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In a weird way I think it encompasses the whole album better than any other individual moment on it.

it's got a good groove

It was a good calling card for him and really stamped his sig on everything w/out some nonsense DJ callout.

It's the song that introduced me to Common, and subsequently Dilla, so will always be a favourite.

It's definitely got a Dilla vibe on the beat too, with the prominent drums and chopped vocal sample.

I accept the rebuke. I'll probably mark all the picks I would've done somehow.

qualified schmalified, its all in good fun. Ist good to read the reasons people picked whatever they did.

so simple but it just works

at the same time I completely get the appeal.

Don't think i put it very high, but it's still great.

This is an anthem man, guaranteed to get a party going no matter what. I guess the Daft Punk loop gets kind of repetitive, but I like the way he builds the chorus up with the synths, then just drops everything out for the catchy hooks/ lines. The synth breakdown in the last 30 seconds or so is sweet too.

Listening to them LITERALLY THIS MINUTE as well weirdly.

there is a palpable awkwardness. Nicki Minaj saves the day tho

I just went off of what was in the Spotify playlist, can't believe I put something ineligible in the top spot

for a production list? otis?

But that.

HATE this track.

Cant believe this made it, cos it was low enough down on my list for it not to have had an impact alone, another couple of people must have included it, which is a pleasant surprise.

But I genuinely really like this. Not the first time it's been done but love the arrogance and sheer cojones just to use a sample like this, at a meta level just using displays more bravado than you ever could with the lyrics. I think the way they cut and play with it before the actual track kicks in is quite interesting/fun and I really like the way the piano is used to build up to it. I think they just about pull it off, and more hip-hop sounding like this would be absolutely horrific.I hate to think what this would have sounded like in someone else's hands.

one of the better tracks on Watch The Throne imo

Kanye doing southern rap sounds good here. The rolling bass basically is shipment cat nip.

one of my favourite beats on the album, but it's clearly mostly DJ Toomp's work.

*Last moan about production credits, I promise.

but the hook is kinda lame to me, really drags

so odd.

shuffling and skipping.

On an album full of great production it really holds it own.

i hadn't heard this before.

Bathgate lol... wasn't he meant to be the next big thing like 13 years ago? I remember hearing his shelved debut would have put Just Blaze and Yeezy together well before The Blueprint

very happy for it to stay.

Glad I have now. Got a Diddy/ Bad Boy feel to it definitely- and few people do pop/R&B better. On repeat listens already.

This got number 3 for me, but in hindsight would have been my No.1, especially as i've now discovered my No.1 wasn't even a Yeezy beat.

Love the Ella Fitzgerald sample:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqjKOalcI10

The drums are also fantastic- the best he's ever done for me. The cymbals just drift in and out at different volumes. Then the hand-claps come in at just the right time, and suddenly fucking bongos just appear out of nowhere. Bongos! Top work.

Great lyrics too.

http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4334223

Would have been on my list had I voted

adore this beat

Love this beat too. The strings are just perfect.

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Decent beat, piano sound is absolutely nailed in this one.

- that weird farty bass synth sound
- adam levine vocals are perfect for this
- the coda

adds something to an otherwise ultra-mellow track

I had to make sure it placed!

It's ace

the beat's pretty busy and interesting too. Also one of the few times that Jay-Z doesn't somewhat irritate me

Mental

But I don't rate the beat at all, probably because I hate the doors.

even reckon the beat is better.

Would have been top 10 otherwise. Love it.

The sample is great- Eddie Kendricks 'Day by Day', check it out! Can't post a YouTube link as it's not working in my phone.

like a good chunk of Tha Carter III tbh

I love those clicky handclap sounds with the strings & piano and it's cool how it switches up on the middle 8 with the synths. A lot of Kanye's beats are just a few great samples looped up, which is cool, but this different which is why I like it. Wish he'd made more straight up R&B tunes like this.

got nowhererrerrrrrrrrrrrrr rre. floaty strings, flute, elastibass, horn crescendo. yes.

number 2 on my list. I think if this was attached to a better rapper than the game this would be a lot more popular, the 2001 lyric in particular makes me cringe.

