50 Things You Didn't Know About Kanye West.

[The_King_of_Everything]

50. He lived in China for year in 5th grade.

49. His mom said he made kids in China give him sheep skewers in exchange for watching him breakdance.

48. Being a male porn star popped in his head "once or twice."

47. He sold his first beat to local Chicago rapper Gravity for $8,800.

46. He used the $8,800 to buy a Jesus Piece and Polo clothes.

45. A year later, he sold the chain to No I.D. to help finance his move to NYC.

44. In 2000, he was arrested for allegedly stealing printers from OfficeMax after a case of mistaken identity.

43. No I.D. briefly fell back from helping Kanye when he took him to label meetings and 'Ye jumped on tables shouting that he was the next Michael Jackson.

42. He'd "leave meetings crying all the time" before he got signed.

41. He shot the video for "Through The Wire" with $35,000 of his own money.

40. The sample for "Through The Wire" wasn't cleared until the video was added to rotation on MTV2.

39. When the Hezekiah Walker Chorus didn't deliver, he drove to the Hamptons and paid the Harlem Boys Choir $10,000 to get on "Two Words."

38. Rick Rubin, who Kanye's called the "Hollywood Yellow Pages," hooked him up with Late Registration co-producer, Jon Brion.

37. He originally planned a theatrical release for all of the music videos from Late Registration.

36. While working on Late Registration, he kept a side-by-side tracklisting of Common's Be in the studio to make sure his own album was just as good.

35. He mixed "Diamonds From Sierra Leone" 14 times.

34. M.I.A. was supposed to be on album cut "Drive Slow."

33. Shawnna passed on the beat for the album's biggest single, "Gold Digger."

32. He doesn't keep his Grammys or any other awards in his house.

31. He didn't appreciate Common's "They Say" being nominated for Best Rap/Sung Collab over "Heard 'Em Say" and "Gold Digger."

30. He apologized to Common for the way his Grammy speech sounded when Late Registration beat Be.

29. After Late Registration dropped, he said: "I think I'm gonna move to London. Get a fake-ass British accent like Madonna."

28. Around the same time, he said: "I TiVo rap videos so I can study them. To learn what steps to take to crush them all."

27. Macy Gray sang a reference for Mission: Impossible 3 track, "Impossible."

26. He still stands because behind his Katrina comments but respects how George W. Bush can "deal with being the bad guy."

25. He tried to record "Crack Music" without the N-word.

24. He consciously replaced the N-word with "homie" on "Can't Tell Me Nothing."

23. Yes, Timbaland helped with the drums on "Stronger." A lesser known fact is movie director Michael Gondry helped with the drums on "Diamonds."

22. Graduation's "stadium" sound was inspired by touring with the Rolling Stones and U2.

21. "Stronger" took 50 mixes and eight engineers to complete.

20. Micheal Jackson called him to ask about the jacket he wore in the "Stronger" video.

19. He wrote a personal letter about his dad to Donald Fagen of Steely Dan to get the "Kid Charlemagne" sample cleared for "Champion."

18. He came out of his own pocket to shoot the Glow in the Dark tour when Best Buy backed out of sponsoring it.

17. While recording 808s & Heartbreak, he saw Hawaii's 808 area code as a sign that the album was meant to be.

16. He says that Drake was the first artist who actually scared and put pressure on him.

15. Mos Def came to his house after the Taylor Swift incident at the VMAs and encouraged him to move out of America.

14. He booked a flight to Minnesota to work with Justin Vernon of Bon Iver but it was canceled because of snowstorm. He invited Vernon to work on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy in Hawaii instead.

13. Kanye made Pusha T re-write his "Runaway" verse four times and pushed him to be more of a douchebag each time.

12. While getting his hair cut, he rapped "Power" to Pete Rock before he even laid vocals.

11. Q-Tip said Kanye would even ask people who delivered food for their opinion on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

10. Nicki Minaj's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy intro is based on writer Roald Dahl's "Cinderella."

