Kanye To The: Kanye West

Aiight so check it out. I got this mixtape underway to be finished by November so I can release it by 12/12/12.

It’s called “The Gift of Gab: The Storybook”

So far the theory behind it is a story from beginning to end filled with certain parts of my life. This is the track list so far and I have a bunch of samples chosen to make this **** perfect



Cover V2: ( sketch by me )


1. The Prelude
2. Chapter 1: The Intro [Samples The Black Keys "10 Cent Pistol”]
3. Chapter 2: The Real (Raw) [Open for ideas but possible Blood Sweat & Tears “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy"]
4. Chapter 3: The Question [Samples Raphael Saadiq’s “The Answer”]
5. Chapter 4: The Love Letter  [Uses Big Sean’s “Love Story”]
6. Chapter 5: The Gift [Samples Alicia Key’s “Never Felt This Way [interlude]"]
7. Chapter 6: The Libra [Work in Progress]
8. Chapter 7: The Religion [Samples Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah”]
9. Chapter 8: The Redemption [Want to Sample Jazmine Sullivan’s “Redemption Song”]
10. Chapter 9: The End?

This album is inspired by Nas’ It Was Written and Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation. I got into a severe car wreck on June 2nd 2012 and almost died.(people did die though i got spared http://www.wlox.com/story/18756662/biloxi-police-seek-witnesses-to-fatal-accident?clienttype=printable) In those passing moments, I remember all the times my friends and family told me I need to take this music stuff more seriously. So I was thinking to myself... How do I want to be remembered? For just blogging, freestyling, smoking, drinking, and pissing my life away in meteorology school?? Nope. I want to solidify my spot in history. Even if it’s just a reference in the back of the History book. So I create this album. This EP if you will. I want it to begin with my thoughts being portrayed as I laid on the stretcher... These chapters are reflections, they are parts of my life that help build me into the artist and person I am today. Hope you all think this is a good route to go after a near-death experience. I quit smoking, don’t drink as much, read more, and practice my religion thoroughly.

Really would appreciate working with some people on this record so hit me up with info and is someone wants to lay some beats sampling the tracks listed i would be more than happy to work with you. Really need you #KTT fam

Lyrical Snippets:

Chapter 4: The Love Letter

We arguing and bickering,
You wimpering I’m mirroring how you were feeling,
 and now I’m catching you snickering,
I swore we said this time it would be different,
But now we indifferent,
Paint a portrait in shades of blue,
So you, can get the vibe of the time we putting us through,
I say I love you, you said I heard you,
Why won’t you respond, you replied it’s cus I hurt you,
Well  my sorry lost its meaning  when I’ve made my mistakes,
Times elapses but bad memories never fade away,
They say love heals all but when love hurts, we go through withdrawl,
And wish we never had it at all,
I’d put a ring on that finger next to the one you showing,
**** me? Well damn we know where this  conversations going,
Break hearts, Break promises, break dreams, than break the mattress,
 but after all that ****,  we have breakfast in the morning,
We could conversate over eggs about love, hate,
About how we never relate, or how we were destined by fate,
Or how I USED to be great,
Or how you really need space,
It seems the silence is the emotions we can never relay,
So with the words I can’t say, I decided to write,
A love letter that turned to the story of you and I,

So promise that you'll keep me
Promise you won't lead astray
Promise me forever promise me to stay
So I keep you with my laughter
Feel sooo complete

Something bout your brown eyes that gets me lost for days
Your touch is like an angel lookin out with heavens grace
And that's why I'll keep you shelter from the storm
Iii
I need you here with me

Cause I'm in love (with your) story
Nd I'm in love with your smell and your smile
So keep on liftin' I won't stand in your way
Cause I'm in love with you

