Kanye West LP named album of the decade

Kanye West's debut LP has reportedly been named album of the decade.

The 12-time Grammy winner posted a blog entry on his official website after hearing the news that The College Dropout was honoured as the top album of the '00s by Entertainment Weekly.

The 32-year-old wrote: "Wow... This is really flattering... I've had some ups and downs this year, well, actually this decade. Just seeing this cover takes me back to that time of my life. I remember how much pain and love went into this album. No-one saw it coming.

"This project wasn't about me, it was about a time in people's lives where people force opinions on you and you have to make choices for yourself. We loved 50 Cent but we wanted to be the yang. We wanted to wear pink polos and rap about being hurt instead [of] being invincible. There was a core group of people who worked on this album everyday... Plain Pat, John Monopoly, Don Crawley, Anthony Kilhoffer, Manny Marroquin, John Legend, Devon Harris, Rhymefest, Gee Roberson, hip hop, Al Branch, Damon Dash, Gabe Tesoriero, Craig Bauer, GLC, Ol' School Ice Gree, Consequence, B Nice and my mum."

He added: "I was most inspired by The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill and I listened to that album everyday while working on my debut. Thank you for this acknowledgement, and for putting The Blueprint on the list also. I loved The Love Below and Get Rich Or Die Trying also. They both equally deserved the number one spot in my eyes but there can only be one number one!!"