At age 13, West wrote a rap tune known as "Green Eggs and Ham" (the title of a finest-offering kid's e book by Dr. Seuss) and persuaded his mom to fork out for time in a recording studio. The tune however achieved the best 20 of the Billboard pop charts, inspite of sector executives' predictions that a song made up of these kinds of blatant declarations of faith would in no way make it to the radio. PRM.