Metalhead Reacts To THE COLLEGE DROPOUT (FULL ALBUM REACTION!)
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- This album is something special man... I hope you all enjoy the video, as much as I enjoyed making it! More Kanye Albums are definitely coming up on the future :)
1:17 We Don't Care
10:17 Graduation Day
13:23 All Falls Down
22:01 I'll Fly Away
24:01 Spaceship
34:30 Jesus Walks
43:38 Never Let Me Down
56:30 Get Em High
1:06:13 Workout Plan
1:07:48 The New Workout Plan
1:17:27 Slow Jamz
1:27:44 Breathe In Breathe Out
1:35:25 School Spirit Skit 1
1:39:05 School Spirit
1:44:47 School Spirit Skit 2
1:45:30 Lil Jimmy Skit
1:47:05 Two Words
1:55:37 Through The Wire
2:03:17 Family Business
2:11:22 Last Call
god bless you
He needs to pin this
I’ve heard family business countless times. I still get emotional every time I hear it, it’s such a fantastic song
we all do bro
Finally someone who doesn’t sleep on Never Let Me Down
Never let me down is GREAT!
@@dyver123Thank you so much it never gets its deserved recognition.
Best song on the album
Yes one of the highlights of the album for me
At 2:12:43 when you asked if something had been released prior to college dropout the answer is no, before college dropout Kanye was just a famous producer that also wanted to become an artist. But at that time everyone doubted him and kept telling him to just stick to producing since he was already a successful producer, which he was producing for one of the biggest artist at that time (Jay-Z) and that he wasn’t going to be successful as an artist. So that’s what Kanye is referring to in the line “they expected that college dropout to drop and then flop”. (Also that explains why Kanye had a Jay-Z feature on his debut album because they were already really close since Kanye was Jay-Z’s main producer)
Kanye had a series of Mixtapes that were actually v popular before his debut album released
theres quiet a few kanye songs that were released or before the album dropped - some songs even ended up late registration
These Kanye album reactions are super fun, please keep it up!!
Happy to hear it!
As for the non song, spoken word tracks, You’ll hear them referred to as “skits” or “interludes” and you’re almost spot on. They’re commonly used to help portray the theme or motifs of an album or run of songs. A lot of the best rappers out there are able to make albums thematic or almost like one long auditory art peice i.e. TPAB by Kendrick or 808’s by Kanye. But other times they’re just used to break up albums like an intermission in a musical
Thanks for the clarification! It makes a lot of sense and works super well!
Family business made me cry the first couple times as well, one of my favorites of his
Absolutely wonderful track
two words is my favorite kanye song of all time. 10/10 verses from mos def and kanye. glad u liked it so much lmao
The reason Slow Jamz is credited as Twista’s song is because the song is also on Twista’s album, Kamikaze. They both decided to have the song on both of their albums.
This guy is a production freak and I love it
You got me 🤣
I love the reaction hope you do his whole discography
Sloooowly but surely making my way through it, but taking a kanye break for the next video, before we return to him ;)
I’m sure you hear this all the time, but his next album Late Registration, is the College Dropout but arguably better and factually more orchestral and grand sounding. The great lyrics and vibes from the college dropout with much more complex and beautiful instrumentals, definitely check out the whole album. Love the video.
I've definitely heard that a few times yeah, and I am definitely going to check it out at some point!
imo college dropout is 100% better than lr
@@fan6.s definitely, i think that it’s arguable both ways, sometimes i think TCD is better and sometimes it feels like LR is better, depends for me.
LR is top tier ye. My fave along with MBDTF and yeezus
@@sunnny819 exactly
its great to hear what you appreciate and hear in each track! anyone saying you talk to much or talk over the music should just listen to the album by itself because this is very valuable and insightful commentary. You have a knack for putting what people love about these songs into words, can't wait to see more from you!
I love hearing someone else react to these old kanye albums because it transports me when I heard these albums for the first and had the same reactions. Thanks for the awesome video!
I'm so happy to see someone appreciate Two Words like you. I lost my mind listening to that song for the first time. What a work of art
Great video, I'm glad you took the time to do this. Props to you, man 🙂.
Also, 'iced up' from Breathe in Breath out means to be wearing a lot of diamonds.
Thanks man, and thanks for the clarification too!
Family Business makes me feel so nostalgic so I get crying. All the fuzzy samples, the piano, just the topic on family and the problems they have and they way they move through it, universal story.
When you say this type of production style wasn’t signature, it really hurt. This sped up chipmunk soul sample flips were revolutionized by Kanye and he perfected it to a point where you could easily distinguish his beats from everyone elses
Im glad i found this channel so i can see you on your journey! Love the full album videos! (Also you dont have to apologize for rambling i think your musical breakdowns mixed with quips on personal or general ideas is great!)
Thanks man! That means a lot - I do have a tendency to yap a bit haha 😆
kanye has always worked with session musicians throughout his career, so you'll always hear live instrumentation
If this is your first time hearing this you're about experience somethin' so cold, man.
