Talk:The College Dropout
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where is the info on the grammys he won?
how come his grammy nons/win arent here anywhere? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.255.231.9 (talk) 03:35, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
<^>v!!This album is connected!!v<^>
- All song titles serve as redirects to this album, have their own pages, or have been placed at the appropriate disambiguation pages.--Hraefen Talk 23:20, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Producers on the album
I've just organized the entire track listing of the album however I've just discovered something odd. Next to the Title of the tracks you will see the featuring artists but also a few names beside them. Are these producers? If so then what does "All tracks produced by Kanye West. "Last Call" also produced by Porse" mean? Remember all I did was organize the track listing and kept all information intact. --Xangel (talk) 05:32, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
That's the song writersKearF (talk) 16:27, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
The Washington Post review
Transcription using Google News Advanced News Archive Search. The Washington Post (Warminsky, Joe. C.05. March 3, 2004) review of The College Dropout (2004):
Dan56 (talk) 06:40, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
Dead Links
- The link for citation 72 is a 404.
Is such an extensive biography on Mr. West necessary for this page?
It's a well-written biography, but I don't think it really is needed in a discussion about the album. Mr. West already has an extensive wikipedia page detailing his upbringing, why is it repeated here? Anyone interested in Mr West's background can click the hyperlink and go to his personal page. I think the background section should be removed or at leas drastically pared down to just what was important to the album. Ella Plantagenet (talk) 23:29, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
- Agree. But about overlinking, per WP:MOS (linking), terms within the article's body should be linked on first-reference only, and even general terms can be linked as long as they are relevant enough and contribute to making the prose clearer for readers. Dan56 (talk) 00:08, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- Okay, so there's still a ton of overlinking in this article that falls under that definition. I'm going to go through one more time and take ONLY the repetitive linking out. Also, I was going to rework a more concise introductory paragraph and post it here for some thoughts before I changed it outright on the page. Ella Plantagenet (talk) 21:36, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
- That's fine, but terms should be linked on first-reference not for the entire article's parts, but first-reference in the lead, first-reference in the body, etc. (Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Linking#Principles) So things that are linked in the body may be also in the lead. Dan56 (talk) 02:08, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Contents
I Have Noticed That Some The Songs In The Contents Section Are Out Of Order. And Some Of The Meanings Of The Songs Are WAY Too Simple. I Request That These Errors Be Fixed. I Also Request That You Go To The Wiki Pages For His 2nd, 3rd and 5th Albums as to how i think this should be done. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.144.7.194 (talk) 08:30, 13 November 2011 (UTC) Talk:The College Dropout/GA1
The introduction seems a little contradictory
"The production of the album was often halted by the lack of confidence that producers had in West's rapping ability" but "The album's production was handled entirely by West" So West lacked confidence in himself and kept stopping work? Really?83.206.139.99 (talk) 15:29, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
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Location Source
Is there a source for "At one point, West hovered between making a portion of the production in the studio and the majority within his own apartment in Newark, New Jersey. Because it was a two-bedroom apartment, West was able to set up a home studio in one of the rooms and his bedroom in the other."? The new Netflix Documentary Jeen-Yuhs mentioned Hoboken not Jersey City.
There is no mention of Jersey City in the citation. In the Rolling Stone article below it says Hoboken. This is also confirmed by him mom on page 237 in her book (image link below). Complex also mentions Hoboken and not Jersey City (link below). As does Billboard.
- https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kanye-west-head-of-the-class-77187/
- https://imgur.com/a/ZGl090d
- https://www.complex.com/music/2014/02/kanye-west-interview-before-college-dropout
- https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/kanye-wests-the-college-dropout-an-oral-history-5893976/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.1.158.25 (talk) 20:30, 21 February 2022 (UTC)