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Late Registration
by Kanye West
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Overall Rating:
3.4198
Avg. Critic Score:
3.1833
Late Registration Rank 3 Reviews
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BillboardBy the end of this 21-track opus, you still might not like West's self-assured declarations, but you will not be able to deny his talent. ...more
Dot Music"Late Registration" feels more comfortable in its own skin than its predecessor. ...more
New Musical ExpressBy freshening up his style without entirely abandoning it, West still has the rest of the rap world playing catch-up. ...more
Drawer BLate Registration... definitely mines familiar terrain, but West’s zeal for clever wordplay juxtaposed with his unflinching confidence makes for a charismatic and often electrifying punch. ...more
nme.comSeemingly sidestepping any sign of "second album syndrome", rap's self-proclaimed Louis Vuitton Don returns with a record that not only lives up to his debut but possibly surpasses it. However, having had but one-and-a-half hearings at an ...more
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Virgin.netOne of hip-hop's hottest talents, 28 year old West has been on the block for some time, producing for the likes of Jay-Z and others, picking up a Best Rap Song Grammy for Jesus Walks a couple of years back and making his own videos.Late ...more
UncutLast year on his solo debut, College Dropout, Kanye West cut through rap’s standard-issue one-dimensional personae with some refreshing complexity. Neither “conscious” nor a bad-boy chasing bling and bitches, he was a little of both: a hungry ...more
All Music GuideWest and Brion are a good, if unlikely, match. ...more
cokemachineglowLate Registration really wants to be an album album, which makes all the more frustrating and undermining the fact that it mirrors the flaws of its predecessor: the glut and the stilted sequencing. ...more
ShakingThrough.netWest is still a better assembler of talent than he is an MC. ...more
Slant MagazineAs if addressing the rumblings (fuelled by a number of award show self-coronations) that hip-hop's own Willy Loman was starting to outgrow his britches, Kanye West's post-VMA interview on the eve of his latest album's release caught the Video of ...more
Tiny Mix TapesThe biggest problem with Late Registration though is Kanye's verses; he's not a great MC, but he doesn't know it. ...more
PopMatters The Onion (A.V. Club)Late Registration, is every bit as ambitious as its predecessor, but without Dropout's strong narrative, it's less successful in realizing that ambition. ...more
PopMatters+ another review by Jozen Cummings Kanye West spent a little time in college (he proudly dropped out, in case you missed it), and the experience seems to hold the same place in his psyche that first moving to the prairie held in Willa Cather's. ...more
PopMattersHead of the Class + another review by Justin Cober-Lake Let's just get this out of the way up front: Kanye's latest album is album-of-the-year at best, not album of the next 20 or 30 or 40 years, which is what various publications have insinuated ...more
PopMattersHes very good, but you dont make classics by trying to make classics. ...more
PopMattersLets just get this out of the way up front: Kanyes latest album is album-of-the-year at best, not album of the next 20 or 30 or 40 years, which is what various publications have insinuated by giving Yes sophomore effort perfect scores. ...more
BBC MusicThis is a thought provoking album. ...more
Stylus MagazineLet’s everyone take a big step back, inhale deeply and try and make sense of this.Galvanizing doesn’t begin to describe the musical, pop cultural, sociological, and economic reaction to Kanye West and his vanity-piece turned musical ...more
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