The boy who went to elementary school in Nanjing in the 1980s is now running for president of the United States?
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Who is Kanye? You know, the Kanye.

The inventor of that expensive Yeezy shoe (coconut shoe).
Kim kardashian’s husband.
What a famous rapper in America.

Kardashian and the Kanye family
On July 4th, 2020, Kanye Omari West announced on Twitter that he would run for the presidency of the United States.

I heard that this tweet of Kanye is already the first hot search.

In 2016, Kanye and Trump took a friendly photo.
There is a reason to write about Mr. Kanye today-he is ambitious for the road of art, from childhood to adulthood.
[There is a photographer’s father’s grandfather]
On June 8, 1977, Kanye Omari West was born into a middle-class family in Atlanta.
Kanye Omari West’s father, Ray West, is a former Black Panther party member and the first black photojournalist in the Atlanta Constitutional newspaper.

His most representative works are portraits taken for Maya Angelou, a poet and civil rights activist, and photos taken for President Ronald Reagan in 1983.
When Kanye was 3 years old, his parents divorced and he followed his mother to live in Chicago. Perhaps this is the reason why Kanye rarely mentioned his father in public.
[I used to be a primary school student in Nanjing]
Kanye’s mother, Donda West, was a professor of English at Atlanta University and the head of the English Department at the University of Chicago.

For Americans, the English department may be the Chinese department of China students. Therefore, in terms of language and culture, my mother has a far-reaching influence on the rap musician Kanye-she began to write poetry at the age of 5, and became interested in rap and painting at the age of 8.
Here is about to mention his most interesting experience.
In 1987, Donna was sent to Nanjing University by the University of Chicago to participate in an exchange program and served as a visiting professor at the School of Foreign Languages of Nanjing University for one year.
At that time, Kanye, who was 10 years old, followed his mother to China, and attended Confucius Temple Primary School for one year.

Kanye is in China.

Kanye climbs Huangshan Mountain.
At the age of 13, Kanye persuaded his mother to rent a recording studio for him, and accompanied by her, she recorded the first rap single "Green Eggs and Ham".
Regarding Kanye’s growth, Donna once wrote in her autobiography Raising Kanye:
"I have been thinking that college is the ticket to a better life. But some career goals don’t need to be obsessed with college. For Kanye, making an album called College Dropout is more about having the courage to embrace yourself than following the shortcuts created by society. " (This sentence actually applies to the college entrance examination candidates who have just experienced a special year in 2020.)
[A high school student who can draw]
Recently, Kanye’s paintings in high school appeared in a program "antiques road show" on American PBS.


These graphite paintings, gouache paintings and prints were all painted by Kanye when he was 17 years old.


At the end of this "Jianbao" program, the overall valuation of these five paintings was made: 16,000-23,000 US dollars.
In 1995, Kanye, still a high school student, took art courses in several schools, including the famous art institute of chicago.




[Kanye who invented coconut shoes]
At the Grammy Awards in 2008, Kanye appeared on the stage wearing the first publicly sold "Nike Air Yeezy" that she cooperated with Nike, which officially opened the curtain of Yeezy Empire.

Yeezy’s brand name comes from the abbreviation of the nickname "Kanyeezy" given to Kanye by singer Jay-Z (Beyonce’s husband) in 2003. In China, people call "Yeezy" "Coconut" according to homonym.
(For the relationship between Jay-Z and Beyonce’s top CP and art, you can poke this article to understand:)
On September 29, 2018, Kanye announced the launch of the activity under the stage name "Ye".

Interestingly, because of his great admiration for Jobs, Kanye thinks that the most popular Yeezy Boost 350 in the world is the sneaker version of the iPod: there are countless color schemes, but they are always the same.

In 2020, Kanye announced that Yeezy would cooperate with GAP, a fast fashion brand, to jointly launch Yeezy GAP series products. However, this cooperation is not an ordinary cross-border joint name, but will be a ten-year long-term cooperation.

They will jointly develop a brand-new product line called Yeezy GAP, which will be sold independently of the GAP brand.
On the day when the news was announced, a mysterious building covered by a gray curtain appeared on the streets of Chicago. Even without looking at Kanye’s handwritten notes scribbled on the wall, it can be seen that this is another work with obvious Kanye aesthetic from the overall tone of minimalism and gray cement.


[Because of the hot search on my wife’s refrigerator]
At the beginning of this year, Kanye’s wife Kardashian posted a photo of an empty refrigerator on social platforms, which was ridiculed by netizens for "only eating air" at ordinary times.

Soon, the reverse was particularly sour-# Kardashian’s walk-in refrigerator # went on a hot search.
Because Kardashian exposed a video to show the real size of her refrigerator after seeing the ridicule of netizens.

This walk-in refrigerator not only has huge space and food, but also all fruits and vegetables come from private organic farms and orchards.
At the same time, Kanye and Kardashian’s minimalist mansion surprised more netizens.

Kardashian and Kanye’s mansions, comparison before and after design.
(The picture on the left is before the design, and the picture on the right is after the design, yes, it is correct.)
In this 800-square-meter, minimalist and monochromatic mansion, it is difficult to find the trace of the door in the room, which is extremely empty.
In Kardashian’s own words, it is "like a minimalist monastery".





[The grandfather of many artists and friends]
Kanye and Kardashian’s mansion design is unique, and the man behind it is Axel Vervoordt, a Belgian collector and designer who can make Kanye, who has always been high-profile, modest.

Axel Vervoordt
As a musician, Kanye also worked hard on the album cover.



The album cover of "808s & Heartbreak" with Kaws.
The cover is equipped with a deflated heart-shaped balloon, and the cover of the deluxe edition is made by Kaws, which has been in demand for two years. In 2013, Complex named it the best rap album cover in the past five years.

The album cover of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy with George Condor.
George Condo is a famous contemporary American artist. He was born in New Hampshire in 1957 and now lives and works in new york. Condor is an artist with renaissance color, and his distorted and humorous portraits are unanimously recognized by the art world.

And let more ordinary people know Condor is a star-G-G-Dragon.
G-Dragon had previously posted a photo on INS squatting in front of George Condor’s famous painting "BIG JOHN".

The album cover of Kids See Ghosts with Murakami Takashi.
In 2007, Kanye and Murakami Takashi started their first cooperation, supervising the direction of the album Graduation and designing the cover art for the accompanying single of the album.

Murakami Takashi and Kanye
It is said that Kanye’s cooperation with Murakami Takashi originated from a short visit. At that time, Kanye went to Tokyo and visited Kaikai Kiki Studio in Murakami Takashi.
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