers sound way too upbeat to be enjoyable for me tbh :/ But I guess I feel the same way about most of Graduation. As I've aged I've liked it less and less and even preferred Ye's more experimental albums like 808s and Yeezus (not TLOP though, never TLOP for me)

@4DaFam 7 жыл бұрын

Seany ThiccBoi thought I was the only one that thought this

@andreslopez7337 7 жыл бұрын

Seany ThiccBoi Flashing Lights has the beat beat tho

@RobLevel 6 жыл бұрын

Great video!

@desiredausrap8153 3 жыл бұрын

2020 and the album still sounds so relevant Kanye makes timeless music

@kokonuts5245 3 жыл бұрын

The album is perfect for driving at night with sunglasses on

@billybobrogers 6 жыл бұрын

My Top 5 Kanye Albums 1.MBDTF 2. Late Registration 3. College Dropout 4. Graduation 5. 808s & Heartbreaks

@sigurdvickery3523 4 жыл бұрын

TCD over Graduation?

@FHD80057 4 жыл бұрын

@@sigurdvickery3523 TCD is supposed to be #1 tf are you talking about

@maxsk3809 4 жыл бұрын

Tlop Mbdtf College dropout Graduation Late registration

@qsmps5463 3 жыл бұрын

1. Mbdtf 2. Late registration 3. Graduation 4. College dropout 5. Throne 6. 808s 7. Yeezus 8. Jesus is king 9. Ye

@sangeetadhaniaignoremyjtar2346 2 жыл бұрын

I would put college dropout in 2, put 808s in 1 and graduation in 3 tbh

@johns9940 7 жыл бұрын

This is kanyes best album. It's timeless, I listen to it still today

@bryanloera2840 2 жыл бұрын

And exactly 14 years later it’s release I see this vid on my recommended

@robertalridgeiv2586 2 жыл бұрын

Graduation completely changed the pace of Kanye's discography and his production style only got better and so did he

@KMR136 7 жыл бұрын

"Flashing Lights" is still my favorite Kanye song. Thank you for Graduation Ye 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@TheBallsofjustice 7 жыл бұрын

4:48 aint that the awaken my love cover?

@misterman6691 7 жыл бұрын

Lev Levin awaken my love is the black screaming face and the black and blue background

@anaidhd 7 жыл бұрын

Lev Levin must be a prediction

@user-fs6gb9lo6z 11 ай бұрын

graduation ended the gangsta rap and the 50cent era it feels like

@seanmartin7749 Жыл бұрын

he made graduation

@massimo2x 2 жыл бұрын

2021 and i’m still hearing this album.

@modernmichelangelo 3 жыл бұрын

Kanye is a genius. One of the most talented and influential dudes of our generation.

@andreburrasch 9 ай бұрын

Graduation is my favorite album of all time, so much that i even have the Graduation Bear tattooed on my forearm. Thank you Kanye for the best album of all time

@tto0508 Жыл бұрын

HE MADE GRADUATION HE MADE GRADUATION HE MADE GRADUATION

@Nicolas-mq3wc 7 жыл бұрын

Kanye = 🐐

@a.s.6517 6 жыл бұрын

Poopy di scoop scoop diddy whoop

@SadnotBroken 7 жыл бұрын

Kid cudi helped influence his sound too

@quisegotthapiece8077 6 жыл бұрын

Danny Bravo Yeah he influenced 808s

@user-qd6im2hp2e 5 жыл бұрын

Not graduation just 808’s, graduation influenced Cudi

@vierez2654 2 жыл бұрын

And Stronger is diamond. Ye is always ahead of the curve.

@yvenereugene201 7 жыл бұрын

Am i the only one who like Barry Bonds ?

@lolvuzedrago 5 жыл бұрын

Yes

@scottiepippen9970 4 жыл бұрын

It's not bad

@theboyniko1522 3 жыл бұрын

abraham o WE OUT OF HERE BABY!!!

