Chappelle’s Kanye Story

Last time I was in Chicago, Kanye gave me tickets to the Watch the Throne tour, now we're even.. he owed me that though

The first time Kanye West was on television was on the Chappelle's Show. It was the week that The Black Album came out. I'll never forget. We were all sitting in the trailer listening to The Black Album, and Jay-Z says on the record, "Kanyeezy, you's a genius. You did it again,"* and Kanye stopped the tape and pressed rewind

He had that energy. You knew he was gonna be somebody. And then they did the show, him and Common did it. And you remember that song The Food? "You love to hear the story, again and again. About those two brothers from the City of Wind."

The crowd, "EGHHHHHHHEEE." Motherfuckers go nuts. I said, "Hey Kanye, look, we're going back to the studio. We got to edit some sketches, but if you want, you can come with us and check out some of the stuff we're working on." He says, "Oh that'd be great!"

He comes to the studio we're all sitting and there watching all these crazy sketches. Nobody had seen any of this shit before. It was Rick James, all that shit. All on there. It's on footage, we was all cracking up and then in the middle of it all, Kanye's phone rings. This is when I knew he was gonna be famous

He answers the phone, he goes, "Hello. Huh? What? Uh uh, I can't. I can't. Cause, I'm at Dave Chappelle's show watching sketches that nobody's ever seen before."

And then he says, "Cause my life is dope, and I do dope shit," and then he hung up the phone