--- description: On 'Kocktails with Khloe,' Kim Kardashian recounts how North West flushed her father's iPhone down the toilet and with it his ideas. title: Kanye Lost His Early 'Life Of Pablo' Raps Down the Toilet image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0aef4f48f72d32a8/69888fad2dce01de5b9e8b86/screen-shot-2016-04-19-at-4-16-30-pm.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Kanye West Lost All His Early _Pablo_ Raps When North Flushed His Phone by [Nash Jenkins](/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 19, 2016 9:15 AM CUT  Kim Kardashian and Kanye West on 'Kocktails With Khloe' Kim Kardashian and Kanye West on 'Kocktails With Khloe'Kocktails With Khloe—FYI Television Network by [Nash Jenkins](/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 19, 2016 9:15 AM CUT When Kanye West was in the drawing-board stage of work on his album _Life of Pablo,_ he stored his ideas on his iPhone, according to his wife Kim Kardashian. She shared this information over dinner with Kanye, her sister Khloe, John Legend, and Chrissy Teigen, in a scene that will be broadcast as part of the newest episode of _Kocktails with Khloe_. With West looking on stoically, Kardashian went on to tell Legend and Teigen that their daughter, North, was inspired to flush the phone down the toilet. “\[The raps\] couldn’t be retrieved,” Kardashian said. “We sent it to, like, four places.” “No Apple Genius was genius enough,” West added. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4298815/kanye-west-life-of-pablo-iphone-north-flushed/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4298815/kanye-west-life-of-pablo-iphone-north-flushed/"},"headline":"Kanye West Lost All His Early Pablo Raps When North Flushed His Phone","datePublished":"2016-04-19T09:15:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:51:16.642Z","description":"\"No Apple Genius was genius enough\" to recover the work","url":"https://time.com/4298815/kanye-west-life-of-pablo-iphone-north-flushed/","keywords":["Television","Music","Kanye West","Chrissy Teigen","Kim Kardashian","john legend"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0aef4f48f72d32a8/69888fad2dce01de5b9e8b86/screen-shot-2016-04-19-at-4-16-30-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nash Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0aef4f48f72d32a8/69888fad2dce01de5b9e8b86/screen-shot-2016-04-19-at-4-16-30-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2016-04-19 at 4.16.30 PM","caption":"Kim Kardashian and Kanye West on 'Kocktails With Khloe'","creditText":"Kocktails With Khloe—FYI Television Network","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4298815/kanye-west-life-of-pablo-iphone-north-flushed/","name":"Kanye West Lost All His Early Pablo Raps When North Flushed His Phone"}}]}] ```