@ailzarx Жыл бұрын

He made graduation he made graduation he made graduation he made graduation

@condor6670 2 жыл бұрын

Flashing Lights is definitely a top five Kanye song

@johnf.hurtado1869 6 жыл бұрын

Graduation outselling Curtis was a turn for music; a wrench in music history. It indirectly told artists of the time what younger listeners craved, and where music would go

@seanstroman6087 7 жыл бұрын

God I hate Drunk & hot girls & BARRY bonds aged terribly but other than that album is CLASSIC

@spaceman908 7 жыл бұрын

u trippin fool

@tralx5268 7 жыл бұрын

Sean STROMAN I love the part where he just rawrs like the drunk girl in Drunk and Hot Girls

@tobi7559 7 жыл бұрын

Sean STROMAN. STOP RUNNING UP MY TAB CAUSE THESE DRINKS IS NOT FREE YOU DRUNK AND HOT GIIIIIIRLLLLLL. I LOVE THAT SONG YOU FOOL

@AdamsLTFC420 7 жыл бұрын

NA NA NAN NA NANAN THAT'S HOW THE FUCK YOU SOUND

@calzzz5610 7 жыл бұрын

Here's another hit Barry bonds

@itamarkazakevitch8700 Жыл бұрын

What a nice and confident young man I hope nothing bad happens in his personal life which would set off a chain reaction causing him to say something terrible

@akaskinz1856 2 жыл бұрын

Graduation and Blueprint 3 are my favourite ever albums.

@chuyozuna2398 3 жыл бұрын

For 2007 album it’s sounds so much like a 2017 album 🔥🔥

@bforce909 7 жыл бұрын

One of the first albums I bought as a little kid without knowing who Kanye west was. I chose it because I like the art work, and I never expected for it to be as good as it was. I still have my copy and I will always treasure it because it opened me to a lot of good music.

@rickdalton9351 5 жыл бұрын

The Glory is criminally underrated

@umangakhanal2005 3 жыл бұрын

This album sold 900k+ units in a single week. Let it sink in

@supremenovah8013 5 жыл бұрын

3:57 the jaws wasn't stopping either one!

@user-md6uk2qg4t 7 жыл бұрын

Flashing Lights, I wonder, Bittersweet Poetry Still my favorite song

@jeebs621 7 жыл бұрын

Graduation was great, but I feel like 808 is where Kanye really changed his style.

@johanliebertofficial8750 7 жыл бұрын

jeebs621 And MBDTF is his best work

@JonathanPereiraDaFranca 7 жыл бұрын

All albums. But MBDTF other level.

@Joseph-uc5co 6 жыл бұрын

MBDTF wasn't his most progressive, but probably his most accessible and confident work. Personally I think either 808s or Yeezus is his best, but those are where it becomes more of an acquired taste.

@rikitikitavi7454 6 жыл бұрын

808s gave birth to the freedom musically and artistically to create mbdtf. Before that album there wasn't anything quite like it, after is when everything became more emotionally driven and less "gangster rappy".

@crystalizeplays9103 10 ай бұрын

You didnt explain how he changed the industry through Graduation. You just talked about its impacts on music.

@lucyhg2010 7 жыл бұрын

I miss the old kanye Chop up the beats kanye.

@LiuLiu-sr8bm 7 жыл бұрын

I Miss the old Kanye

@InstrumentalsBeats 7 жыл бұрын

When Kanye dropped Graduation, people were saying "I miss the old Kanye"

@MMaldonado611 7 жыл бұрын

J3r3m1ah That's all it was Kanye, we still love Kanye

@TheTacticalMess 7 жыл бұрын

I don't. I'm glad he tries different things and adapts in his own way. It's what separates him from Jay, 50 Cent, etc who aren't nearly as relevant as they used to be.

@sweetsalvation7143 7 жыл бұрын

We all do

@micah4029 7 жыл бұрын

Great song.