Two Words

~ Recording by Kanye West feat. Mos Def, Freeway & The Harlem Boys Choir

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack ArtistRelease TitleRelease ArtistRelease Group TypeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.18Two Words4:26Kanye West feat. Mos Def, Freeway & The Harlem Boys ChoirThe College Dropout (explicit)Kanye WestAlbum
  • XE2004-02-09
Roc‐A‐Fella Records986 173-9
2.4Two Words4:26Kanye West featuring Mos Def, Freeway & The Boys Choir of HarlemThe College Dropout (explicit)Kanye WestAlbum
  • US2004-02-10
Roc‐A‐Fella RecordsB0002030-01
1.18Two Words4:26Kanye West feat. Mos Def, Freeway & The Harlem Boys ChoirThe College Dropout (explicit)Kanye WestAlbum
  • US2004-02-10
Roc‐A‐Fella RecordsB0002030-02
1.18Two Words4:26Kanye West feat. Mos Def, Freeway & The Harlem Boys ChoirThe College Dropout (edited/clean version)Kanye WestAlbum
  • US2004-02-10
Roc‐A‐Fella RecordsB0002035-02
1.18Two Words4:26Kanye West feat. Mos Def, Freeway & The Harlem Boys ChoirThe College DropoutKanye WestAlbum
  • GB2004-02-16
Roc‐A‐Fella Records9862061
1.18Two Words4:26Kanye West feat. Mos Def, Freeway & The Harlem Boys ChoirThe College Dropout (special edition)Kanye WestAlbum
  • JP2005-05-04
Roc‐A‐Fella RecordsUICD 6097
1.18Two Words4:26Kanye West feat. Mos Def, Freeway & The Harlem Boys ChoirThe College DropoutKanye WestAlbum
  • JP2005-09-21
Roc‐A‐Fella RecordsUICY-90008
1.18Two Words4:26Kanye West feat. Mos Def, Freeway & The Harlem Boys ChoirThe College DropoutKanye WestAlbum
  • JP2007-05-23
Universal Music (plain logo: “Universal Music”)UICD-3019
1.18Two Words4:26Kanye West feat. Mos Def, Freeway & The Harlem Boys ChoirThe College Dropout +1Kanye WestAlbum
  • JP2012-09-19
Universal Music (plain logo: “Universal Music”)UICY-20383
1.18Two Words4:26Kanye West feat. Mos Def, Freeway & The Harlem Boys ChoirThe College DropoutKanye WestAlbum
  • XW2018-07-16
Roc‐A‐Fella Records
2.4Two Words?:??Kanye West featuring Mos Def, Freeway & The Boys Choir of HarlemThe College Dropout (reissue)Kanye WestAlbum
Roc‐A‐Fella RecordsB0002030-01
1.18Two Words4:26Kanye West feat. Mos Def, Freeway & The Harlem Boys ChoirThe College Dropout (white cover, pink lettering)Kanye WestAlbum
Roc‐A‐Fella RecordsB0002030-02
Promotion
1.5Two Words4:26Kanye West feat. Mos Def & Freeway & Harlem Boys ChoirI'm Good…Kanye WestAlbum + Mixtape/Street
Hustle., Roc‐A‐Fella Records, The Heavy Hitters
1.18Two Words4:26Kanye West feat. Mos Def, Freeway & The Harlem Boys ChoirThe College Dropout (Review Copy for Entertainment Weekly)Kanye WestAlbum
  • US2004-02-13
Roc‐A‐Fella Records
Bootleg
1.5Two Words4:28Kanye West feat. Mos Def, Freeway & The Harlem Boys ChoirThe College Dropout (later advanced bootleg)Kanye WestAlbum

Relationships

recording engineer:Marc Fuller
Keith Slattery
Carlisle Young
producer:Kanye West
mixer:Mike Dean (US "dirty south" hip-hop producer & mix engineer)
keyboard:Keith Slattery
violin:Miri Ben‐Ari
additional guest vocals:The Boys Choir of Harlem
guest performer:Freeway (US rapper Leslie Pridgen)
Mos Def
violin arranger:Miri Ben‐Ari
sampled by:Caved In by CunninLynguists (Kentucky hip hop group) feat. Cee Lo Green
samples:Peace and Love (Amani Na Mapenzi), Movement III: Time by Mandrill (American funk band)
mash-ups:Two Words + Fruit Machine by Hippomothamus
Youth Words (Kanye West x Reagan Youth) by Max Tannone
stream for free:https://open.spotify.com/track/62wtttQzoIA9HnNmGVd9Yq [info]
recording of:Two Words

Related works

Two Words

composer:Dante Smith
Leslie Pridgen (US rapper Leslie Pridgen)
Kanye West
is the basis for:Two Worlds