107 JAMZ » rare http://107jamz.com The People's Station Tue, 21 May 2013 20:10:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Rare Kanye West Live Performance Video from 1996 Surfaces Online http://107jamz.com/rare-kanye-west-live-performance-video-1996/ http://107jamz.com/rare-kanye-west-live-performance-video-1996/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:28:59 +0000 Trent Fitzgerald http://popcrush.com/?p=96519 Before Kanye West was a ‘College Dropout,’ he was a young teenager rapping on the scene with a gangsta lean. Although urban legend has it that the Chicago native was a ferocious MC when he was a youngster, we haven’t bear witness to his earlier years of him spitting rhymes on the mic.

Someone went digging around on YouTube and found an old video of a 19-year-old West rapping onstage at a Chicago-area club. The clip, which was uploaded in 2010, features Yeezy and a local rapper named Phenom sharing the stage at the Double Door venue in 1996. The video features a confident West reciting rapid-fire punchlines and repeating the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard line, “I’ve never been tookin’ out / I keep MCs lookin’ out.”

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