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- I remember playing demos for all these different labels

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in here, bring
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And everybody wanted the sound to sound like something

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that was already out there.

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And to me that was blocking,

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that was a form of blocking your artistic freedom.

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Not allowing you to just express what you wanted to do

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and bring some type
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- [Narrator] A man
with a musical gift,

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whose words spread controversy wherever he goes.

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Kanye West became the most important new rap star

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of the 2000s.

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A character who made the
mainstream come to him

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rather than the
other way around.

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Proud winner of
21 Grammy Awards,

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his ego is almost justified.

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Kanye is one of the most
recognizable rappers

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of the 21st century,transforming the sound of music

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through his production style and passionate lyrics.

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- Kanye West is the super producer turned rapper

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to reality star who's
never at the headlines

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and made some of the
best rap hip-hop music

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of the last two decades.

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- Any opportunity I get
to express my music,

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I try to take it.

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- [Narrator] However,
controversial statements

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will be a constant
factor in his career,

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affecting his life
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around the pop culture world.

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On top of that, Kanye's marriage to Kim Kardashian

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added another layer to the stars overwhelming fame.

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The constant
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would affect Kanye's mental state later in his career.

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But despite his
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Kanye West has changed theworld with his sound and image,

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developing a new Sunday
service church in 2019

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and releasing a gospel album.

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- Only thing bad about
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while I was performing, I couldn't actually see it.

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- [Narrator] It seems Kanye is turning his favor to religion

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and staying out of
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The past decade of his career has been turbulent.

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But he maintains his status as one of the greatest rappers

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of his generation.

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- Around the time of
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I think my public perception was at an all time low,

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they made me look like
I was just an animal

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for running on stage
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"This is how I feel,"

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I felt like I was robbed at the awards and everything.

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And you know, a lot of people would say negative things

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about me, a lot of magazines pulled out on me,

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a lot of people turned
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and inspired me to of into the studio and make music

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that people couldn't deny,inspire the course for stronger.

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That that don't kill me, it only make me stronger.

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- Kanye West was born
in Atlanta, Georgia,

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and he moved to Chicago when he was three years old.

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His parents got divorced so he was raised solely by his mom.

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And they had a
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they're really, really close.

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She was a teacher.

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He was very much brought up

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in a very middle
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He had a good schooling.

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He went to university
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but dropped out after one year

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because he really wanted
to focus on his music.

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- [Narrator] Kanye
West's ambition in life

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was always to become
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By the year 2000, Kanye was making a name for himself

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in the music production scene.

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This would solidify the
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- In the beginning,
Kanye was working

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with lots of unknown artists, lots of underground stars,

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but it was his
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on his "Blueprint" album that really got Kanye noticed.

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- [Narrator] After his
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to get a contract, co-founder of Roc-A-Fella records,

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Damon Dash,
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to keep him from defecting to another label.

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- It actually took
Kanye quite a while

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to persuade the other
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that he should be taken
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You know, he didn't have the kind of gangster rap pedigree

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that these other guys had.

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At the time, it was
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a drug dealer or have been shot

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in order to be taken seriously as having any credibility.

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Kanye was this
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in a beautiful
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His mother was a very
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He'd lived in China
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and learned Chinese.

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He certainly didn't have
that kind of pedigree.

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Ironically, it was a
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his first break
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- [Narrator] On the
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Kanye's life was to
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He had been working late at a California recording studio,

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when he eventually
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Kanye fell asleep at the wheel

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causing a near fatal car crash.

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The crash left him
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which was wired shut during reconstructive surgery.

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- He was involved in a really serious car crash,

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which involved him breaking his jaw in three places.

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The jaw was then
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and it really provoked him in thinking life is for living,

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let me live it.

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- He talked about that
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because he's a religious man.

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And I think he had this sense,

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this could have confirmed that,

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that he had this
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and that's why he'd been saved.

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And people who worked with him said that from then on,

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it was like a
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he was even more fired up, he was even more purposeful.

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- [Narrator] Kanye used
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to his advantage.

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If anything, it encouraged him to fulfill his ambition

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of becoming a rapper.

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While suffering with
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he recorded his first single, "Through the Wire".

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- "Through the Wire" was kind of a surprise big hit.

