- Date
- Unknown
- Length
- 1:08:49
- Availability
- Full
- Quality
- High Quality
Background
Beat CD from 2001, possibly made even earlier. Features 26 beats with some being released and some being repurposed into familiar songs. Given to rapper Hot Karl in 2001, who re-discovered it in his garage and posted it online in 2011 as Hype Men Present: Kanye West's First Beats Disc 1.
Tracklist
26 songs · 26 in archive · 26 playable here
- 1Beat 1 (Geda K - Respect Carter)
OG · 1:44 · High Quality
- 2Beat 2
OG · 1:22 · High Quality
- 3Beat 3 (Beanie Sigel & Freeway - Got Nowhere)
OG · 1:40 · High Quality
- 4Beat 4
OG · 1:22 · High Quality
- 5Beat 5
OG · 1:53 · High Quality
- 6Beat 6
OG · 1:37 · High Quality
- 7Beat 7
OG · 1:53 · High Quality
- 8Beat 8
OG · 3:07 · High Quality
- 9Beat 9 (Shawnna - What Can I Do)
OG · 1:39 · High Quality
- 10Beat 10 (John Legend - Let's Get Lifted)
OG · 1:51 · High Quality
- 11Beat 11
OG · 1:27 · High Quality
- 12Beat 12
OG · 1:39 · High Quality
- 13Beat 13 (Talib Kweli - Guerilla Monsoon Rap)
OG · 3:11 · High Quality
- 14Beat 14 (Payback)
V2 · 6:13 · High Quality
- 15Beat 15
OG · 3:41 · High Quality
- 16Beat 16
OG · 2:34 · High Quality
- 17Beat 17
OG · 2:31 · High Quality
- 18Beat 18 (Mos Def - Sunshine)
OG · 3:19 · High Quality
- 19Beat 19
OG · 3:06 · High Quality
- 20Beat 20
OG · 4:04 · High Quality
- 21Beat 21
OG · 3:10 · High Quality
- 22Beat 22
OG · 4:09 · High Quality
- 23Beat 23
OG · 3:11 · High Quality
- 24Beat 24
OG · 1:33 · High Quality
- 25Beat 25
OG · 1:33 · High Quality
- 26Beat 26 (Rhymefest - Stalker)
OG · 1:16 · High Quality
Order from the Ye tracker's Tracklists tab, one of the documented copies of Kanye's unreleased albums. Songs are matched to this era's archive entries by title; unmatched ones are listed without links.
Other copies from this era
Source: Ye Tracker album copies sheet