Kanye West f. John Legend, The-Dream, Ryan Leslie, Tony Williams, Charlie Wilson, Elly Jackson, Alicia Keys, Fergie, Kid Cudi, Rihanna & Elton John – All Of the Lights [Album Version]

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    Double check the final list of who’s on ‘All Of the Lights’…you might be on it. Everyone else is.

    256 thoughts on “Kanye West f. John Legend, The-Dream, Ryan Leslie, Tony Williams, Charlie Wilson, Elly Jackson, Alicia Keys, Fergie, Kid Cudi, Rihanna & Elton John – All Of the Lights [Album Version]

    1. Honestly all I can say is WOW. I’m not a big fan of Kanye, but I am a fan of his music. He’s a special, once in a generation, talent. Lyrically i could care less…but this guy’s overall music production talent is Mozart like…

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    3. G.O.O.D Music in yo Cypher!!! Wow… Ye got clout with major artists. Seems like everyone stopped by the studio and he got them to lay down the chorus for this specific track. He had to have foreseen this coming. Anxious to hear the final version of the album.

    4. Great song. Kanye’s music has seriously sucked since College Dropout. But the music hes been coming out with now is actually decent. Good Looks, ‘Ye

    5. Wow! Lik i must admit i used 2 dis like Kanye but i gotta say dis is real hip-hop..naw fuck dat dis is real music ..(but still its g-unit bitch hfm2 nov 22)!!

    6. This was produced really well, everyone knows Kanye can produce well, but as far as lyrical content, or even Kanye’s skill or flow for that matter, it’s very mediocre track.

      1. Mediocre? Really? What kind of fucked up shit are you listening to that you’re somehow convinced it is superior to this? This is good music.

      1. if u listen to the leak one with drake it cleary says this one’s for drake at the beginning…so it could possibly end up on drake’s new mixtape coming out in December or his next album don’t really know…

      2. Actually the version you guys are talking about said “This version is for Drake.” Kanye clearly sent him a reference track a while ago and decided Drake wasn’t right for the song.

    7. i love alicia keys’ part

      i wonder if his album is gonna be all this — almost symphony — type of feel, like with 6 featured guests per song, that would be kind of dope

    8. not just amazing hip-hop amazing music, period. This is the next single i rekn at the Grammys this gona be one of them classic performances.
      G.O.O.D MUSIC BABY!!!!!

      ps- i could identify the dream or ryan leslie on the track??? mayb this isnt the final version i remember ‘ye tweeting that he did 30+ mixes of the song. any one of them could have leaked

    9. Phenomenal track, however; I don’t hear 12 artists in there. How can he justify all of those? Elton John…really? Is he the one playing piano at the end?

    10. Kanye West – stop killing Hip Hop. You can’t rap and you’re not a rock star. You will never be forgiven for that Justin Beiber/Wu Tang remix you made. NEVER!

    11. I like the song, but i definitely can’t hear every artist. Is that Legend or Tony Williams singing before the Alicia Keys/charlie wilson part? Whoever it is where’s the other person? and where’s ryan leslie at? is that the dream singing for all of 0.5 seconds at the end?

    12. what happened to drake? lol kanye was like u cant be on the greatest record of all time!!! (then kanye shrug x 100million)

    13. Good song but stop making music for the other side Kanye. The shit is getting real obvious especially with your movie “Runaway” Only folks who can’t tell what that movie represents are those who don’t read and educate themselves on other aspects of this world.

      You been on an extra downward spiral since your mother passed. Come back to the RIGHT side!!!

    14. Am I going to be the only one not to juggle ‘Ye’s balls in my mouth? Overrated and Egotistical. I thought Power was a work of art in its video and sound but this is just messy; like many posse cuts its just a case of who can I get on my new track. Yes, you can pull some amazing artists together but have you not heard of the saying “Too many Chef’s ruin a Broth”. Sorry but this is a load of self-indulgent shit and extremely disappointing.

    15. I LOVE THIS!

      I think I know who’s singing what parts. It’s definitely two people singing at a time panned hard left and hard right. I don’t know where the dream is though.

