• The College Dropout

  • Michael J. Ballin Thomas Aguilar
  • Set Up
  • No Manager
  • Drama
  • Black List
  • 79.6
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Market: Fri, 16 Apr 2021Sold: Mon, 13 Dec 2021
AgentAdam Perry, Mike Goldberg, Kyle Loftus (APA)
ManagerMatt Ocacher, Michael Pelmont (New Wave Entertainment)
StudioColumbia Pictures
The story follows the rise of rapper Kanye West.
A young man pursues his career as a rapper despite all of the doubters along the way: this is Kanye West.
A young Kanye West, trying to prove himself as a rapper and producer, struggles with his decision to drop out of college and bet everything on his musical dreams.
Kanye West's early days and rise to fame are chronicled as he tries to balance pursuing his goals as a rapper and producer with the expectations his mother has set for him for obtain a college degree.
19-year-old Kanye West struggles to break into the music industry and find respect as both a rapper and a producer.
Film
Non-Fiction, Mainstream (studio), Character Study, Biopic, Drama, Coming of Age, Urban, African-American / Black Theme, Music, Business, Celebrity, College/University, Culture, Education, Fame, Gangster, Hip-hop, Mother, Mother/Son, Outsider, Performer, Poverty, Son, Student, True Story
116
PG-13
High
M
Black / African
19
Average
Get On Up (2014) Straight Outta Compton (2015) Rocketman (2019) Respect (2021) 8 Mile (2002) All Eyez on Me (2017)
95% 1997 -2003 5% 1991/2021- Flashbacks
Kanye’s Bedroom, Chicago State University (10%), Lecture Hall, Chicago Streets, Gap Store, Donda’s Office, Harold’s Chicken Restarunt, BMW, Camry, Kanye’s House (10%), No ID’s studio, Tower Records, JFK Airport Arrivals, Limo in Manhattan, Columbia Offices, Cheap Taxi, Greasy Fast Food Joint, Kanye’s Chicago Apartment, Shitty Apartment, New York Subway, Baseline Studios (15%), U-Haul Truck, Hoboken Apartment (10%), IKEA, Times Square, Madison Square Park, Radio Shack, Capitol Records, NYC Club, Dash’s Office, Record Plant, Lexus, Stadium, Hollywood Boulevard, Cedars-Sinai Hospital Emergency Room, Hospital Room, Hospital Waiting Room, W Hotel Room, Mansion Party, Jamie Foxx’s Mansion Studio, High School Gym, Mercedes, Shangri-LA Studios,
Kanye West (19) tinkers on his MPC working on a song. It's a dream, and his mother wakes him up for his class at Chicago State University.

Kanye struggles focusing in class because he wants to create music.

His mother confronts him and encourages him to try harder in his classes.

Kanye works at Gap and his friends come in. They have a rap battle over a beat and Kanye wins. He quits his job.

Kanye confronts his professor when he gives him a D on his paper. His professor encourages him to try harder in school so he does not become a college dropout.

Kanye wants to drop out and discusses it with his mom.

Kanye meets with NO ID (26), his mentor. They meet with a producer from Roc-a-Fella who likes Kanye’s music and wants to hear more.

Jermaine Dupri likes Kanye’s beats and might want him for his album. Kanye sends the beat and he gets on the album.

Kanye gets a meeting with Columbia in New York. The meeting goes poorly after Kanye raps on the table and offends the producers and executives.

When Kanye returns to Chicago, he decides to drop out of college and...