Everyone does not love 'Late Registration'

I feel as if people think I'm crazy for not feeling Mr. West's Late Registration.  I think it's a good/solid album, but I don't feel it's an amazing album.  Although the majority of press has been very favorable, not everyone is calling the album a classic...

Prefix ("Unlike other rappers with equally grating voices, his cadences can sound forced and awkward instead of playful or illuminating, and it's difficult to follow his words rather than get caught up in his unfortunately annoying voice.")

Byron Crawford on Pitchfork's review of Late Registration ("You would think that the biggest music review site, for one of the biggest albums of the year, wouldn't have a guy who built a fucking shrine to the artist in question write the review.")

Hiphopmusic.com ("But then, 9 times out of 10, Kanye starts rapping and totally kills the mood. No matter how hard he tries to get serious, he just can't help sounding petty. Whenever the music is taking me somewhere he brings me crashing back down to earth with his cornball cadence and inflections, his clunky puns and punchlines. Kanye makes music that demands to be taken seriously, then gets on the mic and turns it into a joke.")

Tuning Fork ("This record is 100% Grade A commercial hip hop. It's going to sell well, maintain critical acclaim, and most of all improve hip hop's reputation with middle class parents. But you know what? - It's regular.") ("I wasn't that desperate to talk about this but i have already had two people come up to me today and tell me this record is awesome, and I was like are you fucking kidding me?")

NY Daily News ("The lowest point comes in "Touch the Sky," in which West takes the MC Hammer road: He doesn't so much sample Curtis Mayfield's "Move on Up" as lift it whole. In another move toward the tepid, he hired Maroon 5's soul-impaired Adam Levine to sing an R&B riff in "Heard 'Em Say." Clearly, this was more of a bid to get on pop ­radio than a way to deepen the feeling of the song.)

NY Times (But for much of "Late Registration," the striver has turned into a hip-hop V.I.P., and a cool arrogance has crept into the songs. Mr. West is funny about it in "Gold Digger" - calling for a chant of "pre-nup, pre-nup!" - but less so with the backbiting "Gone," the pompous "Bring Me Down" and the smarmy come-on of "Celebration.")