It is Kanye West’s birthday today, and people are remembering him through his work. Ever since the early 2000s, the rapper has spoken through his work, whether it be as a producer or a rapper. Not just fans, but even fellow celebrities are singing his praises often. He brought a curve into the rap world, making music that was more classy by adding different elements to it.

Today, he mostly avoids the paparazzi, as things changed drastically in his personal and professional life. While dropping a song here and there, his last proper album by him was in 2022, ‘Donda.’ Despite such a long stretch, fans never leave a chance to remember him through his old work and still feel mesmerized by it. On the occasion of his birthday today, hip-hop producer Mike Dean looked back at ‘Donda 2’ days.

Mike Dean’s glimpse of Kanye West through a throwback video

Working on an album takes team effort, cooperation, and a lot of emotional investment. It is a journey and for musical producer Mike Dean, a journey to remember. He recently shared a photo on Instagram from the time they all say together to make ‘Donda 2’. “What a crazy time“, he captioned the picture where Ye could be seen sitting at the back. Fellow producer Thomas Mikalin was also tagged in the photo. Being a legendary hip-hop producer himself, Dean is known for his bond with Ye.

‘Graduation, Life of Pablo, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Yeezus’, etc are some songs that they produced together. Having the same fields, Ye’s unpredictability is something he has dealt with. Like the one time the rapper scrapped his album ‘Ye’ and started over. However, Dean stressed that how with Ye everything would work out in the end in a conversation with Nile Rodgers.

Now several photos and clips from that time are coming up. Especially with Ye’s birthday, fans are wishing and missing the artist, pouring love through their comments.

Twitterati pours their love for Kanye West on his birthday

Kanye West has certainly evolved through time. Although he has only gotten more famous over time and remains a trending figure. Fans left comments on throwback posts of the rapper, one of which has Rick Rubin explaining things to Ye from their work on the ‘Donda’ album.

One commented how much he loved watching Ye do ‘nerdy’ production things. Others wanted more such videos from the album’s production process since they saw his previous work through the Jeen Yuhs documentary.

One clip showed him walking around, discussing his thoughts with the team, leaving the fans in disbelief and awe.

His videos are in fact serving as an inspiration to his fans as more want a full-fledged documentary made of this. Now that he is making music again, it will be seen if his production work is recorded.

What do you feel about Ye’s raw work footage? Share your thoughts in the comments.