Album of the Day 9/19/2009: Graduation

iPod shuffled up one of my favorite albums today…

Graduation: as brilliant now as it was when released on 9/11/2007, and never as relevant as on 9/13/2009

Kanye en route to The Glory…

Can I talk my sh*t again? Even if I don’t hit again? Dog are you f*cking kidding?

I think hennassy, I drank I’m gone on that Bacardi Lemon, I’m zoning/ Class back in session so I up’t it a grade

Man the game all messed up

How I suppose to stand out when everyone get dressed up

But with my ego, I can stand there with a speedo

And still be looked at like a f*cking hero

When you meet me in person what does it feel like

I know, I know I look better in real life

Regardless of the real world’s intensely sophomoric reaction to the spectacle, Kanye knows “The hood love to listen to Jeezy and Weezy — and oh yeah, Yeezy!” Just under the fickle roar of the lynch mob, is the sound of the underground: “stretch my mind to figure out whats next in line/ the next Em, Ye, and Andre?” BoB, Asher Roth, and Charles Hamilton were a beacon of hope that in the even in the blurred world of pop reality a change is gonna come…

While as you listenin’ to this track

You probably about to blog about it maybe say it’s wack

Or maybe compare the verses to see which one of us would snap

Completly ignoring the fact that this is way more than rap

Cause I happen to be on a magazine you happen to see this issue

Some people wish you well, man some people turn against you

Some people even call up to the station just to diss you

You b*tch you, you only mad at your self here’s a tissue

But that ain’t even my focus man that hate ain’t on my menu

I’m in a different city about to rock a different venue

I think hennassy, I drank I’m gone on that Bacardi Lemon, I’m zoning

Class back in session so I up’t it a grade