Rec | KANYE WEST GRADUATION

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Rec'd on 💿 what was the first piece of music that you owned?

Embarrassing to admit bc if his current behavior but I was about 10 at the time. I finally started getting an allowance and it was one of the first things I ever bought. It had been out for a few years atp. I was so excited I had no clue what he was rapping about most of the time but I really liked the song big brother at the time

@cowboy-izzy

May 19, 2025

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It’s gotta be My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy as a whole and Graduation for aesthetics/Murakami involvement. Watching the music video for Stronger in 2007 introduced me to not only Kanye, but Japanese Anime, and Daft Punk all things that had an immense influence on my childhood. Around 2013, long after both had came out, I was a freshman in high school battling the culture shock of coming from a tiny niche elementary school going into a high school with enrollment around 1000. I didn't feel like I was completely lonely, but I thought my grade school experience was so different compared to my peers, I had struggles relating and fitting in. All my classmates had iPhone 5c’s, I had an LG flip phone and an iPod Touch, I didn’t have any kind of social media when EVERYONE I knew had Facebook, small stuff like all of that made me seem odd to most people and while I had friends, it was rather hard to make new ones. One day I remember being really sad all day and silently crying waiting for the bus to come pick me up after school. Pulled up my iPod and picked MBDTF, and hit Shuffle All, So Appalled played first, and something about that song cheered me up and told me to keep listening. I vividly remember pulling my wired Apple earbuds to my ears from under my rain jacket and just listening to the rain and listening to an album that became the first album I truly listened to. I found all the lyrics online, looked on Genius to figure out the meaning of everything I heard. Something in that album carried me through those dark years of my life and I will always remember those times. Sad what has become of the man in our current zeitgeist, but Kanye was/is really one of the greatest to ever do it.

@wakeuplmd

Mar 10, 2025

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ALBUMS FROM HIGH SCHOOL

Faces - Mac Miller (2014) Supreme Blientele - Westside Gunn (2018) Justified - Justin Timberlake (2000) this captures the essence of my coming of age very well

@mintgawd

May 27, 2024

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I BARELY REMEMBER

Class of 21 💔💔 I didn’t go to class in person for more than a month and kinda memoryholed the last half of high school because of it. So many months of my life are almost completely blacked out and I can’t fit more important events on a timeline anymore. It’s super weird and I haven’t summoned the desire to work through it yet.. I vaguely remember being into early Kanye for a few weeks around graduation. I was raised with my parents‘ love for Springsteen and grunge and the like which is an ideal foundation. I really loves The Pillows and still do, I watched FLCL and Samurai Champloo pretty closely together in like 2017(?). I distinctly remember finishing Champloo in a hotel on an overnight cross country trip. Those soundtracks have stuck with me since then. I think I just didn’t listen to a lot of music though.. never used Spotify or anything so I would just pull videos on YouTube when I wanted to hear something. I had a flash drive I’d plug into my car when I wanted something specific. I had a couple Bowie albums on there randomly.. Springsteen of course, Michael Jackson, a couple Tyler albums, sonic highways by foo fighters.. the massive bulk of what I’m into now only really developed after high school when I started thinking for myself and seeking new stuff out.. part of me feels like I had two separate “gaining sentience” moments being early childhood of course and then later again as I turned 19-20.. this got off track but was interesting to reminisce on !!