Kanye West prioritizes art over ego and splits earnings with everyone in the studio who contributed to a song. He invests heavily in production and ensures collaborators get proper credits and publishing support.
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As much as that seemed like the main thing about him is the ego, but when it comes to the creation of something, the art always comes first. Like, he will put his all— he'll spend all his money on the art. He will give everybody writer's credit. Like, nobody never say bad things about him creatively from working with him, you know. I mean, even the people that wrote songs for him, they all living good lives because they was, you know, they was taken care of publishing-wise. They was taken care of as much as you could with the samples and as many writers there is. But I remember one time he just split it with everybody that was in the room when the song was being made.