Why The College Dropout is so Relatable 

Thank you guys so much for watching. What does The College Dropout mean to you?

College dropout reminds me of knowing you're failing class but making the best of it

College dropout reminds me of not listening to social norms and defying the odds

I love TCD because it fills me with joy and makes me laugh. That’s why I love Kanye- he’s unashamed of who he is and isn’t afraid to say something “stupid.” Man is my hero

I listened to Kanye West when I lost my tech job and became a pizza delivery driver, I listened to Kanye West when I bounced back and became a photographer for a living, and I listened to Kanye West when covid hit and couldn't do it for awhile, and everytime I couldn't pay my bills. And I felt powerful every time. The college dropout is my favorite album. Next to Late Registration. When I feel terrible I can motivate myself with Kanye West.

I think the coolest song on the album is spaceship. because he really got that spaceship

This album made me skip college 😅

The college dropout for me is the musical representation of the quote "If you are a kanye west fan you're a fan of yourself"

It is the start of a legacy. That’s why I say it’s the best rap album of all time and his best album of all time. We learned how he was a perfectionist and needed everything to be perfect and we saw the start of the cocky legend that everyone loves.

COLLEGE DROPOUT WILL BE MY FAVORITE ALBUM EVER TILL THE DAY I DIE. People don’t really grasp how much this album changed everything. So much topics and subject matter all rolled into one album while still telling a unique story that stood out so drastically from other major hip hop artist at the time. No other album motivates and inspires me as much as this album. Thank you so much for this amazing video.

The College Dropout was the first rap album I really dove into and I fell in love with hip hop. I learned about the cleverness of hip-hop in its ability to create amazing metaphors while also rhyming and flowing with the beat. So many DAYUMMM moments on Kanyes albums

I can relate to TCD a lot man, i guess thats why i love it so much

“About to the break the rules, but don’t tell anybody” good video

Spaceship was always my favorite, it really spoke to the experience of working just to live while still having much larger aspirations for the future. Great video.

Currently thinking about the Philosophy of Dropping out and Success. Tech entrepreneurs etc. and this popped up- love this about myself

To me The College Dropout is the theme music to an adventure. My adventure into finding my place in society. I’m not aiming to change the world or even change someone. I just want to live a happy life that I can look back and be proud of when I reach my elder years. I believe Kanye’s ego is strong enough to become someone else’s confidence. That’s why I love his music.

You should make a video about the kids see ghosts. “Why Kids See Ghosts Is So Healing” or something along those lines

As a 15 year old kid who’s gonna have to start making money in less than 6 months, I see The College Dropout as a piece of advice for what’s to come in my life. In fact, I feel like that would be a good way to describe the majority of his discography.

I feel ksg is his most relatable album in years

Great video. Kanye is a self empowerment artist. If you follow him through the years, you will see why he is one of the greatest artist of all time. Everybody doubted him but he kept going despite the people laughing at him, talking behind his back, etc. even Jay-Z didn’t believe in him. Now he has surpassed his own idol. How many people can say that? Kanye is an example of what happens when you believe in yourself unconditionally. if you believe in Kanye, you believe in yourself

College dropout to me is like me listening to my misguided youth again. From the manic highs to manic lows to grinding it out with dreams of grandeur while taking out trash during grave shift at Carl’s Jr. what you said about it being honest is so true, I don’t listen to it and think of parties where it was playing, I play it and literally feel like I was in that time again emotionally.

My mother bought this album rip mrs. Sheila Ann she loved the young Kanye I was blessed to be able to listen to it at a young age kinda gave me my taste

College dropout reminds of how hard life is and the experiences life gives u throughout the journey.

I was involved in a fatal car accident 2 years before I ever took the time to listen to Kanye. But ever since I did I’ve literally listened to him almost every hour of the day.

In 2003, I stumbled upon the story of Emmett Till, and it traumatized me; I was the same age then as he was when he was killed. For a while, I dwelled on it by myself, and thought nobody else knew about it but me. To hear Kanye mention him on "Through the Wire" resonated with me, and is one of the things I remember most about the album.

TCD always gets me in the mood to get my work done and just be productive

The college dropout to me is following your dreams and not giving a fuck what the people that doubt you say it’s the reason i’m going to school to study music and begin my own musical journey

college dropout taught me to take it easy, care less about the challenges i face in life and just take them on. it was my first kanye album i listened to and it changed me forever

The album is an uplifting look at success

The college dropouts meaning to me is very important, it represents “the good old days” but instead of making you remember the good old days, it reminds you there could be better days ahead.

