Before The College Dropout
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Before Kanye released his first album to critical acclaim in 2004, he pursued many other projects, including a rap trio group named the "Go Getters" and production for other rappers, including but not limited to JAY-Z, Common, Talib Kweli, and Scarface. Two years before the release of The College Dropout, Kanye began releasing a series of mixtapes to generate hype and publicity for the eventual release of his first album. Kanye eventually signed with Roc-A-Fella records in August 2002.
Lista de Faixas (64)
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187th (with The Chicago Outfit) Song recorded in 1996 for Kanye's rap group The Chicago Outfit (later known as Go Getters). Song was posted by GLC to his blog in 2009. | Low Quality Full | |
A New State of Mind (with State of Mind) (prod. Kanye West) Demo made by the first group Kanye was in called State Of Mind, formed by him and his friend Eugene "Frexx" McNair Jr. Recorded in the early 1990s, and was on a 1993 State of Mind demo tape. Snippet was played in the Channel 4 documentary Public Enemies: JAY-Z vs Kanye. | Recording Snippet | |
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Baby's Coming (with Go Getters) Leaked in Oct 2016 by garetare from the Kanye + GG tape. Made around 2000. Samples "Ain't Nobody" by Rufus & Chaka Khan. | CD Quality Full | |
Beat 1 (prod. Kanye West) Track 1 from the September 1997 demo beat tape. Samples the song "The World is a Ghetto" by George Benson and the Common vs. Kanye freestyle battle. | High Quality Beat Only | |
Beat 2 City To City (prod. Kanye West) Track 2 from the September 1997 demo beat tape. Would later be given to Grav for the song "City To City", with the first few seconds of the instrumental missing from the final version. Samples "Cyclops" by Eddie Henderson. | High Quality Beat Only | |
Beat 3 (prod. Kanye West) Track 3 from the September 1997 demo beat tape. Samples the songs "The Infamous Prelude" by Mobb Deep and "Melodies of Love" by Joe Sample. | High Quality Beat Only | |
Beat 4 Just You and I (prod. Kanye West) Track 4 from the September 1997 demo beat tape. An updated version of the instrumental would later be given to Mad Men for the song "Just You And I". Samples "Since We Said Goodbye" by The Counts and "Mt. Aairy Groove" by Pieces of a Dream. | High Quality Beat Only | |
Beat 5 (prod. Kanye West) Track 5 from the September 1997 demo beat tape. Samples the songs "Fly Fo Life" by Suga Free and "Guess You Didn't Know" by One Way. | High Quality Beat Only | |
Beat 5 We F'ed Up (prod. Kanye West) Beat made for "Takeover" in 2001. Was recorded over by J Dilla without Kanye knowing in 2003. Unknown if JAY-Z recorded for this. Samples "You Keep Me Hangin' On" by Vanilla Fudge and "Five to One" by The Doors. | High Quality Beat Only | |
Beat 6 What You Do To Me (prod. Kanye West) Track 6 from the September 1997 demo beat tape. An updated version of the instrumental would later be given to Infamous Syndicate for the song "What You Do To Me". Samples "You Don't Know What Love Is" by Larry Coryell. | High Quality Beat Only | |
Beat 7 (prod. Kanye West) Track 7 from the September 1997 demo beat tape. Samples the song "Here We Go" by Minnie Riperton. | High Quality Beat Only | |
Beat 8 (prod. Kanye West) Track 8 from the September 1997 demo beat tape. Samples the song "Just Memories" by Eddie Kendricks. | High Quality Beat Only | |
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⭐ Dream Come True Self Conscious ??? (feat. ???) Pre-The College Dropout-era throwaway that would later have its lyrics be reused for "All Falls Down". Other than lyrics, it shares nothing in common with "All Falls Down". Track 12 off of the 2001 demo tape. | High Quality Full | |
Ever Since Recorded in 1998, leaked in 2008, full version has not currently been found. | Low Quality Partial | |
Family Business [V1] Family Affair Original version found on the 2001 demo tape. Kanye's voice is used as a reference for the sample chop. | High Quality Full | |
