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Our Lord and Savior, Ye.



And no matter what you'll never take that from me.

My reign is as far as your eyes can see." — "Amazing" "I'm a problem, that'll never, ever be solved.And no matter what you'll never take that from me.My reign is as far as your eyes can see."

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Yeezy. Yeezus. Ye. The Louis Vuitton Don. Pablo. The LeBron of Rhyme. Steve Jobs mixed with Steve Austin.

Kanyenote Pronounced "KON-yay" Omari West (born June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, artist, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer from Chicago, Illinois (born in Atlanta, Georgia). While he has become one of the most polarizing musicians of the 21st century, few can claim to have impacted the medium in the way West has, by means of both his artistic statements and a long, long list of controversial actions (which is the most we'll say about them).

Originally a producer in the mid-90s for local Chicago artists, eventually making it big as arguably the secret ingredient to Jay-Z's Career Resurrection come the Turn of the Millennium, he started dreaming of becoming a rapper. However, the emphatically middle-class West—the son of a photojournalist and an English professor, and partly raised in the suburbs—didn't fit the profile for the Gangsta Rap popular at the time, and was long pigeonholed as an illegitimate "producer-rapper" before being reluctantly being signed to the label he was an in-house producer for, Jay-Z's Roc-a-Fella Records.

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Everything changed on October 23, 2002, when he was involved in a car crash after midnight that shattered his jaw. This inspired his song, "Through the Wire"; the song would eventually be re-recorded and included on his debut album The College Dropout, which opened to mass critical and commercial fanfare, jump-starting his career.

While his "sound" was initially solely defined as a "chipmunk soul" style composed of sampling old soul music and pitching it up, his sonic palette expanded in later works to include more experimental elements like lush orchestration (Late Registration), arena rock/house electronics (Graduation), cold R&B (808s), abrasive industrial (Yeezus), and gospel (Jesus Is King).

He's been married to Kim Kardashian since 2014. They have four children together — two born of Kim (Northnote daughter, b. June 5, 2013 and Saintnote son, b. December 5, 2015) and two born of surrogate mothers (Chicagonote daughter, b. January 16, 2018 and Psalmnote son, b. May 10, 2019).

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Discography:

* = studio albums, ** = live albums, *** = mixtapes

Mr. West provides examples of: