Gone: 13. In the ballad, West recounts past hardships he and his mother suffered through together and expresses his love and devotion for her and appreciation for her tireless support, even when he was going directly against her expectations for him. Skit #1 A6. Back to Basics: 3. From United States. [72], Late Registration was met with widespread critical acclaim. "Touch the Sky" stands as the sole song on the entire album not to feature production by West. "[2] Kim concurred with this sentiment, stating, "West ambitiously attempts to depart from the street sensibilities of Dropout by giving Late Registration a shiny, quasi-alt-pop finish. He tries things out until it fits, until it sits where it is supposed to sit and everything has the correct emotional function. Rolling Stone named it the best album of 2005, and ranked it at number 117 on its 2020 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In The A.V. Drive Slow: 11. Music videos for all five singles were also produced, while West supported the album with a promotional concert tour, leading to the live album Late Orchestration in 2006. This CD is amazing; no doubt one of the best, if not the best album of the year. The College Dropout, Late Registration and Graduation. [60] The following week, Late Registration remained atop the chart, though the sales decreased by 67% to 283,000 and the album had sold over 1.14 million copies within its first two weeks on the Billboard 200. Jay-J & J. Ivy) New Day (Jay-Z / Kanye West) New God Flow (Pusha T & Kanye West) New Slaves Niggas In Paris (Jay-Z / Kanye West) No Church In The Wild (Jay-Z / Kanye West feat. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Ware in gutem Zustand, guter Versand (schneller Versand), keine Probleme. KANYE WEST - LATE REGISTRATION (ALBUM) Label: Universal: Entry: 09/09/2005 (Position 11) Last week in charts: 23/09/2005 (Position 39) "Hey Mama" contains samples of "Today Won't Come Again" as performed by Donal Leace. [3], West originally produced and recorded "Gold Digger" in Ludacris's home in Atlanta, Georgia for Shawnna's 2004 debut album Worth tha Weight and had written the chorus from a female first-person viewpoint. It's no Blueprint, but it's worth a listen for sure. Sehr gerne wieder. [98] The album was the highest entry among recent albums and one of West's three albums to appear on the list. My Way Home B2. [3] On "Roses", West and Brion had some minor discord; Brion initially layered it with keyboard arrangements, only for West to remove his keys along with the beat and completely reconfigure the entire song in such a way that its verses are built around the rhythm formed by his vocals and Brion's arrangements arrive during the choruses. August 2005, auf Roc-A-Fella Records. [67] As of May 2018, Late Registration is the 12th highest-selling rap album in the UK in the 21st century. West later revealed that part of the reason he created the song was to dismantle the feud between the MCs, which they did later that year. Upcoming Lyrics. Only 1 left in stock (more on the way). "Roses" contains samples of "Rosie" as performed by, "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" contains samples of "Diamonds Are Forever" as performed by. [57] On the day of the album's release, West made an in-store appearance at New York's Lincoln Center Tower Records to autograph copies for fans. For these reasons, it is my personal favorite Kanye project. Addiction: 2. The advert received an award from British music magazine Music Week for Best Music TV Commercial. Quantity. Kanye West has been active in the music world since 1996 and has become one of the most influential & impactful hip-hop singers ever. Late Registration is the second studio album by American hip hop artist Kanye West, released on August 30, 2005, by Roc-A-Fella Records. Beyoncé & Charlie Wilson) See You In My Nightmares (Kanye West feat. Lyrics. Runaway (Kanye West feat. However, Shawnna passed on the song. Diamonds From Sierra Leone (Bonus Version) 8. It was primarily produced by West himself, with contributions from various other producers. Kanye West - Late Registration Album Lyrics; 1. "[34], Late Registration appeared on year-end best album lists for 2005 by numerous publications, including being listed as the best album of the year by USA Today, Spin, and Time. Late Registration Roc-A-Fella 2005. [24], "Crack Music" continues the avenue of socio-political commentary initiated within "Heard 'Em Say." I see it as a spatial thing: left to right, front to back, up and down. Heard Em Say (featuring Adam Levine) 3:23 2. [2] Although Brion had no prior experience in creating hip hop records, he and West found that they could productively work together after their first afternoon in the studio where they discovered that neither confined his musical knowledge and vision to one specific genre. AND THE ONE