This is the newly released video of track 15 on Kanye West’s “Graduation,” a song called Bittersweet featuring John Mayer. Via Rogue Lion Films.

PEACE. Every year, Hip-Hop Linguistics creates two lists. One list contains the top hip-hop albums from major mainstream, underground and independent record labels. The other list contains the top hip-hop albums from minor independent labels and unsigned hip-hop artists. The first list contains artists you’ve likely heard of, while the second list contains artists you’ve probably not heard of.

This is that first list - the overall top picks for 2007. The list below represents the best albums hip-hop had to offer in the year 2007 from what we consider major record labels - whether mainstream, underground or independent. We highly recommend checking them all out! (more…)

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  Review Date: September 18, 2007
  Website: Kanye West Website
  Label: Roc-A-Fella Records

Kanye West “Graduation” Album Review
My apologies for posting the featured review late this week, but I had to let Kanye West’s “Graduation” marinate for a couple days. In that time, one of Kanye’s verses from Everything I Am kept jumping out at me: (more…)

IT was trademark Kanye West petulance. Late last year at the MTV Europe Music Awards, his clip for “Touch the Sky” lost the award for video of the year to “We Are Your Friends,” by the electronic musicians Justice vs. Simian. As So Me, the director of the winning video, was accepting the award, Mr. West, the multiplatinum rapper-producer, jumped onstage and interrupted him.

“Hell, no!” Mr. West shouted. He boasted that his video cost $1 million and ranted, “If I don’t win, your awards show loses credibility.” (more…)

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  Release Date: August 30, 2005
  Website: Kanye West Website
  Label: Roc-a-Fella

Kanye West “Late Registration” Album Review
I hate pretty much all of mainstream media’s hip-hop coverage. I feel that they trivialize its importance and significance. They write about hip-hop like it’s a fashion or a trend, not an evolving and expanding youth-based experience. Mainstream journalists focus on the music, or the dance, or the clothing, or the fashion … but they never seem to delve into the social factors that have existed over the past 30 or more years that have helped to create hip-hop and its appeal. (more…)