E39 | Jeen-yuhs - Act 2 : PURPOSE (Documentary / series)

<p>Part II opens with a heartfelt home video dated May 17, 1990, capturing Ye and his family enjoying time together. As the camera pans the room, it eventually shows a young Ye (a few weeks shy of his 13th birthday) sporting a white top with black polka dots eager to drop some fire bars.</p><p><br>“What’s up in effect and it’s time to select,” the superstar-to-be begins. “The mind of Kanye is the place to be/ Can’t you see it’s me/ And I’m freshly/ Moving and grooving and proving to you/ I can be moving/ And yo/ I’m pursuing the rap art fo’ sure.”</p><p><br>He finishes off affirming, “I’m sway in top place/ I’m not going back/ When I wear the polka dots ’cause that’s what I got/ I’m def and I’m fresh and I am the best/ Nothing less can come from West.”</p><p><br>The documentary also shows footage from inside Roc-A-Fella’s “Paid in Full” press conference, which took place in New York two decades ago, in October 2002. When Coodie asked Dame Dash about the label’s plans for then “new artist Kanye West,” the co-founder of Roc-A-Fella said, “Kanye is definitely a ‘Roc-A-Fella.’ He’s an entrepreneur [and] he’s promoting himself as we speak.”</p><p><br>At the time, Dash and other attendees didn’t know Ye would eventually become a billionaire. “Every time I see him… he has a f—ing camera with him and he does really good music,” Dash said.</p><p><br>When given a chance to speak for himself, Ye said, “I definitely think I’m bringing an entire new market to Roc-A-Fella … Because I went through the struggle of being broke, I’m like everybody sitting out here.”</p><p><br>At the time, the label still recognized Ye primarily as a producer, but his goal was to become a distinguished rapper. So he set his sights on appearing on Jay-Z’s upcoming sequel to <em>The Blueprint</em>.</p><p><br>As West continued trying to find his footing as a standout rapper within his new Roc-A-Fella label, he decided that landing a feature on Jay-Z’s seventh studio album <em>The Blueprint 2: The Gift and the Curse </em>would be the next big