AFTER THAT...THIS ALBUM IS PACKED WITH EVERYTHING A RAP FAN WANT...although all the skits are stupid and drag...THEYRE FUNNY...THE BEATS ARE THE BEST EVER!!! The song contains live drums played by Michel Gondry, the director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and later the first music video for "Heard 'Em Say", who had visited the studio on a day Brion set up a drum kit. [11], In addition, the album includes a series of humorous skits that involve West joining a fictional black fraternity, "Broke Phi Broke," whose members pride themselves in living a life without money or worldly possessions, despite the glaring disadvantages such a lifestyle brings. Shipping calculated at checkout. Late Registration was the album that made me become a Kanye West fan and remember bumping it a lot back in high school incredible album and the skits fit right it as well. Kanye West - Late Registration - YouTube. After its third verse, the song enters an instrumental passage before returning with a fourth verse from West, where the rise and fall of his voice is intricately emulated by the fluctuation of the string orchestra. "[11] The opening track "Heard 'Em Say" is a "mournfully contemplative" song that "talks about being honest with yourself in a world that is not." [102], Late Registration was a contender for numerous industry awards. Buy this Track. Wake Up Mr. West A2. * Sales figures based on certification alone.^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. Ships from and sold by Chalkys CA. [2], The original version of "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" is largely free-associative and is filled with a litany of lyrical punchlines which serve to loosely chronicle his past experiences being a part of the Roc-A-Fella family, from touring with Jay-Z on his Blueprint Lounge Tour to the label's subsequent fall out and revival. This item: Late Registration (Limited Deluxe Edition) by West Audio CD CDN$27.79. Crack Music B3. [65], Late Registration also debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart. The album earned West the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Rap Album and an Album of the Year nomination, while appearing on several publications' year-end lists ranking the year's top albums, including NME and Pitchfork. West would construct a song's basic structure, bringing in samples, drum beat programming and occasionally unfinished rap verses. [88] Late Registration became West's second consecutive album to be rated "XXL" by XXL, the magazine's highest rank, which has been awarded to only sixteen other hip-hop albums. He cited the serene vocals of Adam Levine, the trademark sound of Brandy, the rap skills of Jay-Z and the lyricism of Paul Wall as primary examples. "[10], For Late Registration, West also collaborated with guest artists, whom he selected based on the effect each of their voices had on him when he heard them. "Celebration" contains samples of "Heavenly Dream" as performed by, "Late" contains samples of "I'll Erase Away Your Pain" by, Morning Breath, Inc. – art direction, design, Kris Yiengst – photography, art coordination, This page was last edited on 26 March 2021, at 00:22. There is a track with Camron...it's crazy...I have listened to it atleast 50 times. Features ‘Late Registration’: How Kanye West Handed In A Stone-Cold Classic. The two had previously collaborated when Maroon 5 commissioned West to produce a remix for "This Love" and later developed a friendship while sitting together on a flight to Rome for the 2004 MTV Europe Music Awards. [13], Houston-based rapper Paul Wall appears alongside West and his GOOD Music label-mate GLC on "Drive Slow", which was recorded in Los Angeles after the two had met while posing for a photo shoot in an August issue of King in a spread titled "Coming Kings". Late Registration is the second studio album by American rapper and producer Kanye West. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. [90] In his ballot for the magazine's poll, Robert Christgau ranked Late Registration as the second best album of the 2000s decade. The song was produced by fellow Roc-a-Fella producer Just Blaze, who uses a slowed-down sample of Curtis Mayfield's "Move On Up" filled with jubilant Latin horn blares. It features guest contributions from Adam Levine, Lupe Fiasco, Jamie Foxx, Common, The Game, Jay-Z, Brandy, and Nas, among others. "[82] Jon Pareles believed West's elevated status undermined the underdog quality that had accentuated his debut studio album; he wrote in The New York Times that "for much of Late Registration, the striver has turned into a hip-hop V.I.P., and a cool arrogance has crept into the songs. [7] The album artwork centers around "Dropout Bear", West's anthropomorphic teddy bear mascot, who is dressed in a collegian outfit. Skit #3 D2. "[3], West took over a year and invested