Good Life by Kanye West

Good Life is the third single from Kanye West's third album, Graduation. On MTV and on West's websites, this song is called The Good Life, but on this CD, the word 'the' is omitted. This song won a Grammy for best rap song and it features T-Pain. It also uses keys from Pretty Young Thing by Michael Jackson. Ne-Yo and John Legend provide some background vocals, while Timbaland provided the drumming beat to this song. This song has been certified as platinum by the RIAA.

The music video for this song premiered on September 11, 2007. It was first seen as a Jam of the Week on MTV. This video consists of Kanye West and T-Pain performing this song with animations occurring behind them. Typically, the lyrics that they are rapping appear behind them in large letters and bold colors. The animations were done by So Me and the directors of the video were Jonas & Francois. The song that is used in the video is longer than the album version. This version has an additional twenty-three seconds of introduction. This video reached as high as forty on VH1's Top 20 Countdown and was ranked as the number forty video in 2007 by VH1.

The song debuted on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs on September 22. It debuted at spot number sixty-three. It reached as high as third, becoming the second top ten hit off the CD Graduation. The song also reached as high as number three on the iTunes Store. This song reached as high as seventh on the Billboard Hot 100 after debuting at fourteen on September 29. This became West's second consecutive top ten hit and T-Pain's sixth top ten single. It also reached as high as eighteenth on the U.S. Billboard Pop 100 and was able to take the spot on the U.S. Billboard Hot Rap Tracks.

This song debuted at spot thirty-nine in Canada and reached a top spot of twenty-three. On November 5, 2007, this song was officially released to the United Kingdom. It was already on the chart at spot number thirty-three before it was even released. However, it only rose up to a maximum of spot twenty-three. Good Life was able to top the chart in New Zealand. It was also able to reach as high as twenty-first on the Australian Singles Chart and reached as high as seventy-eighth on the German Singles Chart.

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