Kanye West: "Honorary Degree" (2014 Cover Story) — complex.com

So what was the first thing you started building beats on? The Casio, that old sampler that everybody talks about they had. I didn’t have that until some talentless dude down the street had it. And he would never let me keep it—he’d just come over with it. My mom had bought me a keyboard. Just to establish, she didn’t know—I wanted to be a freestyle biker, I wanted to draw, make video games—so she didn’t know I wanted to make beats. I remember one day when I was making beats in her crib, she told me, But she’s never the type to say nothing negative toward music.

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