One thing that makes Kanye so important is is diversity of samples. The sample in Never Let Me Down is Michael Bolton’s pro-solo group (forget the name). But he adds on all those layers you mentioned. On the other hand Through the Wire is pretty much just Chaka Khan’s Through the Fire sped up with an OutKast drum beat under it. And that’s just two tracks 🤯
That's pretty sick not gonna lie
Kanye's entire discography is an artistic version of his life at the time.
The first 3 albums is Kanye's rise from the rebel outcast in hop hop that nobody believed in ,to becoming the #1 artist in the game by Graduation. I'm not sure if I see as much narrative cohesion from track to track on Kanye's first 3 albums , I feel like back then he focused more on making the best individual tracks and after his mom died his artistic vision became a little more "big picture" creating a character of himself for albums.
808s is the turning point after his mom died and his first fiancé left him.
MBDTF is him going into a Dark Fantasy world of fame and sex after the Taylor Swift VMA backlash, the album starts with Nicki Minaj in a fake British accent "twisted fiction sick addiction " and the album ends with Kanye Lost in the World calling out to Kim after Blame Game his split with Amber Rose.
On Yeezus, Kanye is completely lost in a sex addicted superstar God alter ego Yeezus but that lifestyle tears him apart at the end but he's still holding on to it and Bound 2 closes the album with him meeting Kim and seeing a glimpse of love.
On the The Life of Pablo Kanye has to choose which one, the life for family and God or the life of fame and sex and the album ends with him calling to God for a way out of the nightlife on Saint Pablo.
Ye is the reality of his bipolar nature and trying to define the real Kanye and deal with his past. On the last song Violent Crimes the chorus is says "Reality is upon us, colors dripping off" it's the end of the Dark Fantasy. And Nicki Minaj closes the album with a real voicemail in her normal voice juxtaposed to how she introduces Dark Fantasy in a fake voice.
After the Dark Fantasy is completely over on Ye he finds God again on Jesus Is King.
Donda (the original tracklist) is an underrated masterpiece and from Jail to Come to Life its a basically a journey of how God set him free.
Jail
"Guess who's going to jail tonight? God gonna post my bail tonight "
Come to Life
"God is still alive, so I'm free"
Kanye's discography coincides with his real life because it's all public and all of the media stunts come before album's so his life and his art merge in a way I don't think any artist has done before for an entire career, because Ye is so open and public. He's almost made his life like a movie.
oh man you want emotional, watch kanye premerie his song dear mama in front of his own mother on the oprah show, it's like easily the most heartwarming mother son moments ever imo
Ugh, I think that might have me sobbing ngl 😅 idk if you're refering to Hey Mama, but at risk of spoiling a bit about my reaction to late registration, that song hit me super hard 😅
@@dyver123 yep sry always get it mixed with tupacs song dear mama, but yep he held it for 5 years after writing it hoping he'd get the opportunity to perform it for his mother, which he did ON THE FREAKIN OPRAH SHOW lmfao its beautiful to watch
you are the best I love when you analyze the instrumentals you really know you stuff
Im not sure if someone already told you, but on School Spirit, he actually sampled Aretha Franklin, she didnt record the vocals for that exact song. Funny thing is, when getting the sample cleared, she told ye he could only use the sample if there was no profanity in the song, thats why its the only censored song on the album
Great video man! Keep it up! It would be so cool to see your journey through his whole discography!
Really liked the reaction! You should check out "My beautiful dark twisted fantasy" if you havent already. It has some of the best production and rapping performances by Kanye
Thanks! I think I've heard like 1 or 2 songs from it, but i'd love to cover the entire thing!
And it has Devil in a new dress!
this is the most interesting album review i've ever watched. new here, but will definitely be subscribing. please keep it up man!
love your content keep it up g🔥
Thanks man!
cant wait for late registration reaction. watching you from argentina
So that is a sped up distored sample of aretha franklin spirit in the dark. She was a part of the production and gave ye premission under the stipulation there where no swear words hence how he edits them out. Please listen to YEEZUS🎉🎉❤
he already did
A lot of the backing vocals aren’t always that sometimes they were samples. He reworked which why a lot of ppl say he was a genius
bro has a phd in pausing at the worst time, talking while you start a song is criminal
I loved that reaction at 11:32 😂💜
Wow loved the video.
1:16:15 its a commentary about how famous ppl only want fit girls basically im pretty sure
if you like constantly evolving beats and stuff you should DEFINITELY check out childish gambino. In his later stuff he doesn't rap like at all so it's more hiphop/soul/funk. But his 2nd and 3rd album are ones I would recommend for first listeners (He raps in his 2nd album btw)
Love the video mate!!
Thanks!
You should finish the trilogy now with late reg and then graduation, there all amazing albums
That's exactly the plan haha 😆
@@dyver123 everyone has a different favorite between the three so I’m interested to see yours
singing in graduation day is john legend
You just earned a subscriber.
