* On Kanye West's album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Gil Scott-Heron's track " Comment # 1 ", in which Nat Turner is mentioned, is part of Track 13: " Who Will Survive in America ".

In 2007 Kanye West, initially known for more natural sounding hip hop productions influenced by classic R & B music, released his third album Graduation, which featured some songs with a sharp electronic aesthetic, a sound which greatly expanded on West's latest album, where he emphasized synthesizer and vocal manipulations prominently and cited major influences from 1980s synthpop music, as well as from T-Pain, a hip-hop performer known for manipulating his voice by using the electronic effect processor Autotune.

His artwork can also be found on the cover of Kanye West's 2011 album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

A sample of Anderson's vocals from Mike Oldfield's " In High Places " is prominently featured in Kanye West's 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy in the opening track " Dark Fantasy ".

Four of the thirteen tracks on the album were produced by Kanye West and represents one of West's first major breaks in the industry.

It debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, selling 691, 000 units in the first week, behind Kanye West's Graduation, whom he had a sales competition with, as both albums were released on the same day.

In early 2004, Common made an appearance on fellow Chicagoan Kanye West's multi-platinum debut album, The College Dropout ( on the song " Get Em High "), and announced his signing to West's then-newfound label GOOD Music.

Common was instrumental in bridging the trans-Atlantic gap by signing UK's Mr Wong and J2K to Kanye West's Getting Out Our Dreams recording outfit.

Both Cam ' ron and Jim Jones took out their frustrations on former label-mate Kanye West in defense of former CEO Dame Dash by releasing a song entitled " Toast " rhyming over Kanye West's song " Runaway ".

* GLC ( rapper ), an American rapper signed to Kanye West's G. O. O. D.

* Late Registration, rapper / producer Kanye West's second album

During Kanye West's and Jay-Z's surprise performance of " Otis ", a man ran on to the stage but was quickly taken off by security.

He released his second album, Unpredictable, in 2005, which was helped by his collaboration on Kanye West's number-one single " Gold Digger ".

* " The Glory ", a 2007 song from Kanye West's third studio album Graduation

* Coolio's song " Too Hot " and Kanye West's song " Jesus Walks " both mention sex, lies and videotape

She also made a guest appearance on Kanye West's single, " Slow Jamz ", which also featured Twista and Jamie Foxx.

The popular music video for A-ha's song " Take On Me " also featured rotoscoped animation, along with live action, in addition, Kanye West's music video for his song Heartless, in homage to American Pop is fully rotoscoped.

In 2007, Oldham starred alongside Zach Galifianakis in the alternate music video for Kanye West's Can't Tell Me Nothing.

For Kanye West's and Jay-Z's collaborative album Watch The Throne he produced " That's My Bitch " and co-produced " Lift Off ".

Its first single " Slow Jamz " ( also featured on Kanye West's debut album The College Dropout ), featured West and Jamie Foxx and became a number-one hit in the US.

Twista is currently deciding on whether to sign to Bryan " Birdman " Williams's Cash Money Records or Kanye West's GOOD Music label, In a fan poll voting on what label Twista should sign to hosted by XXL, rap fans want to see Twista sign with G. O. O. D.

Music as 76 % voted on Kanye West's imprint.

To the 5 Boroughs was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album at the 47th Grammy Awards, losing to Kanye West's The College Dropout.

Common was awarded his second Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, for " Southside " ( featuring Kanye West ), from his July 2007 album Finding Forever.

Kanye West has sampled " Sing Swan Song " on his song " Drunk & Hot Girls " from his 2007 album Graduation.

The shoe is also a focus of the 2007 Grammy-nominated single Classic ( Better Than I've Ever Been ), a collaboration between Kanye West, Nas, Rakim and KRS-One, that was produced by Rick Rubin.

* Kanye West ( December 2007 )

In 1986 with Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald ; in 2004 with Usher, Ludacris, and Lil Jon ; in 2006 with Shakira and Wyclef Jean ; in 2007 with Timbaland, Keri Hilson ; in 2010 with B. o. B and Hayley Williams and in 2011 with Katy Perry and Kanye West.

In 2007, Murakami provided the cover artwork for rapper Kanye West ’ s Graduation album and directed an animated music video for West ’ s song Good Morning.

* " Champion " ( Kanye West song ), a song by Kanye West from the 2007 album Graduation

* Untitled Kanye West Project ( 2007 film )

The 2007 – 2008 season of Saturday Night Live began on September 29, 2007 with LeBron James hosting the episode and musical guest Kanye West.

Justin Bieber recorded a cover of the song together with Kanye West's 2007 single " Stronger " ( Graduation ), which he posted on his YouTube account.

Kanye provided a performance of the song during his set at Live Earth 2007, before joining The Police and John Mayer onstage to perform " Message in a Bottle " for the concert's finale.

In 2011, Jonze directed the music video for " Otis " the second single from the album Watch The Throne by Jay-Z and Kanye West.

* The College Dropout, the debut album released by rapper Kanye West in 2004.

The album helped to introduce newcomer producers The Neptunes, Just Blaze, Kanye West and Bink, which have all gone on to achieve notable success.

Resurrection was Common's last album produced almost entirely by his long-time production partner, No I. D., who was also the then-mentor of a young Kanye West.

The pair worked together on Common's next album, Be, almost entirely produced by Kanye West, with some help from Common's longtime collaborator the late James Yancey ( J Dilla ) – also a favorite of West.

For this album, he continued his work with Kanye West, as well as other producers such as will. i. am, Devo Springsteen, Derrick Hodge, and Karriem Riggins, as well as the only J Dilla-produced track, " So Far To Go ".

While the two were meant to hit the studio to record a Q-Tip-produced album, possibly with contributions from Kanye West, Common put out Universal Mind Control instead and has already planned a next album, The Dreamer, The Believer, for late 2011.

has stated that he and Kanye West will be producing Common's next album The Dreamer The Believer, due sometime in 2011.

His third and most successful album Come Home With Me was released in 2002 featuring guests such as Jay-Z, Beanie Sigel, and Memphis Bleek, and production from Just Blaze, Kanye West and The Heatmakerz.

The album featured the lead single " Dipset Anthem ," a remix to Cam ' rons hit " Hey Ma " and the ( street anthem ) single " I Really Mean It ," as well as boasting production from Kanye West, Just Blaze, and The Heatmakerz.

* " Otis " ( song ), by Kanye West and Jay-Z from their collaboration album Watch the Throne

He released his debut album, Peep This, in 1994, but did not gain significant musical success until 2004, when he was featured in the song " Slow Jamz " by Twista and Kanye West.