The College Dropout and Foxx’s Academy Award-winning performance in Ray allowed him to do something he couldn’t quite achieve yet - some time in the limelight as a musician. He landed multiple stand-up specials, his own television show and was tapped to star as Ray Charles in the biopic Ray. Prior to laying down the hook for “Slow Jamz,” Foxx was already a bona fide star. Jamie Foxx is the consummate entertainer, a charming, well-what-can’t-he-do type of person seemingly plucked from a bygone era. Currently, she’s in a group with Young D called Afrostringz that fuses Afrobeats with Ben-Ari’s stylings on the violin.
To add to the list of her post- Dropout achievements, she performed for President Barack Obama and became the first violinist to win a Grammy in the hip-hop category. In 2005, Ben-Ari released a solo record called The Hip-Hop Violinist that featured the likes of Styles P, Pitbull, Akon, Scarface, West and many more. 1 Billboard single “Fallin’.” But after The College Dropout was released, her career took a major leap forward. Before working with West, Ben-Ari was already making waves in the music industry - she played the violin on Alicia Keys’ Grammy Award-winning, No. The violinist lent her talents to six tracks on the album, including a gripping solo on “Two Words.” It’s hard to imagine the album without those cinematic strings, which add a je ne sais quoi to an already phenomenal record. Miri Ben-Ari was one of The College Dropout’s most clandestine weapons. Here, we take a look at what those contributors have been up to in the years since the album’s release. Sticking with the school theme, West used yearbook photos and senior superlatives to honor the album’s major players. The music in The College Dropout is great on its own, but the conceptual album artwork is fantastic too. It’s hard to imagine contemporary pop culture without it. It’s a singular work that not only marks the beginning of West’s journey from underdog to icon but also continues to inspire a generation of artists.
But The College Dropout, Kanye West’s 2004 debut, feels a bit more unique.
you’ll run out of fingers to count them on, then eventually toes, until you finally run out of digits altogether. There’s no shortage of classic debuts in hip-hop: Hard Core, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, Illmatic, Supa Dupa Fly, Doggystyle, Too Hard to Swallow.
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