The College Dropout was one of the most anticipated debuts of the early 2000s, while Late Registration had people wondering why Kanye would feel the need to work so extensively with multi-instrumentalist rock producer Jon Brion (the J Dilla of the chamberlin) and whether or not Kanye's hubristic tendencies would get the better of it. As with just about any other artist's third album, it had to be expected. Graduation's pre-leak talk wasn't as substantive as it was with Kanye West's first two albums.