Kanye West, the lower-middle-class, artsy son of an educator, exploded on the scene withThe College Dropout,a bold, brash and self-deprecating debut album, and suddenly Chicago had a star to call its own. In those early days, as then-Chicago Sun-Timescritic (and early Kanye interviewer)...
Chance covers the February issue ofGQmagazineand opens up about his musical influences and his view on the rap industry. He also explains why he's taking a bit of a different path than Kanye. "I don't think I ever wanted to be like Kanye in personality," he told the publication. "I...
Kanye West While Kanye West performed and recorded under his government name throughout most of his career, the Chicago rapper-producer first began toying with changing his name to just Ye in 2018, the name he also used for hiseighth studio albumthat year. By 2021, he petitioned the Los A...
The subs don’t stop there, with the controversial lyrics on “Circo Loco” that take a swipe at artists like Kanye and Megan Thee Stallion over a Daft Punk sample. The samples play a big part in bridging these gaps, like in “Spin Bout U.” With choraling vocals pulled f...
Kanye West(Net worth: $1.8 billion) Kanye West receives the most sum of money. According to Forbes, the “Flashing Lights” rapper is currently the richest rapper globally, with a net worth of over $1.3 billion. West makes money from selling records, running his own fashion and record labe...
Rock and Roll was stolen… Rap was exploited… — KANYE WEST (@kanyewest)February 24, 2016 West’s blast (with some input fromPusha T) helped turn Erzin into a global trending top on the social media platform, probably for the first and last time. ...
1977: Kanye West - Date of birth: June 8 Kanye West is a producer and performer who's also one of the most controversial figures in hip-hop. After breaking in as a producer for Jay-Z, he scored hit after hit on his own records, like "Through the Wire," "Gold Digger," and "Stro...
They could upload their music and be just as immediately accessible as a mainstream artist like Jay-Z or Kanye West. Lack of circulation had been a basis for being deemed underground, but that issue didn’t exist anymore, which was the first moment that muddied the term “underground.” ...
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“The challenge is, you have gospel and inspirational artists that do what Kanye does, but [mainstream listeners] don’t pay them any attention,” the program director says, pointing to the Truth, Lecrae, and other “holy hip-hop” acts that get little notice from rap fans. “Then when...