Kanye West n'a pas écrit les paroles de ses 5 premiers albums

I didn't write my raps down for my first four albums - like all, I did it from the head straight to the booth.

Ce n'est qu'à partir de My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy que Yeezy se serait mis à l'écriture pour ses albums:

But on this last album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, I wrote it because I really put myself in the zone that my life was dependent on the success of this album.

With that being the case, I said, 'You know what? No matter what anybody says about me, I can write something that can make someone that hates me the most have to really respect or love the song.'

So even a song like 'Power,' I spent 5,000 hours writing it, and it's really the psychology behind the lyrics; it's not just blatantly, 'I've got all the powers' - [it's] 'No one man should have all that power.' It's word[ed] it in a really sensitive way that opens it up for everyone.