Analysis Of Kanye Omari West

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The group I would like to be apart of is G.O.O.D Music. G.O.O.D is an acronym for “Getting out our dreams.” This group is a recording label founded by Kanye West, who is also a music artists signed under G.O.O.D Music. They do have other music artists in the group such as, John Legend, Big Sean and Pusha T. Kanye west is actually the main reason why I would like to join the label. Throughout this paper I 'm going to address who Kanye West is, what I can learn from being in the group, and why I think I fit well with G.O.O.D Music. Kanye Omari West was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 8, 1977. He left college to pursue a musical career, producing tracks for Jay-Z while polishing his demo. He released The College Dropout in 2004. It sold 2.6 million copies and won Best Rap Album. His follow-up releases have been equally successful and West has become a celebrity famous for his outrageous …show more content…

He said “the CEO’s tell him that they can 't invest in his ideas, because he 's not a true fashion designer, that he 's a rapper” like he didn’t have any experience in the fashion world. Then he tries to explain that he 's not a true musician either, he doesn 't know how to play the piano. Kanye is an artists, he went back to school and graduate from an art college. I can relate to that in a way, because the past few years I been playing football, and actually came here to play. The summer before arriving to Guilford I had stopped playing football because I felt like there 's more to life than just football. I soon began to take in interest in cars along with fashion. My family tried to marginalize me by telling me that I don 't need to worry about anything else just to play football, like I didn 't know anything about cars or fashion. Little did they know, I took an Auto Tech class in high school, so I know the basics of auto

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