Test your knowledge of Kanye West's biggest hits, deep cuts and iconic moments.
From the soul chop of 'Through the Wire' to the Daft Punk loop under 'Stronger', Kanye's beats give the song away before the first line. The catch is the album each one belongs to.
The stories behind the songs decide the close ones: a verse rapped with his jaw wired shut, the Jay-Z album he produced before he rapped, and the drum machine that changed rap on 808s & Heartbreak.
His catalog moves in hard resets. Start with the soul-sample hits, then follow the synth turn, the maximalist peak and the industrial and gospel left-turns to find the era that trips you up.
Start where Kanye started: the sped-up soul of 'Through the Wire', the Ray Charles flip on 'Gold Digger' and the choir of 'Jesus Walks'. These College Dropout and Late Registration hits are the warm, obvious points at the top of any Kanye quiz.
Then the sound flips. 'Stronger' chases Daft Punk electro on Graduation, and a year later 808s & Heartbreak drops rapping for cold Auto-Tune on 'Heartless' and 'Love Lockdown'. Same artist, no soul samples, so the trap is assuming a track is too icy to be Kanye.
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy piles on everything at once. Real fans place 'POWER', 'Runaway' and 'All of the Lights' by their orchestral scale and long guest lists, and know the album cuts that never hit radio. Name these from a short clip and you pull ahead.
The trickiest questions sit at the extremes. The industrial abrasion of 'Black Skinhead', the gospel of 'Ultralight Beam' and the Sunday Service records sound like different artists entirely. A thorough Kanye quiz reaches past the hits into these late-career left-turns.
Play a Kanye West quiz on Songtrivia and find out. Guess his songs from a short clip and answer trivia across the eras, from the soul-sample debut to the Auto-Tune of 808s & Heartbreak. Knowing the hits is the start; placing each track by its album is the real test.
Expect the singles that crossed over, 'Gold Digger', 'Stronger', 'Jesus Walks', 'Heartless' and 'POWER', plus deep cuts like 'Runaway', 'Devil in a New Dress' and 'Black Skinhead' that separate the superfans.
The hits are easy points, but Kanye rebuilt his sound on nearly every album, from chipmunk soul to industrial noise, so the trap is a clip that sounds nothing like the Kanye you expect. The era-jumps are what make it tough. They also make it a good round to guess the song with friends in multiplayer.
His birth name is Kanye Omari West. He was born in Atlanta in 1977 and raised in Chicago, and in 2021 he legally changed his name to Ye.
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