Hate on Kanye all you want, but you can't call homie complacent. In the second single from his much-hyped junior LP, Graduation, Mr. West lifts the vocals from Daf Punk's 'Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger' and puts them over a robotic, synthesizer-heavy number that's surprisingly techno considering Kanye's previous direction. As usual, Kanye's hit-and-miss rhymes are a matter of preference ('You know how long I've been on ya/since Prince was on Appleonia'), but the production still has us interested to how far he's really taking it with this album.

'Can't tell Me Nothing.' That title alone sums up why people love and hate Kanye West in equal measures. To his fans, his grand self-assurance is justified, given the amount of hit records he has produced. To his detractors, he's an arrogant loudmouth. On this mixtape, an acutely aware Kanyeezy sounds like he's struggling to change his well-known, brash persona.

Never does he sound more conflicted than on the DJ Toomp helmed title track. Over Toomp's gasping production, complete with the requisite female harmonizing, 'Ye does his best ...