Kanye West "Late Registration" [2005]

Some people just don't know when to shut the fuck up. In Kanye West's mainstream breakthrough "Late Registration," this post-gangsta rapper (y'know, the kind who goes to college… then drops out) serves up the motormouth hip-hop like Eddie Murphy in "Beverly Hills Cop 2" on fast-forward. His unmistakeable production style -- just letting extended samples lie where they may, regardless if they serve the beat or not -- is on full display here as well; as a result, mid-00's dance floors never looked so awkward. Endlessly blaming/bragging about his humble beginnings is annoying enough, but when one considers "Late Registration" served as Kanye's launching pad into his purgatorial orbit of plastic clothes and Autotune vocals, the effect is aggravatingly nauseating. The last thing anyone wants is to hear him gloat about "making it," especially now that we know what happened after he did. Good thing hip-hop's played out, maybe he'll finally go away now.