Kanye West

Ye (born: Kanye Omari West, ), known professionally by his birth name, is an American musician and entrepreneur. He's best known for his hip-hop and rap music while combining autotune and sampling, beginning his career in the early 2000's. He ran for president in 2020 as an Independent, but only gained a little over 70,000 votes.
Ye is the founder of YZY and Donda Academy. He has had collaborations with Adidas, Nike, Balenciaga, and many other companies.
Ye is widely regarded as one of the controversial, greatest and most influential musicians of all time.
==Early life==
Some sources claim that Ye was born on June 8, 1977, in Atlanta, Georgia, while some other ones claim he was born in Douglasville, a small city west of Atlanta. He grew up on the Chicago Southside with his mother Donda West, a Chicago State University English professor who died in 2007. Ye spent a year in China but forgot how to speak Chinese.
==Channel==
Ye created his channel on January 10, 2006, and uploaded his first video on June 16, 2009, showing a song featuring Jay-Z. The channel is currently semi-active. His most viewed music video is 'Stronger'.
==Personal life==
In 2002, Ye got into a car crash and broke his jaw. He later recorded his first single, "Through The Wire", describing the crash with his jaw shut.https://news.amomama.com/217017-kanye-west-almost-died-a-2002-car-crash.html The track was nominated for Best Rap Solo Performance. 
Ye's mother Donda died in 2008 due to heart problems following a plastic surgery operation. This, combined with a breakup with then-fiancée Alexis Phifer, caused him major emotional pain and resulted in the release of his fourth studio album "808's and Heartbreak." He later would name his creative company Donda in memory of his mother, and in 2021 would release an album called "Donda." 
Ye is open about being a Christian, and made an album titled, 'Jesus Is King'. The album later won a Grammy Award. He later announced that he is working on 'Jesus Is King Part II', with producer Dr. Dre.
Ye has 4 kids with model Kim Kardashian. She divorced him in 2021. In 2016, Ye was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which has influenced much of his work after 2008. Kanye has been vocal about divorcing Kim since 2020 and has criticized her and her mother Kris Jenner for attempting to admit him to a mental facility, and for opening a TikTok account for his daughter North, which he publicly objected to.
On his 2020 campaign rally, Ye stated that Kim almost had an abortion with his first child, North West. He later broke down in tears. In 2021, TikToker Ava Louise claimed that Kanye had an affair with Jeffree Star. Ava later apologized. Later that year, He changed his legal name to "Ye", an album of the same name was released in 2018. It was approved by the judge on October 19, 2021.https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/19/entertainment/kanye-west-ye-intl-scli/index.html
He dated model Julia Fox from January to February 2022. He also dated Amber Rose in 2008.
He married Yeezy architect Bianca Censori in January 2023. Due to their openness regarding sex and Bianca often seen in clothing with little to no clothing, this has resulted in massive controversy, most notably an investigation by Italian police accusing them of having sex on a boat.
==Controversies==
===George W. Bush===
From August 23 to August 31 in 2005, hit parts of the south-west in the United States, mainly New Orleans. The hurricane caused 1,300 deaths and $145 billion in damages. On September 2, NBC hosted the hour-long segment, A Concert for Hurricane Relief to raise money for the victims. Ye had appeared in one segment alongside actor and comedian, . Ye had said that he hated the way black people were portrayed in the media as looters or murderers, wanting to help them through donating since he feels sympathy for them. He also says that the then 43rd president, doesn't care about black people. He was immediately cut off by NBC who switched over to Chris Tucker.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJUNTcOGeSw 
Ye's comments were widely mocked by the media and online, with some noting that Myers looked surprised when Ye attempted to call out Bush. NBC would claim that Ye had went off script and were disgusted by his comments. In 2010, Bush had responded to Ye in an interview with Matt Lauer by saying it was the lowest point in his presidency, but he has learned to forgive him. Later on, Ye said that he was frustrated with Bush's choices during his presidency but wasn't justified in calling him racist and didn't use the correct words.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCZxc_He_og In 2014, when Myers was interviewed by GQ, he said that he gave that reaction because he thought Ye was true since he thought the government responded more to white people stuck on roofs than black people, though he doesn't think Bush is racist.https://www.gq.com/story/mike-myers
===Anti-Semitism===
He also says no one should discriminate on different races and religions, since Jesus Christ was Jewish.https://www.instagram.com/p/CqM18q-ufLN/
===Supporting Hitler/InfoWars interview===
After the interview, he let Alex, Nick Fuentes and Ali Alexander (who were all banned from Twitter) send tweets from his phone. He later posted an image on his Twitter of a with a etched inside of it, with the caption "Love Everyone". His Twitter account was re-suspended immediately afterwards, with Elon Musk commenting that "he had once again violated Twitter's rule against incitement to violence".https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-723923https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1598543670990495744
On December 8, 2022, Kanye's honorary degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago was rescinded following the controversy.https://www.cnn.com/style/article/kanye-west-honorary-degree-rescinded-intl-scli/index.html
===Balenciaga===
Kanye worked with Balenciaga on multiple fashion shows, but they dropped him due to pressure from CAA and the Anti-Defamation League.https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/demna-balenciaga-breaks-up-with-ye-anti-semitic-threats-hate-speech-1235397358/ This didn't stop him from wearing their clothes in public, even after Balenciaga themselves became the center of controversy after publishing adverts featuring children.https://www.reddit.com/r/WestSubEver/comments/yymlm1/ye_wearing_adidas_x_balenciaga_and_hanging_out/
===Allegations of Sexual Harassment===
On June 4, 2024, Lauren Piscotta, a former Yeezy employee would sue Ye for sexual harassment, breach of contract, fraud, unpaid wages, emotional distress, and wrongful termination. In the lawsuit, she claims Ye send her lewd texts and images. She also claims Yeezy terminated her without proper reason, and failed to pay her a contractually obligated severance package. Other former employees have come to speak out against Ye as well.https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3gg60g82meo
==Discography==
Releases under "Kanye West"
Album 	Release
The College Dropout 	2004
Late Registration 	2005
Graduation 	2007
808s & Heartbreak 	2008
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 	2010
Watch The Throne (collab. w/ Jay-Z) 	2011
Cruel Summer 	2012
Yeezus 	2013
The Life of Pablo 	2016
Ye 	2018
Kids See Ghosts (collab. w/ Kid Cudi)	2018
Jesus Is King 	2019
Donda 	2021
Donda 2 	2022
VULTURES 1 (collab. w/ Ty Dolla $ign)	2024
VULTURES 2 (collab. w/ Ty Dolla $ign)	2024
==Trivia== 
*He has collaborated with shoe companies to make the Yeezy Sneakers, with some companies such as Nike and Adidas.
*Ye became a multi-billionaire in mid-2020.
*Ye was at one point friends with Elon Musk, though their friendship has ended following Ye's recent offensive behaviour
*Ye produced five albums in five weeks in 2018, also known as the 'Wyoming Sessions'.
*Ye, along with fellow artist and frequent collaborator Kid Cudi, had a private show in early 2022. One of the guests in attendance, who was right behind them, was fellow music artist and fan of Ye's, Oliver Tree. This was revealed on the H3H3 podcast which Oliver was the guest of.
*In 2009, after the Taylor Swift controversy, Ye briefly took a hiatus to Hawaii and Japan to record his fifth studio album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Some songs recorded by him began to leak out online, such as the song "Never See Me Again", which was interpreted as a suicide note.
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