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But in the background
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it's actually pretty incredible

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the fact he had a life
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and wrote and performed the song with his jaw wired shut

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hence the name of the track,

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just weeks after he'd
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I think fans really
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and the truth behind that track,

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rather than just a
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that a lot of other rappers were putting out at the time.

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- There were so many different Polaroid pictures

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that you see which take
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through his journey.

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about where he's come from, and probably where he's going.

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♪ For breakfast, an
Ensure for dizzert ♪

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♪ Somebody ordered pancakes I just sip the sizzurp ♪

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♪ That right there could drive a sane man bizerk ♪

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♪ Not to worry the
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♪ How do you console my mom or give her light support ♪

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♪ Telling her, her
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♪ And just imagine
how my girl feel ♪

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♪ On the plane scared
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- This was this kind
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And he emerges from
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And as a sort of rap
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It's sort of a self
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He tells the story of
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and he becomes that.

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- You know it
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God knew I had a message, He knew I had a mission,

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but He knew no one
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He said, "Kanye, I'm gonna make somebody care about you."

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Bam, I nearly died.

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That's one of the best things that can happen to a rapper.

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- [Narrator]
Kanye's first album,

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titled "The College Dropout" was recorded in Los Angeles

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while he was recovering
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Unfortunately, the
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months before its
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Kanye, however, used
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reviewing the album and making changes where he seemed fit.

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It was then pushed back from its 2003 release date

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and officially released the album with Roc-A-Fella Records

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in February 2004.

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"The College Dropout"
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a certified triple platinum album in the U.S.

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This accumulated Kanye
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leading to three wins,
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for the track "Jesus Walks".

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- I changed my name this week from Kanye to The Face,

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which stands for the
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Due to the fact
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is the third most in history, and from now on,

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I prefer to be called The Face.

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- [Narrator] It was safe
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had established himself as a chart-topping rapper.

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He was eager to show that offat the Grammy's after party.

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- Somebody call
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that his artist won
three Grammys tonight.

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Let him know.

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I wanna thank my man
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for helping me come
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I wanna thank Brooke for helpingme come up with my speech.

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I don't think I'll be
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we should take these Grammys away here write this speech

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on the shelf.

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I love y'all and y'all know I love the rap, right?

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So I just, play that
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and imma spit a verse
with y'all right quick.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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♪ Now I wish I hear the alarm

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♪ Y'all gotta know it's
J. Lo with the cons ♪

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♪ They claiming
Kanye in the Vans ♪

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♪ By the way he pop dollars on Louis Vuitton ♪

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♪ Roc-A-Fellas are on

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♪ And you know you lost sweet and get a lucky charm ♪

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♪ If you ain't in Vegas ringingon the sweet of the palm ♪

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♪ This song is about
the jewelry in his arm ♪

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♪ In fact, we gon'
blow like Johnny Depp ♪

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♪ And yep, I'll wake
up with spouses ♪

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♪ So let me break
down what my vows is ♪

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♪ I need John, he
drunk like louses ♪

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♪ Hop on couches,
remove your blouses ♪

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♪ Girls who go wild

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♪ Is making Perry surprise

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♪ How the hell the
club allowed it ♪

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♪ We gotta arrange it beforethe Range can afford to pay me ♪

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♪ But can't afford
that to happen ♪

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♪ So hey man, give back

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The Rockas in the building,Roc-A-Fella Records, good music.

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I love y'all, 2005,
hip-hop is alive.

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It's your boy, Kanye
and Louis Vuitton dog,

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the Grammy winner.

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Please get your
frustrations out,

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we better tape them
with a run baby.

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TLC, holla at me.

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[crowd cheers]

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- [Narrator] With the money gained from the sales

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of "The College Dropout", Kanye was able to bring

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a whole live orchestra into the recording session

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for his second album,
"Late Registration".

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A bold move that would
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of his music.

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- You've got collaborations with people like Jamie Foxx,

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Adam Levine.

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You're seeing here
that Kanye is respected

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within the industry because he's got these great names

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on board.

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But it also shows that he's developing as an artist

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with his skill at producing rap as well as melody.

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- [Narrator] "Late Registration"sold over 2.3 million units

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in the United States alone, and also broke a record

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for the most digital
downloads in a week.

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When the single "Gold Digger" sold over 80,000 copies.

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- "Gold Digger" was one of the most successful songs ever

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and certainly one
of the biggest hits

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of Kanye West's career.

