{"id":5959,"date":"2015-04-28T16:57:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T16:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/?p=5959"},"modified":"2024-01-22T17:31:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T17:31:31","slug":"kanye-west-lost-beat-tape-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/kanye-west-lost-beat-tape-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"(Listen) Kanye West LOST Beat Tape 2001, Pre-College Dropout"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Kanye West&#8217;s earlier work during the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/kanye-west-type-beat-w-hook-college-dropout-late-registration-era\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">College Dropout and Late Registration era<\/a>\u00a0had a huge influence on <a href=\"http:\/\/tcustomz.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my production sound<\/a> during the mid-2000s when I first started beat making.<\/p>\n<p>Check out Ye&#8217;s &#8220;lost&#8221; beat compilation from 2001 below!<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5959-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Kanye%20West%E2%80%99s%20First%20Beats%20(Disc%201).mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Kanye%20West%E2%80%99s%20First%20Beats%20(Disc%201).mp3\">http:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Kanye%20West%E2%80%99s%20First%20Beats%20(Disc%201).mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/tcustomz.com\/kanye-west-type-beats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><button class=\"btn btn-large btn-primary\" type=\"button\"><i class=\"icon-cloud-download\"><\/i> Download Kanye West Type Beats &gt;&gt;<\/button><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>I did recognize a number of the samples used in this tape; sounds like he flipped a few of them differently for some of his later released tracks.<\/p>\n<h2>At 21:28 &#8211; John Legend&#8217;s &#8211; <em>&#8220;Let&#8217;s Get Lifted&#8221;<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>John Legend and Kanye West have been doing collaborations for a number of years. I remember listening to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Get_Lifted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get Lifted project<\/a> heavy when it first came out under the GOOD Music label in 2004, only 10 months after <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_College_Dropout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The College Dropout<\/a> was released.\u00a0 Additional instrumentation was added to the completed song, including piano accents from Legend, but without that soul-sample foundation it wouldn&#8217;t quite be the same.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/23723058&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>At 41:50 &#8211; Mos Def&#8217;s &#8211;<em> \u201cSunshine&#8221;<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"60%\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jDlt4USHFnA\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>At 26:15<\/strong> &#8211; Talib Kweli &#8211; <em>\u201cGuerrilla Monsoon Rap\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"60%\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EDGtRo-O1Mg\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which tracks do <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">YOU<\/span> recognize?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Love the early Kanye (College Dropout era) sound?<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/tcustomz.com\/soulful-beats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><button class=\"btn btn-large btn-danger\" type=\"button\">Check out these Soulful Instrumentals &gt;&gt;<\/button><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanye West&#8217;s earlier work during the College Dropout and Late Registration era\u00a0had a huge influence on my production sound during the mid-2000s when I first started beat making.<\/p>\n<p>Check out Ye&#8217;s &#8220;lost&#8221; beat compilation from 2001 below!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<i class=\"icon-cloud-download\"><\/i> Download Kanye West\u00a0[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,661],"tags":[13,819],"class_list":["post-5959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beats","category-sample-ids-free-samples","tag-hip-hop-beats","tag-soulful-beats","post-1","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5959"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10902,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959\/revisions\/10902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcustomz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}