two million dollars towards the construction of Late Registration. [5] When questioned if his presence made Late Registration any less hip hop, Brion replied, "There are colors and ideas that make [the album] different from average hip-hop, but Kanye is already different from the average hip-hop guy. Brion later lightheartedly compared the indecision surrounding the construction of the track to that of Prince's famous last-minute removal of the bassline from "When Doves Cry". It's more polished and dense than the College Dropout, and it's more relatable for me than MBDTF. Kanye has that. [64] The 860,000 copies sold in Late Registration's first week of release ranked as the eighth largest first week sales in hip hop history up to January 7, 2019. [17], While the original version of "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" featured West as the sole performer, he decided to record a remix to the song which included guest verse provided by Jay-Z—who had come out of retirement from rapping—after learning of the civil war in Sierra Leone financed by conflict diamonds. Drive Slow B1. The full unedited album, finally back on YouTube. 21 tracks (69:52). Frank Ocean) No Mistakes No More Parties In LA (Kanye West feat. He wants everybody to buy this record. [36], According to Josh Tyrangiel of Time magazine, Late Registration serves as an exhibition of "the stealthy power of West's storytelling. Title Length 21. [14] West had originally wanted Sri Lankan rapper M.I.A. Lyrically, Kanye's only improved a notch but musically, the album sounds incredible, especially with co-producer Jon Brion helping polish the songs to perfection. Gold Digger A5. I still love Ye's other projects, but this one is probably my favorite. perfettamente imballato e in orario, album spettacolare, un classico di Kanye, Il miglior album di Kanye West, ve lo consiglio assolutamente, ne passerà di tempo prima che escano altri album come questo. [31] The song's intricately composed outro, with the right amount of flourish provided by new musical elements such as xylophones and bells,[32] exemplifies the musical complexity of the album as a whole. Song by Kanye West featuring Cam'ron & Consequence; from the album Late Registration; Released: August 30, 2005: Recorded: 2004–2005 The Record Plant (Hollywood, California) Genre: Hip … West's vision for the style of the pictures was inspired by the works of American satirical painter John Currin, one of his favorite artists. [127], Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[7]. Highlights include 'Gold Digger' featuring Jaime Foxx and 'Hear Em Say' featuring Adam Levine of Maroon 5. There's a few duds on here--the sickly-sweet, syrupy "Bring Me Down" (feat. It's animated and it's moving in real time. Touch… [94] Consequence of Sound named it the 26th best album of the decade. © 2008-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, 2. Where The College Dropout was designed in a manner reminiscent of a high school yearbook, the images contained within the liner notes of Late Registration were taken at Princeton University. [122] Late Registration was ultimately nominated for the award at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards, and West recalled him and Brion being "in the studio saying, 'We're making the Album of the Year! [17] The album was originally set to be released on July 12, 2005, but was shifted to August 16 by Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam. "[28] The album has also been described as a work of pop rap, by journalists Caleb Wossen of the Dallas Observer[29] and Vice magazine's Eric Sundermann. This item:Late Registration by West Audio CD CDN$14.25. [42] All the while, West's overdubbed vocals reverbs in and out of the track. Hey Mama D3. The album was recorded for over a year in sessions held across studios in New York City and Hollywood, with West collaborating with American record producer and composer Jon Brion. Recently Added. "[47] West stated that his goal for the album was to touch on topics that people from all walks of life could find relatable, while remaining true to himself: "[I wanted to have] raps that were just as ill as Jadakiss and just as understandable as Will Smith. [47][83][84] Rolling Stone also named the album as the best of 2005, and hailed it as a "sweepingly generous, absurdly virtuosic hip-hop classic. However, another story arises within the third verse, which illustrates a once destitute black male who earns a fortune and decides to leave a loyal, unselfish girlfriend for a white woman. [37], Late Registration's longest track, the seven-minute-long "We Major", implements exuberant, amplified backing vocals and a "splashy disco groove" featuring a bassline, electric piano Glissandos[40] and horns. [3] They also incorporated a myriad of foreign and vintage instruments not typical in popular