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Sources for "New Slaves" (continue past RapReviews on Metacritic check):
 * AllMusic
 * The A.V. Club (comp)
 * Beats Per Minute (lyrics)
 * Billboard (comp)
 * Billboard review
 * Chicago Tribune (comp and lyrics)
 * Clash (potentially for prison industrial lyrics)
 * Complex (comp)
 * Consequence (lyrics)
 * The Daily Telegraph (lyrics and reception)
 * DIY Magazine (outro and reception)
 * Drowned in Sound (lyrics and reception)
 * Exclaim!
 * Fact (lyrics)
 * The Fly
 * The Guardian (lyrics)
 * HipHopDX (lyrics and reception)
 * Jenesaispop (comp) ✅
 * The Line of Best Fit (comp and reception)
 * Los Angeles Times (comp and reception)
 * musicOMH (lyrics and reception)
 * New York Daily News (comp)
 * No Ripcord
 * No Ripcord accolade
 * The New York Times (lyrics and reception)
 * NME (reception)
 * NME accolades (lyrics)
 * Paste
 * Paste accolades
 * Pitchfork (lyrics and reception)
 * Pitchfork accolades (lyrics)
 * Pitchfork decade ranking (lyrics)
 * PopMatters (reception)
 * RapReviews (reception)
 * The Quietus
 * Tiny Mix Tapes (reception)
 * Entertainment Weekly
 * The Independent
 * laut.de
 * MSN Music
 * Rolling Stone
 * Spin
 * Time
 * The Times

Newspapers.com about 808s & Heartbreak:
 * Calgary Herald (a rap album that features almost no rapping - one whose hooks sink deeper into you with each listen - grooves constructed on songs from pulsing electro and R&B synth bass, drum beats picked from Roland TR-808)
 * The Akron Beacon Journal (Martian keyboards and New wave beats – synthetic space opera, give it time and sounds more like West than ever before)
 * Kitsap Sun (bleak landscape; sonically monochromatic songs that navigating can feel like a hard slog; "push and pull" of how he admits without the girl he left it is so lonely in the end like "Heartless")
 * The News and Advance – abandons West's soul samples, beats minimalist and Auto-Tuned vocals sounding robotic – self-confliction, narcissism and indulgence – "more introspective and skeptical of his enormous lifestyle"
 * The Palm Beach Post – rarely rapping on the album
 * Fort Worth Star-Telegram "indulging in a revealing frankness not often found in rap ... most superstars simply don't want to admit they have feelings just like everyone else", minimalist album
 * The Spokesman Review'' – retrospective on his emotional introspection
 * Pittsburgh Post–Gazette – tenor pipes; mellow, ambient production
 * Northwest Herald – left early samples
 * The Tribune – "somber introspection"
 * Kelowna Capital News – simple, "ultra hooky tunes that are more dance pop that hip hop"
 * The Philadelphia Inquirer – indulgence
 * Press of Atlantic City – minimalism
 * Check Metacritic reviews
 * Check Internet Archive

Newspapers.com about The College Dropout:
 * The Daily Illini – vocal hooks, pop and street combined with the beats; messages palatable to people who glorify the bling-bling lifestyle which he criticizes; self consciousness; bright but holding back his thoughts as not using his smart-aleck skills
 * Today interview
 * Kitsap Sun self consciousness, sped-up soul sampling
 * Check Metacritic and Internet archive