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I think for mainstream people, people who, like myself,

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who weren't really rap fans, everybody likes that song.

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How can you not like that song?

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It doesn't matter if you're into rap music or not.

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It's a fantastically
catchy crossover tune.

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And the fact that he got Jamie Foxx to duet with him on it

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was just perfect timing.

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It's a fun video, you see KanyeWest looking extremely cool.

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♪ [She give me money]

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♪ Now I ain't sayin'
she a gold digger ♪

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♪ [When I'm in need]

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♪ But she ain't messin'
wit no broke, broke ♪

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♪ [She give me money]

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♪ Now I ain't sayin'
she a gold digger ♪

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♪ [When I'm in need]

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♪ But she ain't messin'
wit no broke, broke ♪

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♪ [I gotta leave]

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♪ Get down girl,
go 'head get down ♪

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♪ [I gotta leave]

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♪ Get down girl,
go 'head get down ♪

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♪ [I gotta leave]

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♪ Get down girl,
go 'head get down ♪

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♪ [I gotta leave]

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♪ Get down girl, go 'head

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♪ [Yeah, she give me money]

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♪ Cutie da bomb

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♪ Met her at a beauty salon [When I'm in need] ♪

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♪ With a baby Louis Vuitton

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♪ Under her under arm

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- It was a great song,
it was widely received

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across all genres, and it reallyput Kanye West on the map.

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- [Narrator] "Late Registration" also won Kanye

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another Grammy for
Best Rap Album.

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♪ But she ain't messin'
with no broke, broke ♪

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♪ [I gotta leave]

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♪ Get down girl,
go 'head get down ♪

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♪ [I gotta leave]

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♪ Get down girl,
go 'head get down ♪

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♪ [I gotta leave]

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- Now when I say get down,

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that means for y'all
to get up actually,

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it's reverse psychology.

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♪ Get down girl, go 'head get down [I gotta leave] ♪

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♪ Cutie da bomb

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♪ Met her at a beauty salon [When I'm in need] ♪

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♪ With a baby Louis Vuitton

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♪ Under her under arm
[She give me money] ♪

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♪ She said I can tell you rock

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♪ I can tell by ya charm
[When I'm in need] ♪

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♪ Girls you got a flock

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♪ I can tell by ya charm and ya arm [I gotta leave] ♪

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♪ I'm lookin' for the one

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♪ Have you seen her?

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[soft music]

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- [Narrator] Kanye's
image in 2005 however,

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changed dramatically.

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Just days after "Late
Registration" release,

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during a benefit concert for Hurricane Katrina victims

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on live television, Kanyeexposed his controversial views.

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His comments reached much of the United States,

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leading to mixed reactions.

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George Bush will later call it,

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one of the most disgusting moments of his presidency.

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- In 2006, Kanye did one of the most shocking things

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that he's ever done.

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It was during a Hurricane Katrina telethon

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where celebrities went on TV to try and raise money

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for victims of the terrible events in New Orleans.

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And Kanye West is standing there next to Mike Myers

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and they are reading
a teleprompter

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talking about the devastation that happened.

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And all of a sudden Kanye goes way off script.

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It's absolutely hilarious to watch Mike Myers' face

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because he literally looks like he's gonna die.

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He's so uncomfortable,
he's completely stuck

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like a deer in the headlights.

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He doesn't know what to do and Kanye is just going for it

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and just ranting.

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- I hate the way they
portray us in the media.

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If you see a black family, it says they're looting,

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if you see a white family, it says they're looking for food.

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And you know, it's
been five days

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because most of the
people are black.

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And even for me
to complain about,

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I will be a hypocrite because I've tried to turn away

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from the TV because
it's too hard to watch.

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- Kanye is just ranting way and then finally at the end,

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he says that George Bush doesn't like black people.

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- It may end up being the most tragic loss of all.

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- George Bush doesn't
care about black people.

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- [Director] Please call.

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- In the past few days,
America and people

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has been stepping up.

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- The producers quickly, quickly cut to somebody else

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to get Kanye off camera
as fast as possible

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but because the
show went out live,

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there was no way to edit any of that from appearing.

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It caused an
international sensation.

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It was the biggest headline to come out of the entire thing

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that Kanye West went on TV

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and basically called
George Bush a racist.

