Kanye West: Late Registration

Whie vacationing in my tent on the cape, a friend put on the "Gold Digger" track from this album, featuring Jaime Foxx channeling Ray Charles. Its a fun track, and I enjoyed it. So I made the effort to come home and download the album.

As an aside:I used to download as my sole source of music income, but I felt bad. So I download to test drive. And I'll tell you, downloading has made me purchase albums I normally wouldn't have bought, and, at the same time, i've not purchased albums I probably would have wasted my money on otherwise. I think "Try before you buy" is important.

The album strongly disappointed me. Not because its Kanye West. I think he's decent. The album starts out strong with 3 tracks. Back to back to back. Heard 'Em Say (w/Adam Levine of Maroon5), Touch the Sky, and Gold Digger (w/Jaime Foxx). Really great stuff. Then, as the trend on rap/hip hop albums seems to be, there's this dumb ass skit about being piss poor. And the album just falls over after that.

In the end: You'll buy this album for one of two reasons:
1) You're more than happy to buy a disc for one or two tracks. And the first three are really good.

2) You dig Kanye West.

Otherwise, buy the singles as they're released. You'll probably get some interesting remixes.