    16. This Song, Dark Fantasy, Power, Runaway, Monster, Devil in a New Dress, So Appalled, and a couple of others i have heard, make this Album at least a 4 out of 5 before its even released on the 22nd! And that’s Better the 90% of the Albums this Year! With that being said, that makes it a Definate Buy at the Store, because if you don’t Support Good Music, don’t Complain when Artist like Waka Flocka and Soulja Boy are the Only Artists Left because of the lack of Album sales!

    17. You people here are so brainwashed. It’s always hating when you don’t like the average conventional bullshit. Many fans here, like Kanye, show no depth or insight into anything beyond what is shoveled in your gullets. There is nothing special about this song, or Kanye for that matter. This is for fans of pop music who follow fading trends. The brainwashing has gotten to the point to where you don’t even realize the good from the bad. Fortunately this does not represent the best that Hiphop has to offer. Hiphop is alive and well despite the kids on this site born in the 90’s who don’t know shit about this culture or those of my generation who failed at understanding Hiphop, sold out and are 40 plus still bumping Gucci and Waka in their cars. No one’s hating on Kanye, there’s just nothing different going on.

      1. Agreed. There are so many fad-jumpers in hiphop nowadays it’s harder than ever for anyone to get GOOD music out and heard. Wow, Kanye said he’s doing classics and it’s Picasso-like and everyone is all over him like Herpes. No sense of individual tastes anymore, an amalgamation of artists forced down your ears by big corporations. MTV has 8 artists on its rotation and Kanye has put all of them on one album, wow, that’s not impressive music, it’s impressive marketing skills. So and so is on such a record with…oh really, well that ish must be hot then. He tries to compare himself as a trendsetter and barrier breaker in the same vein as Radiohead and Bjork but he isn’t. Lets hear some stripped back ish Kanye, let’s hear beats and you instead of filling your ish with artists that ‘everyone wants to hear’. The album will sell well but in a world where Justin Bieber sells well it doesn’t mean you have music to be proud off.

      2. Because you’re so knowledgeable in it. So why don’t we see you making a career out of it? I’m not even talking about rapping. But there’s many people who can cover hip-hop, write about it, etc. Yet we don’t see you anywhere.

        It’s not that you’re a hater, and it’s also not that we’re dickriders. You’re just a dumb fucking elitist who thinks you’re better because you listen to the shit from the 90s. It’s 2010, it’s 20 years later, music changes. Get the fuck over it.

        It’s cool if you still can bump Big L, but if we want to listen to this, that doesn’t make you better than us. That just makes you a dick stuck in the past.

      3. These have to be the two silliest comments I’ve seen on this site ever. First off who exactly is Kanye copying? Those other rappers getting mtv bet and vh1 to shut down for an hour to watch an art film he directed? There is a different between trying to make the best hip-hop music and making music that can touch as many people as possible. Did you not hear kanye over Pete Rock friday? Ye must be riding that huge mainstream pete rock obsession… or maybe he’s selling out by doing beats w/ Rza… and Madlib… Dude was just on the radio talkin bout the feeling Joell Ortiz gives him, same as Pusha T. Do the math homie, appreciate the free gifts that you recieve, and keep your unfounded negativity to yourself.

    18. i love it it’s an epic song. i would have love it more if rihanna was just on the hook. but it’s like an all star track so i get it.

    19. Wish it hadnt leaked but this track is greezzzyyy. Don’t know why he dropped drake, i thought his verse from the snippet was sick.

    20. It was good but I wanted to hear more of Alicia Keys John Legend and Elton John. The only true artists on this track are them and Kanye.

    21. KISS METHOD- KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID!!! Sorry but this get 3/5 due to its erroneous features. U don’t need them and they dont add SHIT to the song to be honest. Lol funny part is the 1st snippet with only drake kanye and whoever was on the original hook was WAAAAAY better despite Drake rappin completely off topic n got cut off mid verse… SMH dropped da ball but the mix is alot cleaner… Cons out weighin da Pros on this one fellaz… Don’t ride da balls n give constructive critique… KISS METHOD

    22. This shit has gotten ridiculous. I’m tired of this ‘we are the world’ shit. It’s not even necessary to have all these motherfuckers on this song. It’s overkill. Nigga just make a beat, write a rhyme for it, and get in the booth and knock it out. He had Elton John in the lab and this is what he came up with it? This shit is whack. It’s like he wants everyone to know how many friends he has or somethin’. Kanye just strikes me as a very insecure guy who’s always trying to convince everyone that he’s no insecure.

