During that whole day, he had a glass of water and a couple of grapes. The intense recording session eventually finished at midnight when West's bodyguards hauled the exhausted rapper-producer out of the studio. Then half an hour later he'd say 'play some chords' and I'd play some chords." "Every now and then he'd turn around and say 'play a bassline' and I'd play something. Impressed by West's "efficient" work ethic and the manner in which he would skip through CDs, sample beats, put them through his MPC drum machine and then rap over them, Godfrey was behind his keyboard awaiting instructions. When he did arrive "he worked really, really hard," recalls Godfrey. Godfrey arrived at the studio at the appointed start time of 10am, but it was 2pm in the afternoon that West arrived. Sometimes I played something and he'd like it. Kanye wanted to record some tracks while he was here and needed a keyboard player - Godfrey was the ring-in local. The year was 2006 and Kanye West was touring New Zealand with U2 and at the same time producing rapper Common's Finding Forever album. Godfrey De Grut shares stories of life as a composer, saxophonist, keyboardist and 1980s kid in his RNZ Mixtape
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