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The College Dropout
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 10, 2004
Recorded1999–2003
Studio
  • Baseline, Full Time Dreamer, Light @ the End of the Tunnel, Quad, and Sony Music (New York City, New York)
  • Conway and Larrabee Sound North (Los Angeles, California)
  • Digital Insight (Las Vegas, Nevada)
  • Edie Road (Argyle, New York)
  • The Enterprise (Burbank, California)
  • Record Plant (Hollywood, California)
GenreHip hop
Length76:13
Label
Producer
  • Damon Dash (exec.)
  • Kareem 'Biggs' Burke (exec.)
  • Shawn Carter (exec.)
  • G. Roberson (co-exec.)
  • Kanye West (also co-exec.)
  • Kyambo 'Hip Hop' Joshua (co-exec.)
  • Brian 'All Day' Miller
  • Porse
Kanye West chronology
The College Dropout
(2004)		Late Registration
(2005)
Singles from The College Dropout
  1. 'Through the Wire'
    Released: September 30, 2003
  2. 'Slow Jamz'
    Released: December 2, 2003
  3. 'All Falls Down'
    Released: February 24, 2004
  4. 'Jesus Walks'
    Released: May 25, 2004
  5. 'The New Workout Plan'
    Released: August 31, 2004
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The College Dropout is the debut studio album by American rapper and producer Kanye West. It was released on February 10, 2004, by Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records.

In the years leading up to the album, West had received praise for his production work for rappers such as Jay-Z and Talib Kweli, but faced difficulty being accepted as an artist in his own right by figures in the music industry. Intent on pursuing a solo career, he signed a record deal with Roc-A-Fella and recorded The College Dropout over a period of four years, beginning in 1999.

The album's production was primarily handled by West and developed his 'chipmunk soul' production style, which made use of sped-up, pitch shifted vocal samples from soul and R&B records, in addition to West's own drum programming, string accompaniments, and gospel choirs; it also features contributions from Jay-Z, Mos Def, Jamie Foxx, Syleena Johnson, and Ludacris, among others. Diverging from the then-dominant gangster persona in hip hop, West's lyrics concern themes of family, self-consciousness, materialism, religion, racism, and higher education.

The College Dropout debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200, selling 441,000 copies in its first week of sales. It was a massive commercial success, becoming West's best-selling album in the United States, with domestic sales of over 3.4 million copies by 2014. The album was promoted with singles such as 'Through the Wire', 'Jesus Walks', 'All Falls Down', and 'Slow Jamz', the latter two of which peaked within the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100.

A widespread critical success, The College Dropout was praised for West's production, humorous and emotional raps, and the music's balance of self-examination and mainstream sensibilities. It earned the rapper several accolades including a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album at the 2005 Grammy Awards. It has since been named by Time, Rolling Stone, and other publications as one of the greatest albums of all time.

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Background[edit]

Kanye West began his early production career in the mid-1990s, making beats primarily for burgeoning local artists, eventually developing a style that involved speeding up vocal samples from classic soul records. For a time, he acted as a ghost producer for Deric 'D-Dot' Angelettie. Due to his association with D-Dot, West wasn't able to release a solo album, so he formed and became a member and producer of the Go-Getters, a late-1990s Chicago rap group composed of him, GLC, Timmy G, Really Doe, and Arrowstar.[1][2] The group released their first and only studio album World Record Holders in 1999.[1] West came to achieve recognition and is often credited with revitalizing Jay-Z's career with his contributions to the rap mogul's influential 2001 album The Blueprint.[3]The Blueprint has been named by Rolling Stone as the 252nd greatest album of all time and the critical and financial success of the album generated substantial interest in West as a producer.[4] Serving as an in-house producer for Roc-A-Fella Records, West produced records for other artists from the label, including Beanie Sigel, Freeway, and Cam'ron. He also crafted hit songs for Ludacris, Alicia Keys, and Janet Jackson.[3][5][6][7]

