The College Dropout

~ Release by Kanye West (see all versions of this release, 6 available)

Annotation

Catalog #B0002035-02: edited/clean version

Annotation last modified on 2009-02-09 09:14 UTC.

Tracklist

# Title Artist Rating Length
  CD 1
11 Intro
Kanye West 0:19
22 We Don't Care
Kanye West 4 4:00
33 Graduation Day
Kanye West 1:22
44 All Falls Down
Kanye West feat. Syleena Johnson 4 3:44
55 I'll Fly Away
Kanye West 4 1:10
66 Spaceship
Kanye West feat. GLC & Consequence 4 5:24
77 Jesus Walks
Kanye West 4.5 3:14
88 Never Let Me Down
Kanye West feat. Jay-Z & J. Ivy 5 5:24
99 Get Em High
Kanye West feat. Talib Kweli & Common 4 4:49
1010 Workout Plan
Kanye West 0:46
1111 The New Workout Plan
Kanye West 4 5:23
1212 Slow Jamz
Kanye West feat. Twista & Jamie Foxx 3 5:16
1313 Breathe In Breathe Out
Kanye West feat. Ludacris 3 4:07
1414 School Spirit (skit 1)
Kanye West 1:19
1515 School Spirit
Kanye West 3:02
1616 School Spirit (skit 2)
Kanye West 0:44
1717 Lil Jimmy (skit)
Kanye West 0:53
1818 Two Words
Kanye West feat. Mos Def, Freeway & The Harlem Boys Choir 4:26
1919 Through the Wire
Kanye West 3:41
2020 Family Business
Kanye West 3 4:39
2121 Last Call
Kanye West 1 12:41

