Aw, Baby Kanye West Before He Went Full Nightmare
Remember when Kanye West was just a talented artist trying to get himself known? This video for "Spaceship," unreleased for the past five years but now suddenly released, is from back then.
No outrageous boasting or Lady Ga Ga outfits or rhymes about owning too many houses. This is pre-gay fish, you guys. Just an earnest yet lightly comical rap about working in the mall and dreaming of better things. Relatable! I've been to the Gap!
Posted by Gabe at 10:30 AM in Music Related Content
Tags: Kanye West | Nostalgia
Aah...relatable. A foreign concept in most hip-hop these days unfortunately.
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I never realized that this is where Aziz got his "five beats a day for 3 summers" bit from http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-58805799838138537
So basically Aziz has been making Kanye jokes since Kanye jokes were possible. Go Aziz!
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Props to him for clearing being a fan and then getting to hang out with the dude. That's like if somehow three years from now I'd get to chill with Robert Downey or something.
But that joke annoys me cause making a beat is more than what Aziz makes it out to be. As in not just a different drum pattern. And Aziz knows that. I still get the joke and all, but that's withholding information for comedy. And goddamnit, we need morals in stand up comedy or this isn't America.
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While his music has gotten better, the man has gotten progressively worse. Come back to us, Kanye.
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I'll admit it: I like Kanye. Baby Kanye and Full Nightmare Kanye. I just listen to the music and ignore his blog, his outbursts, all the goofy public persona stuff. Sure, the music can be hit-or-miss at times, but as long as I can ignore the ALL CAPS Kanye, I'm happy with what he records.
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This has nothing to do with anything soo... I really like the nickelodeon show Avatar.(I know I'm to old) I just started watching on netflix. Its really quite good. So I was happy when I heard they were making a movie of it. Then I heard m night shyamalan was directing and then I ,was like NOOOOO, but i am an optimist like 40% of the time, so heres hoping he doesn't, ya know shyamalanate the story.
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PLEASE can we have a ? button!
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You gotta admit you have to like a man who urges people to just "LET ME BE GREAT", rants about typing so hard that he almost broke his Mac Air and the ultimate quote - "ITS CALLED A GLOW IN THE DARK TOUR FOR A REASON SQUIDBRAINS!"
That's just pure funny.
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Exactly! And because I'm a nerd I like to dissect his rants and make found poetry and haikus out of them. It's really fun! An example:
DROP THE BRAVADO
JUST MAKE DOPE PRODUCT
A DOPER PERSON
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Can someone explain to me why it is ok for Kanye West to rhyme with the same word in consecutive lines.....
He does this alot. Its really annoying.
"No need to find a word that rhymes with up, ill just use up again."
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Either it's a shtick or he doesn't read books....hmmm....
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Kanye West is a cyborg.
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Normal Kanye is a boring Kanye.
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I'm so old. I still listen to Baby Kanye, and I didn't even realize there was an Tween Kanye out there making all this noise. I'm going back to Gabe's front porch to drink lemonade and wave my shotgun at the kids playing on the leaf pile...
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So I guess I'm the only person whose favorite Kanye song is this one, by far? Basically been listening to this song non-stop since Late Registration came out.
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you're definitely not. this song got me through my hellish high school jobs. pre-late registration kanye (a la the akademics jeanius level mixtapes) was the best.
also, good to see glc on videogum. awesome.
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You word this like Spaceship was on Late Registration and not The College Dropout.
You're a shithead!!!
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Definitely one of my favorites of his. On College Dropout though.
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while i enjoy vaguely normal kanye west, i still think he's a terrible singer and should have stopped way back then.
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Don't get me started about my high school jobs. . .
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I take a shot every time Stereogum posts something about Kanye West, and an additional shot every time they mention "Gay-Fish." Thanks for continually keeping me drunk, Stereogum.
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