![]() Released ten years ago today, when Graduation hit store shelves on September 11, 2007, listeners found Kanye in a celebratory mood. It wasn’t so much as Kanye saying “Good Morning” it was him saying goodbye. ![]() On the song’s third verse he went even further by taunting “ the valedictorian, scared of the future” while he hopped in the DeLorean. In a remarkable act of self-aggrandisement, Kanye distanced himself from his creation as if it were effortless. In this departure from the high education trilogy, the nonchalant Kanye ripped up his thesis and threw it up in the air like confetti while everyone else threw their graduation cap. “Good Morning”, the album’s opening track, pivots on the assertion that “ This is my dissertation / Homie this shit is basic / Welcome to Graduation.” In calling his dissertation “basic”, Kanye rejects college, the institution that had provided him with a theme to traverse hip hop and take it into a new dimension with his debut album, 2004’s The College Dropout, and its 2005 follow-up Late Registration. Kanye West’s third studio album Graduation opens with a revelation that sums up the self-assured hubris only he could possess.
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