Star Study: Kanye West

Kanye West is an american rapper, singer and record producer, born on June 8, 1977. Kanye West was born in Atlanta, Georgia, where he lived with his parents until his parents divorced when he was around three years old, and he and his mother moved to Chicago, Illinois.

Kanye West attended Chicago State University where he produced music for locaql artists. Through this, he later gained fame by producing hit singles in the music genre Hip Hop and R&B for artists such as Jay Z, Alicia Keys, John Legend and more.

1996

Kanye West gained the opportunity to produce tracks for Chicago rapper, Grav for his debut album. Although, the album did not attract much attention, in 1998 to 1999 Kanye West's career grew and gaining more opportunities like producing for higher profile and well known artists such as Jermaine Dupry, Foxy Brown and more. After gaining much success as a producer, Kanye West decided to take on the role of a solo artist and as a rapper. However, he struggled to find a record label to make a contract with him. This ended when his verse on Jay-Z's album 'The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse' allowed him to sign to the same record label.

2004-05

Kanye West's success progressed even further when he was involved in a near fatal car crash while driving home from recording studio. This influenced him to write songs, that became his first single, which also won the Source's Award for Best Music video in 2004.

In 2005, MTV aired All Eyes on Kanye West in which Kanye spoke out against the Homophobia in the Hip Hop industry. He claims that hip hop has been discriminating the gay community; he even admitted that he has been discriminating that community until he found out that one of his cousins is gay in which he said that this was his 'turning point'. He said: "This is my cousin. I love him and I've been discriminating against gays"

After gaining much success with his albums, Kanye West decided to launch his own clothing line, Pastelle Clothing line in spring 2006.

Contemporary
Now, Kanye West has a total of 47 awards and 147 nominations from different award ceremonies, including the Grammys. He has a total of 6 albums from 2004 to 2011.