![]() ![]() ![]() His trademark production technique - speeding up old soul vocals to chipmunk squeakiness - was pinched from the Wu-Tang Clan, while the samples on his second album, Late Registration, suggest that West has spent not hours painstakingly sourcing rare breakbeats, but minutes raking through the kind of records drunk aunties ask wedding DJs to play: single Diamonds From Sierra Leone features Shirley Bassey's Diamonds Are Forever, Touch the Sky Curtis Mayfield's Move on Up. You could, if you were so inclined, debate his originality. The trouble is, it's quite hard to find any reason to contradict him. In hip-hop, where no one turns a hair at Jay-Z regularly comparing himself to God, this is a staggering achievement. S ince the release of his debut album, The College Dropout, in 2004, rapper and producer Kanye West has cultivated a reputation for overbearing arrogance. ![]()
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