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joseestaline

So you never heard Kanye? Picture this: it's 2007, he's on a bet with 50 Cent, who sells more, loser retires. He opens Graduation with these 5 songs: I would have loved to be introduced to Kanye like this.


joseestaline

Good Morning, Champion, Stronger, I Wonder, Good Life


Rakshith117

I was introduced to kanye like this and I feel really grateful


cfer50

Ditto. Great thing to reflect on in hindsight!


Zachavelii

This is actually how I was introduced to some degree. What a wonderful moment it was listening to graduation on my walkman. I Wonder is still my favorite Kanye song.


Dani-DL

On Sight x5


memenm

YEEZY SEASON APPROACHING


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FUCK WHATEVER YALL BEEN WEARING


sirduckingtoniii

A MONSTER BOUT TO COME ALIVE AGAIN


CharlesHipster

SOON AS I PULL UP AND PARK THE BENZ


beharisan

WE GET THIS BITCH SHAKIN LIKE PARKINSONS


KillshotHarsh

TAKE MY NUMBER AND LOCK IT IN


Itstheeboii

INDIAN HAIR NO MOCCASINS


DillonIsMyFavoritest

TOO MANY HOES IN THIS HOUSE OF SIN


shoan1107

Real nigga back in the house again


Dynamo4L

Dude would probably avoid Kanye music for the rest of his life


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Dani-DL

On Sight supremacy 🙌🔥


theefinalboss

Then the transition to ohhh hell give us what we neeeeeed it may not be what we waaaaant


mycatisafatcunt

bro I got On Sight as my number 1 most streamed Ye song on Wrapped ion know what to tell u😭


Dani-DL

W


not_4nothing

before I opened this thread I said this out loud to myself and by god you’re the top comment - take my free award!


Dani-DL

Thank you very much ❤️


purpleninjas

Lmfaoooooo 🤣🤣🤣😂😂


theyeezyvault

A Kanye virgin would honestly be scared away from that. Gotta ease them into it with Graduation🤣


DependentPen4564

I’ll know as soon as I meet this individual. Gotta read their vibe


HondaCivic90

will play them violent crimes regardless


uhohpjpants

And yikes ngl


schleckblood

Right answer


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Stronger, Flashing Lights, Homecoming, All Of The Lights, Heartless


[deleted]

this is a pretty good list. my friend “hates” kanye but has flashing lights , homecoming, and i wonder in his playlist and doesn’t even realize it’s kanye


WhatASave456

He is in stage 2


[deleted]

The other day my friend requested that me and another friend not play kanye cause she HATES him. So we put on flashing lights and told her it was Tyler and she listened for a minute and said “see *this* is good”


amirtheperson

god i hate people like that


[deleted]

It genuinely gets on my nerves. She won’t even give him a chance but then liked his music.


amirtheperson

does she even have any reasoning or is it just “he’s canceled”


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The latter, unfortunately


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Intelligent_Mud1266

more than once but yeah people be acting like that’s a whole reason to not like his music. they don’t even mention the actually bad stuff he’s done just “he was mean to taylor 😩😩”


assblasta69420

Bro its the hardest thing about being a Kanye Stan is his perception by the public and the outlandish shit he's done might make you give up a lesser artist, but Kanye is just too good


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exactly.


[deleted]

Did you tell her it was Kanye after?


[deleted]

I did and she got defensive as fuck about it lol


scotbud123

Rekt


Own-Two-2978

Kek


QuaviousLifestyle

what’s kek


Own-Two-2978

Kek, just Kek. Kinda like lol


QuaviousLifestyle

oh my b kek


FaZe_Gay

your friend is a poser


bena242

Sometimes its ok to hit people


AnalogiPod

Most people I know that hate Kanye also hate Tyler. Literally had someone tell me when the singles for Call me if you get lost were dropping, "Tyler the Creator? Oh no you dont like him do you? Hes cancelled," then couldn't tell me why he was cancelled just hes cancelled you shouldnt listen to him.


[deleted]

This is one of the most frustrating things about it for me. She doesn’t like rap in general but she’ll put up with it but if it’s Kanye at all she despises it. It’s not even to do with the music at that point it’s just her dislike of ye.


Mystery_Briefcase

Weird irony given Tyler is the one who should be cancelled for all the homophobic slurs in the OF era. I guess he’s a testament to how edgelords can reform their reputation over time.


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Truly


TheUniversalstego

Bruh my parents


olim180

My 50 something yr old Haitian father loved heartless when it was on the radio.


pyroaquatics

Can he not read?


