He was 19 when he dropped this freestyle.
Kanye spent time travelling between Chicago and New York to rap at the Fat Beats store, a center for underground talent.
Kanye is wearing a polo shirt, a style he would later become strongly associated with, and is also heard making an Alanis Morissette reference.
"Yesterday I started converting old Hi8 video tapes to DVD and came across some interesting footage from that day. Now we had a lot of the usual suspects in the place that day such as ILL BILL, Arsonists, Lord Finesse, Adagio, Breeze Brewin, A.L. Skills, Percee P, J-Live, Mr. Live, Chino XL, Al Tariq, Black Attack, Xzibit, Shabaam Sahdeeq, Rawcotiks, Ak Skills, Rob Swift, Roc Raida, DJ Spinna and many, many more. But what took me by surprise was the appearance of this 19-year-old kid who at that time nobody knew. At least in NYC."
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