Kanye West

 West was born in Atlanta and grew up in Chicago. He was a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records during the 2000s. He was the producer of singles for a variety of artists, and also developed the "chipmunk spirit" sampling style. He made the decision to make a career of his own as a rapper, and dropped his debut album The College Dropout (2004) that was a critical and commercial success. In the following year, he launched GOOD Music. With the albums Late Registration (2005) and Graduation (2006), West experimented with a range of musical elements, including orchestras, synthesizers , and autotune. The critical and commercial popularity of his sixth and fifth albums, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010), and Yeezus (2013) was also evident. West broadened his musical palette by releasing The Life of Pablo (2016), Ye (2018) and also focused on gospel and Christian music on Jesus Is King (2019). The album tenth Donda (2021) released by West released it in the year 2021, was a commercial hit but received mixed reviews. His discography also includes complete albums Watch the Throne (2011) and Kids See Ghosts (2018) that he produced with Jay-Z. The album has the joint-tenth most Grammy nominations, and also the highest number of Grammy Awards for any rapper. Other awards include the Billboard Artist Achievement Award and the record-breaking three Brit Awards for Best International Male Solo Artist. Eight of West's albums were featured in Rolling Stone's 2020 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The same publication also named him one of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. 9 He holds the record for the highest number of albums to top the annual Pazz & Jop criticism poll. With the 133 entries, he is the fifth highest number of appearances on the Billboard Hot 100. Time listed him as one of the top 100 influential people globally in 2005 and the year 2015. He also has collaborated with Gap, Louis Vuitton and A.P.C. He is an entrepreneur in the field of fashion and footwear. He also was the leader of the Yeezy collaboration with Adidas and Nike. Donda is his content creation company.