Interesting Facts on Kanye West
- 1. Interesting Facts About Kanye West
- 2. Kanye’s First Instrument ? At the age of thirteen, Donda West (Kanye’s mother) bought him a sampler. ? A sampler is an electronic instrument that uses pre-recorded sounds that can be used to produce beats.
- 3. “Through The Wire” Kanye spent $35,000 dollars of his own money to fund the music video for, “Through the Wire”, which includes photographs of the car crash and his injuries.
- 4. “Jesus Walks” ? Kanye West shoots three separate music videos for his break out smash, “Jesus Walks” which remains a fan favorite to this day. ? Rolling stones ranks it number 237 out of the 500 greatest songs of all time.
- 5. Kanye vs. 50 Cent ? Kanye and 50 Cent, who had the same release dates, compete with each other for album sales. ? Kanye’s album, “Graduation”, outsells 50 Cent’s album by 266,000 more copies.
- 6. Kanye The Perfectionist Kanye has the song, “Stronger”, mixed 50 different times. Using eight different engineers.
- 7. Album Narration Famous comedian Bernie Mack narrates skits in- betweens songs for Kanye’s first two solo albums.
- 8. Designer Kanye takes a lot of pride in designing his own art work for his CD’s and the cases.
- 9. Kanye is working on his seventh solo album!