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       In regards to my final project, I have found different clips and articles that include different perspectives of the Jeen-Yuhs documentary which provides insight on how The College Dropout is viewed in the modern day. I have put together a description of a handful of songs from The College Dropout  to discuss how their cultural significance at the time contributes to the modern day. I have also put together a series of questions that includes: How does Jeen-Yuhs documentary impact the listening experience of The College Dropout ? How did The College Dropout ultimately contribute to bridging hip hop to mainstream culture? How does The College Dropout reflect certain characteristics of Kanye West' that led him to be successful?  How have these characteristics influenced other artists to take similar paths? Why were some of his songs such as " All Falls Down" originally looked over? What was the significance of the narrative of The College Dropout?...

    "Jeen-Yuhs" Press Release       Jeen-Yuhs is a Kanye West Trilogy that invites the audience to view live footage of Kanye West's rise of popularity  and concentrates on his qualities as a person that led him to persevere in the hip hop industry as "a misfit". This footage was planned to be taken to document his rise to fame  before Kanye West was ever a house hold name which makes the documentary all the more astounding to experience him manifest his career before our own eyes. A  Vanity Fair Article   discusses the role of Donda West in  Jeen-Yuhs  as influential factor in his career. The documentary provides footage of intimate interactions of Kanye West with his mother, Donda West, who is the person who Kanye credits the most for his success, and named his most recent albums,  Donda  and  Donda 2 , after. These interactions allows the audience to see how much his mother meant to him as she s...