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- It proceeded to have a devastating effect really

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on Kanye and his reputation.

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[soft music]

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- [Narrator] Throughout
2005 and 2006,

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Kanye had been in the studio working on his third album.

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He wanted to change the sound of his music again,

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and after listening
to songwriters,

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Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash,

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Kanye wanted to
develop his wordplay

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and storytelling ability.

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[upbeat music]

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Kanye third studio
album, "Graduation"

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gamored major publicity
when its release date

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pitted him in the
sales competition
against rapper 50 Cent.

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Upon the September 2007 release,

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"Graduation" outsold 50 Cent's,Curtis, by a large margin.

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Debuting at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart

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and selling almost 1 million copies in its first week.

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- I'm just very
like internationally
charged, you know,

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it's fueled by all
the places we visited,

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Australia, New Zealand, touringwith the Rolling Stones,

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touring with U2
and Bono was like,

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nobody in the community's ever figured this out

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except from Michael Jackson.

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And that's making
these stadium songs,

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these songs that
connect with people's,

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their hearts, their
minds and spirits,

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10 years down the line.

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When you look at "Through the Wire", it gets just as big

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and that better response
than "Gold Digger".

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So this album right here
is the stadium status.

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Like I said on Big Brother, it's just stadium status.

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[soft music]

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- [Narrator] Kanye's life took a different direction

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when his mother, Donda West died of complications

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from cosmetic surgery involving breast reduction

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in November 2007.

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- I think the great
rupture in Kanye's life

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is the death of his mother.

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He'd found success, he
was on a certain path

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and she died relatively young.

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He felt guilty because
if he hadn't moved to LA

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and she hadn't
moved there with him

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that she'd still be alive.

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Which of course, that's
not a rational response.

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- His first show
after her funeral

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was actually here in
England, at the O2.

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And he included a tribute to her in his set.

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And he continued to attribute, I believe he perfromed

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Journey's "Don't
Stop Believin'",

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and he played that on every single date of the tour.

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So it shows you how much he wanted to celebrate her

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at his gigs.

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- [Narrator] Months later,

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West and fiance, Alexis Phifer ended their engagement

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and long term intermittent relationship,

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which had begun in 2002.

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These events profoundly
affected Kanye,

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who set off for his 2008, Glow in the Dark tour

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shortly thereafter.

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[soft music]

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Feeling his emotions could not be conveyed through rapping,

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Kanye discovered the voice audio processor autotune

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to use while singing.

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This would go on to become akey feature in his next record.

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[upbeat music]

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Recorded mostly in Hawaii,

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in three weeks, Kanye announced his fourth album,

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"808s & Heartbreak".

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At the 2008 MTV
Video Music Awards,

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where he performed its lead single, "Love Lockdown".

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Music audiences were taken aback

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by the uncharacteristic
production style

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and the presence of autotune.

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[upbeat music]

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- "Love Lockdown" is a
really beautiful video

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and you know Kanye West is a big fan of black and white.

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And I think in this video, you can really see that,

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he has this all white
room that he's in

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and it's almost like he'shaving this dream like sequence.

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♪ ya love lockdown,
ya love lockdown ♪

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♪ Now keep ya love
lockdown, you lose ♪

440
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♪ I'm not loving you,
way I wanted to ♪

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♪ I can't keep my cool,
so I keep it true ♪

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♪ I got something to
lose, so I gotta move ♪

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It's a beautiful video.

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It's very unusual, it's
very attention getting

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and like Kanye himself, it's completely unpredictable.

446
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- [Narrator] "808s & Heartbreak"contains themes of love,

447
00:20:07,490 --> 00:20:12,495
loneliness, and heartache and was released in November 2008.

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The record's
singles demonstrated

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outstanding charts performances.

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00:20:18,743 --> 00:20:21,953
- The 808 album was definitely quite a sad record

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to be honest.

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Even for the artwork
with the heart

453
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ripped down the middle.

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So I think his personal life

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could have affected
that release.

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I think with the use of the synths and the auto tune,

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it was as much as
him experimenting

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and innovating with his sound.

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Across all his albums, he's never stayed the same.

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He's always kind of mixed up and tried to do something new

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with the production
or the vocals.

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So I think this was just
an extension of that.

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- [Narrator] Upon its release, the lead single "Lockdown"

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debuted at number three on the Billboard Hot 100.

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While the follow up
single "Heartless"

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performed similar and
debuted at number four

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on the Billboard Hot 100.

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While it was criticized
prior to its release,

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"808s & Heartbreak" had
a significant effect

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on hip-hop music, encouraging other rappers

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to take more creative risk with their productions.

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Kanye's controversial incident, the following year,

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at the 2009 MTV
Video Music Awards

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was arguably his biggest
controversy to date

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and led to widespread outrage throughout the music industry.

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00:21:32,092 --> 00:21:34,094
- Kanye West really
outdid himself

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00:21:34,128 --> 00:21:36,303
in the unpredictability
department

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or let's say the loose
cannon department.

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When Taylor Swift won at the VMAs and he stormed the stage

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saying that Beyonce should have won for Best Video,

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it was shocking.

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It had never really
been done before,

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not in this high of
a profile scenario.

484
00:21:52,008 --> 00:21:52,871
[audience cheering]

485
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- Yo Taylor, I'm
really happy for you.

486
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Imma let you finish, but Beyoncehad one of the best videos

487
00:21:58,877 --> 00:21:59,947
of all time.

488
00:21:59,982 --> 00:22:03,157
[audience cheers]

489
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One of the best
videos of all time.

490
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[audience boo]

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- He thought he was
doing the right thing

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and sort of standing up for art

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and standing up
for Beyonce's art.

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But to viewers, it just seemed like he was this guy

495
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interrupting somebody,
who at that time,

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was a very young woman.

497
00:22:23,902 --> 00:22:25,387
And it wasn't just a sort of breach of protocol,

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00:22:25,421 --> 00:22:29,356
it seemed aggressive and there was an enormous backlash.

499
00:22:29,391 --> 00:22:31,565
- Taylor Swift at this
point, and still is,

500
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:33,015
the nation's sweetheart.

501
00:22:33,049 --> 00:22:34,810
She's got the nation wrapped around her finger.

502
00:22:34,844 --> 00:22:37,191
This is like the worst
thing you can ever do

503
00:22:37,226 --> 00:22:38,986
on live television.

504
00:22:39,021 --> 00:22:41,161
- [Narrator] Because of his outburst at the VMAs,

505
00:22:41,195 --> 00:22:45,027
Kanye had lost a lot ofrespect from the press, critics

506
00:22:45,061 --> 00:22:46,718
and the music world.

507
00:22:46,753 --> 00:22:51,689
The incident caused Kanye to disappear from the public eye.

508
00:22:52,206 --> 00:22:54,623
[soft music]

509
00:22:57,936 --> 00:23:00,560
"My Beautiful Dark
Twisted Fantasy",

510
00:23:00,594 --> 00:23:04,805
Kanye's fifth studio album was released in November 2010

511
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,429
to rave reviews from critics.

512
00:23:07,463 --> 00:23:10,017
Many of whom described
it as his best work

513
00:23:10,052 --> 00:23:12,434
that solidified his comeback.

514
00:23:14,712 --> 00:23:18,232
"Dark Fantasy" adopts
a maximalist philosophy

515
00:23:18,267 --> 00:23:21,822
and deals with themes
of celebrity and excess.

516
00:23:21,857 --> 00:23:25,205
The record included,
the international hit

517
00:23:25,239 --> 00:23:28,795
"All of the Lights" and
billboard hits "Power",

518
00:23:28,829 --> 00:23:31,487
"Monster" and "Runaway".

519
00:23:31,522 --> 00:23:33,593
- "My Beautiful Dark
Twisted Fantasy"

520
00:23:33,627 --> 00:23:37,389
was dubbed Kanye's greatest work of all time.

521
00:23:37,424 --> 00:23:39,150
And truthfully it needed to be,

522
00:23:39,184 --> 00:23:42,878
he needed to get the public back into his arms.

523
00:23:42,912 --> 00:23:46,502
- This was a lot warmer,
a lot brighter, bolder.

524
00:23:46,537 --> 00:23:48,366
It was kind of
returning to the sound,

525
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,990
that we know him and kind of fell in love with him for

526
00:23:52,025 --> 00:23:54,821
but he also had those
big commercial songs

527
00:23:54,855 --> 00:23:56,650
like "All of the
Lights" and "Power"

528
00:23:56,685 --> 00:23:59,688
that really resonated
with fans and I think

529
00:23:59,722 --> 00:24:01,724
that was a welcome
returned to form

530
00:24:01,759 --> 00:24:04,106
for him after the 808 album.