Incredible beat, one of the most atmospheric use of sample ever. Love the kinda HO-HA sound thats made by the way it's cut, reminds me of the sound sonic makes when he gets an air bubble.

I loved the Documentary when it came out A lot of the tracks sound a little dated to me now as my hip hop tastes have changed, but this one will always be a classic!

refined all his tics- strings, bongos, soul voice sample. not got a problem with game on this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVloPuoQ1H8

heard it so many times against my will, it just sort of....exists.

The bit where the beat switches up with the white noise and the piano comes in is totally inspired. Don't want to go on about production credits but this definitly feels more Hit-Boy than Yeezy.

cos I appreciate it, but don't like it all that much. Might grow on me but there are much better songs on WTT for me, though this is about the beats and for that it deserves som credit

Also, I can't separate that slow, octave-down effect from ASAP Rocky now, it's starting to grate

would be top 3 for me i didnt class it as a hit-boy one.

another great hit-boy track:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq1POyzBNF0

was a shame theraflu was so weak

just cos i can imagine it featuring on everyone's list at least somewhere

feels like a midget is hanging from my necklace!

Banger.

In hindsight, it's pretty ridiculous that everyone saw this album as a big comeback after just one(fairly interesting) miss step with Electric Circus. The last 3 records have been toss.

put a smile on ya face, aural vitamin d music.

I love how the different layers are introduced one at a time, really gives it some momentum. Add to that the fact that's it's got a plain amazing hook and we have a winner

anyones ballot tbh.

makes me realise how good his piano sounds are. this might be best for that. real epic, auteur ish, rapper/ singer/ producer. some uplifting and sinister sounds, what is that garbling at the end? is he brainwashing us?

best hook. got a feeling there isn't gonna be anything off the first john legend album here, shame as it's ace. a couple of tunes just missed out for me.

maybe my favourite track on the blueprint too

total class. love that brush-shuffle sound. subtle, but adds so much.

assuming I can't be the only one, although now I think I over-rated it a touch

I'm regretting I didn't put it higher

damn guys the closer this got the more i thought 'ok spaceship will be 1'

that unusual time signature is really a stroke of genius, the bass groove is his best, and it's just the one song where all the early kanye styles come together and it's so cool.

i know this isn't the point but kanye's first verse is also prob his best, something so commanding about it. i regularly have the 'yeah i stole, never got caught!' line in my head.

would probably hav made my top 10 comfortably, this is so soulful

so cool with jay and the b-line together.

It's absolutely colossal.

but I still like it and always have.

that beat is crazy

Didn't realise it wasn't a Ye beat, otherwise Addiction would have been my number one.

Just love the atmosphere of this song. Feels like the sort of thing that should be blazing out whilst you drive through a deserted city at night. It's just about the only song off of Graduation I listen to regularly now, maybe because it sounds like a Late Registration cut- which I think is Yeezey's best production wise.

Was hyped when this turned up in GTA. Rolling down a fake Times Square in a stolen beamer with the police chasing you whilst this is cranked up- probably the best thing about that game.

Video's not bad too. Baby got back :D

The melody is just such an irresistible earworm,I had to make sure it got a decent placing

also some of his best lines, Lexus/Alexis gets me every time

Hadn't listened to the first 3 kanye albums in years before MBDTF / going to see him live, and in the set this, probably alongside golddigger stood out just as ridiculously huge songs that made everyone go mental.

Think some of the verses are amongst his best, and I love the syleena johnson </lauryn hill> hook but for me the whole production is just perfect.

is really memorable to me. I remember the buzz when Kanye first arrived as this kind of super-smart, preppy-dresses, conscious rapper who produced amazing beats, seemed to draw a line between Jay-Z and A Tribe Called Quest, and had had to dig away at jay-Z to get noticed as a rapper. then he finally arrived with this track that drove everyone crazy, had an interesting back story and a pretty captivating video. I think 'Through the Wire' is one of the most visceral musical moments of my youth.

you don't hear for four years and then by the time the first verse kicks in you remember all the words.