9. After dropping out of school, he worked as a telemarketer to pay his mom the $200 a month in rent she demanded

8. Kid 'n' Play's debut and De La Soul's "My, Myself, and I" were the first records to catch his attention.

7. He made his first beat in seventh grade.

6. The beat was for a sexual Mario-style video game that he programmed, where "the ghosts were vaginas."

5. When he was 13, he cried when his dad didn't let him get his hair cut often enough to keep up a high top fade.

4. He had an early nickname of "Deep House" because of his baggy pants and backpacks.

3. He's said that real estate was another early hustle before he got on by making beats.

2. He thought The College Dropout "fell short of the actual Fiona Apple or Portishead sound" he was going after.

1. Some of his unreleased music includes a record with Jay-Z and Jack White and a song that samples music from Broadway musical Wicked.

 

[Henryflo1]

That Michael Jackson story sound crazy

 

[Doin2Much Williams]

I still got my College Dropout poster in my room that i ripped off a wooden power line in January 2004.


Was the biggest Ye nuthugger this side of the Milky Way.


And to think i never met the man i looked up to more than any figure in my entire existence.


But that mystery created an even stronger fixation.


Now, i'm just ehhh.


.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Honestly...when Kanye came out, he was probably the only celebrity role model I ever had.

 

[Tom]

Who are these people spending $8,800 on an unknown producers beats?


terrible investment especially when nobody knows who u are after rapping on it

 

[DaveyDave]

no way ANYONE is buying beat from no name producers for almost 10 Gs back in the mid to late 90s

 

[Artfull Dodger]

51. In 2013 He discovered that his Skirt has no place in Hiphop

Spoiler

awaiting them negs from his fanboys

 

[Mak]

Who are these people spending $8,800 on an unknown producers beats?


terrible investment especially when nobody knows who u are after rapping on it

no way ANYONE is buying beat from no name producers for almost 10 Gs back in the mid to late 90s

Thats what I thought too, but at the same time ole homey prolly had that dope money to throw away...and this was a beat from hungry Kanye.....Lets not forget:

[ame=http://youtu.be/rcL2IGJna8s]Beanie Sigel-Nothing Like It (Instrumental with Intro) - YouTube[/ame]

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he wasnt always wearing skirts now....

 

[infamous003]

1. Some of his unreleased music includes a record with Jay-Z and Jack White

 

[tirademode]

Vagina ghosts :

 

[DaveyDave]

Thats what I thought too, but at the same time ole homey prolly had that dope money to throw away...and this was a beat from hungry Kanye.....Lets not forget:

Beanie Sigel-Nothing Like It (Instrumental with Intro) - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwJB2rJKD9Qhe
he wasnt always wearing skirts now....

it doesn't matter what beat it was, cats like Premo were still selling beats for 5-10 Gs in the mid 90s so why would you pay 8 for Kanye? either it wasn't really the first beat he EVER sold or someone is making shyt up because i doubt even Ye would have the balls to charge more than a couple of G's for his FIRST sold beat ever

 

[observe]

So he mixed a few songs hella times and made pusha t rewrite his verse 4x..wow..no producers ever done that

 

[BIGDENNIS10UK]

Cinderella by Roald Dahl • 26 poems by Roald Dahl
I guess you think you know this story.
You don't. The real one's much more gory.
The phoney one, the one you know,
Was cooked up years and years ago,
And made to sound all soft and sappy
just to keep the children happy.
Mind you, they got the first bit right,
The bit where, in the dead of night,
The Ugly Sisters, jewels and all,
Departed for the Palace Ball,
While darling little Cinderella
Was locked up in a slimy cellar,
Where rats who wanted things to eat,
Began to nibble at her feet.

