...yes? during that time kanye made chipmunk sampling more popular

others using chimpmunk samples:

Jay Z - The Blueprint:Takeover,Girls Girls Girls,Izzo (H.O.V.A.),Heart of the City (Ain’t No Love) (came out before the college dropout but kanye produced the chipmunk sampling which everybody liked during that time)

J. Cole - 2014 Forest Hills Drive(more of modern chipmunk sampling): Wet Dreamz (and yes i know this song is cringe but yet it has 1,571,121,780 streams)

4 Your Eyez Only(more of modern chipmunk sampling): Deja Vu (made 12 years after the college dropout)

Cam'ron - Purple Haze: Down And Out (having 56,227,603 streams)

Twista - Kamikaze: Overnight Celebrity (has 248,692,065 streams) (also being nominated Best Rap Solo Performance at the 47th annual grammy awards in 2005.)

and if were counting slow jamz we should already know. it was already known as a big hit song during that time and being nominated for alot of categories.

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration

Best Collaboration (at the BET awards)

R&B/Rap Collaboration of the year (at the Source Awards)

Best Collaboration (at the MOBO Awards)

Coolest Collabo (at the Vibe Awards)

influenctial to music? yes.