531
00:24:05,625 --> 00:24:09,663
- [Narrator] Following
a headlining set
at Coachella 2011,

532
00:24:09,698 --> 00:24:11,354
that was described by
The Hollywood Reporter

533
00:24:11,389 --> 00:24:14,461
as one of the greatest hip-hop sets of all time,

534
00:24:14,496 --> 00:24:18,327
Kanye released the collaborativealbum, "Watch the Throne"

535
00:24:18,361 --> 00:24:19,811
with Jay-Z.

536
00:24:19,846 --> 00:24:22,504
- Kanye teams back up with Jay-Z

537
00:24:22,538 --> 00:24:24,506
for the "Watch the Throne" album

538
00:24:24,540 --> 00:24:26,542
and then subsequently the tour.

539
00:24:26,577 --> 00:24:28,026
Can this get any better?

540
00:24:28,061 --> 00:24:31,685
You've got hip-hop royalty together for an album,

541
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:33,342
they're on tour, they're
touring the world.

542
00:24:33,376 --> 00:24:35,068
I think literally
every hip-hop fan

543
00:24:35,102 --> 00:24:37,519
was just going nuts for this.

544
00:24:39,003 --> 00:24:42,972
- Jay-Z and Kanye they have different flows and stylings

545
00:24:43,007 --> 00:24:44,664
but I think they worked
really well together.

546
00:24:44,698 --> 00:24:46,528
They knew when to
take the backseat

547
00:24:46,562 --> 00:24:47,839
and when to step forward.

548
00:24:47,874 --> 00:24:50,290
And they just combined
very effectively

549
00:24:50,324 --> 00:24:53,431
to make one of the best rap albums of the last decade.

550
00:24:53,465 --> 00:24:55,847
- [Narrator] By employing a sales strategy

551
00:24:55,882 --> 00:24:57,849
that released the
album, digitally,

552
00:24:57,884 --> 00:25:00,403
weeks before its
physical counterpart,

553
00:25:00,438 --> 00:25:03,821
"Watch the Throne" became one of the few major label albums

554
00:25:03,855 --> 00:25:07,410
in the internet age
to avoid a leak.

555
00:25:07,445 --> 00:25:10,759
"In Paris" became the records highest charting single

556
00:25:10,793 --> 00:25:14,763
peaking at number five on the Billboard Hot 100.

557
00:25:14,797 --> 00:25:16,592
- I think the reason
"In Paris" was so big

558
00:25:16,627 --> 00:25:20,872
was it had massive buildup in terms of the music

559
00:25:20,907 --> 00:25:23,288
leading to that
really heavy baseline.

560
00:25:23,323 --> 00:25:25,428
Then once that came in, it really stole the show.

561
00:25:25,463 --> 00:25:27,361
So you had these
two great rappers,

562
00:25:27,396 --> 00:25:29,950
but it was really the
base and the production

563
00:25:29,985 --> 00:25:33,782
and the beat behind it that got people moving around.

564
00:25:33,816 --> 00:25:35,059
It was such a big hit.

565
00:25:35,093 --> 00:25:36,370
♪ Ball so hard,
I'm shocked too, ♪

566
00:25:36,405 --> 00:25:37,613
♪ I'm supposed to
be locked up too ♪

567
00:25:37,648 --> 00:25:39,339
♪ You escaped what
I've escaped ♪

568
00:25:39,373 --> 00:25:41,030
♪ You'd be in Paris
getting fucked up too ♪

569
00:25:41,065 --> 00:25:42,825
♪ Ball so hard,
let's get faded, ♪

570
00:25:42,860 --> 00:25:44,516
♪ Le Meurice for like six days

571
00:25:44,551 --> 00:25:47,865
♪ Gold bottles, scold models, spillin' Ace on my sick J's ♪

572
00:25:47,899 --> 00:25:51,351
♪ Ball so hard bitch behave, just might let you meet 'Ye ♪

573
00:25:51,385 --> 00:25:55,355
♪ Chi town's D. Rose,
I'm movin' the Nets ♪

574
00:25:55,389 --> 00:25:57,806
[soft music]

575
00:25:59,186 --> 00:26:00,947
- [Narrator] After touring the world with Jay-Z

576
00:26:00,981 --> 00:26:02,880
on the "Watch the Throne" tour,

577
00:26:02,914 --> 00:26:06,677
West began dating reality star and longtime friend

578
00:26:06,711 --> 00:26:09,162
Kim Kardashian in April 2012.

