Watch 12 Year-Old Kanye West Spit a Slick Freestyle
As Kanye West and the unwinding saga of The Life of Pablo transfix pop-culture writ large, even the rapper's childhood exploits are starting to gain attention: New footage of 12 year-old West spitting a ferocious freestyle was uploaded to YouTube Saturday (Feb. 27), and it provides a glimpse of the precocious adolescent before he became Yeezus.
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