Kanye West is an American record producer, rapper, and fashion designer who parlayed his production success into a popular, critically acclaimed career in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Years.
Bio/Wiki
Age-45year
Height-5 feet 8 inch
Weight- 163 lbs,
Born-June 8, 1977
Birthplace-Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Profession-Rapper singer, songwriter, record producer, fashion designer
Spouse-Kim Kardashian (m. 2014; div. 2022)
Nationality-American
Other Name-Ye[a], Yeezus, Saint Pablo, Yeezy Louis Vuitton Don
Member of-Sunday Service Choir the Hitmen
Family
Kanye West is the child of a photographer and former Black Panther father and a college professor mother, after his parents divorced when he was three years old, he moved with his mother to Chicago, Illinois West grew up in Chicago and attended Chicago State University for a year before pursuing music.
Relationship
Kim Kardashian
In April 2012, West began dating reality television star Kim Kardashian, with whom he had already been long-time friends. West and Kardashian became engaged in October 2013, The New York Times referred to their marriage as “a historic blizzard of celebrity.
In July 2020, West acknowledged Kardashian’s ability to end their marriage because she was against abortion. Later that month, West wrote on Twitter that he was trying to break up with Kardashian. he also wrote that the Kardashian family tried to lock [him] up. In January 2021, CNN reported that the couple discussed divorce. A month later, Kardashian filed for divorce, citing “irreconcilable differences”, agreed to joint custody of their children, and denied spousal support. The divorce settlement was finalized in November 2022, and West was ordered to pay $200,000 in monthly alimony and half of the children’s maintenance, education, and security expenses.
West after a divorce from Kim Kardashian was finalized in November 2022, West quickly moved on to a new relationship and marriage.
In January 2023, it was announced that Kanye would be “marrying” his new partner, Bianca Censori.
Bianca Censori
They reportedly tied the knot in a private ceremony in Beverly Hills. TMZ reported the ceremony, but also confirmed that they did not apply for a marriage license, which means the wedding may not be “official.” Despite this, Ye was seen wearing her wedding ring after tying the knot.
Bianca Censori, 28, is an Australian architect who works for Kanye West’s design company Yeezy.
Censor grew up in Melbourne, Victoria, where he attended school and university. According to Bianca’s LinkedIn, she studied Bachelor and Master of Architecture at the University of Melbourne from 2013 to 2020. After that, in November 2020, Censor started as an architectural designer for Kanye West’s Yeezy fashion brand.
This is where she met her current husband, although this has not been confirmed.
Children
Kanye West and Kardashian have four children: North West (born June 2013), Saint West (born December 2015), Chicago West (born via surrogate in January 2018), and Psalm West (born surrogate in May 2019).In July 2020, West revealed during his presidential campaign that he had previously considered an abortion during Kardashian’s first pregnancy, but has since embraced anti-abortion activism. In April 2015, West and Kardashian travelled to Jerusalem to be baptized in the Armenian Apostolic Church at the Cathedral of St. James of the North.
Career
Kanye’s first showed considerable talent as a producer, contributing to Jermaine Duprin’s Life in 1472 (1998) before moving to the New York area, where he produced for Roc-A-Fella Records, notably rapper Jay-Z’s Blueprint album. (2001). West’s skillful use of sped-up, sample-based beats soon made him in-demand as a producer, but he struggled to get permission to make his own recordings (partly because his middle-class background hindered his credibility as a rapper). When he finally released his debut solo album, The College Dropout (2004), it was a huge success, with sales soaring and critics praising its vocal sophistication and clever wordplay that mixed humor, faith, insight and political awareness in songs like “Through”. Wire” and “Jesus Walks,” backed by a gospel choir. The latter cut won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Song in 2005, and West also won Best Rap Album and Best R&B Song that same year (“You Don’t by Alicia Keys t Know My.” Name) co-writer.
On January 5, 2022, West was announced as one of the 2022 headliners for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Later that month, on January 15, West released the first single from his upcoming album Donda 2, “Eazy”, featuring The Game and produced by American rapper Future. West held a listening party for the album on February 22 at Loan Depot Park in Miami, Florida. In April, just before Coachella, West dropped the headliner, then left Rolling Loud. West and The Game premiered the single on July 22, marking West’s first appearance in five months since Donda 2’s continued low profile. A day later, he appeared at Rolling Loud during Lil Durk’s sets, although he resigned as the headliner.