music, let alone hip hop, such as a celesta,[25] harpsichord, Chamberlin,[26] CS-80 analog synthesizer, Chinese bells and berimbau. "[85][86] In The Village Voice's 2005 Pazz & Jop nationwide poll of 795 popular music critics, Late Registration finished at number one by a wide margin over any of the other album nominees. C $30.94. [12] The track was recorded quickly after the 2005 Grammy Awards ceremony, as Levine only had a couple of free hours available for time in the studio, and Brion was able to translate the two compositions in a matter of hours. Billboard Hot 100. +C $21.00 shipping estimate. [47] In The Guardian, Alexis Petridis praised West's topicality and subversive studio production, writing that "Late Registration suggests an artist effortlessly outstripping his peers: more ideas, better lyrics, bigger hooks, greater depth. Ships from and sold by Amazon.ca. [99] In 2012, Late Registration was placed at number 100 on Spin's list of the 125 best albums of the past 25 years. Lyrically, Kanye has never been strong but this is his best effort, only occasionally descending into the non-sensical non sequitors of his later albums (see My Beautiful Dark Twisted fantasy). Partendo dall’ordine di Amazon tutto perfetto, arrivato nella data prestabilita, nessun graffio ne danneggiamento alla custodia. [93] PopMatters ranked Late Registration as the 15th best album of the 2000s. "Crack Music" contains samples of "Since You Came in My Life" as performed by New York Community Choir. [2] With the presence of Brion, who conducts a twenty-piece orchestra and plays instruments individually selected by West, the album is largely orchestral in nature, brandishing a euphony of string arrangements, piano chords, brass flecks, and horn riffs among other symphonic instrumentation. It also arrived in awesome condition, with a super shiny case. [7] He began working in the studio after he finished touring with Usher on the R&B singer's The Truth Tour. Skit #2 C3. Producer: Kanye West. Late Registration is the follow up to Kanye's smash debut The College Dropout. Late Registration ist das zweite Studioalbum des US-Rappers und Produzenten Kanye West. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. '"[123][124] At the ceremony, the album won the award of Best Rap Album, becoming West's second consecutive album to do so and he delivered an acceptance speech that night. Add it to your collection if you haven't already, trust me you won't regret it. List price: Previous Price. [78] Sean Fennessey from Pitchfork felt West avoided the sophomore slump with an "expansive, imperfect masterpiece" that drew on his enthusiastic, ambitious, and scattered personality. In August of 2005, the month Late Registration hit stores, Sway asked Kanye if he felt he had been disloyal in siding with Damon “Dame” Dash over Jay in the then-fresh Roc-A-Fella split. Never Let Me Down (Kanye West feat. Brandy) being one of the worst offenders--but when the album's good, it's very, very good. Regular price $1.99 Sale price $0.00 Unit price / per. Late. Media article in excellent condition. Celebration: 5. "[37] Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times compared West's dignified execution of pop crossover on the album to that of The Beatles, Johnny Cash, and Bob Marley. "[23], The album's music blends West's primary soulful hip hop production with Brion's elaborate chamber pop orchestration, and experimentally delves into a wide array of different genres, including jazz, blues, rock, R&B, spoken word, funk, turntablism, western classical, and psychedelic soul. 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Size Chart. This stood as West's first chart-topping album in the United States and gave him nearly double that of The College Dropout's first-week sales. [6] The majority of the recording sessions for the album took place at Sony Music Studios in New York City and at the Record Plant in Hollywood, California; other sessions took place at Chalice Recording Studios and Grandmaster Recording Studios in Hollywood. Please try again. Material: 100% Polyester. Ships from and sold by nagiry. In short, Kanye's detractors may not be swayed in their resistance to his charms but not only will his past supporters be rewarded but Late Registration has enough appeal to earn new crowds of fans. [3][10] West envisioned the album as like the creation of a film: visualizing the songs as scenes, outlining each in such a way that they efficiently conveyed their respective social or introspective context, and ensuring that all synchronized within the fabric of the complete set. [49] His character is eventually expelled from the fraternity after their leader discovers that not only has West been making beats for cash on the side but has also been breaking some of its rules, such as eating meals everyday, buying new clothes, and taking showers.