Kanye West Biography

With a line up of guests that includes Jay-Z, Jamie Foxx, Brandy, Paul Wall, Cam'ron, Adam Levine of Maroon Five and his longtime friend and collaborator John Legend - West has widened his scope since The College Dropout. There are new flavors and voices in the mix, but it's still 100% Kanye, still the voice of the underdog tackling the highs and lows of everyday life through pointed lyrics and emotionally charged music.

Eschewing cliché for reality, Late Registration addresses a litany of topics that range from the personal to the political and all that falls in between. The fist pumping "Crack Music", which features a one-line hook from superstar MC the Game, looks at the effects of drugs on the black community and offers that at the end, "the music is medicine." A similar thread runs though "Addiction", a song that has West asking why it is that "everything that's supposed to be bad makes me feel so good?" On "Bring Me Down," Brandy gives a mournful voice to Kanye's barbed cynicisms as he raps "If you ever wanted to ever be anything, there'll always be somebody that'll shoot down any dream."
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