I first met Kanye in 1995, when we were both graduating high school. He’d have his keyboard, sampler, and drum machine all spread out on my mom’s dining room table, making beats.”ĭevo Springsteen: “We’re cousins, but we didn’t grow up together. That was one of his first experiences going into a recording studio.
That holiday, I took him over to a friend of mine’s studio, that was producing for Color Me Badd. I looked into items: drum machine, sampler. My aunt said he wasn’t feeling art and asked me for some recommendations on some equipment. When he was 12 or 13 years old, Kanye got into hip-hop and decided he wanted to be a rapper. It was weird, but he was always a genius kid, so we knew he would do something. Everyone was a great singer, except Kanye, so he’d just go sit in a corner. Everyone, at my grandparents, would sing or play instruments. Every holiday, we would all come back to Oklahoma City. Holidays were always spent in Oklahoma City at my grandparents’ house. Our family is a very musical family, starting with our grandmother who was the musical matriarch of the family. His mother and my dad are brother and sister. Tony Williams: “Kanye and I are first cousins - I’m 14 years older than him. Tony Williams – Cousin to Kanye West | Singer | Songwriter Shalik Berry – VP of A&R, Epic Records | Former A&R Coordinator, Island Def Jam Plain Pat – Producer | Songwriter | Fromer A&R, Island Def Jam
Kyambo “Hip Hop” Joshua – Co-Executive Producer | Manager | Co-Co-CEO of Hip Hop Since 1978 John Monopoly – Manager | Co-Founder of Hustle Period Joe “3H” Weinberger –Management | Former A&R, Capitol Records Gee Roberson – Co-Executive Producer | Manager | Co-CEO of Hip Hop Since 1978 | Co-CEO of Blueprint Group In celebration of Kanye West’s “The College Dropout,” here are the stories of 26 contributors – “The Good, The Bad, The Ugly” – who were involved in the making of the album, and more importantly, became instrumental to Kanye West’s career.Įxclusive Kanye Videos: Never-Before-Seen ‘College Dropout’ FootageĨ8-Keys – Founder of Locksmith Music | Producer | RapperĬoodie & Chike – Directors | Founders of Creative Controlĭamon Dash – Executive Producer | Co-Founder of Roc-A-Fella Recordsĭevo Springsteen – Cousin to Kanye West | Former roomate to John Legend | P roducer | Songwriter Even as everyone moved on to fulfill their own ambitions and dreams, “The College Dropout” was in the pit of each of them. One family, one machine, with the goal to kick down doors and brighten Kanye West’s future. Kanye West: How the Rapper Grew From ‘Dropout’ to ‘Yeezus’Įveryone involved – Kanye West, those he grew up with him in Chicago (GLC, Coodie, Chike, Really Doe, Olskool Ice-Gre, JB Marshall), those who he met at the latter end of the album’s development to those who in the thick of it all – were so hungry to achieve something that they became one unit.
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