Kanye West Net Worth, Age, Family & Biography

$500 M Real Time Net Worth

About Kanye West

Rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer Kanye West west from the United States. With more than 160 million recordings sold, he is among the top-selling musicians in the world. In addition to having six albums listed among the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time by Rolling Stone, West was also named one of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time by the same magazine.

Kanye West Family

Kanye West was born on 8 June 1977, in Atlanta, Georgia. He relocated to Chicago, Illinois, with his mother when he was three years old, following the divorce of his parents. Ray West, his father, was one of the first black photojournalists at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and a former member of the Black Panthers. Before retiring to take on the role of manager, West’s mother, Donda C. West, held positions as chair of the English department at Chicago State University and as an English professor at Clark Atlanta University.

Kanye West Career

West began his early production career in the mid-1990s, mostly creating beats for budding local artists in his area. His first professional producing credits came when he was nineteen, when he produced eight tracks on Grav’s 1996 first album, Down to Earth. West was the first person signed to the management-production firm Hip Hop in 1998.

Kanye worked as a ghost producer for Deric “D-Dot” Angelettie for a period. West was unable to record a solo album due to his relationship with D-Dot, so he founded the Go-Getters, a rap trio comprised of him, GLC, Timmy G, Really Doe, and Arrowstar.

West’s musical career has been marked by numerous stylistic alterations and a variety of musical techniques. West has adopted an increasingly creative approach to making progressive hip-hop songs while preserving accessible pop sensibilities in the years after his debut.

West expressed an early interest in fashion and a desire to work in the clothes design industry. He created his own clothing line in the spring of 2006 and worked on it for four years until discontinuing it in 2009. West’s first sneaker collaboration, a limited-edition Bapesta from A Bathing Ape, was released in January 2007.

Kanye West Relation

West began dating reality television actress Kim Kardashian, with whom he had previously been acquaintances, in April 2012. West and Kardashian got engaged in October 2013 and married in May 2014 at Fort di Belvedere in Florence. Their private ceremony was widely covered in the media, which West objected to. The couple’s high-profile status and individual jobs have led in extensive media coverage of their relationship; The New York Times referred to their marriage as “a historic blizzard of celebrity.”

Kanye West Controversy

Robert “Evel” Knievel sued West in December 2006 for trademark infringement of his name and likeness in West’s “Touch the Sky” video. Knievel claimed that the “vulgar and offensive” and “sexually charged video” in which West assumes the guise of “Evel Kanyevel” harmed his reputation. The lawsuit sought monetary damages as well as an injunction to prevent the footage from being distributed.

West’s attorneys argued that the music video was satire and so protected by the First Amendment. After being paid a visit by West days before his death in November 2007, Knievel peacefully settled the claim, saying, “I thought he was a wonderful guy and quite a gentleman.”

After an argument with a photographer at the Los Angeles International Airport in 2014, West was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to attend 24 anger management sessions, conduct 250 hours of community service, and pay reparations to the photographer.

Kanye West Net Worth

Kanye West has an estimated net worth of around $400 – 500 million as of 2023.

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