Although he had attained success as a producer, Kanye West aspired to be a rapper, but had struggled to attain a record deal.[6] Record companies ignored him because he did not portray the gangsta image prominent in mainstream hip hop at the time.[8] After a series of meetings with Capitol Records, West was ultimately denied an artist deal.[9] According to Capitol Record's A&R, Joe Weinberger, he was approached by West and almost signed a deal with him, but another person in the company convinced Capitol's president not to.[9] Desperate to keep West from defecting to another label, then-label head Damon Dash reluctantly signed West to Roc-A-Fella Records. Jay-Z, West's colleague, later admitted that Roc-A-Fella was initially reluctant to support West as a rapper, claiming that many saw him as a producer first and foremost, and that his background contrasted with that of his labelmates.[8][10]

West's breakthrough came a year later on October 23, 2002, when, while driving home from a California recording studio after working late, he fell asleep at the wheel and was involved in a near-fatal car crash.[11] The crash left him with a shattered jaw, which had to be wired shut in reconstructive surgery. The accident inspired West; two weeks after being admitted to a hospital, he recorded a song at the Record Plant with his jaw still wired shut.[11] The composition, 'Through the Wire', expressed West's experience after the accident, and helped lay the foundation for his debut album, as according to West 'all the better artists have expressed what they were going through'.[12][13] West added that 'the album was my medicine', as working on the record distracted him from the pain.[14] 'Through the Wire' was first available on West's Get Well Soon...mixtape, released December 2002.[15] At the same time, West announced that he was working on an album called The College Dropout, whose overall theme was to 'make your own decisions. Don't let society tell you, 'This is what you have to do.'[16]

Recording[edit]

West (center) refined the album's production and incorporated elements such as gospel choirs and string arrangements.

West began recording The College Dropout in 1999, taking four years to complete.[17] Recording sessions took place at Record Plant in Los Angeles, California, but the production featured on the record took place elsewhere over the course of several years. According to John Monopoly, West's friend, manager and business partner, the album '...[didn't have] a particular start date. He's been gathering beats for years. He was always producing with the intention of being a rapper. There's beats on the album he's been literally saving for himself for years'. At one point, West hovered between making a portion of the production in the studio and the majority within his own apartment in Newark, New Jersey. Because it was a two-bedroom apartment, West was able to set up a home studio in one of the rooms and his bedroom in the other.[6]

West brought with him to the studio a Louis Vuitton backpack filled with old disks and demos to the studio, producing tracks in less than fifteen minutes at a time. He recorded the remainder of the album in Los Angeles while recovering from the car accident. Once he had completed the album, it was leaked months before its release date.[6] However, West decided to use the opportunity to review the album, and The College Dropout was significantly remixed, remastered, and revised before being released. As a result, certain tracks originally destined for the album were subsequently retracted, among them 'Keep the Receipt' with Ol' Dirty Bastard and 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly' with Consequence.[18] West meticulously refined the production, adding string arrangements, gospel choirs, improved drum programming and new verses.[6] On his personal blog in 2009, West stated he was most inspired by The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and listened to the album everyday while working on The College Dropout.[19]

The song 'School Spirit' was censored for the album because Aretha Franklin would not allow the rapper to sample her music without censorship being promised.[20] It was revealed by Plain Pat that there were around three other versions of the song, but West disliked them. Pat said in reference to the Franklin sample: 'That song would have been so weak if we didn't get that sample cleared'.[21] In 2011, an uncensored version of the track was distributed online.[22]

West finished recording around December 2003, according to his older cousin and singer Tony Williams, who was recruited by the rapper two weeks before the album's deadline to contribute vocals. Williams had impressed West by singing improvisations to 'Spaceship' during one of their drives together. The singer later recounted recording with West at the Record Plant: 'I get in, go in the booth, start vibing out on 'Spaceship' and finished it up. At that point he was like, 'Ok, Well let me see what you do on this song.' I think that's when we did 'Last Call.' One song lead to another, and by the end of the weekend, I was on like five songs. Then we did the 'I'll Fly Away' join'.[23]

Music and lyrics[edit]

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The College Dropout diverged from the then-dominant gangster persona in hip hop in favor of more diverse, topical subjects for the lyrics.[13] Throughout the album, West touches on a number of different issues drawn from his own experiences and observations, including organized religion, family, sexuality, excessive materialism, self-consciousness, minimum wage labor, institutional prejudice, and personal struggles.[24][25][26] Music journalist Kelefa Sanneh wrote, 'Throughout the album, Mr. West taunts everyone who didn't believe in him: teachers, record executives, police officers, even his former boss at the Gap'.[27] West explained, 'My persona is that I'm the regular person. Just think about whatever you've been through in the past week, and I have a song about that on my album'.[28] The album was musically notable for West's unique development of his 'chipmunk soul' production style,[29] in which R&B and soul musicsamples were sped up and pitch shifted.[30][31]

'Through the Wire' is an autobiographical song about West's 2002 car accident when he had to have his jaw wired shut. The track is representative of his production style, in which he samples and speeds up sections from classic soul records and uses them to create melodic hooks.
'Jesus Walks' has a gospel-influenced sound, with a pulsing rhythm reminiscent of a marching band accompanied by baritone background vocal samples from the ARC Choir's arrangement of the traditional gospel song 'Walk With Me'.
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The album begins with a skit featuring a college professor asking West to deliver a graduation speech. The skit is followed by 'We Don't Care' featuring West comically celebrating drug life with lines like 'We wasn't supposed to make it past 25, joke's on you, we still alive' and then criticizing its influence amongst children.[27] The next track, 'Graduation Day', features Miri Ben-Ari on violin,[32] and vocals by John Legend.[33]

Graduation Kanye West

On 'All Falls Down', West wages an attack on consumerism.[5][34] The song features singer Syleena Johnson and contains an interpolation of Lauryn Hill's 'Mystery of Iniquity'.[33] West called upon Johnson to re-sing a vocal portion of 'Mystery of Iniquity', which ended up in the final mix.[35] Gospel hymn with doo-wop elements 'I'll Fly Away' precedes 'Spaceship', a track with a relaxed beat containing a soulful Marvin Gaye sample. The lyrics are mostly critical of the working world, where West muses about flying away in a spaceship to leave his boring job, and guest rappers GLC and Consequence add comparisons to modern day retail environment with slavery.[34]

On 'Jesus Walks', West professes his belief in Jesus, while also discussing how religion is used by various people and how the media seems to avoid songs that address matters of faith while embracing compositions on violence, sex, and drugs.[34][36] 'Jesus Walks' is built around a sample of 'Walk With Me' as performed by the ARC Choir.[33] Garry Mulholland of The Observer described it as a 'towering inferno of martial beats, fathoms-deep chain gang backing chants, a defiant children's choir, gospel wails, and sizzling orchestral breaks'.[37] The first verse of the song is told through the eyes of a drug dealer seeking help from God, and it reportedly took over six months for West to draw inspiration for the second verse.[38]

Kanye West

'Never Let Me Down' is influenced by West's near-death car crash. The song features Jay-Z, who rhymes about maintaining status and power given his chart success, while West comments on racism and poverty.[34][39] The song features verses by spoken word performer J. Ivy who offers comments of upliftment. 'Never Let Me Down' reuses a Jay-Z verse first heard in the remix of his song 'Hovi Baby'.[34][40] 'Get Em High' is a collaboration by West with two socially conscious rappers, Talib Kweli and Common.[41] 'The New Workout Plan' is a call to fitness to improve one's love life.[34] 'Slow Jamz' features Twista and Jamie Foxx and serves as a tribute to classic smooth soul artists and slow jam songs.[5] The song also appeared on Twista's album Kamikaze.[5] On the song 'School Spirit', West relates the experience of dropping out of school and contains references to well-known fraternities, sororities, singer Norah Jones, and record label Roc-A-Fella Records. 'Two Words' features commentary on social issues and features Mos Def, Freeway, and the Harlem Boys Choir.[42]

'Through the Wire' features a high-pitched vocal sample of Chaka Khan and relates West's real life experience with being in a car accident.[11] The song provides a mostly comedic account of his difficult recovery, and features West rapping with his jaw still wired shut from the accident.[11][33] The chorus and instrumentals sample a pitched up version of Chaka Khan's 1985 single 'Through the Fire'.[5] 'Family Business' is a soulful tribute to the godbrother of Tarrey Torae, one of the many collaborators in the album.[43] The song 'Last Call' is about West's transition from being a producer to a rapper, and the album ends with a nearly nine-minute autobiographical monologue that follows the song 'Last Call', however, is not a separate track.[44]

Title and packaging[edit]

The album's title is in part a reference to West's decision to drop out of college to pursue his dream of becoming a musician.[45] This action greatly displeased his mother, who was a professor at the university from which he withdrew. She later said, 'It was drummed into my head that college is the ticket to a good life... but some career goals don't require college. For Kanye to make an album called College Dropout it was more about having the guts to embrace who you are, rather than following the path society has carved out for you'.[46]

The artwork for the album was developed by Eric Duvauchelle, who was then part of Roc-A-Fella's in-house brand design team. West had already taken pictures dressed as the Dropout Bear - which would reappear in his later work - and Duvauchelle picked the image of him sitting on a set of bleachers, as he was attracted to the loneliness of what was supposed to be 'the most popular representation of a school'. The image is framed inside gold ornaments, which Duvauchelle found in a book of illustrations from the 16th-century and West wanted to use to 'bring a sense of elegance and style to what was typically a gangster-led image of rap artists'. The inside cover follows a college yearbook, with photos of the featured artists of the albums from their youth.[47]

Release and promotion[edit]

The College Dropout was originally scheduled for release in August 2003, but West's perfectionist habits producing the album led to it being postponed three times. It was first delayed to October 2003, then to January 2004, before finally being released to stores on February 10, 2004.[48][49]

In its first week of release, the album sold 441,000 copies and debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, being held off the top spot by Norah Jones' second studio album Feels Like Home.[50]The College Dropout remained at the second spot behind Feels Like Home for two consecutive weeks, with 196,000 units sold in the second week and 132,000 in the third week, respectively.[51][52] In 2004, The College Dropout ranked as the twelfth most popular of the year on the Billboard 200.[53] By June 2014, the album had become West's best-selling album in the US, with domestic sales of 3,358,000 copies.[54][55] On April 1, 2015, The College Dropout was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), indicating three million copies moved.[56] On the UK Albums Chart, the album peaked at number 12, and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) had certified it double platinum by November 25, 2004; this indicated shipments of 600,000 copies.[57][58] As of 2018, The College Dropout is the fourteenth highest selling rap album in the UK in the 21st-century.[59] The album has sold over 4 million copies worldwide.[60]

Four of the singles released in promotion of the album became top-20 chart hits: 'Through the Wire', 'Slow Jamz', 'All Falls Down' and 'Jesus Walks'.[61] 'The New Workout Plan' was the fifth and last single.[62] 'Spaceship' was planned to be the sixth single, but Def Jam decided to move on from The College Dropout's promotional campaign to begin marketing West's next album, Late Registration (2005).[63] At one point, 'Two Words' was also intended to be released as a single, and a video for the song was filmed, and later uploaded by West online in 2009.[41]

Critical reception[edit]

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic87/100[64]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[5]
Blender[65]
Entertainment WeeklyA−[66]
Los Angeles Times[67]
Mojo[68]
Pitchfork8.2/10[3]
Rolling Stone[69]
SpinB+[70]
USA Today[71]
The Village VoiceA[72]

The College Dropout was met with widespread critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 87, based on 25 reviews.[64]

The record was hailed by Kelefa Sanneh from The New York Times as '2004's first great hip-hop album'.[27] Reviewing it for The A.V. Club, Nathan Rabin observed in the music 'substance, social commentary, righteous anger, ornery humanism, dark humor, and even Christianity', calling it 'one of those wonderful crossover albums that appeal to a huge audience without sacrificing a shred of integrity'.[73]Mojo said its exceptional hip hop production was miraculous during a time when hip hop's practice of sampling was becoming 'increasingly litigious',[68] and URB deemed it 'both visceral and emotive, sprinkling the dancefloors with tears and sweat'.[74] Dave Heaton from PopMatters found it 'musically engaging' and 'a genuine extension of Kanye's personality and experiences',[34] while Hua Hsu of The Village Voice felt that his sped-up samples 'carry a humble, human air', allowing listeners to 'hear tiny traces of actual people inside'.[75] Fellow Village Voice critic Robert Christgau wrote that 'not only does [West] create a unique role model, that role model is dangerous—his arguments against education are as market-targeted as other rappers' arguments for thug life'.[72] In the opinion of Stylus Magazine's Josh Love, West 'subverts cliches from both sides of the hip-hop divide' while 'trying to reflect the entire spectrum of hip-hop and black experience, looking for solace and salvation in the traditional safehouses of church and family'.[24]Entertainment Weekly's Michael Endelman elaborated on West's avoidance of the then-dominant 'gangsta' persona of hip hop:

West delivers the goods with a disarming mix of confessional honesty and sarcastic humor, earnest idealism and big-pimping materialism. In a scene still dominated by authenticity battles and gangsta posturing, he's a middle-class, politically conscious, post-thug, bourgeois rapper – and that's nothing to be ashamed of.[66]

Some reviewers were more qualified in their praise. Rolling Stone's Jon Caramanica felt that 'West isn't quite MC enough to hold down the entire disc', though claimed that West's 'ace in the hole is his signature cozy sound',[69] while Slant Magazine's Sal Cinquemani observed 'too many guest artists, too many interludes, and just too many songs period' on what he considered a 'chest-beatingly self-congratulatory' yet humorous, deeply sincere, and affecting record.[25] It was regarded by Pitchfork critic Rob Mitchum as a 'flawed, overlong, hypocritical, egotistical, and altogether terrific album'.[3]Rolling Stone was more receptive in a retrospective review, calling the album 'a demonstration that hip-hop—real, banging, commercial hip-hop—could be a vehicle for nuanced self-examination and musical subtlety'.[76]

Accolades[edit]

The College Dropout was voted as the best album of the year by The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of American critics.[77] The album elsewhere topped year-end lists by Rolling Stone,[78]Spin,[79] and PopMatters.[80] Dutch magazine OOR named it the seventh best album of 2004.[81]Billboard named The College Dropout the second best album of 2004.[82]Rhapsody named it the seventh best album of the decade and the fourth best hip hop album of the decade.[83][84]Fact listed it as the 20th best album of the 2000s.[85]

In 2005, Pitchfork named it No. 50 in their best albums of 2000–2004.[86] In 2006, the album was named by Time as one of the 100 best albums of all time.[87] In its retrospective 2007 issue, XXL awarded it a perfect 'XXL' rating, which had previously been given to only sixteen other albums.[88] In 2012, Complex named the album one of the classic albums of the last decade,[89] and the 20th best hip hop debut album ever.[90]Dagsavisen listed the album eleventh in its list of the top forty albums of the 2000s decade.[91] The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[92] Comedian Chris Rock has attested to listening to The College Dropout while writing his material.[93]

PublicationCountryAccoladeYearRankReference
The A.V. ClubUnited StatesTop 50 Albums of the 2000s20092[94]
BETThe Best Albums of the 2000s20093[95]
Consequence of SoundThe Top 100 Albums of the 2000s200916[96]
The Top 100 Albums Ever2010100[97]
Entertainment WeeklyThe 100 Best Albums from 1983 to 200820084[98]
The 10 Best Albums of the Decade20091[99]
NewsweekThe 10 Best Albums of the Decade20093[100]
PasteThe 50 Best Albums of the Decade (2000–2009)200917[101]
Phoenix New TimesThe 10 Best Rap Albums of the 2000s20092[102]
PitchforkThe 200 Best Albums of the 2000s200928[103]
PopMattersThe 100 Best Albums of the 2000s201429[104]
Rolling StoneThe 100 Albums of the 2000s200910[105]
The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time2012298[106]
The 100 Greatest Debut Albums of All Time201319[107]
ClashUnited KingdomThe Top 100 Albums of Clash's Lifetime (2004–2012)201217[108]
NMEThe 500 Greatest Albums of All Time2013273[109]
The Sunday TimesThe 30 Best Albums of the 2000s200914[110]
The TimesThe 100 Best Pop Albums of the Noughties200913[111]

Industry awards[edit]

YearOrganizationAwardResultRef.
2004American Music AwardsFavorite Rap/Hip-Hop AlbumNominated[112]
Billboard Music AwardsR&B/Hip-Hop Album of the YearNominated[113]
MOBO AwardsBest AlbumWon[114]
The Source AwardsAlbum of the YearWon[115]
Teen Choice AwardsAlbum of the YearWon[116]
2005Grammy AwardsAlbum of the YearNominated[117]
Best Rap AlbumWon
NAACP Image AwardsOutstanding AlbumNominated[118]

Track listing[edit]

  • Information is adapted from the album's liner notes.[33]
  • All tracks produced by Kanye West, except 'Last Call' (co-produced by Evidence; additional production by Porse) and 'Breathe in Breathe Out' (co-produced by Brian 'All Day' Miller).

Kanye West First Album

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1.'Intro (Skit)'Kanye West0:19
2.'We Don't Care'3:59
3.'Graduation Day'
  • West
  • Ben-Ari
1:22
4.'All Falls Down' (featuring Syleena Johnson)3:43
5.'I'll Fly Away'Albert E. Brumley1:09
6.'Spaceship' (featuring GLC and Consequence)
  • West
  • Sandra Greene
5:24
7.'Jesus Walks'3:13
8.'Never Let Me Down' (featuring Jay-Z and J. Ivy)
  • West
5:24
9.'Get Em High' (featuring Talib Kweli and Common)4:49
10.'Workout Plan (Skit)'West0:46
11.'The New Workout Plan'
  • West
  • Stephens
  • Bosco Kante
  • Sumeke Rainey
  • Ben-Ari
5:22
12.'Slow Jamz' (featuring Twista and Jamie Foxx)5:16
13.'Breathe in Breathe Out' (featuring Ludacris)
  • West
  • Brian Miller
4:06
14.'School Spirit (Skit 1)'West1:18
15.'School Spirit'3:02
16.'School Spirit (Skit 2)'West0:43
17.'Lil Jimmy (Skit)'West0:53
18.'Two Words' (featuring Mos Def, Freeway and The Boys Choir of Harlem)
  • West
4:26
19.'Through the Wire'3:41
20.'Family Business'West4:38
21.'Last Call'
  • West
  • Williams
  • Ken Lewis
12:40
Total length:76:13

2005 Japanese special edition[edit]

Bonus track
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
22.'Heavy Hitters' (featuring GLC)3:01
Total length:80:08

Kanye West Dropout Album

Bonus CD
No.TitleLength
1.'We Don't Care (Reprise)' (featuring Keyshia Cole)2:57
2.'Jesus Walks (Remix)' (featuring Mase and Common)4:58
3.'It's Alright' (featuring Ma$e and John Legend)3:51
4.'The New Workout Plan (Remix)' (featuring Fonzworth Bentley, Luke and Twista; produced by Lil Jon)4:02
5.'Two Words (Cinematic)' (featuring The Harlem Boys Choir)4:06
6.'Never Let Me Down (Cinematic)'5:16
Total length:25:07
Bonus DVD: The College Dropout Video Anthology
No.TitleDirector(s)Length
1.'Through the Wire'
  • West
4:54
2.'Slow Jamz' (performed by Twista featuring Kanye West and Jamie Foxx)3:34
3.'All Falls Down' (featuring Syleena Johnson)
  • West
4:05
4.'Two Words' (featuring Mos Def, Freeway and The Harlem Boys Choir)4:43
5.'Jesus Walks' (Church version)Michael Haussman4:04
6.'Jesus Walks' (Chris Milk version)Milk4:06
7.'Jesus Walks' (Street version)
  • West
  • Coodie & Chike
4:18
8.'Jesus Walks' (Making of the video)66:56
9.'The New Workout Plan' (Extended version featuring Fonzworth Bentley)8:06
Total length:104:46

Sample credits[edit]

  • 'We Don't Care' contains samples of 'I Just Wanna Stop', written by Ross Vannelli and performed by The Jimmy Castor Bunch.
  • 'All Falls Down' contains interpolations of 'Mystery of Iniquity', written and performed by Lauryn Hill.
  • 'Spaceship' contains samples of 'Distant Lover', written by Marvin Gaye, Gwen Gordy Fuqua and Sandra Greene, and performed by Marvin Gaye.
  • 'Jesus Walks' contains samples of 'Walk with Me', performed by The ARC Choir and '(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go', written and performed by Curtis Mayfield.
  • 'Never Let Me Down' contains samples of 'Maybe It's the Power of Love', written by Michael Bolton and Bruce Kulick, and performed by Blackjack.
  • 'Slow Jamz' contains samples of 'A House Is Not a Home', written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and performed by Luther Vandross.
  • 'School Spirit' contains samples of 'Spirit in the Dark', written and performed by Aretha Franklin.
  • 'Two Words' contains samples of 'Peace & Love (Amani Na Mapenzi) – Movement IV (Encounter)', written by Lou Wilson, Ric Wilson and Carlos Wilson, and performed by Mandrill.
  • 'Through the Wire' contains samples of 'Through the Fire', written by David Foster, Tom Keane and Cynthia Weil, and performed by Chaka Khan.
  • 'Family Business' contains samples of 'Fonky Thang', written by Terry Callier and Charles Stepney, and performed by The Dells.
  • 'Last Call' contains samples of 'Mr. Rockefeller', written by Jerry Blatt and Bette Midler, and performed by Bette Midler.

Personnel[edit]

Credits adapted from liner notes.[33][119]

Musicians[edit]

  • John Legend – vocals (track 3), additional vocals (tracks 2, 6, 7, 11, 21), background vocals (track 8), piano (track 3)
  • DeRay – additional vocals (tracks 1, 5, 14, 16, 17)
  • Tony Williams – additional vocals (track 5, 6, 15, 17, 21)
  • Sumeke Rainey – additional vocals (tracks 9, 11)
  • Tracie Spencer – additional vocals (track 12), background vocals (track 8)
  • Riccarda Watkins – additional vocals (track 2)
  • Candis Brown – additional vocals (track 10),
  • Brandi Kuykenvall – additional vocals (track 10)
  • Tiera Singleton – additional vocals (track 10)
  • Aisha Tyler – additional vocals (track 12)
  • Thomasina Atkins – additional vocals (track 20)
  • Linda Petty – additional vocals (track 20)
  • Beverly McCargo – additional vocals (track 20)
  • Lavel Mena – additional vocals (track 20)
  • Thai Jones – additional vocals (track 20)
  • Kevin Shannon – additional vocals (track 20)
  • Tarey Torae – additional vocals (track 20)
  • Rude Jude – additional vocals (track 22)
  • Terence Hardy – 'kids' vocals (track 2)
  • Diamond Alabi-Isama – 'kids' vocals (track 2)
  • James 'JT' Knight – 'kids' vocals (track 2)
  • Keyshia Cole – background vocals (track 2)
  • Ervin 'EP' Pope – keyboards (tracks 8, 12), piano (tracks 5, 11, 17, 21)
  • Glenn Jefferey – guitars (tracks 8, 12, 21)
  • Keenan 'Kee-note' Holloway – bass (tracks 8, 12), additional bass (track 21)
  • Frank Walker – percussion (tracks 3, 8, 12)
  • Ken Lewis – acoustic guitar (track 4), sample recreation and performance (track 8), additional instrumentation (track 20), guitar, bass, keyboard, percussion, vocal (track 21)
  • Eric 'E-Bass' Johnson – guitars (tracks 4, 11)
  • Bosko – talkbox (track 11)
  • Keith Slattery – keyboards (track 18)
  • Scott Ward – bass guitar (track 19)
  • Josh Zandman – piano (track 20)
  • Miri Ben-Ari – violins production, writing, arrangement and performance (tracks 2, 3, 7, 11, 13, 18, 22)

Production[edit]

  • Rabeka Tunei – recording (tracks 1, 4–6, 8, 10, 14–17, 20, 21)
  • Eugene A. Toale – recording (tracks 2, 3, 7, 11, 13, 22)
  • Andrew Dawson – recording (tracks 6, 7, 11, 15)
  • Anthony Kilhoffer – recording (tracks 3, 8, 9)
  • Tatsuya Sato – recording (tracks 4, 6, 7)
  • Rich Balmer – recording (tracks 2, 22)
  • Brent Kolatalo – recording (tracks 8, 21), assistant engineering (track 22)
  • Keith Slattery – recording (tracks 11, 18)
  • Jacob Andrew – recording (tracks 13, 20)
  • Gimel 'Guru' Keaton – recording (track 8)
  • Jacelyn Parry – recording (track 8)
  • Michael Eleopoulos – recording (track 9)
  • Dave Dar – recording (track 9)
  • Jason Rauhoff – recording (track 13)
  • Marc Fuller – recording (track 18)
  • Carlisle Young – recording (track 18)
  • Francis Graham – recording (track 19)
  • Manny Marroquin – mixing (tracks 1–10, 12–17, 19–21)
  • Jared Lopez – mixing (track 11)
  • Mike Dean – mixing (track 18)
  • Ken Lewis – mixing (track 22)
  • Eddy Schreyer – mastering

Design[edit]

  • Danny Clinch – photography
  • Eric Duvauchelle – art direction and design
  • Mike Godshall – art direction and design
  • Jim Morris – art direction and design
  • Stephanie Reynolds – art direction and design
  • Lauri Rowe – art direction and design
  • Bobby Naugle – Dropout Bear logo design
  • Sam Hansen – Dropout Bear logo design

Charts[edit]

Weekly charts[edit]

Charts (2004)Peak
position
French Albums (SNEP)[120]98
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[121]77
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[122]39
UK Albums (OCC)[123]12
UK R&B Albums (OCC)[124]2
US Billboard 200[125]2
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[126]1

Year-end charts[edit]

Chart (2004)Position
UK Albums (OCC)[127]34
US Billboard 200[53]12
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[128]4
Chart (2005)Position
US Billboard 200[129]176
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[130]94
Chart (2016)Position
Australian Urban Albums (ARIA)[131]94

Certifications[edit]

College Dropout Kanye West Tracklist

RegionCertificationCertified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[132]Gold50,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[133]Gold7,500^
United Kingdom (BPI)[134]2× Platinum600,000^
United States (RIAA)[136]3× Platinum3,358,000[135]

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

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External links[edit]

  • The College Dropout at Discogs

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