my brother showed me lost in the world, and i said that sucks and put on eminem and he left the room, then after liek a week i played it again and fell in love and thats when i checked out mbdtf
George Bush controversy and me kinda slowly noticing him more and more after that on VH1/BET (looking back 05-07 was such a sweet time in the culture)...i saw that my friends older brother had his first two albums two but I never got a chance to really peep
i also vaguely remember a BET Kanye Top 25 Videos he picked (these were GOAT) that featured Through The Wire
and then I became a full fledged super fan when I saw CTMN on 106 for first time in summer 07 and since then he's been one of my favorite artists, or at least till the recent f***ery