Guide Note

Graduation is the third full-length album from critically acclaimed Hip-Hop artist Kanye West. West won awards for "Best Rap Album", "Best Rap Solo Performance", "Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group", and "Best Rap Song" at the 2008 Grammy Awards.

Fast Facts

1. Genre: Hip-Hop
2. Release date: September 11, 2007
3. Label: Roc-A-Fella Records
4. Producer: Kanye West
5. Peak chart position: The Billboard 200 #1
6. Singles: "Can't Tell Me Nothing," "Stronger," "Good Life," "Flashing Lights," "Homecoming," "I Wonder"

1. "Good Morning"
2. "Champion"
3. "Stronger" (with Daft Punk)
4. "I Wonder"
5. "Good Life" (with T-Pain)
6. "Can't Tell Me Nothing"
7. "Barry Bonds"(with Lil Wayne)
8. "Drunk And Hot Girls" (with Mos Def)
9. "Flashing Lights"
10. "Everything I Am" (with DJ Premier)
11. "The Glory"
12. "Homecoming" (with Chris Martin)
13. "Big Brother"

• "Musically, at least, it’s the most accomplished thing he’s ever done." - Stylus Magazine

• "Every single track offers up its momentary pleasures--choruses that make you say yeah on songs you've already found wanting, confessional details and emotional aperçus on an album that still reduces to quality product when they're over." - MSN Consumer Guide

• "On Graduation, West tries hard to address the problems on his first two albums, and succeeds: The new disc is tighter than "Late Registration" (fifty-one minutes long), with no skits (thank heavens) and less ornate production." - Rolling Stone

• "While it might not be as substantial a record as we're used to hearing from him, it is his greatest leap forward, and further proof that few are as skilled at tracing out the complicated contours of pride, success and ambition as he is." - Pitchfork