Kanye West: Driven *Rare Footage*

[BiggWebb79]

 

[mortuus est]

Yeah man he was always arrogant as hell. In 2002 he signed my Blueprint CD, and this dude took out the booklet, went through it, circled every single song that he produced and ALSO circled his own name where it said "produced by"...maybe you're wondering what he did about the Girls Girls Girls Remix, which wasn't listed in the liner notes?

He actually took the sharpie, found a blank spot in the booklet, and wrote out Girls Girls Girls Remix - produced by Kanye West, AND THEN circled THAT. I swear I need to find that and upload the picture here.

Keep in mind not a damn person that wasn't a hip-hop head knew who he was at this point. he was just some goofy dude walking around in jeans and a polo shirt wearing that Louis Vatton (spelling?) backpack filled with CDs. He did have on the Rocafella chain though. He also kept asking me why my nickname was White Mike even though Mike isn't my name.

lol thats passion and real love for his shyt right there, i guess sometimes you got to let it be known

 

[Steve Piffler]

my man kanye....

seriously, after watching that interview with sway, i was like this nikka has finally lost his mind. but he's just being kanye. there are just so many more ways to be seen on an "up to the minute" basis nowadays that his rants become tiring. but again, i can respect a nikka just doing him no matter what other people say and think.

 

[Ziggiy]

my man kanye....

seriously, after watching that interview with sway, i was like this nikka has finally lost his mind. but he's just being kanye. there are just so many more ways to be seen on an "up to the minute" basis nowadays that his rants become tiring. but again, i can respect a nikka just doing him no matter what other people say and think.

I understood where Kanye was coming from and what he was saying but disrespecting another black man on his radio show wasn't the answer....

I was glad that Sway straight up checked him on that bullshyt

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Classic "You Hear It First" video segment on Kanye West from 2002.

http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?vid=188321

Uncut 1 hour interview with MTV, he speaks on soul samples, making beats, etc. I can't stress enough how fukking dope this interview is. if you ever fukked with Kanye at any point as a producer or a rapper, you definitely owe it to yourself to take an hour and at least listen to the interview below, even if you don't want to or can't watch it.

http://www.illroots.com/read/kanye-west-2002-interview-with-mtv-yhif

 

[Pack2]

This the Kanye I could fukk with...damn what happened to dude

 

[mcellas]

Hell yeah. That might've been my favorite track on Dropout too. Kanye really took Evidence's beat to another level with all of the instruments at the end. The part that comes in at 6:28 always gets me.

I played this the whole ride to my college graduation

 

[Rominati]

Watching this made me respect the fukk out of the man Kanye went on to be

nikka was quite the underground backpack "3H" demographic darling eh


Then my nikka YE went off the deep end and upped the anty 300x on CACs and nikkaS. Hit us with next level out of this world shyt like 808s, MBDTF, Yeezus



Kanye a renegade in every sense of the word, only other artist to do that in hip hop was Wayne. fukk staying in one lane ya whole life. Let ya rap nerds tell it, he suppose to still be rapping about chicken and waffles in CHI-town over some sped up samples.



fukk YA nikkaS

 

[CaughtInTWebb]

"Everybody wanted to know what I would do.....if I didn't win....I guess we'll never know"

 

[WOAHMYGOODNESS]

Watching this made me respect the fukk out of the man Kanye went on to be

nikka was quite the underground backpack "3H" demographic darling eh


Then my nikka YE went off the deep end and upped the anty 300x on CACs and nikkaS. Hit us with next level out of this world shyt like 808s, MBDTF, Yeezus



Kanye a renegade in every sense of the word, only other artist to do that in hip hop was Wayne. fukk staying in one lane ya whole life. Let ya rap nerds tell it, he suppose to still be rapping about chicken and waffles in CHI-town over some sped up samples.



fukk YA nikkaS

Indian hair no moccasins tykw

 

[keithj]

I was thinking the same thing, but then I think it's really hard to actually go back and think about what the culture was like at the time. Rocafella was all about Dipset and State Property and even Jay was still throwing out raps about the newest guns (Heckler & Koch got a lot of plug on The Black Album), drugs, and money talk. That blue collar everyday rap hadn't caught on in mainstream hip-hop. Cats like Little Brother and Slum Village were doing it, and the Rawkus type of cats were getting some more exposure, but even though Kweli helped put on Kanye...Kanye kind of returned the favor and helped dudes like him get more exposure in the mainstream. Just my 2 cents.