This album means so much to me cuz he's my favorite rapper of all time and even tho its not my favorite of his it feels the rawest and most like a peer or friend speaking to you than a full blown famous rapper. This album also has a connection to me cuz it was released 2 days before I was born (not to be so young)

Tcd will always be my favourite album because of what it did for my musical taste I used to listen to music passively but from the moment the first track played I knew that I was in for something good but I didn’t realise it would take me from a passive music listener to a music lover and continuing through Kanye’s discography just strengthened that. Even if I hear albums that are objectively better I know they’ll never have the same place in my heart as this one. However it also made me more socially aware and me think about topics I’d never contemplated at that point in my life.

It's a catchy album with heart, which is why it works so well.

This album always makes me feel good, like I’m a kid and I could take on any challenge. Legendary shit

I've always enjoyed your Kanye album analyses, so when the Mintrom Movies change was announced I was gonna be strictly movies. I'm glad to see this isn't the case. Thank you so much for making this!

This album changed Hip-Hop forever. I love it.

I've never listened to college dropout. This video changes that. Thank you

this album, for me, is turning tragedy to triumph. it’s reminding you that you can turn the worst scenarios into the greatest outcomes. one of, if not, my favorite albums of all time.

Discovered it in moments, first listened when I was 13, at 16 now know the whole thing, but so many poignant “first time” moments were soundtracked by that album. I can’t listen to ‘Last Call’, ‘We Don’t Care’ or ‘Never let me Down’ without vivid memories of recent history, just a few years ago, but to me seems like eras ago, all underlined with the College Dropout.

College dropout defined my childhood and taste in music it make happy just listening to it

it reminds me of me not knowing what to do and being forced to study what THEY want

The college dropout is my favourite album and is loved by so many people because it represents the story of the underdog. Through all the trials and tribulations, with hard work and dedication, anyone can make it.

college student working at gap with spaceship on repeat 😤

Idk what it is about this album but if I ever have anything creative I want to do and I’m lacking inspiration, I play College Dropout and it unlocks everything

This came out right as I was about to drop out. Didn't feel so alone.

‘The College Dropout is a mindset’ - too true

This channel is so good! Can’t believe it’s so small... you’re about to blow up, keep up the good work!

I remember watching the music video for All falls down which was one of my favorite songs on college dropout and seeing Kanye being put through that x-ray conveyor belt scared me at 5 years old and assumed everyone had to go through that at the airport.

Early Kanye will always be in rotation in my playlists. This Album... Late Registration. Legendary Albums imo. I can relate just being from Chicago.... hearing all the Chicago references.... hearing the songs in rotation all the time growing up, the production, hearing everybody vibe to the songs in the Chicago summers.... got memories for days. I also grew up not too far from where Ye grew up, then he collabs with Chance the Rapper, whom I went to high school with who's lyrics I can also relate to.

it's impossible for me to say which Kanye album is my favorite because they each hold a special place in my heart for their own reasons, but i love TCD because it just makes me so happy to listen to. it just makes me wanna follow my dreams and be myself. kanye's my hero and i cant wait to see what he comes up with next

The College Dropout means upbeat tracks that can get me through the day or can make me think when I sit down and listen to the lyrics. The energy and style of this whole album is unmatched.

Ive loved this album for a long time but its important to me because when life feels incomplete or like youre missing something the album gives you the inspiration to go out there and create what you want in life. Its honest about itself and life as a whole, I graduated hs last year this is a huge help in transitioning to "the real world". Its amazing, it makes you feel invincible, but above all else the music fuckin slaps.

This album just makes me feel good when I’m going through the struggle. Just can help put the bean in my back when I’m letting the day to day stuff get in the way of being creative

Timeless Classic Album.

Honestly College Dropout related to me with the struggle .. I wanted to stunt but with what? Ain’t no cash and I’m already late or bills with overdrawn accounts. I think that’s why it hit different for me. Spaceships is one of my favorite songs from the album he dead said "If my manager insults me again,I will be assaulting him. After I fuck the manager up ,then I’ll shorten the register up." I felt that cuz managers be shady asf .. you need this money but it’s like if I fuck him up then shit I’ll make sure it counts! I genuinely felt that shit.

