Late Registration

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AlbumAug 30 / 200521 songs, 1h 10m 2s
Pop Rap Hip Hop
Popular Highly Rated
9.5 / 10

The producer-rapper follows his Pazz and Jop-winning debut The College Dropout with a collaboration with Jon Brion; together they transform West's chattering, seemingly unrealistic ideas into an expansive, imperfect masterpiece.

Read the NME review of Kanye West's Late Registration, his second record released in 2005 featuring 'Gold Digga' and 'Jesus Walks'.

10.0 / 10

No Time To Slump: West’s sophomore album is leaner, meaner—and sweeter—than his debut...

Check out our album review of Artist's Late Registration on Rolling Stone.com.

On Late Registration, he finds himself backed into a corner, albeit as king of the mountain.

Kanye West has always been slated for having one of the biggest egos in the industry but the thing is the guy can really back it up.

The occasional stabs at overblown topicality almost seem like their own punchlines.

7 / 10

+ another review by Justin Cober-LakeLet'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...

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8 / 10