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Chicago's Kanye West produced Jay-Z, Talib Kweli and Alicia Keys and then fashioned one of the most personal concepts of the era, the soul-infected
The College Dropout (2004), containing the 13-minute Last Call.
Hyper-chromatic three-dimensional arrangements turned
Late Registration (2005) into a stately hip-hop fresco and a
distillation of the genre's existential legacy.
West became a superstar.
By comparison, Graduation (2007)
was largely uneventful.
808s & Heartbreak (2008) was at least an interesting experiment:
most of the time crooning instead of rapping (and through a vocoder-like device) over
spartan electronic arrangements (using a vintage drum-machine from the 1980s).
The result is Kanye West at his most both frigid and depressed, both robotic
and pathetic.
West also produced the seventh album by Chicago's rapper Common,
Finding Forever (2007), Common being often singled out as a rapper who
does not promote violence, chauvinism, etc.
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