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Yes, that was a Scientology ad you saw during the Super Bowl. Heres whats in it. S. Residence. Hidden Hills, California, U. S. Occupation. Rappersingersongwriterrecord producerfashion designerentrepreneur. Years active. 19. Home town. Chicago, Illinois, U. Media Matters for America is a webbased, notforprofit, 501c3 progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing. To place an order, please Email or Call the above address and we will inform you as to the price availability of the CDS your interested in. Watch Rabin, The Last Day Online Mic' title='Watch Rabin, The Last Day Online Mic' />S. SpousesKim Kardashian m. Children. 2Websitekanyewest. Musical career. Genres. Hip hop, R B, Pop. Instruments. Labels. Associated acts. Kanye Omari West 1 born June 8, 1. American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, fashion designer, and entrepreneur. Born in Atlanta and raised in Chicago, West briefly attended art school before becoming known as a producer for Roc A Fella Records in the early 2. Jay Z and Alicia Keys. Watch The Wicker Man Online Moviesdbz on this page. Intent on pursuing a solo career as a rapper, West released his debut album The College Dropout in 2. GOOD Music. He went on to pursue a variety of styles on subsequent albums Late Registration 2. Graduation 2. 00. Heartbreak 2. 00. In 2. 01. 0, he released his fifth album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy to rave reviews from critics, and the following year he released the collaborative album Watch the Throne with Jay Z. West released his abrasive sixth album, Yeezus, to further critical praise in 2. His seventh album, The Life of Pablo, was released in 2. Wests outspoken views and life outside of music have received significant mainstream attention. He has been a frequent source of controversy for his conduct at award shows, on social media, and in other public settings. His more scrutinized comments include his off script denunciation of President George W. Bush during a live 2. Hurricane Katrina relief and his interruption of singer Taylor Swift at the 2. MTV Video Music Awards. Wests ventures as a fashion designer include collaborations with Nike, Louis Vuitton, and A. P. C. on both clothing and footwear, and have most prominently resulted in the YEEZY collaboration with Adidas beginning in 2. He is the founder and head of the creative content company DONDA. His 2. 01. 4 marriage to television personality Kim Kardashian has also been subject to widespread media coverage. West is among the most acclaimed musicians of the 2. He has won a total of 2. Grammy Awards, making him one of the most awarded artists of all time and the most Grammy awarded artist to have debuted in the 2. Three of his albums have been included and ranked on Rolling Stones 2. Watch Alive Or Dead Online Full Movie there. Greatest Albums of All Time list. He has also been included in a number of Forbes annual lists. Time named him one of the 1. Early life. West was born on June 8, 1. Atlanta, Georgia. His parents divorced when he was three years old. After the divorce, he and his mother moved to Chicago, Illinois. His father, Ray West, is a former Black Panther and was one of the first black photojournalists at The Atlanta Journal Constitution. Ray West was later a Christian counselor,1. Good Water Store and Caf in Lexington Park, Maryland with startup capital from his son. Wests mother, Dr. Donda C. Williams West,1. English at Clark Atlanta University, and the Chair of the English Department at Chicago State University before retiring to serve as his manager. West was raised in a middle class background, attending Polaris High School1. Oak Lawn, Illinois after living in Chicago. At the age of 1. 0, West moved with his mother to Nanjing, China, where she was teaching at Nanjing University as part of an exchange program. According to his mother, West was the only foreigner in his class, but settled in well and quickly picked up the language, although he has since forgotten most of it. When asked about his grades in high school, West replied, I got As and Bs. And Im not even frontin. West demonstrated an affinity for the arts at an early age he began writing poetry when he was five years old. His mother recalled that she first took notice of Wests passion for drawing and music when he was in the third grade. Growing up in Chicago, West became deeply involved in its hip hop scene. He started rapping in the third grade and began making musical compositions in the seventh grade, eventually selling them to other artists. At age thirteen, West wrote a rap song called Green Eggs and Ham and began to persuade his mother to pay 2. Watch Maudie Putlocker. It was a small, crude basement studio where a microphone hung from the ceiling by a wire clothes hanger. Although this wasnt what Wests mother wanted, she nonetheless supported him. West crossed paths with producerDJ No I. D., with whom he quickly formed a close friendship. No I. D. soon became Wests mentor, and it was from him that West learned how to sample and program beats after he received his first sampler at age 1. After graduating from high school, West received a scholarship to attend Chicagos American Academy of Art in 1. Chicago State University to study English. He soon realized that his busy class schedule was detrimental to his musical work, and at 2. This action greatly displeased his mother, who was also a professor at the university. She later commented, It was drummed into my head that college is the ticket to a good life. For Kanye to make an album called College Dropout it was more about having the guts to embrace who you are, rather than following the path society has carved out for you. Career. 19. 962. Early work and Roc A Fella Records. Kanye West began his early production career in the mid 1. His first official production credits came at the age of nineteen when he produced eight tracks on Down to Earth, the 1. Chicago rapper named Grav. For a time, West acted as a ghost producer for Deric D Dot Angelettie. Because of his association with D Dot, West wasnt able to release a solo album, so he formed and became a member and producer of the Go Getters, a late 1. Chicago rap group composed of him, GLC, Timmy G, Really Doe, and Arrowstar. His group was managed by John Monopoly Johnson, Don Crowley, and Happy Lewis under the management firm Hustle Period. 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