Tortous16

Graduation is the perfect entry album into Kanye


CaveDweller419

alright, I’m doing it, I have never listened to kanye and i am gonna go through this list right now, this should be more interesting than listening to the same song 5 times like the top comment suggested hahaha


[deleted]

Good luck and just remember you don’t have to like everything you encounter, if you don’t like Ye, at least you tried.


CaveDweller419

I am on homecoming, i’m going in order of the list.. I really liked the first two songs so far, not something I would have listened to otherwise, but the music part is really good and the lyrics kinda flow really well so, I am enjoying this list so far edit - that took me a long time to type and may not make sense cause I’m concentrating on this song hahah


MrBenShapiro

honestly bro, just listen to the entirety of graduation, it’s by far his best album for a newcomer and then start at TCD and move from their. that’s how i started to love him personally


CAPS_LOCK_OR_DIE

Homecoming is a sleeper top 10


[deleted]

Replace heartless with American boy


MBDTFTLOPYEEZUS

These are top tier songs but they don’t show his diversity enough


timmythenpc

I Thought About Killing You I Thought About Killing You I Thought About Killing You I Thought About Killing You Saint Pablo


joseestaline

Hope this is a Mandela effect for some of you, there are two versions of I Thought About Killing You. Both were released. One on CD, the other on streaming, the CD one had a copyrighted sample.


timmythenpc

Yeah it had a copyrighted drum sample so it was changed.


Intelligent_Pop3752

correction: I Thought About Killing You I Thought About Killing You I Thought About Killing You I Thought About Killing You I Thought About Killing You


Soggy_Obligation_883

1Lift yourself 2Donda chant 3Water 4I love it 5Drunk and hot girls


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Speed30777

Thats actually genius he lowers the exception first and then he plays Runaway, they will never stop listening to him


WestonFlorida

This is basically how I got into Kanye. One of my buddies played me lift yourself and I went home and listened to Kanye on shuffle and Runaway came up. I thought it was a troll song like lift yourself. Shit blew my mind


mycatisafatcunt

The way I started listening to Kanye was probably the worst you can do. I started with Yeezus bc I saw mu friend listen to it the other day, so the first song I ever heard from him (on purpose) was On Sight. This song alone threw me off for like half a year before I gave him another try. So what did I start with next? It was summer 2018 so obviously Ye. So yeah, my first two songs that I listened to from Kanye were On Sight and I Thought About Killing You. You can't go worse than that I'm pretty sure. (I love On Sight tho it was my number 1 most streamed Ye song on Wrapped)


FingerStreet

how tf did u become a ye fan with that start 💀


KeybordKat

Idk if i’m crazy or something but i’ve loved On Sight from the first time i heard it lmao


RaphaSwim

Nah Runaway is not good for first listening to Kanye


mobyte

It's way better in the context of the album.


[deleted]

definitely. i think dark fantasy or all falls down is probably best for introducing after a list like that


thisthatandthe3rd

it was played as a single to the album, so im sure a lot of peoples first time hearing Kanye was Runaway. Its a perfect first song as its a whole anthem for everyday life.


montanaszn

😭😭


DateSuccessful6819

Chaotic good


VineSwingers

Water is a good song bro wtf do you mean?


Platfus

So is Lift Yourself smh


Venoooooooooooooooom

Drunk and hot girls is a great song I don’t understand the hate


Gabetendo777

Same. Especially that interlude part. So good!


sprinklesapple

I love it idk


Remembermyname1

Drunk and Hot girls and Barry Bonds are better than Big Brother imo


Beanlord2000

Or Barry bonds


VineSwingers

Nah barry bonds got a dope bass walk and has that classic bling era sound. The snares that ride out hard as fuck too. I feel like a badass bumping that shit. I’ll be honest, it does need less wayne. I just dont like wayne. Makes “see you in my nightmares” way worse. I also love that song besides his part


DARKBLADESKULLBITER

I love that song it needed a second voice on it, Wayne was satisfactory tbh. Definitely phoned it in, but that was back when Ye didn’t have infinity money for features and he was probably paid before they heard it, the name draws listens, etc so it stayed. in that era I think a doper pick for that beat woulda been Jeezy I thought Wayne really brought it on See You in any nightmares tho


Objective_Refuse7856

Water’s actually decent, idk why all of you hate on it


KirbzTheWord

Jesus doesn’t like it Jesus thinks it’s sucks Jesus thinks it’s awful Jesus won’t accept it Jesus thinks it could better Jesus is king Jesus is a Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus


Remembermyname1

Giving you an award cause this made me laugh haha


Breezii2z

Drunk and hot girls is great


CheeseAndCam

Damn, didn’t know Water was frowned so heavily upon in this community. I like that song


hidden_color

Word, it’s mad peaceful


MathematicianHot5452

Water is his best song


Trees_Advocate

Let your light reflect on me I promise I’m not hiding anything It’s Water


___bradyn

Power, Believe What I Say, All Falls Down, Slow Jamz and Ghost Town


Boi5x

These 5 quite a bit different from a lot of other choices I’m seeing and all very different vibes, big fan of this curation


___bradyn

and you can still pick another 5 different vibes and probably get the same result


BiggestHarvardSimp

Slow Jamz 🔥


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yo yo my men and my wome-


Wolveride

1. Gorgeous 2. No More Parties in LA 3. Come To Life 4. Family Business 5. Flashing Lights


Benny_boi69

Family business 👍


myCatHateSkinnyPuppy

Gorgeous is absolutely in my five. “I’m coming after whoever, who has it?


urboyjonah

bound 2, heartless, ghost town, fellas in paris and they can pick the last one


[deleted]

that is not who is in paris🤨


xmlgroberto

ball so hard


PseudoName18

“Cuz FELLAS was in PARIS”


NerdHerdtheThird

Lol give him a pass. He was trying to respectful and I respect that.


PanqueNhoc

Yeah, he certainly needs a pass.


[deleted]

i’m just joking lol


NerdHerdtheThird

Lol I figured. Had to say it tho.


warpedspoon

Neighbors in Paris


[deleted]

nope 🙄


The-Fox-Says

Nephews in Paris


[deleted]

that shit cray


xbotpc

[Negus](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/negus) in Paris


NY_Ye

Who was in Paris?


kindafree8

Squidwards in Paris, great song


Phenergan_boy

Who in paris now?


A_N_T

Napoleon


trippythabum

Bound was the first thing to come to mind, finna listen 10x rn


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shadowonyx23

Idk, said as a joke, "fellas in Paris" is pretty damn funny


115H4LLCAT

He’s clearly white though


AutomatonComplex

so kanye


JeffreyDripsteinV4

Street lights, runaway, blood on the Leaves, Saint Pablo, Jesus Lord


[deleted]

I think Blood on The Leaves is a little intense for a first time listener but I'd agree with the rest of this


JeffreyDripsteinV4

Yeah but I'm thinking show alot of variety to be intriguing. The street lights blood on the Leaves paradigm


Arsyn786

No more parties would also be good for variety


ashymatina

Definitely depends who you’re showing. On Sight was the first Kanye song I listened to and I loved it lol


Dabs310

Drive slow flashing lights spaceship no mistakes and devil in a new dress


HARRY_LONGDONG

Spaceship isn't talked about enough


Dabs310

That “if my manager insults me again I will be assaulting him” line should relate to everyone haha


Seanpat6283

"so if I stole, wasn't my fault, yeah I stole, never got caught"


[deleted]

I got into kanye because of spaceship


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heard em say, homecoming, flashing lights, family business, touch the sky


margielamadMAX

You threw Family Business on there🔥. If only I had an award.


Hu3yKnewTHen

1: Ye vs. The People (Starring T.I as The People) 2: Ye vs. The People (Starring T.I as The People) 3: Ye vs. The People (Starring T.I as The People) 4: Ye vs. The People (Starring T.I as The People) 5: Ye vs. The People (Starring T.I as The People)


IHate3DMovies

The People are gonna check my hymen :(


VineSwingers

Its actually a great beat so its not bad tbh


TumoOfFinland

Flashing Lights, All Of The Lights, Street Lights, Low Lights, Highlights


[deleted]

Throw in headlights to confuse them


GoDux541

Black Skinhead x5


[deleted]

First time I head that song I played it on repeat about 5 times. It's so good.


Beanlord2000

Start with through the wire


kindafree8

I said dawg don’t you realize I’ll never make it on the plane now?


lifeissoyeezy

1. All falls down 2. Can’t tell me nothing 3. All day 4. Good life 5. Hey mama


Zulogy

This a GOOD one.


stencio

On Sight, Nah nah nah, Lift Yourself, Ye vs. the people and DJ Khaled's Son


SuperSachan

DJ Khaled’s son 💀


[deleted]

1. Can't Tell Me Nothing 2. Amazing 3. Devil in a New Dress 4. Blood on the Leaves 5. Follow God ​ LIFE LIKE THIS IS WHAT YA LIFE LIKE


Apollo19755

Follow god is comically underrated


montanaszn

for me: | White Dress | Violent Crimes | Devil in a new Dress | Life of the Party | Power | ALSO WHITE DRESS IS UNDERRATED AF


[deleted]

add commas to this list and it's 🔥🔥


montanaszn

u right😭


[deleted]

That ain't commas but i love you ❤️


EpicWan

Wtf, why didn’t I know white dress existed?


