This previously unreleased 2002 interview with MTV shows a very different side of the rapper, back when he was known only as the guy who made Jay’s beats.
This 2002 interview of Kanye West with MTV is an amazing reminder of how far the rapper has come (and how hardened he's become post-fame).
Here, he's practically a different person: thick Chicago accent, words all running into each other because that's just how excited he is, a hunger to prove himself. One thing remains the same, though: He's still just as passionate and nerdy about the music he loves as he was more than a decade ago.
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He gets giddy recalling playing his beats for Jay Z for the first time.
And reenacts conversations and moments crucial to his beginnings.
He's blown away by his own punchlines and zingers in his raps.
"Hold on, hold on, hold on, that line was too good! That line was too good!"
