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Word: rhymefest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2005-2005
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...sample from the Arc Choir and one of West's typical contradictions, his admission that he's not particularly religious and his anger that songs with Jesus in the title don't get played on the radio. Che Smith, a friend of West's from Chicago who raps as Rhymefest, gave West the sample, wrote some of the first verse and receives half the song's royalties. "But Jesus Walks is all Kanye," says Smith. "When he wrote, 'To the hustlers, killers, murderers, drug dealers/ Even the strippers/ Jesus Walks for them!', I said, 'Wait, it doesn't matter what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why You Can't Ignore Kanye | 8/21/2005 | See Source »

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