Up to that moment, his music had always held collegiate and coming-of-age allusions, starting with 2004’s The College Dropout and Late Registration the following year. On a day leading up to the start of our senior year at Hampton University, West spoke into existence our own existence. Thanks primarily to Lil Wayne’s run of mixtapes (it felt like they dropped every week), there was always a reason. Over that summer, these sessions had become a fixture. In this case, Kanye West’s new LP, Graduation, was the reason for the cypher. Per the rules of that summer’s “listening sessions,” no one spoke over the music. Some at the kitchen table that had been used to roll the seven or eight jays. A cloud of marijuana smoke hovered in the apartment.
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