In: Culture

Published on 12 June 2012

By James

KanyeWest

I've been a Kanye West fan from long before the time he released The College Dropout (Matt too). We used to cruise around in Matt's Pontiac Grand Prix blasting his mixtapes. I think Kanye West would be the first to admit that he's got an attitude problem, but he doesn't care. He's earned every cent he's got to his name by producing dope beats and dropping hot songs and albums. Some people don't realize that Kanye was a producer long before he was a rapper. He however, always had dreams of rapping but couldn't garner the respect necessary from his peers (including Jay-Z) to drop a full length album. Rather than become discouraged, he dropped mixtapes like I'm Good and Freshman Adjustment. Eventually everyone began to take notice and the rest was history. People who've followed Kanye's career for the past 10-12 years will probably be familiar with these tracks, but for those who aren't give a listen to some of these. They're awesome tracks. A lot of them made later albums in different form.

Hey Mama (original with slightly different beat)