The album was the culmination of WestвЂ™s entire pre-release career, one spent crafting вЂњfive beats a day for three summers,вЂќ learning at the hands of Chicago veteran and personal mentor No I.D. West wasnвЂ™t just stockpiling beats, however: he was saving lyrics and lines, bars heвЂ™d scrawled on notepads and spat into mics alongside his early outfit, Go-Getters. Then maybe he stop savinвЂ™ all the good beats for himselfвЂ¦вЂќ They expected that College Dropout to drop and then flop ItвЂ™s a fact he alluded to on вЂњ Last Call,вЂќ The College DropoutвЂ™s epic twelve-minute album closer: вЂњThereвЂ™s beats on the album heвЂ™s been literally saving for himself for years.вЂќ Again, West was prepared: A&R John Monopoly remembers that even early on, Ye вЂњwas always producing with the intention of being a rapper.вЂќ This meant that from the very beginning, West engaged with his beats as a songwriter, allowing him to shelf his favourites for his seemingly inevitable debut. In an interview with David Letterman, Jay recalled the famously confident artist interrupting a studio session and declaring himself вЂњthe Savior of Chicago.вЂќ In order to prove it to the rest of us, however, Ye would have to make an album. The first 41 days of 2004 were particularly special, then, because the sun was setting on WestвЂ™s productive obscurity: though heвЂ™d long been a purveyor of beats for Roc-A-Fella, the mild spotlight of the A-list producer would soon give way to the fully-fledged gaze of fame. Though he had no small number of nicknames and honorifics вЂ“ Jay himself had shouted out вЂњKanyeezy,вЂќ calling him вЂњa genius,вЂќ on The Black AlbumвЂ™s вЂњLuciferвЂќ вЂ“ West was hardly the titanic force of pop culture with which weвЂ™re all familiar. JustвЂ¦ different.Дifferent too was Kanye West, then little more than a name gracing the liner notes of the young millenniumвЂ™s most acclaimed records. Things were different in 2004: 50 Cent was a musical titan, Jay-Z had retired from the rap game and Donald Trump was endorsing the Eminem/Slim Shady ticket in the election.

Fifteen years on, weвЂ™re breaking down the sampling on YeвЂ™s triumphant debut and talking about the creation of a classic. Robert Poindexter seeks $500,000 in damages from Kanye West.ItвЂ™s hard to imagine the world without Kanye West, and itвЂ™s hard to imagine Kanye West without The College Dropout. Robert Poindexter achieved fame with The Persuaders by singing the 1971 hit song вЂњThin Line Between Love and Hate.вЂќ Nor has he provided any evidence that he is demanding others to cease and desist from selling the illegal version.вЂќ вЂњBut in response, he has refused to even discuss any вЂout-of-courtвЂ™ resolutions whatsoever. вЂњI have offered to resolve this matter out of court with Kanye West,вЂќ Robert Poindexter said. The lawsuit claims that Kanye knew the sample was not cleared, because he used a cleared version of the sample on вЂњGirls Girls GirlsвЂќ on Jay-ZвЂ™s 2001 album The Blueprint. Robert Poindexter claims that KanyeвЂ™s track contains an illegal sample of the song вЂњTrying Girls OutвЂќ by R&B group The Persuaders. Kanye is being sued over the song вЂњGirls Girls Girls (Remix)вЂќ on the mixtape вЂњFreshmen Adjustment 2.вЂќ Robert Poindexter filed a lawsuit against Kanye West in the United States District Court of Southern New York, on March 27. (AllHipHop News) Hip-Hop star Kanye West is the subject of a lawsuit over an illegal sample contained on a 2006 mixtape.

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