Kanye West really likes himself and isn't afraid to show it. But all his ego-driven rants aside, his new album "Graduation" feels more like the genius of a producer who needed a ghost writer.

Post- Graduation After Graduation, the Dropout Bear rarely—if ever—appeared on West’s content. It seemed that West had truly graduated from that phase of his life.

On this day in 2007, the “old” Kanye released his third studio album, the last of his scholastically themed albums, which is aptly titled Graduation on the Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella imprint.

Graduation was a much more daring album than Kanye’s previous two, where he’d made the transition from successful producer to bankable star. Its songs are built from much different sounds than ...

Even though Kanye was a big fan of Murakami's work, it took 2 to 3 years for him to settle on a final design. But after various proposals and adjustments, the Graduation album cover was finally born.