Honestly bro, this was a well put together video. keep it up!

I am here before you become successful - as you can see I am very biased against essay commentary and love it when people do it correct 👍

Top 5 album for me. Graduated high school. One of the albums I can listen straight through

love this video, you're so underrated, keep it up

this album brings me so much joy

Every time I come across these videos I just want to listen to Kanye's entire discography again! I've heard his story numerous times now, but every time from a different perspective which makes it more and more fascinating and inspiring!

One of the greatest hip hop albums of all time. It’s the one that I felt described my life!

I can see this channel becoming relatively popular. Keep grinding

Great video! one of my favorite albums ever

Masterfully crafted video. Thank you

It was great. Thank you for making this

fantastic work seamo! keep up the great work :)

ur channel is so underrated. I love ur videos keep up with the great content

I think it's lyrically his best album and that after MBDTF his lyrics became worse and his songs relied more on producing.

It’s just good music. Honestly, that’s it. I love it!

deserves more subs this is great and makes u think

It's the time he was closest to being a normal dude, plus it takes place closest to my age demographic

Great video man, I can see that you did it because you are passionate, keep it up

To me, College dropout is a special album, not because of any personal relation to it, but rather because i get goosebumps and feel nostalgic (idk why i wasn't even around when it dropped, i was just 1 year old in 2004) seeing how kanye evolved over the years, for the better and for worse. I'm very well ,,acquainted'' with the ,,new'' kanye, i grew up on the 2010-now era and he was always someone i knew very well, musically speaking. I always saw him as this ,,genius'', who always presented himself in a ,,godlike'' image. But once i discovered this album right here for myself, my whole picture of kanye completely changed and I saw who he was before that, and to some extent, who he still is today. College dropout is his most relatable album because it's his most human album imo. It's so dearing seeing someone start off their career, not like how we would do it nowadays, but exactly how everyone WOULD do it around that time and era. It's just crazy to me to think about how much of a mainstream ,,god'' he would become in the music-sphere later on and seeing how in a way even ,,small'' but so special he was when he started out. It's really sad to see his political views on the world as of me speaking rn, but his music will forever be what it always has been. A genius presentation of feelings and ideas.

Thank you for a great video!

I don't really know what I want to do with my life but it sort of gives me the vibe that things are gonna be OK and we all struggle with those thoughts "we're all self consicous i'm just the first to admit it"

Thanks for the great video

Love the content and the background music too. Subbed and liked!

keep up the amazing work

During my senior year of highschool I loved Kanye but I got into a car accident in the mountains and had to work 12-15 hour days so I could afford to fix my car while also studying for exams and whatnot. I started walking to work bc no car and listening to spaceship on my walk home had me feeling a different type of way. The whole experience was a positive thing because I appreciate everything so much more now and have an understanding of the value of everyday habits.

I really don’t think it’s fair or accurate to say that Yeezus can be simplified as just “anger.” Anger is a key component sure, but it’s more about ego and relapse.

Good artist bad rapper makes completely sense. Its his content, concepts, sampling beats, production that stand out. These albums arent really praised for their unique lyricsim or complexity.

I love your work man💯

I feel like my beautiful dark twisted fantasy is his best album but I enjoy the college dropout the most, great video pal👍

I bootlegged the album but I loved it so much I actually got me a real copy. That's how much I love this album

I remember the first time I heard this album on a road trip. It blew me away

the college dropout got me into music so deeply, it’s been hard for me not to listen to it at least once a month

i first listened to it last year as a senior in hs and the topic change my thought on adulthood / college / and getting my first job

The song all falls down is like being famous but for what

Came from skipper, you're talented.

Great video man

First album I ever listened to. Just beautiful

Ya boy OG College Dropout in the video shouts to you imma re upload it soon ran into sum copyright issues n shit dont worry itll be back up soon

So obviously relatable I don't need a video with an ad on it to tell me

4:32 That's the way Wordsworth made poems.

Kanye rapped his ass of on his first 3 album and stopped rapping as much cuz it didn’t matter anymore

This deserves way more than 3k views lol

Spaceship was the first Kanye song I fell in love with

Dreams into Reality

Goated vid bro I don’t listen to kanye much but your vid was engaging