Kanye West Research Paper

Kanye west was born June 8, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia. Kanye West is a rapper, music producer, and a fashion designer. His parents were divorced when he was only 3 his father, Ray West was a photojournalist. His mother, Donda West was an english professor at Chicago State University. Kanye grew up in Chicago’s middle class south shore neighborhood until the age of 10 when he moved to China with his mother where she taught a university-exchange program for a year. She passed away in 2007 at the age of 58 after having a heart attack that came from cosmetic surgery. When Kanye returned back to Chicago he was into the south side’s hip-hop where he made friends with a dj/producer No I.D. After Kanye meet No I.D. he became Kanye’s mentor. Kanye graduated Polaris High School and got a scholarship to

In 2001 Kanye moved to New York, where he produced Jay-Z’s track “This Can’t Be Life”. Kanye dropped his first album in february 2004 called “The College Dropout”. His album sold 2.6 million copies. Kanye’s mother’s death and the separation of him and his fiance caused Kanye’s music to change drastically. In one of his albums 808s and Heartbreak which came out a year after his mother’s death, Kanye did not rap but instead sung in an auto tune voice. One thing that Kanye is known for is his shoe line Yeezy which has been out since 2006 with Nike then switching to Adidas later on. Kanye married Kim Kardashian on May 24th 2014, they later on had a child named North West and Saint West. West and Jay-Z were very close friends and their relationship is very complicated because Kanye came into the music industry through Jay-Z’s label and they were like brothers but in during Kanye's time at Jay-Z’s company Tidal there was a dispute about money causing Kanye to desert Tidal. In Kanye’s following concerts performing Saint Pablo he trashed Jay-Z in front of the audience. Their relationship has been very hostile since the