In 2015, he announced his intent to run for president of the United States in the 2020 election, and to the surprise of many, his campaign as a third-party candidate indeed materialized on July of that year. December 5, 2015) and two born of surrogate mothers (Chicago note daughter, b. They have four children together - two born of Kim (North note daughter, b. He married Kim Kardashian in 2014 the two filed for divorce in 2021. While his 'sound' was initially solely defined as a 'chipmunk soul' style composed of sampling old soul music and pitching it up, his sonic palette expanded in later works to include more experimental elements like lush orchestration ( Late Registration), arena rock/ house electronics ( Graduation), cold R&B ( 808s), abrasive industrial ( Yeezus), and gospel ( Jesus Is King). This inspired his song 'Through the Wire' the song would eventually be re-recorded and included on his debut album The College Dropout, which opened to mass critical and commercial fanfare, jump-starting his career. However, the emphatically middle-class West-the son of a photojournalist and an English professor, and partly raised in the suburbs-didn't fit the profile for the Gangsta Rap popular at the time, and was long pigeonholed as an illegitimate 'producer-rapper' before being reluctantly being signed to the label he was an in-house producer for, Jay-Z's Roc-a-Fella Records.Įverything changed on October 23, 2002, when he was involved in a car crash after midnight that shattered his jaw. Originally a producer in the mid-90s for local Chicago artists, eventually making it big as arguably the secret ingredient to Jay-Z's Career Resurrection come the Turn of the Millennium, he started dreaming of becoming a rapper. While he has become one of the most polarizing musicians of the 21st century, few can claim to have impacted the medium in the way West has, by means of both his artistic statements and a long, long list of controversial actions. Ye note yes, that is currently his legal name he had it changed in late 2021, reportedly inspired by the prominent use of the word 'ye' in the Bible (born Kanye note Pronounced 'KON-yay' and NOT spelled 'Kayne' Omari West June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, artist, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer from Chicago, Illinois (born in Atlanta, Georgia).

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