Kanye West's third album, "Graduation," isn't due out till summer's end, but the Grammy-winning, multimillion-selling rapper-producer is already leaking studio tracks on the Internet.
A batch of new West material has surfaced on a 25-track mix tape assembled by the producer. "Can't Tell Me Nothing (The Official Mixtape)" includes "Us Placers," a collaboration with rappers Lupe Fiasco and Pharrell Williams, billing themselves as CRS. Thom Yorke's "The Eraser," the title track from the Radiohead singer's 2006 solo album, serves as an eerie backdrop for a meditation on the lure of wealth, the perils of fame and the cruelty of fate. The three rappers' verses are loosely organized around Yorke's haunting refrain: "The more you try to erase me, the more that I appear."
Though West is a major-label recording artist, he has consistently leaked his music to the public through back-channel mix tapes, a burgeoning underground source for breaking new artists and laying the groundwork for new releases by established rappers. West floated his breakthrough song "Through the Wire" on the Internet long before it officially surfaced on his 2004 debut album, "The College Dropout."
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