Kanye West, The College Dropout (2004)
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I didn’t like that silly vocoder album at all and made my feelings pretty clear regarding its absurd shark-jumping follow-up but the first three Kanye West albums were all pretty easy to like. And they flow on well from one to the next – he’s slowly but surely turning hip-hop in to pop songs. And maybe the reverse i…
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