      1. Can’t disagree with you,theres never a reason to put all these people on one 5:00 minute track,Rihanna,Kid Cudi,Drake and maybe even Fergie on the song wouldve been fine

    23. Stay tuned for his new song on Friday.

      “Victory Lap” feat. Stevie Wonder, Madonna, Special Ed, Buju Banton, David Hasselhoff, Zack Morris, Mike Tyson, Celine Dion, Hulk Hogan, Jamiroquai, Barack Obama, Grady from Sanford and Son, Tito Jackson, Joey Gladstone, Bart Simpson, Kid-N-Play, Jay-Z, Vanilli, Pharell, Martha Stewart, Gerardo, and the astronaut lady that drove across the country with a diaper on.

    24. I know other artist did this too but common had a little bit better cuz at least u can figure out which one which, on this it’s hard to tell, only a few stuck out tho.

    25. AMAZING…ESPECIALLY LIKE FERGIE VERSE, I KINDA HOPE SHE WOULD OF WENT IN A FULL 16 AT LEAST…BUT THIS A CELEBRATION 10/5

    26. It’s pretty gud…not great…I give it a 4.

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      ‘Friday Night Lights’
      November 12 2010

      1. Oh yes better believe I’m datpiffin that. I’ve heard most of Kanye’s song off his new album, and lemme just say, his College Dropout years are gone.

        BUT, why are niggas saying K.R.I.T is as good as or better than J. Cole? I listened to Woodgrain Soul and it was good, but ultimately boring to me.

    27. Boooooooooooo. Why in the fuck would you axe Drizzy? I TRULY believe that adding a faggot, Elton John, and a bunch of unneeded singers doesn’t make it a better song. Really upset about this honestly was my favorite song on the album until now.

      1. Let’s get real. Sure elton john is gay but you cant doubt that dudes talent. he is way more talented than drake will ever be. i TRULY believe that you dont know what good music is. Also no one gives a fuck that you’re upset

      2. Elton John may be gay, but Drake is more of a faggot than he’ll ever be. By the way, you’re a punk ass idiot. You don’t know shit about music or about life, and all it took was a couple sentences out of your mouth to make that glaringly obvious. Elton John is a musical legend. What the fuck have you done?

      3. I wouldnt say I’d listen to elton john music all day. But c’mon, dudes a legend. He’s had more experience with music and generally life (considering him being gay, and many other reasons). He’s got more musical insperation than drake has in the hand he jerks of with

    28. IMO, leave all the females, and replace all the niggas wit LUPE FIASCO.. it would be an EPIC TRACK!!

    29. this is how it goes from who sings what:

      All of the lights (all of the lights)
      (Lights, lights)
      All of the lights (all of the lights)

      [Rihanna]
      Turn up the lights in here baby
      extra bright, I want y’all to see this
      turn up the lights in here, baby
      you know what I need
      want you to see everything
      Want you to see all of the lights

      (all of the lights)

      Fast cars, shooting stars
      (all of the lights, all of the lights)
      Until it’s Vegas everywhere we are
      (all of the lights, all of the lights)

      If you want it you can get it for the rest of your life
      If you want it you can get it for the rest of your life

      [Kanye West]
      Something wrong
      I hold my head
      MJ gone…our n-gga dead!
      I slapped my girl, she called the feds
      I did that time and spent that bread
      I’m heading home, I’m almost there
      I’m on my way, heading up the stairs
      to my surprise, a n-gga replacing me
      I had to take ’em to that ghetto university

      [Chorus]
      all of the lights
      cop lights, flash lights, spot lights
      strobe lights, street lights
      (all of the lights, all of the lights)
      fast life, drug life
      thug life, rock life
      every night
      (all of the lights)

      [Rihanna]
      Turn up the lights in here, baby
      extra bright, I want y’all to see this
      turn up the lights in here, baby
      you know what I need, want you to see everything
      want you to see all of the lights