She bellowed 'Help!' and 'Let me out!
The Magic Fairy heard her shout.
Appearing in a blaze of light,
She said: 'My dear, are you all right?'
'All right?' cried Cindy .'Can't you see
'I feel as rotten as can be!'
She beat her fist against the wall,
And shouted, 'Get me to the Ball!
'There is a Disco at the Palace!
'The rest have gone and I am jealous!
'I want a dress! I want a coach!
'And earrings and a diamond brooch!
'And silver slippers, two of those!
'And lovely nylon panty hose!
'Done up like that I'll guarantee
'The handsome Prince will fall for me!'
The Fairy said, 'Hang on a tick.'
She gave her wand a mighty flick
And quickly, in no time at all,
Cindy was at the Palace Ball!

It made the Ugly Sisters wince
To see her dancing with the Prince.
She held him very tight and pressed
herself against his manly chest.
The Prince himself was turned to pulp,
All he could do was gasp and gulp.
Then midnight struck. She shouted,'Heck!
I've got to run to save my neck!'
The Prince cried, 'No! Alas! Alack!'
He grabbed her dress to hold her back.
As Cindy shouted, 'Let me go!'
The dress was ripped from head to toe.

She ran out in her underwear,
And lost one slipper on the stair.
The Prince was on it like a dart,
He pressed it to his pounding heart,
'The girl this slipper fits,' he cried,
'Tomorrow morn shall be my bride!
I'll visit every house in town
'Until I've tracked the maiden down!'
Then rather carelessly, I fear,
He placed it on a crate of beer.

At once, one of the Ugly Sisters,
(The one whose face was blotched with blisters)
Sneaked up and grabbed the dainty shoe,
And quickly flushed it down the loo.
Then in its place she calmly put
The slipper from her own left foot.
Ah ha, you see, the plot grows thicker,
And Cindy's luck starts looking sicker.

Next day, the Prince went charging down
To knock on all the doors in town.
In every house, the tension grew.
Who was the owner of the shoe?
The shoe was long and very wide.
(A normal foot got lost inside.)
Also it smelled a wee bit icky.
(The owner's feet were hot and sticky.)
Thousands of eager people came
To try it on, but all in vain.
Now came the Ugly Sisters' go.
One tried it on. The Prince screamed, 'No!'
But she screamed, 'Yes! It fits! Whoopee!
'So now you've got to marry me!'
The Prince went white from ear to ear.
He muttered, 'Let me out of here.'
'Oh no you don't! You made a vow!
'There's no way you can back out now!'
'Off with her head!'The Prince roared back.
They chopped it off with one big whack.
This pleased the Prince. He smiled and said,
'She's prettier without her head.'
Then up came Sister Number Two,
Who yelled, 'Now I will try the shoe!'
'Try this instead!' the Prince yelled back.
He swung his trusty sword and smack
Her head went crashing to the ground.
It bounced a bit and rolled around.
In the kitchen, peeling spuds,
Cinderella heard the thuds
Of bouncing heads upon the floor,
And poked her own head round the door.
'What's all the racket? 'Cindy cried.
'Mind your own bizz,' the Prince replied.
Poor Cindy's heart was torn to shreds.
My Prince! she thought. He chops off heads!
How could I marry anyone
Who does that sort of thing for fun?

The Prince cried, 'Who's this dirty slut?
'Off with her nut! Off with her nut!'
Just then, all in a blaze of light,
The Magic Fairy hove in sight,
Her Magic Wand went swoosh and swish!
'Cindy! 'she cried, 'come make a wish!
'Wish anything and have no doubt
'That I will make it come about!'
Cindy answered, 'Oh kind Fairy,
'This time I shall be more wary.
'No more Princes, no more money.
'I have had my taste of honey.
I'm wishing for a decent man.
'They're hard to find. D'you think you can?'
Within a minute, Cinderella
Was married to a lovely feller,
A simple jam maker by trade,
Who sold good home-made marmalade.
Their house was filled with smiles and laughter


Roald Dahl>nicki minaj

 

[tirademode]

So he mixed a few songs hella times and made pusha t rewrite his verse 4x..wow..no producers ever done that

I was thinking the same thing .

14 is barely excessive . I've revisited shyt I've never released 114 times to remix then shelved it.

14 is almost lazy.

 

[BIGDENNIS10UK]

Breakdancing for the yellow man when he was barely out of nappies.