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Late Registration

by Kanye West

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2000's

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2005

of 37,902

10

Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.

Overall Rating: 3.4198 Late Registration is ranked overall as 3.4198 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.1833 Late Registration has an avg. critic score of 3.1833 out of 4 stars

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Rolling Stone

If anything, Kanye West is too modest. Yeah, he's got an ego or two -- he's liable to compare himself to Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali, Bill Gates and Prince, sometimes in the same sentence. But he pours all that ego into musical ambition. ...more

Rolling Stone

Late Registration is an undeniable triumph, packed front to back, so expansive it makes the debut sound like a rough draft. ...more

Entertainment Weekly

He may not want to hear this, but Kanye West reminds me sometimes of P. Diddy: Both made their reps as producers before graduating to star rhymers in their own right, and both know the value of a prominent sample. ...more

Entertainment Weekly

Late Registration is more cumbersome and burdened than its predecessor--a little less cohesive, a lot less fun--but it rarely fails to engross at nearly every step

All Music Guide

West and Brion are a good, if unlikely, match. ...more

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The Guardian

The music offers further evidence of how far outside rap's usual strictures West operates. OutKast aside, mainstream hip-hop doesn't really do ambiguity or irony, but just as West's arrogance occasionally appears to be a protracted joke, Late...read the complete review at The Guardian

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Spin

As ornate and bloated as West's...read the complete review at Spin

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PrefixMag

The second release by the most obnoxious, egotistical and self-centered hip-hop artist in the history of obnoxious, egotistical and self-centered hip-hop artists, Late Registration is neither the classic Kanye West would have you believe nor...read the complete review at PrefixMag

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The A.V. Club

Great albums have a way of making the personal seem universal. Accordingly, much of the genius of Kanye West's debut The College Dropout lies in the way West lets listeners feel like he's telling their stories as well as his own. Sure, the specifics are...read the complete review at The A.V. Club

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