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Kanye West

We Major

2005 · via Russell Simmons

Kanye West’s 2005 recording of “We Major” is the earliest release on file. Kanye West shares the writing credit with Warryn Campbell, Nas, Maureen Reid, Russell Simmons, Larry Smith, Warren Trotter, Tony Williams and Dontae Winslow.

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Simmons and Nas are both on the credits for this one, and so is Larry Smith, the same name sitting next to Simmons on Kurtis Blow's The Breaks and a stack of Run‐D.M.C. songs. Follow it forward and you land on Kanye West in 2005.

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Credited writers: Warryn Campbell, Nas, Maureen Reid, Russell Simmons, Larry Smith, Warren Trotter, Tony Williams, Dontae Winslow and Ye.

Earliest release on file: this one, 2005.

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