All Falls Down Lyrics

[Outro: DeRay]
*Applause*
I can't keep workin' like this
This grave shifts is like a slave ship

[Produced by Kanye West]

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Genius Annotation

“All Falls Down” is a self-reflection of Kanye’s personal battle with consumerism. The track was the third single from his debut album, The College Dropout. The song peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and was nominated for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the 47th Grammy Awards.

Kanye released an earlier version of this song as “Self Conscious (Poetry-Style)"on Freshmen Adjustment and performed a lesser-known spoken word version on “Def Poetry Jam” of this song also known as from Freshmen Adjustment

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What did Kanye West say about "All Falls Down"?
Genius Answer

Kanye said in an interview with Thomas Golianopoulos, before the album was released:

I think this song is going to touch people, this “All Falls Down” it means something to hip-hop. If this song can make it to the top floor, wait, I don’t have an end to that sentence. I was just thinking that I hope you word that “I want to be the number 1 rapper” thing right so niggas just don’t take offense to it.

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Credits
Produced By
Guitar
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Recording Engineer
Acoustic Guitar
Recorded At
Sony Music Studios, NYC; Larrabee Sound North, Los Angeles, CA
Release Date
February 10, 2004
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