Kanye West certainly loves to namedrop in his music.
In honor of Yeezy’s 35th birthday this week (June 8), we’ve surveyed his ouevre to find 35 stars he’s name-checked. Which is your favorite?
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“My psychic told me she have an ass like Serena, Trina, strongJennifer Lopez,/strong four kids/And I gotta take all they bad ass to show-biz”
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–“Gold Digger”
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“My dawgs couldn’t tell if I/I look strongTom Cruise/strong on ‘Vanilla Sky,’ it was televised”
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–“Through the Wire”
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“She got a light-skinned friend look like strongMichael Jackson/strong/Got a dark-skinned friend look likestrong Michael Jackson/strong”
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–“Slow Jamz”
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“I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers/The way strongKathie Lee/strong needed strongRegis/strong that’s the way I need Jesus”
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–“Jesus Walks”
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“‘Cause I’mstrong Jake Gyllenhaal/strong/I’m in the hood with the bubble with a tall model broad like I took her from Russell/didn’t play the cards I was dealt, I made the dealer re-shuffle”
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–“Looking for Trouble”
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“Any girl I cheated on, sheets I skeeted on/I couldn’t keep it home, I thought I needed a strongNia Long/strong”
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–“Touch the Sky”
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“Only playa that got robbed but kept all his jewelry/strongAlicia Keys/strong tried to talk some sense to them 30 minutes later seems there’s no convincing them”
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–“Diamonds from Sierra Leone”
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“You got Ds mother f***er, Ds, strongRosie Perez/strong/And yes, barely pass any and every class”
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–“Good Morning”
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“And I’ll admit, I had fell in love with strongKim/strong/Around the same time she had fell in love with him/Well that’s cool, baby girl, do ya thang”
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–“Way Too Cold”
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“You can’t fathom my love dude/Lock yourself in a room doin’ five beats a day for three summers/That’s a different world likestrong Cree Summer/strong”
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–“Spaceship”
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“I’ll never be picture perfect strongBeyonce/strong/Be light as Al B., or black as Chauncey/Remember him from Blackstreet”
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–“Everything I Am”
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“Revolution ain’t a game/It’s another name/For life fighting/Someone to stay in they corner like strongMike Tyson/strong”
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–“My Way Home”
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“Feel like strongAmerie/strong “It’s this one thing”/When they said that she made it/You see the eyes gleam”
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–“Roses”
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“We was sort of like strongWill Smith/strong and his son/In the movie I ain’t talkin’ ’bout the rich ones/’cause every summer he’ll get some”
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–“Champion”
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“When it feel like living’s harder than dyin’/For me givin’ up’s way harder than tryin’/strongLauryn/strong Hill say her heart was in Zion/I wish her heart still was in rhymin'”
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–“Champion”
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“I guess I’ll clean up my act like Prince’ll do/If not for the pleasure, least for the principle”
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–“Champion”
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“But I can’t complain what the accident did to my Left Eye/Cuz look what a accident did to Left Eye”
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–“Never Let Me Down”
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“First strongAaliyah/strong and now romeo must die/I know a got angels watching me from the other side”
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–“Never Let Me Down”
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“Let you tell that man I’m falling/Well somebody must’ve caught him/Cause every fourth quarter, I like to strongMike Jordan/strong ’em”
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–“Never Let Me Down”
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“My money was thinner than strongSean Paul/strong’s goatee hair”
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–“Last Call”
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“Though the fans want the feeling of A Tribe Called Quest/But all they got left is this guy called West/Better take Freeway, throw him on tracks with Mos Def/Call him Kwa-lI or Kwe-li/I put him on songs with strongJay-Z/strong”
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–“Last Call”
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“You’ll sell everything includin the mannequin/They got a new bitch now you strongJennifer Aniston/strong”
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–“Gone”
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“You a big L, and I ain’t talkin ’bout strongCool J/strong”
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–“Gone”
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“Caught somethin on the strongUsher/strong tour he had to ‘Let it Burn'”
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–“Gone”
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“How am I suppose to stand out when everyone get dressed up/So yeah at the Grammys I went ultra strongTravolta/strong”
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–“The Glory”
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“In two years the Dwayne Wayne became the strongDwyane Wade/strong”
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–“The Glory”
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“Got caught with 30 rocks/the cop look like strongAlec Baldwin/strong”
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–“Gorgeous”
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“Look like a fat booty strongCeline Dion/strong/sex is on fire, I’m the King of Leon-a Lewis”
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–“Dark Fantasy”
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“I’m so appalled/Spalding ball/Balding strongDonald Trump/strong taking dollars from y’all”
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–“So Appalled”
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“Prince William’s ain’t do it right if you ask me/’Cause I was him I would havestrong Mary Kate and Ashley/strong”
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–“N****s in Paris”
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“What’s scary to me is Henny makes girls look like strongHalle Berry/strong to me”
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–“The New Workout Plan”
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“With some light-skinned girls and some strongKelly Rowlands/strong/In this white man’s world we the ones chosen”
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–“Power”
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“Let’s get lost tonight/You could be my black strongKate Moss/strong tonight”
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–“Stronger”
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“And I’m still Cole like strongKeyshia/strong’s family”
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–“Barry Bonds”
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“You know how long I’ve been on you?/Since Prince was on Apollonia/Since strongOJ/strong had Isotoners”
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–“Stronger”
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