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'Nothing less could come from West!' Kanye freestyles at age 12 in rare home video
Adam Bub
We're gonna let him finish, but Kanye West was a pretty confident kid rapper at just 12 years old.
A brief home video, believed to be filmed by his late mother Donda West, has emerged online of the future rapper spitting out rhymes back in May 1990.
You've got to hand it to Mini-Kanye: he had the skills and ego to boot even back then. Watch above – and listen closely to hear someone off camera laughing and saying "get out of town, Kanye!"
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That sounds like the kind of thing many people said when Kanye dropped his recent Life of Pablo album, featuring digs at everyone from Taylor Swift to Rob Kardashian to Ray J. Get out of town, Kanye!
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