great up, thanks for sharing, s*** took my unc ass back to 2016 reading this great top 3 btw

exact same time as you, post yeezus pre pablo. i was reading Rolling Stones "top 500 albums of all time", giving a bunch of artists a listen that i'd never given a chance before. they had 808s and Heartbreak pretty high on the list. all i knew of Kanye were all the awful headlines that came out about him. i had really basic taste back then. i thought, "surely this can't be that good". listened and it changed my life

Jesus walks made me a fan

Grad, 808s and MBDTF eras made me a huge fan

then became a full on stan during Yeezus era after seeing him live for the first time at gov ball

2004. My grandfather had to buy the CD for me because of the parental advisory sticker

Cashier was prolly like wtf this old white man doing buying this haha

liked him as a little kid when I first heard jesus walks and gold digger.

became a huge wayne stan in my pre teens and denied kanye's greatness as a result though I obviously heard the hits and liked them

around 2011/2012 I dove into his full discog with a real understanding of how you should listen to and appreciate music and became a super stan

2003/2004 when watching Rap City (mightve been called The Basement at this time):
watched everyday, was a huge g-unit-rocafella fan. Hip Hop was in its hyper thug era then I seen the premier of “Through The Wire”. Dude looked and sounded different from any other rapper ive heard and was most relatable

the part of the video that had Jay Z giving him the rocafella chain really stood out to me because I had never seen something like that in hip-hop. That sorta initiation really stood out me. Then around that time I heard “Slow Jamz” and it took off from there. Threw away my baggy t’s and started rocking s*** that fit

I was like 11/12 at the time

when i saw this

or bittersweet poetry, cant remember which one was first

when i was 12 years old and listened to through the wire in 2003

My mom bought me Graduation when it came out in 2007 and the rest was history. I always loved his music before but this was the changing point

Good Morning holds a special place in my heart

MBDTF made me stan him even more

2021, my friend showed Jesus Is King to me after church choir practice and the rest is history

Was probably the biggest Ye hater because of his beef with 50, then I heard "then how the hell could you front on me..." from Stronger and I was like nahhh, this boy special

dude remember how KTT was crashing when TLOP dropped lmaoooo we was so litty then, and yeah right now college dropout shifted to #2 for me

sameeeee, i was listening to the headlines and media saying ye a bad dude, i literally didn't fw him bc of that, but it proved i was just a sheep and follower

first thing in this world baby, don't pay attention to anything you see on the news

GOOD MORNING so special to me, i remember i was sleeping over my friends crib on the day of my graduation and my homie blasted GOOD MORNING on these loud ass speakers he had in the living room and woke my ass up from bed lmao

This song is what made me a radiohead fan lol

Knew of him since 04/05 mainly cause slow jamz and gold digger but that was my extensive knowledge. But after I heard stronger on the radio in like October / November 2007 I asked my mom to buy me graduation at FYE when I could select 1 CD (as a kid went to FYE once a month to select a CD. Mostly chose based on the cover of the album) That album got so much mileage on my portable CD player. Then that Christmas in 2007 they got me TCD and LR. Been a fan since.

808’s dropped and I remember putting everyone on in the computer lab and heartless went diamond in our classroom. Before that song got radio play.

Back then was fun cause like I didn’t follow any of that stuff when hes dropping or anything. I’d just walk into FYE / newburry comics one day and see “new album by Kanye west out”.

I didn’t even know MBDTF was dropping until I was watching the VMA’s and saw him perform runaway. When I heard that that is when I NEEDED to know what / when this s*** was dropping. Followed everything since then. Good Friday’s, the MTV premiere of the runaway film. The drop.

Then discovered KTT around Yeezus era from random googles wanting to know anything I could about the album.

2014 I was at the lowest point of my life. Music helped me a lot at that time and it was Yeezus and GKMC that stood out. From there I also started to dive deeper into the music world. Before I just thought it's a type of entertainment cause around that time radio and fm's were like symbolic of it being just enterainment

my dad was a huge cd collector. he came home with college dropout one day when i was 6 and the rest is history

Through the wire opened the door for everything…
Thats also when I really started taking notice to Jay & the ROC

& Mos Def, & Common, & Talib…

Facts. Lucky we get to know what it was like to live through a Beatle/Bowie type legendary run albums.

The first 100 Greatest Artists/500 Greatest Albums issues they did in 2004 were life changing for me

My uncle actually went to school with Dropout Bear.

i've always known about kanye

i remember seeing the shutter graduation classes and bape jackets when i was in primary school

heartless was played at my primary school disco

yeezus tour happened in sydney and it was just before i became a fan so i'd say i officially became a fan in late 2013