Raising Kanye by Donda West & Karen Hunter

Author:Donda West & Karen Hunter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2007-09-02T16:00:00+00:00

And I got evicted

packed all my shit up in a U-Haul.

—Kanye West,

“Last Call,” College Dropout

Kanye, proud college dropout, decided he was going off to the Big Apple, where it was all happening. Before deciding on New York, though, he’d considered another hip-hop hot spot—Atlanta. Jermaine Dupri was there and Kanye thought perhaps he could find success there, too. He felt he had outgrown Chicago. There was just nothing big enough popping off for him there. It was his home, though. And I believe he would have stayed if he could have made it big. So we went to Atlanta, even found an apartment and put a down payment on it. But New York was calling.

I had a friend, Richard Johnson, who lived in New Jersey. We’d heard lots of people lived there and worked in New York. It was settled. New Jersey would be a better (and more affordable) place for Kanye to settle while he was trying to take off in the music business. Richard found him this beautiful one-bedroom apartment in Newark, right across from Penn Station. We rented it, sight unseen. It was $850 a month, with a living room and a step-up great room with a glass ceiling. You could actually look up and see the sky. It was wonderful. And Kanye was inspired. He said he knew he could make good music there and I was pleased just as long as Kanye was happy. The only thing that was not happening was the carpet. A couple of cats had occupied the place before Kanye got there and had not always made it to the litter pan. We snatched that up and had Home Depot come and lay some new carpet right away.

Kanye loved that place. He called up his friends and said, “Man, you should see this place. It’s like something off of TV.”

Kanye was exactly where he wanted to be. He was on his way to fulfilling his dream.

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