We've all been there.Īlbum: Kid Cudi's Man on the Moon: The End of Day. It was, in fact, the latter of those two that starred in the 1999 cop drama In Too Deep. Where he went wrong: Like we all have at one point or another, Kanye confuses Mekhi Phifer and Omar Epps in this line. Lyrics In Question: “I was in too deep like Mekhi Phife' / In that pussy so deep I could have drowned twice” I mean, c'mon: That film's most memorable moment comes when King Leonidas yells, “This is Sparta!” And, no, Sparta ain't Rome. Alas, given that his knowledge of these events appears to be solely derived from Zack Snyder's 2007 action film 300, the gaffe is virtually unforgivable. Where he went wrong: Were this simply a reference to Greek mythology, it would be a bit understandable to forgive this noted college dropout's confused belief that the Romans somehow had something to do with the Trojan war. Lyrics In Question: “I keep it 300, like the Romans / 300 bitches, where the Trojans?” With that in mind, and on the eve of his first solo tour in five years making a stop at the American Airlines Center tomorrow night, we give you Kanye's nine biggest lyrical fuck-ups. Ultimately, though, his imperfections are partly how he's remained so likable - even when he's doing abominable things like using civil rights movement slogans to further a culture of misogyny or destroying Maybachs for the sake of a four-minute video clip. Our point? The guy's made more than his share of lyrical mistakes thus far in his nine-year rap career. Personally, we think that's because, unlike a lot of other gods, Kanye has more than proven throughout his career that he's not infallible. Still, even with his most recent turn as a newly anointed, croissant-demanding deity, the guy's retained much of his initial charm. More recently, we've seen his career arc take him from underdog rapper to genius (even if, uh, he can't always spell the word “genius”) to king and, finally, to his current status as a god. And it's definitely worked: These days, he's garnered a reputation as a more-than-capable emcee - or, at the very least, one of the most charismatic rappers in the game. Kanye spends pretty much that whole LP boasting about how he'd proved that everyone who'd ever said that he was “just a producer” was wrong.Īnd, with each successive album West has released - to bite a line from 2004's “Last Call” - Kanye's used his dream-killers' steam to power his dreams. Hell, go back and listen to his 2004 debut album, The College Dropout. 1 hit up with production work for Talib Kweli, Ludacris and Alicia Keys, among others, his true aspiration, all along, was to become a rapper in his own right.
Ever since Kanye West got his first taste of success after producing Jay-Z's 2001 single “Izzo (H.O.V.A.),” he's carried a huge chip on his shoulder.Īnd though he followed that No.
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