Kanye West: Controversial and Influential | A Video Essay

Kanye Omari West or Ye has made an impact on the Hip-Hop/Rap world we will still see for years and years to come. He is one of the world’s best selling artists of all time, selling roughly 160 million records at the time of me writing this. Kanye has won 24 Grammy Awards tied with Jay-Z, notably winning the award “Best Rap Song” and “Best Rap Performance in 2013 for Somebody is in Paris. At other shows, winning Best Rap Album for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Graduation, Late Registration, and The College Dropout and a plethora of other awards. West’s first six albums were included in 2020’s Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time being in chronological order earliest to latest, The College Dropout (2004), Late Registration (2005), Graduation (2007), 808s & Heartbreak (2008), My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010), and Yeezus (2013). In the fashion design business, he has collaborated with Nike, Louis Vuitton, Gap, and APC, and is behind the Yeezy collaboration with Adidas. Kanye has not been one to shy from controversy, discussing his political values, race, religion, details of his relationships, mental health, and statements on slavery. So how did Kanye reach this point, and how much of the industry has he changed in 20+ years.

[@BusbinProductions]

I feel like it would've been better to interplay the controversies in between his album releases to show how they impacted his direction with music

[@sweet9198]

Good thought! I will try to incorporate that concept more in my future videos. Thanks!

[@noahwheeler9055]

Good Video! Very Informational, but quick question. Who's in Paris?

[@jealousboimike4744]

kanye and his fellas

[@jonasholmstad9213]

​@@jealousboimike4744 And his distinguished gentlemen's

[@thenewlbj]

NIce people who are Great at making GoAted muSic

[@remuspierre7573]

Awesome Stuff

[@joao.m.chavescosta]

Great vid🎉

[@sweet9198]

Thanks! Who would you like to see next?

[@Spanky_beats_offical]

HOW DO YOU ONLY HAVE 7 SUBS??? this video was really good, i just subscribed and i am hoping for more soon!

[@sweet9198]

Thanks! Who would you like to see next?

[@cazzyP]

very good video bro, keep it up. surprised you aren’t viral yet

[@sweet9198]

Thanks! Trying my best :).

[@serenus369]

Much ❤️ to Kanye

[@AlejandroSovsa]

A lot of sacrifices

[@alejandrogutierrez3789]

The madlad actually did it!

[@thenewlbj]

Somebodies in paris

[@sweet9198]

I guess we'll never know... 🤷‍♂

[@Young_nico_thesaucegod]

Nobody understands a Kanye fan ❤❤❤

[@omgaddad5596]

THE GOAT 🐐

[@sweet9198]

🐐🐐🐐🐐

[@jacobseed7836]

Do Taylor swift

[@sweet9198]

New album coming out so maybe tbh.

[@broewlie]

It’s not hard too see that Kanye is very dumb when it comes too believing he’s above everything. I love his music but him as a person??

[@sweet9198]

He's definitely made some questionable decisions. You can do more digging as well as I got most of the controversies but I left some out just because I couldn't find reliable sources to prove what I was reading.

[@thenewlbj]

So many mispronouncations

[@sweet9198]

Sorry! I'll work on that for my next video. Thanks for the feedback!