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Freestyle DJ Boom (feat. DJ Boom) (prod. Poke and Tone) Freestyle over the "Jigga That Nigga" beat. Track 13 off of the 2001 demo tape. | High Quality Full | |
⭐ Gotta Pose I Gotta Pose Track 7 off of the 2001 demo tape. Samples the song "Get Out of My Life Woman" by Solomon Burke. | High Quality Full | |
Have It Your Way [V1] Bring Me Down (prod. Kanye West) Track 3 off of the 2001 demo tape. Uses an early version of the "Bring Me Down" instrumental. | High Quality Full | |
Heartbeat (prod. Kanye West) Track 15 off of the 2001 demo tape. Would later be used unofficially by Royce Da 5'9" on his track "Heartbeat". | High Quality Beat Only | |
Hey Mama [V1] Hey Ma John Legend (feat. John Legend) (prod. Kanye West) First version featured on the 2001 demo tape. Overall more rough feeling than later versions. | High Quality Full | |
Home (Windy) [V1] Home John Legend (feat. John Legend) (prod. Kanye West) Original version featured on the 2001 demo tape as track 1. Samples "You'll Never Walk Alone" by Patti LaBelle and the Bluebells. | High Quality Full | |
I Need To Know [V1] (prod. Kanye West) Version that was included on the 2001 demo tape. Has some different lyrics than the later version and sounds rougher, doesn't feature John Legend either. Has lines that would later be reused on "The New Workout Plan". | High Quality Full | |
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⭐ Know The Game Track 10 off of the 2001 demo tape. Samples the Love Theme from The Godfather. | High Quality Full | |
✨ Last Freestyle I Met Oprah, Getting Out The Game, Out The Game (prod. Kanye West) Track 14 off of the 2001 demo tape. Included on the unofficial mixtape Freshmen Adjustment 2 under the name "I Met Oprah". Reuses lyrics from "Wow" with the same lyrics later being used on "Live From Irving NY, Plaza" and the unreleased version of "Wack Niggas". The beat would later be given to Consequence for his track "Getting Out The Game". | High Quality Full | |
Motherfucker [V1] D12 World (prod. Kanye West) Demo made before The College Dropout and repurposed years later for the D12 song, "D12 World". | High Quality Full | |
Smoke & Numbers - Motherfucker [V2] D12 World Kanye West (feat. Kanye West) (prod. Kanye West) Second version with Smoke & Numbers. Was lost for awhile before being rediscovered by Batby. | CD Quality Full | |
High Quality Full | ||
Never Lettin' Go (The Stalker Song) [V1] Never Let You Go ??? (feat. ???) (prod. BoardMemberz) Song featured on the leaked demo tape from 2001. A higher quality version than this version is available. Samples "Never Letting Go" by Phoebe Snow. | High Quality Full | |
⭐ Never Lettin' Go (The Stalker Song) [V2] Never Let You Go ??? (feat. ???) (prod. BoardMemberz) Higher quality version of V1, however it has a producer tag at the beginning which is missing from the version on the demo tape. | CD Quality Full | |
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Nothin's Gonna Stop Me Neva Gon Stop Me, Never Gonna Stop Me Kanye West (with Go Getters) (feat. Kanye West) (prod. Kanye West) Track 2 from Go Getters' 1999 compilation tape World Record Holders. Samples the song "Nothing Can Stop Me" by Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr. Has lines that would later be reused on the unreleased version of "Wack Niggas". | CD Quality Full | |
Nothin's Gonna Stop Me Neva Gon Stop Me, Never Gonna Stop Me Kanye West (with Go Getters) (feat. Kanye West) (prod. Kanye West) Track 2 from Go Getters' 1999 compilation tape World Record Holders. Samples the song "Nothing Can Stop Me" by Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr. Has lines that would later be reused on the unreleased version of "Wack Niggas". | CD Quality Full | |
Out Of Your Mind [V1] Arguing Early version of the song "Out Of Your Mind" that does not feature any John Legend vocals. Was included in the 2001 demo tape commonly known as The Prerequisite. Samples "Babyface (She Said Do Do Do Do)" by War and a clip of Martin Lawrence from his comedy special "You So Crazy". | High Quality Full | |
