Sunday, January 15, 2023

Kanye West

 One of the world's best-selling music artists, with more than 160 million albums sold, West has won 22 Grammy Awards and 75 nominations which is the joint 10th most ever and the joint-highest Grammy awards of any rapper with Jay-Z. The other awards he has won are the Billboard Artist Achievement Award, the record-breaking three Brit Awards for Best International Male Solo Artist and the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. [8] Six of West’s albums were included on Rolling Stone's 2020 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The publication also named him one of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. He holds the record (with Bob Dylan) for most albums (4) winning the annual Pazz & Jop critic poll and is the 5th highest number of appearances on the Billboard Hot 100 (133 entries). Time named him one of the 100 most influential people around the globe in 2005 and 2015. As a fashion designer, He has worked with Nike and Louis Vuitton, Gap, and A.P.C. on footwear and clothing. He led the Yeezy collaboration with Adidas. He also founded and heads the creative content company Donda. His outspoken views on fashion and footwear have been a source of debate because of his conduct on social media[12] and his opinions on the fashion and music industry, U.S politics, race and slavery. His Christian religion, his wedding to Kim Kardashian and mental health were also topics of media focus. In the year 2020 West launched an unsuccessful presidential campaign for independents which primarily advocated for the same lifestyle. In 2022, he was widely condemned and lost many sponsors and partnerships--including his collaborations with Adidas, Gap, and Balenciaga--after making a series of antisemitic statementsIn November 2022, he announced his 2024 presidential campaign, appearing publicly with Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist. He later publicly praised Adolf Hitler, denied the Holocaust and was identified as a Nazi




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