When most people hear the name, Kanye West, they are thinking about a snotty, cocky rapper that might have found his way into the deep end on many different occasions. Others might be thinking about his superstar wife, Kim Kardashian and her family. Either way, hearing the name brings you to a place that you might not be caring too much about being in, but there is one thing about him and that is the fact that he is successful.
Kanye West is a record producer, recording artist, fashion designer and an entrepreneur from Chicago, Illinois and even though he is not even 40 years old, he has accomplished a lot in his professional career. He has said and done some very questionable things, usually in the best interest of himself, but fans have always found a way to go back to him with each new album release. He has become the celebrity that says what he wants and is usually in hot water because of it.
Kanye West regularly is speaking out at awards shows, on social media and just about any other time he is in the public eye. In 2005, Kanye West made the news saying that George Bush “did not care about black people” after the botched Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Of course, that was picked up by just about every single news station and if you did not know who he was before that, it was hard to miss his name after that.
The public situations only took a short break after that when in 2009 he was on stage to interrupt Taylor Swift during her acceptance speech for Best Female Video, at the MTV Music Awards to say that another singer deserved the award more. He also claimed that he was going to “let her finish”, but he had something to say. Again, his name was plastered all over the place and even more people knew who Kanye West was. Recently, Kanye West was on Saturday Night Live and it was there that he decided to release his brand new album.
The Life of Pablo is an album that many have been waiting years for. By the end of the day on Friday, Kanye West was telling his millions of fans via Twitter that his latest album was being mastered and that it would be out later that day. He knows how to create his own buzz and at this point some were thinking it would be one of those, “I’ll believe it when I see it” things. By Saturday, fans were still wondering where the album was a apparently it was the fault of one of Kanye West’s collaborators, Chicagoan Chance the Rapper.