“If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it's passed”-(kanye west). “I’m hungry for knowledge the whole thing to learn everyday to get brighter and brighter that’s what this world is about you look at someone like Gandhi and he glowed Martin Luther king glowed Muhammad ali glows I think that’s from being bright all the time and trying to be brighter”- (Jay-z). Kanye west had sold many albums through the years which become very successful. He had suffered a terrible loss of a family member and now kanye had also started family of his own. He had sung with other rappers who also have success with songs. Kanye also claims to be changing the face of hip hop/rap and he use to be a music producer. Kanye west was born on June 8th 1977 he had suffered family problems when he was a little guy his parents had gotten a divorce and had left with his mother Donda West to Chicago and his mom donda got a job to be a teacher at a university in Nanjing china they lived there for a year. Kanye west began his career in 1996 but before that he was mentored by a dj from Chicago. he taught kanye the basics things for rapping for example kanye had to create his own beats that would go good with the song that he made find the perfect bass the tones the sounds etc every rapper has to this we have to do this process in order to make the music sound great. Kanye west didn't start rapping at first he was a music producer for awhile. Kanye produced for many artist 90’s and in 2001 he got his big break he started to produced for a different studio that’s when he started to produce my album “the blueprint” for other hip hop artist as well too. T... ... middle of paper ... ...eline. "Jay-Z: Kanye And I Argued For Four Days Over 'Magna Carta' Songs." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 15 July 2013. Web. 13 Feb. 2014. Kanye west and jay z conflict "Jay-Z Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 13 Feb. 2014. some facts about jayz "Jay-Z." Google Books. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2014. jay-z background "Jay-Z." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Feb. 2014. jay-z's past albums etc "Kanye vs. 50 Cent." Rolling Stone. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Feb. 2014. "Kanye West Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2014. little more information about kanye "Kanye West (the Library of Hip-Hop Biographies) (Large Print 16pt)." Google Books. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2014. Simons, Rae. Kanye West. New York: Mason Crest, 2006. Web. 12 Feb. 2014. talks about Kanyes success past and albums
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He was introduced to the life of drugs and crime at the age of 16, where he stayed and didn’t look back until, in 1992, he decided to leave the world of drugs and crime. Soon after doing this, he began looking for a record deal as a solo artist. But Shawn just wasn’t getting lucky. It wasn't until a friend, Roc-A-Fella CEO Damon Dash, convinced him to form a record company with him that Jay-Z's career finally got off the ground. Jay-Z released his first single through Roc-A-Fella in 1995, "In My Lifetime." It was a hit in New York, and helped Dash secure a distribution deal for Jay-Z’s first album, “Reasonable Doubt.”
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"After some time Tupac released his own album "2Pacalypse Now", which was a success. His career skyrocketed; he became tight with main pawns in the rapping industry. Tupac signed to Deathrow Labels and released songs and albums with them."
His upbringing is one of an average american citizen. Being raised by his mother Donda West was a English professor lead to him living an average life. His parents divorced when he was very young. Showing interests in the ars at a very young age is something that kept promise. He took under the wing of DJ No I,D at the young age of 15, here is where he learned how to sample and mix beats.Kanye Graduated High School with decent grades and was off to Chicago State University.. He began dropped out of College at the age of 20 to focus on his music as opposed to what he was majoring which was English. He made it big by producing a majority of the songs on rapper Jay Z’s “The Blueprint”. He was still looked down upon as only a producer and not a artist. This was because he came from an a middle class upbringing. The Industry did not see him to fit in with Gangster Rap during that time period. While making his first debut album he Kanye West fell asleep behind the wheel and got into a serious car crash on which he almost died.Kanye West still worked on the album in the hospital, requesting a drum machine to be brought to the hospital. Here he recorded his his single on his First album “Through the Wire” rapping with his mouth wired shut from surgery, From his Debut album “The College Dropout” Kanye West changed the innovated the style of Hip-Hop. As stated before Gangster rap wasn't the only thing
Through all his family and education issues, he standup himself to become a well-known hip-hop artist according to his history background. From all his released a couple albums and then was offered to be some movies. He make some songs and music videos with them that made it big on the Billboard charts. For example, in this movies and albums called, “Power respect Juice” (1992), “Bullet”(1996), “Gang Related” (1997), “ all eyez on me”(1996),”Greatest Hits”(1998), and “Until the end of time”(2001), according to all these released, he won prizes from music and artist industry, people can recognized him. Tupac was became rich and famous and he is not showing off his own style. This showed that this is him and who he really is. People following his beliefs because he treated people equally and judged people equally. This is a big difference from him and other hip-hop artists. He has a lot of self-values that people are influenced about
Tupac’s first big break came when he joined the group Digital Underground as a dancer and roadie. During that time, Tupac spent a lot of the time composing his own poetry and lyrics to launch his own career. In 1991 he signed with Interscope records and a year later he released his first album 2Pacalypse Now, which immediately landed him
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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
He may just seem like another rapper to you but if you actually listen to his lyrics you can see he’s not like any rapper out there. His name is Kanye West and he was born in Chicago Illinois. He grew up in the “ghetto” and learned to appreciate life. He didn’t learn to really, truly appreciate life until October of 2002. Driving back to his hotel late one night after a recording session, the new-coming rap/hip-hop artist was involved in a devastating, near fatal car accident. The crash left him with a broken jaw in three places and an appreciation for life. Just weeks after being released from the hospital he recorded his first major hit, “Through the Wire,” with his mouth still wired shut. He records every song like its going to be his last song and that makes every song better than the last. He’s not only a rap artist but also a producer. He has been responsible for being behind songs like Jay-Z’s Izzo, Girls, Girls, Girls, The Takeover, and 03 Bonnie and Clyde.
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The problem that laid in his way, was the social stigma at the time. In the early 90’s rap was dominated by the “gansta” rap scene. People like Tupac, Biggie and Dr. Dre ran the industry at that point and there was no room for Kanye and his pink polo. Kanye was seen as a producer first and foremost, since that’s what he was so good at and that’s all he had done up until that point. It wasn’t until the year 2000 that Kanye was brought onto Roc-A-Fella records with Jay-Z where his producing really started to shine. Helping produce Jay-Z’s 2001 album The Blueprint, the album was a huge success and lead to the revitalization of Jay-Z’s career. Kanye didn’t get a chance to make his own record until the following year (even though he had been working on it for almost 3 years now) when Roc-A-Fella finally gave him the go ahead. Kanye started his production of The College Dropout. It was also around this time that Kayne started a relationship with a girl named Alexis Phifer. Their relationship would be on and off again for the next few