I missed it

There have been a few times in my life when I've "discovered" something awesome, WAY later than everyone else in the world.  For example, it took me about three years to finally see the movie "Forrest Gump" and I said, "Wow, this is an awesome movie!"  Slightly behind the power curve.

Since I hardly ever listen to the radio, and practically never listen to hip hop radio, I've largely missed the Kanye West craze.  I was aware of "Gold Digger" because I heard my sister-in-law play it, and have a slight knowledge of "Jesus Walks", although the version that I know has a bunch of yahoos singing "Beverly Hills" over the top of it.  I do remember the controversy he caused when Miss Country Chick (what's her name) won best video and Kanye interrupted her acceptance speech to proclaim it should have been Beyonce.  What an idiot.  But, since I like "Gold Digger" and also wanted the REAL version of Jesus Walks, I was in a Goodwill store a couple of weeks ago and saw "College Dropout" for a couple of bucks, so I picked it up.  

Wow.  I started listening to it a couple of days ago, and it is GOOD stuff.  I asked myself, "When did this come out?" and discovered that it was released in February of 2004.  Yeah, so I'm about eight years behind the ball on this one.  He's probably released six albums since then, and I don't know any of them.  But "College Dropout" rocks.  The guy's got skills.

I even pulled an Ed today and listened to the same song about nine times in a row.  If you haven't heard "Family Business" check it out.  I love that song.

You guys have any Kanye laying around the house?