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Kanye Omari West was born on June 8th, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia. After living in Georgia for the first three years of his life with his mother Donda and father Ray, they decided to get a divorce. After the divorce case was finished, Kanye lived with his mother in Chicago and spent the summers with his father. Donda decided to move to china for a year, taking ten-year-old Kanye with her, to teach a university exchange program. Once they spent the year in china, they came back to Chicago and lived in a middle-class south shore neighborhood.
After graduating from Polaris High School, Kanye won a scholarship to study at Chicago’s American Academy of Art. Kanye decided to drop out of college to follow his dreams in the music industry, naming his first solo album “The College dropout”. Once he produced many songs for different artist, Kanye realized that he didn’t want to be the person in the background, He wanted to be the main act. Kanye didn’t grow up struggling, therefore he wasn’t taken seriously by many record labels. Finally, after going into many different interviews, Damon Dash decided to sign Kanye to Roc-A-Fella in 2002. In that same year, Kanye was driving back home from a recording session and was involved in a car collision leaving him with a shattered jaw. Through his recovery, Kanye wrote and recorded an album and a specific song about the crash naming it …show more content…

Kanye apologized to Taylor afterwards and she accepted it. After that whole controversy, Kanye took a step into the fashion business and took a break from music. Signing a $10 million deal with Adidas, then lunched his first collection ‘Yeezy Season 1’. Kanye returned to his music about 2 years later, dropping his fifth album “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” which added 3 more Grammy’s to his

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