579
00:26:10,888 --> 00:26:12,959
It was the beginning
of a Hollywood romance

580
00:26:12,993 --> 00:26:17,273
that would take the
showbiz world by storm.

581
00:26:17,308 --> 00:26:22,106
- Kanye and Kim, the longest running love story in showbiz.

582
00:26:22,140 --> 00:26:26,075
It was nine years of
to-ing and fro-ing

583
00:26:26,110 --> 00:26:28,077
before they finally
got it together.

584
00:26:28,112 --> 00:26:31,702
And she'd been through twomarriages by that point anyway.

585
00:26:31,736 --> 00:26:35,395
- I think at first when Kim and Kanye started going out,

586
00:26:35,429 --> 00:26:37,535
there might be a little bit of skepticism around it,

587
00:26:37,569 --> 00:26:39,433
like, is this a showmance?

588
00:26:39,468 --> 00:26:42,298
Kind of how serious is it because a reality star

589
00:26:42,333 --> 00:26:44,853
with a huge rap star
that has this integrity

590
00:26:44,887 --> 00:26:46,682
and is really
focused on his image

591
00:26:46,717 --> 00:26:48,477
and wants to protect that.

592
00:26:48,511 --> 00:26:49,789
I think it soon became apparent

593
00:26:49,823 --> 00:26:52,515
that they were serious
about each other.

594
00:26:52,550 --> 00:26:53,724
[upbeat music]

595
00:26:53,758 --> 00:26:55,346
- [Gemma] The
biggest reality star,

596
00:26:55,380 --> 00:26:57,624
teaming up with the
biggest hip-hop star.

597
00:26:57,659 --> 00:27:01,559
Together, they became a force, a united showbiz force

598
00:27:01,593 --> 00:27:03,526
and it's continued to this day.

599
00:27:03,561 --> 00:27:04,735
[upbeat music]

600
00:27:04,769 --> 00:27:06,219
- According to Kanye West,

601
00:27:06,253 --> 00:27:09,636
he has just been in love with Kim Kardashian for so long

602
00:27:09,671 --> 00:27:11,949
and I think it's terms
of Kim's perspective,

603
00:27:11,983 --> 00:27:13,847
I think she never
took Kanye seriously

604
00:27:13,882 --> 00:27:17,679
as a romantic interest until she was really at rock bottom

605
00:27:17,713 --> 00:27:21,234
picking up the pieces of her personal professional image

606
00:27:21,268 --> 00:27:24,271
following her disastrous marriage to Kris Humphries.

607
00:27:24,306 --> 00:27:27,723
And I think Kanye showed himself to be a true friend.

608
00:27:27,758 --> 00:27:30,105
And I think in that moment,

609
00:27:30,139 --> 00:27:32,003
she finally started
to take him seriously

610
00:27:32,038 --> 00:27:36,387
as a romantic love interest and the rest is history.

611
00:27:38,044 --> 00:27:41,185
- [Narrator] Kanye's sixth studio album, "Yeezus"

612
00:27:41,219 --> 00:27:44,050
was released in June 2013

613
00:27:44,084 --> 00:27:47,260
to highly positive
reviews from critics.

614
00:27:47,294 --> 00:27:50,884
Kanye touched upon controversialand sensitive topics

615
00:27:50,919 --> 00:27:52,783
and delivered a bold record,

616
00:27:52,817 --> 00:27:55,164
described as his
most confrontational

617
00:27:55,199 --> 00:27:57,649
and bravest album to date.

618
00:27:57,684 --> 00:28:01,170
Despite leaking four days early upon its release,

619
00:28:01,205 --> 00:28:06,210
"Yeezus" sold almost 327,000 copies during it's first week

620
00:28:07,349 --> 00:28:09,800
and the album's lead
single, "Black Skinhead"

621
00:28:09,834 --> 00:28:11,767
was certified gold
by mid October.

