All Falls Down

In my opinion Kanye's "hatred" of education goes not very far beyond his message of non-materialism. People go to college and get an education because they are rich and they do well in school. K. West is just saying that not all of lifes lessons are learned in the school. School teaches us from the books, while our parents, and families teach us the real life lessons. In West's opinion school is another one of those things that are the norms in society. You go to college once you are done with your regular schooling, and if you don't you are frowned upon, as being a rebel. Instead of worrying what everyone else thinks West preaches a different method. He frowns upon doing things just because everyone else does, buying a lot of clothes, and getting good cars. But she won't drop out, her parents will look at her funny, he also frowns upon the act of going to school because it is what is accepted. I don't think he necessarily hates schooling, he just wants people to do it for the right reasons, not just to fit in.

Thank you for reading this and feel free to agree or disagree it's why I write these things.

I love this song. "The concept of school seems so secure Sophmore three years aint picked a career"

Thats totally me, I plan to stay in school as long as i can. Get my master's then... it'll be scary as hell

"We shine because they hate us, floss cause they degrade us We trying to buy back our 40 acres"

Its obviously that Kanye is a young, intelligent hip-hop artist. This song is all about the reasons for the current hip-hop culture. This line makes reference to when the slaves were freed and promised 40 acres to start a life with. But they were taken advantage of and most ended up selling the land for much less than it was worth.

'the prettiest people do the ugliest things'

fuckin AMEN

Yeah, there's a lot of stuff i'm sure a lot of people relate to in this song. I'm sure there'll soon be loads of comments on The College Dropout.

i'm not the biggest fan of current hip-hop, but kanye west really stands out to me, in a good way. this song, like many of his others, is incredibly intelligent. he has an awesome way of exposing how woman, man, and society makes up for their personal "insecurrities" so blindly with material possessions, without thinking of the consequences...and does so without being incredibly preachy, because he realizes it's a way of getting by, but also a sort of disease. he gets his point across very well.

The best lyrics I have heard in awhile in hip hop. Awesome song

i honestly don't like rnb/rap...it never really appealed to me...this song does...finally someone is being real...telling it how it is...why we buy things like that...why we try to be "cool" why the goal is material instead of spiritual, emotional or anything like that....this song is good...he's being a young responsible intelligent black man...setting a standard... out J.Venrick

Man I promise, I'm so self conscious That's why you always see me with at least one of my watches Rollies and Pasha's done drove me crazy I can't even pronounce nothing, pass that Versace Then I spent 400 bucks on this Just to be like nigga you ain't up on this

This I can relate too..... and most others as well. For some reason we all believe we should be living the american dream. So many times in my life I said the same........ Cause fuck it, I went to Jacob with 25 thou Before I had a house and I'd do it again.

I'm so self concious-The Real

maybe Bill O'Reilly (anti-hiphop pundit who has a show on fox news) should read the lyrics to this song and realize that the white dominated American culture produced and supports the shallow, greedy, and materialistic nature that is pervasive in hiphop culture. kanye is saying that much of the materialism in hiphop is a direct response toward the past domination of blacks in America by whites.