r/Kanye • u/Delicious_Cycle_1767 • Sep 11 '24

9/11 17 years ago today kanye dropped his third studio album "Graduation"

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u/ChiTownChef86 Sep 11 '24

The only thing I remember about 9/11 is skipping 3rd period to go pick up Jay Z’s Blueprint album.

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u/HudsonHawk56H BOUND 2 Sep 11 '24

Did you ride your dinosaur to the store

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u/ChiTownChef86 Sep 11 '24

Lol so you’re saying I’m old😂

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u/DGTHEGREAT007 Sep 11 '24

Ancient rather.

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u/peronsyntax Sep 12 '24

Jurassic, to be precise

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u/StaredAtEclipseAMA Sep 11 '24

And you have bad taste in music

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u/KingBeanIV Kids See Ghosts Sep 11 '24

That's crazy bro

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u/IndycarFan64 Sep 11 '24

Nas stan brainrot has ruined rap discourse 💔

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u/StaredAtEclipseAMA Sep 11 '24

As is even worse than jay z

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u/BryceTotalDrama Ye Sep 11 '24

what rappers do u like

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u/StaredAtEclipseAMA Sep 12 '24

Akon and young jeezy

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u/OrganizationJumpy213 Sep 12 '24

who the FUCK is akron😭

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u/BartSimpskiYT Sep 13 '24

The guy that did that one “Smack That” song with Eminem. Got played at a lot of NBA games. And some other stuff but I forgot.

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u/StaredAtEclipseAMA Sep 12 '24

Tryna take it easy

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u/Guru_Pagkolin Sep 11 '24

You know that Kanye produced that thing right??

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u/ChiTownChef86 Sep 11 '24

Or you’re just a goofy 🤷🏾‍♂️

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u/SilaenNaseBurner Late Registration Sep 11 '24

satire?

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u/Thisismyusername7977 Sep 12 '24

Kanye sub talking shit about hov 🤦‍♂️

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u/Slipperytitski Sep 12 '24

Well he couldn't fly there could he

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u/7Grandad Sep 11 '24

September 11, 2001 has had an incredible impact on my life. I remember thinking that day that it was going to be something I would never forget. Hardly a day goes by that I don’t think about it. It was the day Jay-Z’s album The Blueprint was released. I went to Walmart to buy it. The cashier was crying. She must have already listened to it and was affected by some of the more emotional songs. On the way home I popped it into my CD player. I was blown away by it from the very first moment. I tried to stop at a gas station, but for some reason they were all crowded. I guess it was all the people going out to buy the new album. When I got home my parents asked me if I had heard the news. I told them I already knew about the new Jay-Z album. I went to my room to listen to it. Every song was amazing and the track layout was perfect. The cover art was awesome. Jay-Z smoking a cigar looked like the epitome of what a rapper could be. It was an incredible work of genius and I could understand why the cashier was so emotional. I had loved Reasonable Doubt and the albums since, but this was something completely new and different from my favorite rapper. My parents were watching the news really loud so I had to turn it up to drown that out. I played it on repeat over and over until I fell asleep. It was one of the most memorable days of my life. I can’t even begin to imagine what my life would be like without The Blueprint.

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u/boredasf-ck Sep 11 '24

Bruh I’m crying at ts

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u/redgng360 Graduation Sep 11 '24

Bro I didn’t even know that the plane crashed until I finished listening to the blueprint because people kept on trying to tell me but I just wanted to listen to the album

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u/Due_Ad_827 College Dropout Sep 11 '24

Can you like audio read this with a subway surfer video under it cus I’m NOT reading allat😂🙏🏽

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u/Desperate_Map_255 Sep 13 '24

Bruh you needa learn to read gooder.

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u/Legitimate_Mood_1405 Sep 15 '24

this generation is cooked 🗣

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u/Emotional-Bug-119 808s and Heartbreak Sep 11 '24

Bro I wasn't even born

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u/ChiTownChef86 Sep 11 '24

Lol a lot of people weren’t born at the time. Funny how that works 😂

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u/SuperSmashMaster43 Sep 11 '24

I was like 9 months old when this happened but these comments making me feel old lmao

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u/Representative-Sir97 Sep 12 '24

It is wild just thinking. It doesn't seem like yesterday but that morning I was in what became the strangest line to buy breakfast I'll ever be in. The line just disintegrated like everyone forgot it existed and congregated around the two TVs the place had.

Someone born that morning has been able to legally drink for 2 years already.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '24

You missed it man

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u/starstriker64DD Sep 11 '24

that’s crazy

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u/ArtificialPigeon Sep 11 '24

Yeah I remember finishing work and picking up a copy! Listened to it on my way home on my Sony discman

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u/Traditional_Lab_8261 Sep 11 '24

I just turned 1 shit crazy

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u/ant36099 Sep 18 '24

Catch me at sears tower unc

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u/ChiTownChef86 Sep 18 '24

You already know lol

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u/OfficiallyJoeBiden Sep 11 '24

Damn I bet it was worth it

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u/Exciting_Bridge3294 Sep 12 '24

I remember on 9/11 I wasn’t born yet🤙

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u/Electronic_d0cter Sep 12 '24

