43. "RE: Okayplayer interviews Kanye West..." In response to In response to 0
>BKyle: Do you have any plans for releasing an instrumental >album? Not just the instrumentals from all your hits >compiled but more of an in-depth instrumental masterpiece? > >KW: Yeah. Mos Def’s been trying to talk me into doing that. > I might go and do that because I have a couple beats that I >think are phenomenal that people say are hard to rap to. >Some of my beats I might go in and add like 100 tracks worth >of instruments. I have to sometimes make sure I leave >spaces for rappers, I’ve been learning to do that. But >like, I could put it together where you’d be listening to a >series of my joints all the way through but its hard for me >cuz I get like 90,000 dollars a beat. It’s hard for me to >just go and do an instrumental album and give up 10 of my >beats. That’s like giving up 900,000 dollars (laughter) and >then nobody wants to pay 90,000 dollars for a beat that was >already on an instrumental album.
90,000 dollars a beat!! Damn I need to invest in some equipment...That's good money right there...