Thought this would be number one...

not in my top 20, but a tune no doubt. especially since this wasn't anywhere

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVpIOvpM5eU&feature=related

now, if what I think is number one isn't, i'll be stumped.

i'd think someone was odd if they didn't like this.

didn't expect it to do that well

<3

ALSO... WHERE WAS TWO WORDS? YOU GUYS SERIOUS? smoke a big j and shove this on, and tell me *this* beat doesn't deserve to be in the top 50. i think if anything these guys wasted it a bit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjrjFjsOeX0

OUR GIRLS IS THE MODELS
THEY COOCHIES THE JUICIEST

but that beat is so murky and odd, it's really engaging

i was still a 'backpacker' when CD dropped, and somehow this was a commercial 'sell out' track to me. it stuck with me.

now i think it's wonderfully weird that he drops this crazy hoedown in the album which takes left turns all over the place. the last couple of minutes are glorious...

dunno where that came from

Why didnt you join in, scrotum?

no Lift-Off? Jeez and oh

no we major

Cheers for doing this all Shipment. Another classic to go with the 90's Hip Hop joints and furryfans Dilla thread!

Apologies I never got around to contributing, big fan of Kanye as a producer as well!

Agreed with whoever said that this brings home how great College Dropout was prodcution-wise. Can't really argue with no1 either - would've been top5 for me.

What was your number 1 shipment?

http://youtu.be/See0q6nZQZ8

I guess its pretty simple but what more do you need than a dope organ, some drums and a bassline?

what was the twisted fantasy joint you went for that didn't make it?
see me now was close to the cut for me, my second favourite off that album.

51 Beanie Sigel - The Truth
52 Kanye West - Dark Fantasy
53 Kanye West - Drunk and Hot Girls
54 shyne - more or less
55 Common - The People
56 Jay Z & Kanye West - No Church In The Wild
57 Jay Z ft. Beyonce - Bonnie & Clyde
58 Dilated Peoples - This Way
59 Kanye West - Hey Mama
60 TI - Swagger Like us
61 Drake - Find Your Love
62 Jay Z & Kanye West - Illest Mother Fucker Alive
63 Kanye West - family business
64 Knoc’turn-al - Muzik
65 Trina ft. Ludacris - B R Right
66 Kanye West - We Major
67 Fabolous - Supa
68 glc- so real
69 John Legend - Used To Love U
70 Kanye West - Hell of a Life
71 Mr Hudson - Central Park
72 The Diplomats - Un Casia
73 Kanye West - good morning
74 Brandy ft. Kanye West - Talk About Our Love
75 Lil Wayne - Comfortable

Kanye/Jay-Z - Lift Off
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdQ0kueR2DU
I know the verses are pretty (very) crappy but the beat and Beyonce's hook are great, it *sounds* like a lift-off to me. Surprised to see how many people seem to dislike it on here

88-Keys - Nice Guys Finish Last
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLiZlPI6Fls
Such a catchy hook, always makes me want to move. Probably some of my favourite lyrics of any of the songs on my list too

Common - Forever Begins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyM1CMSM-vc&ob=av2n
Love the drums on this one, they sound so crisp and lively. Add the piano and the background sample and it adds up to one lush track

Common - Drivin' Me Wild
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Mj6wPgQso
It's all about the drums for this one too, though I do love vocal samples like this one, where they just linger on one note for ages before they let it play out. Explaining it really badly, but it's the same thing Kanye does on Late, and kind of on Dipset Forever. Also "She was the type to watch Oprah and The Today Show, be on the treadmill like OK Go" - love it.

Kanye - Late
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26BvWCTpLIQ
Just love how lush this is, Kanye does smooth and soulful so well

Really surprised Comfortable was so low too, it's such a good beat and the Beyonce reference is a nice touch