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TIL that when Kanye was 20, at his first ever record meeting with Columbia records and producer Michael Mauldin, he told the execs that he’d be bigger than Michael Jackson and Jermaine Dupri, not knowing Mauldin was Dupri’s father. Kanye’s offer was nullified and he was asked to leave the offices.

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