It became West's sixth solo album in succession to debut at No. It wasnt hitting; he wasnt doing it right. [But] a new person came in to head the Urban department and this person just cut the deal. His third release, Graduation (2007), produced the hit singles Good Life and Stronger and garnered him four more Grammy Awards. Im about to get a record deal. The College Dropout peaked at No. I believe he succeeded by going to that extreme, being I am the supreme, emotional male who dont take no shit. He was the rapper who had a Mercedes-Benz and a backpack. They didnt have acapella stems to give to us, but they suggested the Lauryn Hill Unplugged album. Here we have a song about Jesus that we wanted on regular rotation. I then knew what he was going to do. The reaction from it [made him] say: Shit, this is going on my album., Off that verse I got so many record offers, but I trusted Kanye and went with him. And Then There Was Kanye: 15 Years After "The College Dropout" In February 2017, the GOOD music president, Pusha T, said in an interview that West was working on a new album. At the age of 10, West moved for a year with Donda to China, where she taught as part of a university-exchange program; he was the only foreigner in his class. He was trying to use it for one of the mixtapes we were doing. We obliged and we planned on pushing his beats, feeding his sound and creating an opportunity for him as an artist., John Monopoly: In 98, Me and Don C who is a distant cousin but who I didnt meet until 93, through mutual friends managed the Go-Getters, a group that we formed around Kanye. He said, J, you need to get to L.A. Kanye got this song with him and Jay Z and he wants to put a poet on it. Omissions? Pat was like, Kanye? [Kanye] was all for it. I had just quit my job. After spending time producing for local artists, West developed a signature style, dubbed "chipmunk soul," characterized by sped-up soul samples. A couple days later, we were in the lounge of the studio (Record Plant) and John Stephens walks in and everyone shouts him out. A lot of labels, like Rawkus, didnt see Kanyes vision completely. Kanye West now enjoying a resurgence on the Billboard 200 chart as his old albums seeing massive sales increases. I figured the more hype Id create around Kanye the more itd help me because he was such a different type of artist at the time. I think thats why Ye agreed to give it to Twist. Hes like, I can die right now. Im playing pool, and he comes around and he starts singing: When it all falls down. I told him to go to the end of the record and hear the clapping at the end, and he gave me that look again. Later that year he released the chaotic and unsettling ye, on which he declared that he is bipolar. He wrote and recorded a song about the experience, "Through the Wire," with his jaw still wired shut following reconstructive surgery. He wanted me on the records they were doing, and it eventually spawned into us working together. Music A&R | Founder of Honest Management, Plain Pat Producer | Songwriter | Fromer A&R, Island Def Jam, Shalik Berry VP of A&R, Epic Records | Former A&R Coordinator, Island Def Jam, Tony Williams Cousin to Kanye West | Singer | Songwriter.

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