“Crack Music,” from Late Registration ... Man,” in all of its naked optimism, is as good a song as we’ve heard since Donda, an album about his faith while he is losing his family.

You gettin' there, but you ain't there yet'… I got more memories of joints I passed on, beats that he made for me, that ended up being, like… a lot of his Late Registration album." For example ...

Kanye West’s innovative use ... samples or straight covers of such songs as “Close to You,” written by the late Burt Bacharach and Hal David and made famous by the Carpenters; “You Can ...