It’s the perfect version of why people were disappointed with TML and Sideline Story and Wale/Sean’s career

Peak of that style of rap

least fav ye album tbh

it’s good as hell man where it ranks number wise idk but like it’s forever music that’ll endure generations. it’s nearly 20 years old and still sounds amazing

this was a popular opinion on ktt1 i remember

you only hear this on ktt

i remember in high school being more conscious of like music, life, etc listening to i wonder in my bedroom and shedding tears

Yeah graduation is before blog era, datpiff era (datpiff and blog overlap), SoundCloud era, and our current era

Views just happened to be released there

I would say 2015 marks the beginning of SoundCloud era due to luv is rage, thug tapes, and futures 3peat + dirty sprite 2, as well as some other specific releases

Graduation is pretty much the beginning of the hipster/blog era though. It was the beginning of the end for the commercial gangster era when Ye beat 50 in first week sales.

Even if that's 100% true date wise it was 3-4 eras ago and over 15 years in the past

I think it's weird op is saying college dropout, and late registration are 1 era but graduation, 808s, mbdtf, yeezus, tlop, ye, ksg, jik, donda, donda 2 are all the same era

this is a great a***ogy, never thought of it this way

In 2023?

I just can't imagine Grad being considered worse than Ye, JIK, and both Donda's in any capacity. Hell, even TLOP.

Especially when it literally has the best recurrent streams of any Kanye album.

i would put ye, jik and grad into albums i go back least to, tlop and donda i go back to a lot more. that being said, i can see why grad is streamed most, it's one of his more accessible albums

It's Kanye's best album, that's for sure

that would make sense tbh, i think the general public fw it a lot more

yea i think i remember that

Yeah I haven’t heard of Graduation being anyone’s least favorite Ye album since like 2017

correct

Has rap stagnated so much that an album that’s over 15 years old is considered “modern”?

Definitely, I don't see how it wouldn't be

And he still even somehow topped it with MBDTF

Drake's closest thing to Grad is NWTS imo

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