In December 2022, after weeks of controversial anti-Semitic statements, West released a new song, “Someday We’ll All Be Free”, on his Instagram.
Achievement/Awards
Kanye West was nominated for 75 Grammys, of which he won 24. He has the most nominations at five ceremonies and has the fourth most wins in the 2000s.In 2008, West became the first solo artist to receive Album of the Year nominations for his first three albums. West won the Webby Artist of the Year, the Accessories Council Award of Excellence for Stylist, the International Man of the Year at the GQ Awards, the Clio Award for Life of Pablo. Experience and Recording Academy, Hon. West is one of eight acts to have won a Billboard Artist Achievement Award in 2015, he became the third rap artist to win the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award.
Kanye West’s first six solo studio albums were included in Rolling Stone’s 2020 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Entertainment Weekly named The College Dropout the best album of the 2000s,Complex named Graduation the best album released between 2002 and 2012, 808s and Rolling Stone named Heartbreak one of the 40 most ground-breaking albums of all the time A.V. Club named My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy the best album of the 2010s, Yeezus was Metacritic’s critically acclaimed album of 2013, and The Life of Pablo was the first album to reach number one on the Billboard 200, going platinum. In the US and Gold in the UK via streaming only.
Legal matters
In December 2006, Robert “Evel” Knievel sued the rapper for trademark infringement of his name and likeness in West’s “Touch the Sky” video. Knievel objected to the “vulgar and offensive” and “sexually charged video” in which West assumed the persona of “Evel Kanyevel”, which Knievel claimed damaged his reputation. The suit sought monetary damages and an injunction to stop the distribution of the video. West’s lawyers argued that the music video was satire and therefore covered by the First Amendment. Days before his death in November 2007, Knievel settled the matter after West’s visit, saying, “I thought he was a lovely fellow and quite a gentleman.”
In 2014, West was sentenced to two years of probation and required to attend 24 anger management sessions, complete 250 hours of community service and pay restitution after an altercation with paparazzi at a Los Angeles airport. to the photographer.[369] A separate civil lawsuit filed by Paparazzo was settled in 2015, a week before that trial. According to TMZ, a judge in 201 accepted an appeal to remove West’s conviction from his criminal record.
Discography
Studio albums
- College Dropout (2004)
- Late Registration (2005)
- Graduation (2007)
- 808s and Heartbreak (2008)
- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
- Yeezus (2013)
- The Life of Pablo (2016)
- Ye (2018)
- Jesus is King (2019)
- Donda (2021)
Collaborative albums
- Watch Throne (2011) (with Jay-Z)
- Kids See Ghosts (2018) (with Kid Cudi as Kids See Ghosts)
Collection of albums
- Cruel Summer (2012) (and GOOD music)
Demo albums
- Donda 2 (2022)
Videography
- The College Dropout Video Anthology (2004)
- Late Orchestration (2006)
- VH1 Storytellers (2010)
- Runaway (2010)
- Jesus Is King (2019)
- Jeen-Yuhs (2022)
Books
- Raising Kanye: Life Lessons from the mother of a Hip-Hop Superstar (2007)
- Thank You and You’re Welcome (2009)
- Through the Wire: Lyrics & Illuminations (2009)
- Glow in the Dark (2009)
Net Worth 2023
Kanye West has a net worth of $400 million as of May 2023, according to Forbes.
Latest News About Kanye West
Kanye West was spotted attending church in Los Angeles with his new wife Bianca Censori, causing quite a stir with some rather questionable outfits.
The rapper-turned-designer donned a “styled” football uniform with tights and padded shoulders, while Censor wore a body-hugging dress with a black patterned neck and shoulders, which Twitter users likened to a condom.
Kanye, who prefers to be called “Ye”, has largely disappeared from the public eye after making highly offensive and anti-Semitic comments that got him banned from several social media sites. His January 2023 “marriage” to Censor appeared to be happening quickly, and West didn’t finalize his divorce from Kim Kardashian until November 2022.