Payback [V1] (prod. Kanye West) Earlier version of the instrumental for "Payback" found on a 2001 beat CD. Samples the song "I Want To Pay You Back (For Loving Me)" by The Chi Lites. | High Quality Beat Only | |
Payback [V2] Sly Polaroid, Timmy G (feat. Sly Polaroid & Timmy G) (prod. AllDay) Unreleased Kanye song that leaked December 29th, 2008. Kanye randomly drops the F slur twice in this song. | High Quality Full | |
Roommates Roomates Consequence (feat. Consequence) Made in 1996 and rumored to be one of his first songs. Was track five on a tracklist for a Consequence project. Samples "The Odd Couple (Main Theme)" by Neil Hefti. | Low Quality Full | |
Take A Step Back A Step Back (with State Of Mind) Song from a 1993 State Of Mind demo tape. Earliest audio of Kanye rapping publicly available. | High Quality Snippet | |
Weak Azz Producer Very short track without a beat. | High Quality Tagged | |
High Quality Full | ||
⭐ Wow [V1] Original version featuring an extra third verse. Track 5 off of the 2001 demo tape. Has lyrics that would later get reused on "Last Freestyle" ,"The Bounce" by JAY-Z, "Live From Irving Plaza, NY" by Talib Kweli, "All Falls Down" and the unreleased version of "Wack Niggas". Mentioned on "Last Call". | High Quality Full | |
Ya Feel (with Go Getters) Leaked in Nov 2017 by garetare from the Kanye + GG tape. Made around 2000. | CD Quality Full | |
You're My Type Found on a fake mixtape, never officially released. The second verse was taken from a September 2000 freestyle. Has lines that would later be reused for Kanye's verse on "Brand New" by Rhymefest. | High Quality Full | |
??? 600 (prod. Kanye West) Earlier version of the instrumental for the Boo & Gotti song "600" found on a 2001 beat CD. | High Quality Beat Only | |
??? Destiny (prod. Kanye West) Previewed by Consequence, who also said that it's "one of Kanye's first beats". | Recording Partial | |
??? I Swear (prod. Kanye West) Earlier version of the instrumental for the Petey Pablo song "I Swear" found on a 2001 beat CD. | High Quality Beat Only | |
??? Let's Get Lifted (prod. Kanye West) Earlier version of the instrumental for the John Legend song "Let's Get Lifted" found on a 2001 beat CD. | High Quality Beat Only | |
??? What Can I Do (prod. Kanye West) Earlier version of the instrumental for the Shawnna song "What Can I Do" found on a 2001 beat CD. | High Quality Beat Only | |
Bathgate - That Girl (prod. Kanye West) Song from Bathgate's unreleased album with Roc-A-Fella from 2001. | High Quality Full | |
Cardan - Get It Started Gangsta Boo, Nelly (feat. Gangsta Boo & Nelly) (prod. Kanye West) Track 3 from Cardan's unreleased 1999 album "Hey Young World". Production from Kanye was uncredited, but was confirmed to be real by Cardan in a 2022 interview. Posted to Gangsta Boo's official YouTube channel on June 8th, 2009. | High Quality Full | |
Low Quality Beat Only | ||
Low Quality Beat Only | ||
Lupe Fiasco - Birds & The Bees Nobody Loves Me, The Birds & The Bees Kanye West (feat. Kanye West) (prod. Kanye West) Early Lupe song produced by Kanye, one of the oldest collaborations between the two if not the first, it's possible Kanye and Lupe had already met before the making of this track. Kanye has vocals in the intro. Recorded in 2001. Beat was given to Stack Bundles and Joe Budden for "Nobody Loves Me". Samples the song "Don't Let Me Down" by Phoebe Snow. | High Quality Full | |
High Quality Full | ||
Mikkey Halsted - Ghetto Life (prod. Kanye West) Unreleased Mikkey Halsted track, produced by Kanye. Was on a scrapped Mikkey Halsted demo tape. | High Quality Full | |
Mikkey Halsted - Ten Things (prod. Kanye West) Unreleased Mikkey Halsted track, produced by Kanye. Was track 32 on a bootleg mixtape. | CD Quality Full | |
High Quality Full | ||
High Quality Full | ||
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Keep The Receipt [V1] Kanye West (feat. Kanye West) Includes an unreleased verse, different intro and new ad-libs. | Low Quality Full |
