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Article: The many faces of Kanye West: producer-turned-hit rapper takes hip-hop in new direction.
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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KANYE West is just what you'd expect him to be. Lounging on the bed in a room on the 20th floor of a luxury lakefront Chicago hotel, the new hip-hop phenomenon is sporting a look he calls "ghetto-preppy'--trainers with lime green laces, white pants, a lime green Polo shirt and a sport jacket with a darker green-and-white-checked pattern (the clothes are "preppy," the colors are, he says, "ghetto"). He is relaxed and expressive, and a little worried about the rhymes that won't come.
He's hit a bit of a dry spell, it seems, and is worried that his first album, The College Dropout, will be his last.
"I've definitely got less rhymes than I had this time ...