298 - Kanye West - The College Dropout - Rell Battle

LISTEN + SUBSCRIBE HERE

Join The 500 Podcast Patreon and get the video of each episode before everyone else!

EPISODE SUMMARY:

Are genius and mania hopelessly intertwined? Can you have one without the other? There very likely may never be another artist like rapper/producer Kanye West, at least during his lifetime. But part of his success is doubtlessly due to his constant walking of the razor's edge between these two hemispheres of the mind. And yet few people ever expected his meteoric rise when his debut album The College Dropout was released in 2003. That is, few people except the likes of comedian Rell Battle.

SHOW NOTES:

02:00 - Intro
07:00 - The first troll
18:15 - Shawn Carter the God
25:30 - Now they want to fuck the producer
34:00 - Singing and rapping
42:15 - The master of self-promotion
52:00 - Sampling as a superpower
1:00:00 - Creating the wave vs. riding it
1:06:30 - Lightning round
1:12:00 - Outro/New music

Check out the music history of this album here.

ALBUM STREAM - THE COLLEGE DROPOUT:

NEW MUSIC INSPIRED BY KANYE WEST:

“RICO” by Sir Michael Rocks & The Cool Kids