“Don’t Call Kanye”

Combat Jack posted a cool essay on Kanye, here’s half of it.

“I’ve known about Kanye for a long time. Like way back going to 1996, maybe 1997. I used to work with Deric “D-Dot” Angelettie, also known as the Madd Rapper. Back when D-Dot was producing hits heavy for Diddy and the Bad Boy camp. The Hitmen production team, as they were called, were untouchable. Deric had my office sign a young unknown Kanye to his production company, Crazy Cat Catalogue, just cause Mr. West was sick with it behind the boards. Years later, I sat down with Kanye. He was telling me about the heat he had produced for Jay-Z’s upcoming Blueprint album, back in 2001. He was also going nuts about how he was about to launch his rapping career. He was real amped and animated about it, but inside I was going “yeah right”, not cause he wasn’t talented, but because Kanye West wasn’t no rapper. Not in my mind. Then, not in anyone’s.

When dude’s first album “College Droput” dropped, the world jumped on his shit. I wasn’t buying into the hype though. Because he didn’t fit the rapper profile, I was still yeah right.  No doubt “Jesus Walks” was fires, and the rest of them singles was hot, but I just wasn’t recognizing. Ni@@a wore a back pack. He rocked mascot costumes on his album covers. He looked too collegiate to be placed next to any of my top ten rappers. Plus, he sounded corny, mid western accent and the way he extra emphasized every other word and the third in his verses. He was awright, but nah B. Kanye wasn’t no rapper to me. I seen producer rappers before, they supposed to sound decent on they own beats. I boycotted “College Dropout” hard. The beats he produced for everybody else was crazy though.”

Check out the rest here

I always like seeing writers give props when they don’t wanna give props. Shit is funny as hell and it happens to me too sometimes. Trust the writers that give credit where credit is due.