In August 2005 West released his second disc, Late Registration. Rap-singer also chose for his symbol a cute teddy bear that can be seen on all his albums and singles. It was highly apprased by critics for good sampling and whitty wordplay in lyrics. It entered the debut album College Dropout that saw light in 2004. Every cloud has a silver lining, and this crash inspired him for writing the first sinlge, Through The Wire, with a strong faith motive. On October 23, 2002, Kanye West got into a car accident after falling asleep while driving. Using heavily the music of his idols, the rapper started promoting his songs to different recording companies since 2001, but they refused him saying they did not like his unusual image. Inspired by the music of Wu-Tang Clan, Dr.Dre and Jay-Z, Kanye worked out his own style - he took vocal samples from different songs (usually soul ones) and added them to his own drums and other instruments. Later West also became well-known for producing other rap and R&B singers' hits, including The Game, Alicia Keys, Janet Jackson and Eminem. Kanye got a good education (Polaris High School, The American Academy of Art), but finally dropped his study in the Chicago University to devote himself fully to the musical career. With both of his parents he lived only for three years, because they divorced and mother took Kanye with her to Chicago, Illinois.
Songs such as “All Falls Down” propelled his career and helped him break ground with his music direction for the years that followed.Kanye Omari West was born in an upper middle class family in Atlanta, Georgia. But Kanye will always be Kanye, and if he retired today, his legacy would still be cemented. With his recent tweets, he may turn away potential listeners to his new projects.
But his knowledge of how to manipulate the media is still sharp and West is quite aware of the stir he can make, which is why he’s stirring the pot. Somewhere along the lines, things changed, which in the last year and a half caused others to question his mental stability. West was always known to wild out, but at one point in time, his voice represented the people. The track served as a precursor for other socially conscious themes in his music, such as “Gold Digger,” “Crack Music” and “Addiction.” 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, while also grabbing a 2005 Grammy nod for Best Rap/Song Collaboration. Kanye even used portions of the song on Def Poetry Jam as a poem titled “Self Conscious.” This title would later serve as the demo for “All Falls Down” on his Freshman Adjustment mixtape in 2003. The record, although technically sampled due to Hill’s sampled portion of the song used as the song’s main melody, was a break away from the album’s sped-up sample-driven sound.
West used live instrumentation on “All Falls Down” with the acoustic guitar played by famed guitarist Ken Lewis. The track was built off a Lauryn Hill vocal and instrumentation sample from her 2002 song, “The Mystery of Iniquity.” That’s why shorty’s hollerin’, “Where the ballers at?”ĭrug dealer buy Jordan, crackhead buy crackĪnd the white man get paid off of all of that ‘Cause they made us hate ourself and love they wealth We’ll buy a lot of clothes, but we don’t really need ’em