You read the letter....
Than you began to cry,
Your tears could’ve shot an angel out the sky,
It was enough to make me feel that I wanted to die,
Your pair of eyes got me searching for paradise,
I miss the shimmer that would show when we use to date,
When I’d breathe right in your ear and take breathe away,
The people that were once us are now swept away,
Wish I could give that girl a kiss, and have just a taste,
But the bittersweet reality keeps my appetite petite,
My soul is filled with so much sin that it’s spilling from my teeth,
We say sentences and words that mortals never can repeat,
You hope I die but you’ll make sure that I don’t ever rest in peace,
You see... we could throw our pride aside,
And realize, that ain’t no body like you and I,
A match made in heaven set the fires in hell,
That burns for eternity as a story to tell

Cause I'm in love (with your) story
And I'm in love with your smell and your smile
So keep on liftin' I won't stand in your way
Cause I'm in love with you

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I can do track 2 for you.

I can do track 2 for you.

Hop on that ****. You see what I’m thinking for the sample tho? the drums in the beggining are perfect and the riff therefore after are awesome

What you got in mind for it? I don’t want any of the lyrics sampled from it and the drums enhanced maybe 1:20 seconds or 40 seconds into it

more info posted. BUMP

please. i really want to start working hard on this. I’ve done the reading and research and record digging. To get that feel... So please help me with this project

I have an idea for The Religion

I have an idea for The Religion

what you got in mind?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY_LJr3-jl0
thought you might like this, it's another version of "...so very happy"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY_LJr3-jl0
thought you might like this, it's another version of "...so very happy"

HOLY **** THIS IS AWESOME!!!!

yeah it's a good song but that versions been done a couple times, like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svw1b--jKCE

and grammy family was a flip. Idk if that bothers you or not

yeah it's a good song but that versions been done a couple times, like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svw1b--jKCE

and grammy family was a flip. Idk if that bothers you or not

NOPE. other samples flipped dont bother me. it was a pick between this I love you more than you’ll ever know
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcVEsNno40w
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpgPamdILrw

what you got in mind?

Well I already have a beat in mind while listening to Jeff Buckley

Well I already have a beat in mind while listening to Jeff Buckley

ill send you the lyrics if you wanna work them around that


A friend said we were living in the belly of the beast,
But if we ever escape than the **** is a priest,
You see, my mans had a rosary piece,
But agreed that all religion is truly deceased,
And that we are truly diseased,
By the cars the ice and lifestyles we all choose to lead,
See I don’t know what I truly believe,
The intangible can’t be touched and sometimes man that’s hard to perceive,
You saying we all the children of Adam and Eve?
That means: No matter the religion you a brother to me.
But yet we get in arms when argue God or Allah,
But irony of it all is, every book teaches peace…
If I’m a son of God will I die at thirty three?
The devil is still alive I feel his breath in the breeze,
Dead presidents and relatives are whats fillin' my dreams,
But death related to sleep, the alarm rings, I violently scream,

Hallelujah

When I wrote that last verse I felt hurt,
Like if I question 'The Word' will I forever be cursed?
I curse the church, they ask me for my wallet for the Profit,
But that’s ill logic, see... if I ain’t got I ain’t got it!
I’m not trying to be mean, I’m modest and I ain’t got the means,
Cus I just spent a buck 50 on some true religion jeans,
Can I live? Lavishly in a Limo,
Look outside the window and just analyze Limbo?
If you aint married (Mary), and pregnant or a virgin you a hoe,
But, 315$ ain’t worth your soul,
I hope she keeps it, and keeps on those Victoria Secrets,
I’m pleading; please don’t go to stripping just to feed it,
It’s times like these when I really feel I needed Jesus,
To explain to me what to do with a rape victims fetus,
When I was born, I hope my mother wanted to keep me,
And there was no regret in me when she was screaming

Updated with the story behind why I’m making all of this. I’m not just your typical artist

I'll try get a beat done for you

appreciate it man

Gonna try do track 4 / chapter 3
Anything specific you want with the sample?

Gonna try do track 4 / chapter 3
Anything specific you want with the sample?

Just use the tempo of the track but try to make it something exciting. Make it very deep and introspective. You just have to use the elements of the track to create something where you can speak on diverse topics of some deep ****