How old was kanye when he released college dropout? His raps were really good, but I didnt really think star from those raps or that moment. Youre a gangster, a baller, a backpacker or youre a seller. Theyre stuff was corny to us. The reverberations from that moment are still being felt. What relatable experience would he be rapping about at that time? We played it so much, I couldnt hear for one day. You think your mom would clear it? He said, You think Kanye would give me a feature? I was like, We can work that out. Kanye West albums discography - Wikipedia One of my guys, Coodie, had moved to New York. He was just learning how to make music, but he was the most persistent person who Ive ever met. All of us was were kind of fucking around with some shit, and here we were with this opportunity to be a part of something great and extract greatness from ourselves., 88-Keys: Lauryn Hill was supposedly working on a follow-up album [to 1998s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill]. It sounds old school. He could rap but [Damon Dash] wasnt buying him as an artist. It was the perfect medium of street and conscious. I get where people that say they miss the old Kanye come from, and it has merit. When I first told him, he said, Oh shit. The magic of the album was that it was everything, not just west coast or east coast. Thats why we went so hard to get the sample cleared., Devo Springsteen: They experimented with John Legend at one point [in place of Lauryn Hill]., Consequence: I remember when it was called Self-Conscious and it was to a different beat. Kanye West's 18 Most Career Defining Moments. He was like, Im at Kanyes crib, come through. I was with Tarrey Torae, my girlfriend and stage-mate at the time, my wife now. Twista needed a single. A year or two before College Dropout, I played him some original stuff from my new band, contemporary Christian group, Souljah, and he was in awe of them. Days later, he confirmed the rumors about new material in a rapid-fire series of tweets, declaring he would drop two albums within a week of one another in June, the second one involving longtime collaborator Kid Cudi. I had to show and prove.
