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Kanye West<\/a> is an American rapper, singer, and record producer. West first rose to fame as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records<\/a>, where he eventually achieved recognition for his work on Jay-Z<\/a>'s album The Blueprint<\/a>, as well as hit singles for musical artists including Alicia Keys<\/a>, Ludacris<\/a>, and Janet Jackson<\/a>. His style of production originally used pitched-up vocal samples from soul songs incorporated with his own drums and instruments. However, subsequent productions saw him broadening his musical palette and expressing influences encompassing '70s R&B, baroque pop, trip hop, arena rock, folk, alternative, electronica, synth-pop, and classical music. Kanye West is an American rapper, singer, and record producer. West first rose to fame as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records, where he eventually achieved recognition for his work on Jay-Z's album The Blueprint, as well as hit singles for musical artists including Alicia Keys, Ludacris, and Janet Jackson. His style of production originally used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15979,34823],"tags":[18639,24276],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-kanye-west","tag-hip-hop","tag-rap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWest released his debut album The College Dropout<\/a> in 2004, his second album Late Registration<\/a> in 2005, his third album Graduation<\/a> in 2007, his fourth album 808s & Heartbreak<\/a> in 2008, and his fifth album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy<\/a> in 2010. His five albums, all of which have gone platinum, have received numerous awards and critical acclaim. As of 2011, West is the most honored rapper in Grammy history with a total of fourteen awards. All albums have been very commercially successful, with My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy<\/a> becoming his fourth consecutive #1 album in the U.S. upon release. As of May 2011, West currently has 4 songs above the 3 million mark with \"Gold Digger\" selling 3,086,000, \"Stronger\" selling 4,363,000, \"Heartless\" selling 3,742,000 and \"E.T.\" selling 3,157,000 making him the top selling male digital artist of all time.
\nWest also runs his own record label GOOD Music<\/a>, home to artists such as John Legend<\/a>, Common<\/a> and Kid Cudi<\/a>. West's mascot and trademark is \"Dropout Bear,\" a teddy bear which has appeared on the covers of three of his five albums as well as various single covers and music videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"