WATCH: Rare Footage of Young Kanye West Perfrom at NYC’s Fat Beats!



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Kanye West is a super star but before the awards, fashion, Kardashian, and accolades he was a kid from Chicago with a dream and passion for music.
Check out this exclusive video of Kanye West before he was a rapper/producer below.

In the following video we see a 19-year-old Kanye West who had just arrived in New York City to attend the Fat Beats’ opening party at the 6th Avenue store, where he eventually performed. We see a kid full of drive, cleaver lyrics, and a hunger to succeed. Let this be a reminder that even the greats start from the bottom.

Former store manager DJ Eclipse is responsible for the video that he gave to Complex. He shares,

The original location of Fat Beats launched on July 14, 1994 which means FB just turned 20 years old! Business was doing so well 2 years in that Joseph Abajian decided to move the store from it’s small 9th St. basement space into a 2nd floor location on 6th Avenue. August 1996 (day?) was the grand opening of the 406 6th Avenue location. It was also the beginnings of our independent movement which had recently started bubbling about a year before. 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. Now I’ve had this person as a guest on my radio show years later, but it’s pretty crazy to see this footage in ’96 and think “damn, this dude was in my house then?” and not even know. More to come….

Check out baby Kanye West below:

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