Andre, a rapper and producer named Arrowstar, and Kanye all knew each other from grammar school. Prior to the group’s formation in 1996, GLC was part of a duo with a friend named Andre, who everyone called Birdman (“He kind of looked like a bird,” GLC helpfully explains). Kanye and company didn’t have to look far to find other members. At the time, the only way for us to get any music out was via the Go Getters.” But that's why it was always ‘Go Getters featuring Kanye West.’ The Go Getters was always about pushing the Kanye initiative. And two, we couldn't put him out as a solo artist because of his situation. This is who he wanted to be with and who he wanted to come out with initially. “So we created the Go Getters kind of as a go-around.
Kanye also wanted to work with Don C and Monopoly, but there was a problem. “‘Ye was signed to a production company as a solo artist, and he was frustrated that he couldn't rock with our company Hustle,” Monopoly explains. (“I'll pay $1,000 to whoever can find the Don C verse” on a song called “Hater Proof,” Monopoly challenges). The cousins wanted to work with their friend Kanye around the same time that Don C’s short-lived rap career as part of a group called Major League ended. At the time of the Go Getters’ formation, Don C and Monopoly had formed a company called Hustle for their music ventures. “I come from a kind of complicated family,” Monopoly explains. “I quit making beats nine months after meeting Kanye West because he was so good and it was like, why am I even doing this?” Monopoly recalls with a laugh.ĭespite being cousins, Don C and John Monopoly wouldn’t meet until 1995. After being introduced by a mutual friend, the pair admired each other’s beatmaking skills and formed a short-lived production company. The beginnings of the group can be traced back to the day Kanye met Monopoly in 1990, when they were each in their early teens. They were orbited by an extended crew of characters familiar to any Kanye fan, from collaborators like Really Doe, Malik Yusef, and Rhymefest, to the group’s managers: cousins Don C and John Monopoly. The Go Getters were a Chicago rap group in the mid-to-late ’90s, consisting of a young Kanye West alongside GLC, Timmy G, and Arrowstar.
Other listeners who voraciously read through credits might have noticed that he produced multiple tracks on JAY-Z’s 2001 classic, The Blueprint, or even the Hov ballad “This Can’t Be Life” from the year prior.īut years before Kanye became a rising star in music and a go getter in several industries, he was actually a Go Getter. Many of us were introduced to him as the guy who rapped through a wired jaw on “Through the Wire” in 2003. When was the first time you heard of Kanye West?
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