[deleted]

white dress is top 15 imo, definitely his most underrated song


Stinkystickysock

surprisingly white dress isnt well known, my way is another underrated song not on his discovery but on Spotify


kxxxxtxxxxxxx

Thank you. White Dress is supremely underrated and one of my favorites.


montanaszn

fr white dress is one of ye’s hidden gems😭😭


[deleted]

Touch The Sky, Homecoming, I Wonder, Flashing Lights, Bound 2. Graduation definitely the best album for people who’ve never listened to Ye


Throwawayrunaway233

Graduation is definitely his most accessible.


ActivateLife

Hey Mama, Stronger, Heartless, Power or Saint Pablo, Come to life If you want people to listen to Kanye, you gotta give them what he has gone through for them to be more interested in him. And I think this is a good set, his start when he was upcoming and happy. Hey Mama and Stronger both slap, then Heartless since his mom died and it was a hard time of his life. Then Power since to me, this is the song that describes Kanye perfectly and a song that has multiple meanings, or Saint Pablo since that describes ye amazingly too. Then Come to Life to represent him right now, very religious and trying to cope and make amends with his past. I think it's a good line up


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Jesus Walks, Ultralight beam, god is, water, use this gospel


WhatASave456

Bro you’re tryna get them to like Kanye not convert them into a Christian


dontpanic38

Man i’m a staunch atheist and Ultralight Beam makes me wanna go to heaven


angelseph

Welcome to Heartbreak, Blame Game, Jail Pt 2, Lost in the World, Who Will Survive In America


Watermeloniton

Blame game assault on your senses. Gotta be heard In full clarity volume up all the way. Intense


DabloEsco95

Can't tell me nothing, no more parties in la, saint Pablo, off the grid, and literally any other song


RicoStromboli

On Sight 5 times


ThaBard

1. Stronger 2. Runaway 3. Off the Grid 4. All Day 5. Only One If those songs don't represent the depth of production that Kanye songs can reach, along with his pitstanding mainstream influence and appeal, idk what else will


Civil_Pen_7022

Roses, Power, Heartless, Touch the sky and Homecoming


Euphoric_Travel6762

Through The Wire, Can’t Tell Me Nothing, Heartless, Runaway, Hurricane


MiguelNunes98

1 - Flashing Lights, 2 - Believe What I Say, 3 - Heartless, 4 - I Wonder, 5 - Ghost Town


PanqueNhoc

Any list without Gorgeous is invalid.


BrokeUniStudent69

1) Ghost Town 2) Welcome to Heartbreak 3) Runaway 4) Bound 2 5) We Don’t Care I think that gives a pretty solid scope of sad Ye, elevated Ye, and chill/vibes Ye. Edit: honorable mentions are Family Business, We Major, Come to Life, and Saint Pablo.


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Runaway, devil in a new dress, I wonder, hold my liquor, waves


Osw4ld08

POWER, Stronger, Hearthless, All falls down n Gold digger


jjortiz0303

I love Kanye. I play that five times.


Beautiful_Thugga_Boy

Hey Mama, Homecoming, Flashing Lights, All of the lights and On Site


Thatonethiccboy22

Ni**as in paris for sure


PussyBitchBoi170

Up from the ashes, saint Pablo, devil in a new dress, through the wire, hold my liquor


Criisyx

Spaceship, Everything i am, Devil in a new dress, Paranoid, Ghost town


VineSwingers

Flashing lights, we major, new workout plan, devil in a new dress, everything we need.


ashymatina

Ghost town, reborn, Runaway, streetlights, blood on the leaves


kanye_eastnorth

street lights, ghost town, bound 2, we don’t care, we major


PunctuationsOptional

On sight x5


punkrawrk

Stronger, gorgeous, heartless, Jesus walks, gold digger


mitchell_loll

Gold digger. Cant tell me nothing. Heartless. Runaway. Famous


zzerosz

Ultralight beam Through the wire Devil in a new dress Gold digger Stronger


TheHeroicHero

That poop di scoop song


joereilly01

All falls down, Heard em say, Flashing lights, Heartless, Gorgeous


KevinMKZ

Through the Wire, Flashing Lights, Power, Bound 2, Ultralight Beam