It does seem crazy to me now that they didn't really want him rapping like that.

This thread made me look up these old ass Kanye beat tapes. Some of these are not actually as dope as I remembered, but it was still a cool trip down memory lane to check these out today:

http://www.djbooth.net/index/mixtapes/entry/kanye-west-beats-disc-1
http://www.djbooth.net/index/mixtapes/entry/kanye-west-beats-disc-2

Don't sleep on these links brehs

 

[How Sway?]

Another example of how jeigh zee is an opportunist.

 

[Statik]

Kanye West = Legendary. the classic albums he drop back it up (excluding Yeezus, but still a good)

The influence he's had on the new hip hop generation the past few years is powerful. Look how 808's open doors for Drake, Cudi etc.

 

[Hersh]

I was thinking the same thing, but then I think it's really hard to actually go back and think about what the culture was like at the time. Rocafella was all about Dipset and State Property and even Jay was still throwing out raps about the newest guns (Heckler & Koch got a lot of plug on The Black Album), drugs, and money talk. That blue collar everyday rap hadn't caught on in mainstream hip-hop. Cats like Little Brother and Slum Village were doing it, and the Rawkus type of cats were getting some more exposure, but even though Kweli helped put on Kanye...Kanye kind of returned the favor and helped dudes like him get more exposure in the mainstream. Just my 2 cents.

It does seem crazy to me now that they didn't really want him rapping like that.

This thread made me look up these old ass Kanye beat tapes. Some of these are not actually as dope as I remembered, but it was still a cool trip down memory lane to check these out today:

http://www.djbooth.net/index/mixtapes/entry/kanye-west-beats-disc-1
http://www.djbooth.net/index/mixtapes/entry/kanye-west-beats-disc-2

"Last week I was stumbling through my garage, searching through old storage bins when I came across some old beat CDs from my days as a signed rapper. I was shocked to find that two of them, both given to me in the year 2001, had the name 'Kanye West' on them. I remember Kanye being hyped to me as someone who had just worked with Beanie Sigel and was about to work with Ludacris, so I was obviously interested in this dude with a weird name. I popped in the CD and wasn't exactly blown away to be honest. It was definitely good though, so I asked my manager for more beats from this Kanye character. I got a second beat CD and again couldn't find anything to pick directly, but knew there was potential (keep in mind that 2001 was a mighty synth-y year). I got on the phone with Kanye that week and he played me some beats over the phone (that included "H to the Izzo"). I picked one song from that phone call and it ended up being one of the first label paychecks written with his name on it. (I also was the first person to rap his name in a song. Because 'Kanye' rhymed with 'picante').

These two beat CDs, now celebrating their 10 year anniversary and I believe the oldest Kanye beats ever released, are here for your enjoyment. We wanted you to hear these not just for the Kanye completist inside you, but for people to understand how far someone like Kanye has come. I distinctly remember him talking about rapping himself and hoping to break out of the box that was hip-hop. He told me how big of a Jim Morrison fan he was and how he wanted to sample something from him (that happened and hurt Nas bad), and even played me a song where he used only movie titles in the verses (that didn't happen, which is good cause it was awkward). And I think these two beat CDs show you where he came from, even if it doesn't necessarily sound like "Kanye" now. He kept at it and became the incredible producer he is today. I remember he even had to leave the studio sessions early, so he could make the last train back to his mom's house. He's come a long way, and I'm proud to have been around, even if for just a second at the start.

If I was super inspirational, I'd tell you guys to stick with it also, and maybe you can become a multi-platinum superstar, but I won't, cause honestly - your beats probably suck."

- Jensen Karp of The Hypemen"

Need download links immediately please

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Need download links immediately please

Those links have download options. At least disc 1 does. Disc 2 might not be downloadable, but if someone has an MPC they can rip it.