      [Kanye West]
      Restraining order
      can’t see my daughter
      her mother, brother, grandmother hate me in that order
      public visitation
      we met at Borders
      told her she take me back
      I’ll be more supportive
      I made mistakes
      I bump my head
      courts suck me dry
      I spent that bread
      she need a daddy
      baby please, can’t let her grow up in that ghetto university

      [Chorus]
      all of the lights
      cop lights, flash lights, spot lights

      strobe lights, street lights
      (all of the lights, all of the lights)
      fast life, drug life
      thug life, rock life
      every night
      (all of the lights)

      [Rihanna]
      Turn up the lights in here, baby
      extra bright, I want y’all to see this
      turn up the lights in here, baby
      you know what I need, want you to see everything
      want you to see all of the lights

      [Kid Cudi]
      Getting mine, baby
      gotta let these n-ggas know, yeah
      get it right, ay
      you should go and get your own

      Getting mine, baby
      gotta let these n-ggas know, yeah
      get it right, ay
      you should go and get your own

      [Fergie]
      Unemployment line, credit card declined
      did I not mention I was about to lose my mind?
      (my mind, my mind, my mind)
      and also was about to do that line
      okay, okay, you know we going all the way this time
      (this time, this time, this time)
      we going all the way this time
      (time, time, time, time)
      we going all the way this time

      we going all the way this time
      we going all the way this time

      Turn up the lights in here, baby
      extra bright, I want y’all to see this
      turn up the lights in here, baby
      you know what I need, want you to see everything
      want you to see all of the lights

      [Alicia Keys]
      Whoaa-oh-whoa
      Whoaa-oh-whoa-oh

      [Elton John]
      I tried to tell you but all I could say is ohhhh

      [Alicia Keys]
      Whoaa-oh-whoa
      Whoaa-oh-whoa-oh

      [Elton John]
      I tried to tell you but all I could say is ohhhh

      [Alicia Keys]
      Whoaa-oh-whoa
      Whoaa-oh-whoa-oh

      [Elton John]
      I tried to tell you but all I could say is ohhhh

    30. Taylor Swift sold over a million. Kanye West sucks…. the only real musicians are Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber who are the only non-illuminati singers.

      1. seriously dude, give this illuminati bullshit a break…I’m fucking so sick of hearing about it. Who gives a fuck one way or the other. I dont give a shit if Jay-Z was the actual DEVIL, I dont care!!!!!

      2. you guys are right, i’m sorry, it’s my homosexuality that’s clouding my mind, someone please do me in the ear. PLEASE!

    31. damn how many people are on this track 0.o to many features i like the simpler version with drake still dope though

    32. Song sucks,Kanye- 2 verses,could barely here cudi or anyone else smh but i expected it to be garbage…album is disappointing,you’d expect an album with RZA and Raekwon as guest features to be good,but of course not true. Kanye has some good verses but he doesnt step it up at all and honsetly wth is with him and not using his actual voice,no autotune on this,no he used something even worse

      1. I completely agree with the Voice altering shit, i dont understand why he continues to go with it when clearly the best sound he ever had was on Late Registration and The Dropout, 2 albums where he didn’t once use autotune.

    33. f u guys its just musik and people just needs to listen to the whole sound not the attitude of person who made it….dang sum pips are stooopid…. cant help them..

      1. thats it
        so many people hate on kanye west and jay-z
        but imagie hiphop without those people WTFFF SO MANY AMAZING SONGS
        unique and just GOOD

    34. its nice but i hope he puts a compact 3 min version on the album not that thing

      id rather here it with hook like it is annd just 2, 3 good rappers
      but still better the way it is than with drake and nikki minaj on it

    35. wasnt drake supposed to be on this track? and fergie kinda ruins it for me… but otherwise its nice with an ill ass beat

    36. Kanye is definitely on some next level shit…

      I’ll forgive 808’s if you keep this up Kanye. It’s not just Hip Hop anymore, it’s Music… GOOD Music.

    37. Kanye West is a very well respected artist…. to have an Elton John vocal, even a smidget, is a huge sign of respect

    38. I also hate that Fergie shit. She should quit from hip-hop and go to fuckin mainstream. Thumbs up for Kanye, Cude, Elton John

    39. i know its a good song when i close my eyes and just boop……. on a public wifi hot spot then get up and throw the earbuds down and say that shit wasnt fair to other niggas

    40. People don’t understand. Kanye does MUSIC now, not just hip hop. He has the pull in the industry to craft songs exactly the way he thinks they should sound as an artist. The only other people in history that could pull this off are MJ, Stevie, Frank Sinatra and other justifiable legends. Too many features for my taste but the song is great and I give props to a legend in the making. RESPECT!!!

    41. I pray to freaking God that this isn’t the final version of this song…This track absolutely PLUMMETS after Kanye’s 2nd verse ends…I’ve never heard a song that was so good in the first half and so terrible in the 2nd one…

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    43. okay break down of the song:

      Kanye west-could obviously hear

      The-dream-has a part at the end just say owaa in autotune

      Kid Cudi- says “gettin Mine(Right 2nd time) baby gotta let these N*ggas know.

      Fergie-raps and says going all this way this time

      ryan leslie-says turn up the lights in hear baby after fergie raps

      Alicia Keys-sings awooo awooo while ryan leslie is saying turn up the lights in here baby.

      Elton John- plays piano on kid cudi part and at end

      Tony williams-says i forgot to tell ya but all i can say is ahh

      elly Jackson-says until they mstay exactly were we are

      john legend i cant find and charlie i cant find

    44. I LOVE….Chocalate, mustard, ice cream, lasagna, iced tea, and piña colada yoghurt…..,but for some reason it doesn’t taste as good when you mash them all together.

      1. What a coincidence, because that’s exactly what’s not going on here! That’s a terrible metaphor, because for one, food can’t be compared to music.

        And two, if you insist on this stupid ass metaphor, when you use each ingredient correctly, i.e a dash of Elton’s piano, a layer of Keys’ vocals, you get a deliciously awesome track.

        There you go, you’re welcome.

      1. are you serious! don’t get mad cause it’s alot of ppl on one track. the song is hot.Can’t wait for the cd ye!!

      1. there is no G.O.O.D. Friday Version. This isn’t the real album version either. It’s funny how 4 different versions of each song have leaked and none of them are correct. only rapper I know that has different versions like Sublime.

    45. Fergies line meant alot to me but that is only due to the fact I know her history before B.E.P. (Wild Orchid) when she had a meth addiction..so with that knowledge when she says “Unemployment line, credit card declined/ did I not mention I was about to lose my mind?/ (my mind, my mind, my mind)/
      and also was about to do that line?/” I understand where she is coming from and appreciate the energy and dedication to the concept of the song from her. KEEP YOUR HEAD UP FERGIE!!

    46. only heard Kanye, John Legend (backing vocals only), Ryan Leslie, Alicia Keys, Fergie (worst part on the song tho), Kid Cudi, Elton John (on piano) & Rihanna.
      didnt hear the-dream, charlie wilson, tony williams and elly jackson although i hv no clue how tony n elly’s voices sound like

      1. Fergies line meant alot to me but that is only due to the fact I know her history before B.E.P. (Wild Orchid) when she had a meth addiction..so with that knowledge when she says “Unemployment line, credit card declined/ did I not mention I was about to lose my mind?/ (my mind, my mind, my mind)/
        and also was about to do that line?/” I understand where she is coming from and appreciate the energy and dedication to the concept of the song from her. KEEP YOUR HEAD UP FERGIE!

    47. This song fits Fergie. They blend her vocals with Rihanna at the beginning.
      I think the final version will feature Fergie since she has a verse. Not a fan per se but she fits it musically.
      I think Ye just had everyone lay down a track and will decide what to do later!

    48. Amazing! I can hear everyone but John Legend and I’m not fimiliar with Elly Jackson’s voice. I like the way he implemented Dream when you hear him say “lghts,lights,lights”

    49. utterly average song, no matter how many more names it will feature, i cant just see the point on pushn forward such a needless product.

    50. I’m feeling the hell out of this song but I think it’s missing something. A few more guests on it will really finish balancing it out.

    51. You know, I was singing up that ‘all of the lights’ refrain… can I be on the remix, Kanye?

      Kidding. I’d end up doing something stupid to Rihanna in the processes…but I’m digging it, but we need Cudi gone. I would rather have had Drake. Or may I say it, Jay?!?

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