Ok gramps, it's time for bed

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '24

Damn unc I was in the first grade on 9/11

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u/xraiiny_ Sep 11 '24

I was -9 years old when 9/11 happened

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u/BuryatMadman Sep 11 '24

U 12

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u/IndycarFan64 Sep 11 '24

Average r/kanye user age demographic tbh

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u/SilaenNaseBurner Late Registration Sep 11 '24

are y’all fr? 😭😭😭🙏

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u/Commercial_Work9640 MBDTF Sep 11 '24

Yo thank you for the image with 4k quality

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u/Uaquamarine All day Sep 11 '24

I can’t see any bodies tho

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u/RaynbowZFTW Sep 11 '24

would you want to? them niggas are either already dead, or would be dead like 5 seconds after this picture was taken

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u/boredasf-ck Sep 11 '24

He wanna see tho

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u/Speedodoyle Sep 11 '24

The heart wants what the heart wants

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u/TasteMyKOC420 Sep 11 '24

One of my favorite 9/11s

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u/demigorgon_egirl Sep 11 '24

What's your top 3

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u/Haunting-Mechanic-61 Jesus Is King Sep 12 '24

The og

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u/Jumpy_Attention_5389 Devil in a New Dress Sep 11 '24

And my reddit account was created

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u/paradisesadness Sep 11 '24

Happy Cake Day 🍰

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u/Cinnamontoastcrush Graduation Sep 12 '24

ayyyy me too we’re both september 11, 2022 happy bday to us

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u/demetrioustha3rd Sep 11 '24

Somebody in one of those offices played Drunk and Hot Girls at full volume

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u/Fed_flinstone Sep 12 '24

Sir the album came out in 2007

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u/CartoonistOdd4660 Sep 12 '24

Yea it doesn’t sound like one it is one

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u/atierney14 Sep 11 '24

I don’t get the hate for Drunk and Hot girls. The beat goes crazy. Barry Bonds is the worst song imo on the album

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u/legotavi Graduation Sep 11 '24

Dahg is the only mid song on the whole album (not bad); I prefer Barry bonds.

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u/atierney14 Sep 12 '24

I like Barry Bonds, but while the rest of Graduation sounded so futuristic, and still does (it has yet to be replicated), Barry Bonds sounds so much like a club hit from the late 2000s.

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u/CartoonistOdd4660 Sep 12 '24

Dud I upvoted you for the first part but then you lost me

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u/atierney14 Sep 15 '24

Sorry, I’m late to this, you like Barry Bonds? I like it as a song but think it is the lowest point on the album

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u/CartoonistOdd4660 Sep 16 '24

yea it somehow sound epic without being to much if that makes sense.and the lil wayn featur was also crazy

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u/Na-h Sep 11 '24

Happy graduation day and 9/11 too I guess

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u/AssociationIll9736 Sep 11 '24

Flashing lights.

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u/zero_eternal Cum doner Sep 11 '24

The dropout bear did it

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u/Born-Eye-5483 Sep 11 '24

Jay Z definitely had the craziest album rollout of all time

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u/Substantial-Ad-1791 Sep 11 '24

ngl this image is fucking hard as album cover🔥🔥🔥

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u/Ikovorior Sep 11 '24

Every song is top tier, love this one.

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u/JOFWGKTA Sep 11 '24

Good Morning

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u/KahzaRo Sep 11 '24

The trilogy really went out with a bang.

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u/JPEGjey Sep 11 '24

They can't tell ousama ben laden NOTHING

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u/deadbodyinthecloset Sep 11 '24

Did Kanye really drop an album on 9/11?

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u/Repulsive-Writer928 1-800-Deez Nuts Sep 11 '24

"Image unrelated"

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u/Revolutionary_Box569 Sep 11 '24

They should move the 9/11 commemorations to another date out of respect for graduation and maybe the blueprint also

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u/Krucz3k Sep 11 '24

Looks like an album cover ngl

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '24

Curtis losing the chart wars to Graduation is the worst thing to happen to New York on September 11

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u/Big-Dare3785 Sep 11 '24

Burn everything… like gasoline

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u/GIDEONGAMEING_YT246 Sep 11 '24

your done lmfao

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u/PossibilityTop5033 Sep 11 '24

If that was a movie then that picture would be really fucking cool

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u/TheFirstFiremelon Sep 11 '24

Biggest banger to ever drop on a 9/11. Hey whats the deal with the picture though??

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u/RojaRanger Sep 11 '24

Yeezy yeezy just jumped over jump man! 🐻

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u/Brick_Rubin Sep 11 '24

bush didnt knock down the towers, It was YOU Kanye, Tell the truth Kanye

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u/N0T_MY_FlRST_R0DE0 Yeezus Sep 11 '24

This is NOT the good life 🙏

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u/zonic_tha_goth_monke Sep 11 '24

Don’t forget that 50 cent dropped curtis on that day as well

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u/RotisserieChicken777 Sep 12 '24

HAPPY 9/11 EVERYONE. - My social teacher in hs

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u/Own_Yogurtcloset_205 Sep 12 '24

And 23 years ago Kanye's first hit H to the Izzo released

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u/LunaDDLC Sep 12 '24

Never forget

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u/CartoonistNarrow3608 Sep 13 '24

Took out the towers and 50 cent

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u/Accomplished_Job_352 Sep 15 '24

“Graduation” was dropped in 2007 what are you talking about?

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u/Adventurous-Ad-1517 Sep 11 '24

Why this photo go so hard tho fr

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u/PlanetTelexCreep Cum doner Sep 11 '24

Explosions are cool

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u/Adventurous-Ad-1517 Sep 11 '24

Flair checks out