28:28 Tec-9 is a gun
theres a ton of unreleased songs that kanye made before the college dropout like the Freshman Adjustment EP so he was already known by people
I would like to say that I’ll Fly Away, and probably some other Kanye songs are blocked on TH-cam which is also affecting some TH-cam Reaction channels.
Bro please watch a video on the samples to this album it's going to blow your mind 😅
and also Famiy Business was sampled in 90210 by Travis
Wait really? That's sick!
Love your breakdown and reaction! I would out a strong recommendation for you to start reviewing some Kendrick Lamar albums, Good Kid M.A.A.D City is a good place to start! Lots of depth and lyrical density!!
Thanks man! Next video just so happens to be Good kid maad city ;)
You’re going to love Late registration. The orchestration is a lot more pronounced in there.
Definitely checking out late registration too!
The new workout plan talks about how women feel that the only way to have financial freedom is to 'work out' and get fit so that an already rich man will then get with them. Basically a song about how deep-rooted sexism makes women think the only way to have money is to get with a rich man
That's pretty rad! It's a fun way to portray that message seeing as the song itself seems so funny and lighthearted!
Nice reaction, family business is a beautiful song. Please give the band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard a try, the album PetroDragonic Apocalypse is amazing heavy metal. They are extremely prolific and have an album for every genre pretty much.
Ahaha what's funny is that you're not the first person to suggest king gizzard and the lizard wizard to me, and I even knew of them beforehand! I'd love to feature them on the channel though!
BRO WE HEAR TFCKEN SONG FCKEN LISTEN TO THE SONG
Have you ever listened to 808s and heartbreak? If not, I would recommend listening to it. One of my favorite albums from kanye
Not yet, but it is on the list!
Kanye’s definitely not the sole inventor of rap singing… but he sure did make it the most popular form of HipHop ever.
Drake, Travis Scott, Tyler the Creator, XXXTentacion, Juice Wrld all took heavy inspiration from Kanye,
And they were the biggest artists of our generation
Thanks for the clarification!
I would like to inform everyone here i beat Bael the Dread and Rellana while listening to this video. :D
Good job, man! That's no easy feat haha
I cant wait for the next album i think its better than tcd.
Late registration is 1000% happening! Planning on doing it after the next upload (which should be up in about 2 days time)
Jay-Z is on Kanyes album because kanye was a producer for Jay-Z and his label thats pretty much the most simple explanation
W reaction, Can you react to What to do? by jackboys? As an instrument enjoyer, I 100% recommend listening to it !
Twista is a midwest chopper boy he been rapping fast, way faster than this too
Subscribed
bedste rap album nogensinde elsker alle sangene og jeg har lyttet til det flere gange
I appreciate your reaction but you are way too focused on the production for a first listen. Rap is genre where lyrics are very important, so you need to pay more attention to them
Like seriously bro the stuff he's saying is important to understanding the album
everyone listens to music in a different way man. it means something different to every single person. there's probably other channels to watch if you want a more lyric-oriented reaction, but it's clear that focusing on the music itself is just the way he digests music, which is okay.
@@hriday8690 it's a rap song. It's not like metal music where the words don't really matter. There's right and wrong ways to react to rap music and this is a wrong way.
Dansk reacter W
bro i'm just tryna get into metal so recommend me albums for beginners
Do, my beautiful dark twisted fantasy next
He’s going in chronological order as he should. Will be a while till mbdtf
@@edm4124 Love how you incorrectly assumed this while correcting someone
@@radiofoot1035yea that was before I realized he did TLOP first. I was too lazy to edit it tho
@@edm4124 yea that’s why you shouldn’t correct people if you don’t actually know
@@radiofoot1035 either way my answer is still half true. It will be a while before he reacts to mbdtf
No way you are listening on soptify instead of apple music the quality on spotify is so bad some beat elements are completely crushed due to compression
You should listen to kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly. Very good production with real drums other instruments.
I 100% wanna check out to pimp a butterfly!
love this
Thanks man! :)
great video! try listening to Come to Life also
Thanks mate!
Do every kaye albumn including scraped 😅❤
You gotta do eternal grey or dark side of the clouds by suicideboys
$UICIDEBOY$ NEW ALBUM pls do album reaction, it deserves it. I think you would like the beats in it
React to Pimp a Butterfly!
Please do listen to Kendrick Lamar's Mr. Morale & the big steppers. It's very unique album with very interesting choice of production.
late registration video when?
Eventually haha - Not sure about the timeframe. Unfortunately doing Kanye videos is always difficult because of copyright issues. So getting a Kanye video out can easily take upwards of 2 weeks just for the copyright to get resolved 😅
I wanna see this guy react to donda
yo you should listen to the new $uicideboy$ album that just dropped “new world depression”
Definitely gonna check it out at some point! But I'm working on another reaction rn ;)
PLEASE DO Good Kid m.A.A.d city
That's the next reaction!
You remind me of MrTLexify lol
FD Signifier? Really bro?
late registration bro
Definitely going to check it out at some point!
Man if u talk stop the music bro
bro this one's way way too long. please cut it down a bit...