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Kanye West is "master" of hit tracks

Rap superstar Kanye West creates chart-topping tunes because he is a "master of structure".

Fellow rapper Pusha T has collaborated with hip-hop heavyweights West and Pharrell Williams. While the 35-year-old reveals Williams relies on his intuition when coming up with a track, he says West turns to his technical ability.

In an interview with Le Black Et La Pume via You Heard That New he said:  “Both of these guys are perfectionists in their own right. Pharrell, I think he works a little bit off of feeling, and I think Kanye is a master of structure and a master of tapping in to knowing what people are going to react to and respond to.

"He’s really like a hit-maker and having that knowledge of what’s going on in America and…the world and exploiting that."

Pusha T also spoke about how differently the pair piece together a new track.

He explained: "Kanye West, a lot of times, he gives me the skeleton of a beat. He'll play either a sample or he'll play me like, just an idea and he'll ask me to write a verse to what I like in that idea…I'll lay that verse down on that part of the beat, and then he takes the record and creates around my verse, versus Pharrell, a lot of times, I'll go into the studio and he already has the beat, and then I lay a verse to the beat and it's a done deal."

 

 

 

Watch the video for Kanye West's 'Mercy' here: