At the age of 10, West moved with his mother to Nanjing, China, where she was teaching at Nanjing University as a Fulbright Scholar. West was raised in a middle-class environment, attending Polaris School for Individual Education in suburban Oak Lawn, Illinois, after living in Chicago. West (née Williams), was a professor of English at Clark Atlanta University, and the Chair of the English Department at Chicago State University, before retiring to serve as his manager. Ray later became a Christian counselor, and in 2006, opened the Good Water Store and Café in Lexington Park, Maryland, with startup capital from his son. His father, Ray West, is a former Black Panther and was one of the first black photojournalists at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. After his parents divorced when he was three years old, he moved with his mother to Chicago, Illinois. West was born on June 8, 1977, in Atlanta, Georgia, as Kanye Omari West. 2.8 2019–present: Jesus Is King and Donda.2.7 2017–2019: Ye and the Wyoming Sessions.2.6 2016–2017: The Life of Pablo and tour cancellation.
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West holds the joint record (with Bob Dylan) for most albums (4) topping the annual Pazz & Jop critic poll, and has the 5th most appearances on the Billboard Hot 100 (133 entries). Six of his albums were included on Rolling Stone 's 2020 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list the same publication named him one of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. Among his other awards are the Billboard Artist Achievement Award, a joint-record three Brit Awards for Best International Male Solo Artist and the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. One of the world's best-selling music artists, with over 160 million records sold, West has won 22 Grammy Awards, the joint tenth-most of all time. He is the founder and head of the creative content company DONDA. In 2020, he launched an unsuccessful independent presidential campaign that primarily advocated for a consistent life ethic. on clothing and footwear, and leads the Yeezy collaboration with Adidas. As a fashion designer, he has collaborated with Nike, Louis Vuitton, The Gap, and A.P.C. West is frequently lauded as one of hip hop's greatest artists, with his music also being recognized among the world's highest-selling and most acclaimed. His Christian faith and marriage to Kim Kardashian have also been sources of media attention. politics, race, and slavery have been generally polarized. He has been a frequent source of controversy for his conduct at award shows, on social media, and in other public settings-his comments on the music and fashion industries, U.S. West's outspoken views and life outside of music have received significant media coverage. West's discography also includes the full-length collaborative albums Watch the Throne (2011) with Jay-Z and Kids See Ghosts (2018) with Kid Cudi.
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After a series of delays, West's highly anticipated tenth album, Donda, was released in 2021. West also diversified musical styles on The Life of Pablo (2016) and Ye (2018), and explored Christian and gospel music on Jesus Is King (2019). Drawing inspiration from maximalism and minimalism respectively, his fifth album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010) and sixth album Yeezus (2013) were also released to critical and commercial successes.
West explored diverse musical elements such as orchestral arrangements, synthesizers, and autotune on the acclaimed albums Late Registration (2005), Graduation (2007), and 808s & Heartbreak (2008).