Albums Kanye West produced

The album that made Kanye as a producer. His soul-sampling beats — “Izzo (H.O.V.A.),” “Heart of the City” — gave Jay-Z his warmest record and announced a new sound for hip-hop.

His debut as a rapper, and the fullest statement of the chipmunk-soul sound he'd been selling to everyone else — warm, funny and self-produced front to back.

Kanye produced and executive-produced Common's comeback, a lean, soulful album widely held as one of the best of its decade.

Kanye executive-produced the debut of his first GOOD Music signing, launching John Legend with a classic soul sensibility.

With co-producer Jon Brion, Kanye blew his sound wide open — strings, orchestration, ambition. The leap from prodigy to auteur.

Stadium-sized and synth-bright, Graduation traded soul samples for arena melodies — and famously outsold 50 Cent head-to-head, tilting rap toward a new era.

Auto-Tuned, drum-machine cold and deeply sad, 808s invented a template that a whole generation of melodic rap — Drake, Kid Cudi, The Weeknd — would build on.

Kanye executive-produced Cudi's debut, the moody, melodic record that helped define the introspective rap of the 2010s.

His maximalist masterpiece — a wall of guests, samples and orchestral grandeur, routinely ranked among the greatest albums of its century.

Two of rap's biggest egos and a luxurious, competitive co-production — “Niggas in Paris” chief among the spoils.

Stripped to industrial noise and minimalism — with Rick Rubin called in to cut it to the bone — Yeezus was Kanye's most abrasive, confrontational turn.

Kanye produced all seven tracks of Daytona during his Wyoming sessions — lean, sample-driven and widely called his sharpest production work in years.

Kanye's collaborative album with Kid Cudi, cut from the same Wyoming run — a brief, psychedelic high point of his late catalogue.