"My life is dope, and I do dope shit."
Holy Yeezus! Video of a 19-year-old Kanye West was buried for 18 years in the metaphorical cave of Fat Beats record store only to be risen again today.
Kanye, having only recently graduated from high school, flew from Chicago to NYC to perform at the 1996 opening of Fat Beats' 6th Avenue store. By then, he was already a masterful lyricist
The relic was discovered by DJ Eclipse, former general manager of the Fat Beats store, now the host of WNYU's Halftime Radio show and Sirius' Rap Is Outta Control. He sent the footage to Complex, along with an email saying, "Yesterday I started converting old Hi8 video tapes to DVD and came across some interesting footage from that day. Now we had a lot of the usual suspects in the place... But what took me by surprise was the appearance of this 19-year-old kid who at that time nobody knew. At least in NYC."
Even in the past, The Louis Vuitton Don knew he was ahead of his time, proving it with this prophetic line, "it ain't original because I stole it from the future."
Damn, that line was "mad ironic like Alanis Morisette."
Now, 18 years later, we're getting the future back.
(by Myka Fox)