Relationships

acoustic guitar:
Ken Lewis (Recording Engineer and Mixer) (track 4)
additional bass guitar:
Keenan "Kee-note" Holloway (track 21)
additional guest vocals:
The Boys Choir of Harlem (track 18)
additional instrumentation:
Ken Lewis (Recording Engineer and Mixer) (track 20)
additional producer:
Porse (track 21)
additional vocals:
Thomasina Atkins (track 20)
DeRay Davis (tracks 1, 5, 14–17)
Thai Jones (track 20)
John Legend (tracks 2, 6–7, 11, 21)
Sumeke Rainey (tracks 9, 11)
Tarrey Torae (track 20)
Aisha Tyler (track 12)
Riccarda Watkins (track 2)
Tony Williams (Soul/R&B Singer/Writer) (tracks 5–6, 15–17, 21)
background vocals:
Keyshia Cole (track 2)
John Legend (track 8)
Tracie Spencer (track 8)
Tracy Spencer (track 8)
bass guitar:
Keenan "Kee-note" Holloway (tracks 8, 12)
bass guitar, guitar, keyboard and percussion:
Ken Lewis (Recording Engineer and Mixer) (track 21)
co-executive producer:
Kyambo "Hip Hop" Joshua [ Remove | Edit ]
co-producer:
Evidence (US rapper, member of Dilated Peoples) (track 21)
Brian "All Day" Miller (track 13)
composer:
Shawn Carter (track 8)
Talib Kweli Greene (track 9)
Leonard Harris (track 6)
Bosko Kante (track 11)
Ken Lewis (Recording Engineer and Mixer) (track 21)
Lonnie Rashid Lynn (US rapper, aka Common) (track 9)
Brian "All Day" Miller (track 13)
Dexter Raymond Mills Jr. (track 6)
Miri Ben-Ari (tracks 2–3, 7, 11)
Carl Terrell Mitchell (track 12)
Leslie Pridgen (track 18)
Sumeke Rainey (track 11)
James Richardson (J. Ivy) (track 8)
Dante Smith (track 18)
John Stephens (aka John Legend) (tracks 3, 11)
Kanye West (tracks 1–4, 6–18, 20–21)
Tony Williams (Soul/R&B Singer/Writer) (tracks 6, 21)
executive producer:
Kareem "Biggs" Burke [ Remove | Edit ]
Shawn Carter [ Remove | Edit ]
Damon Dash [ Remove | Edit ]
guest performer:
Common (US rapper) (track 9)
Consequence (US rapper) (track 6)
Jamie Foxx (track 12)
Freeway (US rapper Leslie Pridgen) (track 18)
GLC (US rapper) (track 6)
J. Ivy (track 8)
Jay‐Z (track 8)
Syleena Johnson (track 4)
Ludacris (track 13)
Mos Def (track 18)
Talib Kweli (track 9)
Twista (US rapper) (track 12)
guitar:
Eric "E-Bass" Johnson (hip hop guitarist & producer) (track 3)
Ken Lewis (Recording Engineer and Mixer) (track 3)
guitars:
Glenn Jefferey (tracks 8, 12, 21)
Eric "E-Bass" Johnson (hip hop guitarist & producer) (tracks 4, 11)
keyboard:
Ervin Pope (tracks 8, 12, 16)
Keith Slattery (track 18)
mixer:
Mike Dean (US "dirty south" hip-hop producer & mix engineer) (track 18)
Jared Lopez (track 11)
Manny Marroquin (tracks 1–17, 19–21)
Veit Renn (track 11)
percussion:
Frank "Knuckles" Walker (tracks 3, 8, 12)
piano:
John Legend (tracks 3, 12)
Ervin Pope (tracks 5, 11, 17, 21)
Josh Zandman (track 20)
producer:
Kanye West [ Remove | Edit ]
recorded by:
Rich Balmer (track 2)
Dave Dar (track 9)
Andrew Dawson (US hip hop mix engineer) (tracks 6–7, 11, 15)
Marc Fuller (track 18)
Franny Graham (track 19)
Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton (track 8)
Anthony Kilhoffer (tracks 3, 8–9)
Brent Kolatalo (tracks 8, 21)
Jason Rauhoff (track 13)
Tatsuya Sato (tracks 4, 6–7)
Keith Slattery (tracks 11, 18)
Eugene A. Toale (tracks 2–3, 7, 11, 13)
Rabeka Tunei (tracks 1, 4–6, 8, 10, 14–17, 20–21)
Carlisle Young (track 18)
violin:
Miri Ben-Ari (tracks 2–3, 7, 11, 13, 17–18)
violin arranger:
Miri Ben-Ari (tracks 2–3, 7, 11, 13, 18)
vocals:
John Legend (track 3)
Ken Lewis (Recording Engineer and Mixer) (track 21)
DJ-mixes:
Youth Words (Kanye West x Reagan Youth) by Max Tannone (track 18)
mash-ups:
Evening High by dj BC (track 9)
What's My Name? (clean version) by DJ Earworm (track 11)
Get Em High // Videotape by Hippomothamus (2007) (track 9)
remixes:
Get 'em High (Ratatat remix) by Kanye West (track 9)
Jesus Walks (remix) by Kanye West feat. Common & Mase (track 7)
Through the Wire (freestyle remix) by Kanye West (track 19)
samples:
A House Is Not a Home by Luther Vandross (track 12)
All That Glitters by Death in Vegas (track 20)
Distant Lover by Marvin Gaye (track 6)
I Just Wanna Stop by The Jimmy Castor Bunch (track 2)
Maybe It's the Power of Love by BlackJack (track 8)
Mystery of Iniquity by Lauryn Hill (track 4)
Peace and Love (Amani Na Mapenzi), Movement III: Time by Mandrill (track 18)
Spirit in the Dark by Aretha Franklin (track 15)
Through the Fire by Chaka Khan (track 19)
Walk With Me by The ARC Choir (track 7)
ASIN:
UK: B0001MLLZK [info] [ Remove | Edit ]
Discogs:
http://www.discogs.com/release/727190 [info] [ Remove | Edit ]
recording of:
All Falls Down (track 4)
Breathe In Breathe Out (track 13)
Family Business (track 20)
Get Em High (track 9)
Graduation Day (track 3)
Intro (track 1)
Jesus Walks (track 7)
Last Call (track 21)
Lil Jimmy (skit) (track 17)
Never Let Me Down (track 8)
School Spirit (track 15)
School Spirit (skit 1) (track 14)
School Spirit (skit 2) (track 16)
Slow Jamz (track 12)
Spaceship (track 6)
The New Workout Plan (track 11)
Two Words (track 18)
We Don't Care (track 2)
Workout Plan (track 10)