10 Years Ago Today: Kanye West – ‘Graduation’ Introduced Hip Hop’s First Rock Star

“I’d be saying my super raps, and this 50-year-old white lady would be looking like, ‘I can’t wait till the Rolling Stones come on,'” he said to MTV in 2007.  He illustrates the urgency on the Daft Punk-assisted “Stronger:” “N-now th-that that don’t kill me / Can only make me stronger / I need you to hurry up now/ ‘Cause I can’t wait much longer.”