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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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| A Seat at the Table | 5 | 3.01 | +1.99 |
| They Were Wrong, So We Drowned | 4 | 2.11 | +1.89 |
| Double Nickels On The Dime | 5 | 3.12 | +1.88 |
| Little Earthquakes | 5 | 3.22 | +1.78 |
| The College Dropout | 5 | 3.32 | +1.68 |
| Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea | 5 | 3.38 | +1.62 |
| Either Or | 5 | 3.38 | +1.62 |
| Raising Hell | 5 | 3.51 | +1.49 |
| 3 + 3 | 5 | 3.59 | +1.41 |
| Exile On Main Street | 5 | 3.61 | +1.39 |
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| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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| The Slim Shady LP | 1 | 3.29 | -2.29 |
| Hunting High And Low | 1 | 3.12 | -2.12 |
| In The Court Of The Crimson King | 2 | 3.6 | -1.6 |
| Hybrid Theory | 2 | 3.38 | -1.38 |
| Achtung Baby | 2 | 3.3 | -1.3 |
| Beautiful Freak | 2 | 3.28 | -1.28 |
| The La's | 2 | 3.15 | -1.15 |
| Tubular Bells | 2 | 3.1 | -1.1 |
| The Colour Of Spring | 2 | 3.07 | -1.07 |
| The Last Broadcast | 2 | 3.05 | -1.05 |
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Kanye West
I'm both a psychiatric and addictions registered nurse and a Kanye West fan. I've observed Kanye's career with equal amounts of hope and dread for many years now. In nursing school we watched a clip of Kanye on Jimmy Fallon speaking honestly and thoughtfully about the reality of being bipolar. Imagine having mental illness involving delusions of grandeur, believing you're one of the most important people on earth, except that in your case, you kind of are one of those people-- and on top of that, you're surrounded by sycophants who pay their bills by cosigning every paranoid or grandiose thought in your head. In this way I feel like Kanye has never really had a chance to get mentally healthy the way he was on this album.
There are flashes of what's to come on The College Dropout. Ye drops a few self-deprecating bars, then gleefully raps about how his inflated ego keeps him afloat. He also constantly references surviving that brutal car wreck which maimed him and was clearly a traumatic event for him. But overall, it's someone that younger people never had the chance to know, sadly: an optimistic, wise-cracking genius who seemed to be very aware that he was on the brink of superstardom.
I loved this album so much when it came out. These days, I cherish it as an almost perfect work of art created before the artist's mental health fell to an unimaginable, possibly irretrievable low point. I used to feel joy when I listened to The College Dropout. Now I feel nothing but sadness and yearning. I know that Kanye symbolizes something different to everyone. To many he is a mouthpiece for true evil, and that is a fair way to view this man. To me he's a symbol of the colossal failure of the mental health system I'm a willing participant in. It is hard to me to square the era of Kanye we hear on The College Dropout with the man he has become today.
I miss the old Kanye.
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