Kanye West Late Registration [Explicit Content] (2 Lp's) Country and Western is the bombastic follow-up to

is the bombastic follow-up to 1995's sleeper hit THE BENDS

the Californian quintet elicits deep vulnerability

a sly update executed with precision by Rick Rubin

and some ultra misogynistic "guy talk

" it almost seems as if Beck covered himself as part of the Record Club

Kanye West Late Registration [Explicit Content] (2 Lp's) Country and Western is the bombastic follow-up toRapper producer Kanye West's second album, LATE REGISTRATION, incredibly lives up to expectations following his universally acclaimed debut, THE COLLEGE DROPOUT, which took the art of sampling to a new plateau. Here, for example, "Gold Digger" features a sample of the legendary Ray Charles alongside actor Jamie Foxx in Oscar reprising character as Charles. "Addiction" pairs a frenetic African beat with a stuttering, singular use of a snippet of Etta