622
00:28:11,802 --> 00:28:13,527
[upbeat music]

623
00:28:13,562 --> 00:28:15,288
- With "Watch the
Throne" you had

624
00:28:15,322 --> 00:28:17,255
like we're kings kind of thing.

625
00:28:17,290 --> 00:28:21,363
And then with "Yeezus" the title again alludes to Jesus

626
00:28:21,397 --> 00:28:23,572
which is a quite bold,
arrogant statement

627
00:28:23,606 --> 00:28:25,505
but Kanye doesn't really care.

628
00:28:25,539 --> 00:28:27,369
He wants people to
know he's the man,

629
00:28:27,403 --> 00:28:30,027
he's confident in what he's doing, he's an innovator.

630
00:28:30,061 --> 00:28:32,063
And while it did top the charts,

631
00:28:32,098 --> 00:28:34,756
but it was actually his lowest selling record on release

632
00:28:34,790 --> 00:28:36,758
even though critically,
a lot of people said,

633
00:28:36,792 --> 00:28:38,863
it was his best since
"The College Dropout".

634
00:28:38,898 --> 00:28:41,970
So it was interesting, but I think it was more down

635
00:28:42,004 --> 00:28:43,419
with the music
industry in general

636
00:28:43,454 --> 00:28:46,560
rather than the quality
of the the album.

637
00:28:46,595 --> 00:28:47,803
- He's always been religious

638
00:28:47,838 --> 00:28:50,254
but in quite an
idiosyncratic way

639
00:28:50,288 --> 00:28:53,533
and certainly an irreverentway, calling an album, "Yeezus",

640
00:28:53,567 --> 00:28:55,466
calling a song, "I am a God".

641
00:28:55,500 --> 00:28:57,744
There's a lot of
humor in hip-hop

642
00:28:57,779 --> 00:29:00,851
and I think sometimes
people miss his humor

643
00:29:00,885 --> 00:29:03,888
and assume that he's
just sort of demented.

644
00:29:03,923 --> 00:29:05,890
And a lot of the time he's sort of playing around

645
00:29:05,925 --> 00:29:07,478
with being sacrilegious

646
00:29:07,512 --> 00:29:11,171
and with taking
symbols of the church

647
00:29:11,206 --> 00:29:13,829
or symbols of the
civil rights movement

648
00:29:13,864 --> 00:29:16,487
and kind of treating them in quite a profane way.

649
00:29:16,521 --> 00:29:19,421
And that's part of
the game of hip-hop.

650
00:29:19,455 --> 00:29:22,389
- I think "Black Skinhead" the lead single from the album

651
00:29:22,424 --> 00:29:23,943
is a very powerful choice.

652
00:29:23,977 --> 00:29:26,842
One, you had that driving, real driving beat in there

653
00:29:26,877 --> 00:29:30,294
with quite an aggressive
delivery from Kanye.

654
00:29:30,328 --> 00:29:32,606
But with this whole
"Black Skinhead",

655
00:29:32,641 --> 00:29:34,850
you also have the
race elements in there

656
00:29:34,885 --> 00:29:37,266
that he wasn't shying away from delivering that

657
00:29:37,301 --> 00:29:39,855
and he was saying, "This is me like it or hate it."

658
00:29:39,890 --> 00:29:40,994
♪ Came to see me
in my black skin ♪

659
00:29:41,029 --> 00:29:42,616
♪ Number one question
they asking ♪

660
00:29:42,651 --> 00:29:44,446
♪ Fuck every
question you asking ♪

661
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,172
♪ If I don't get ran
out by Catholics ♪

662
00:29:46,206 --> 00:29:48,070
♪ Here come some
conservative Baptists ♪

663
00:29:48,105 --> 00:29:49,658
♪ Claiming I'm overreacting

664
00:29:49,692 --> 00:29:51,763
♪ Like them black
kids in Chiraq bitch ♪

665
00:29:51,798 --> 00:29:53,558
♪ Four in the morning,
and I'm zoning ♪

666
00:29:53,593 --> 00:29:55,250
♪ They say I'm possessed, it's an omen ♪

667
00:29:55,284 --> 00:29:57,321
♪ I keep it 300,
like the Romans ♪

668
00:29:57,355 --> 00:29:59,185
♪ 300 bitches,
where's the Trojans? ♪

669
00:29:59,219 --> 00:30:01,014
♪ Baby we living in the moment

670
00:30:01,049 --> 00:30:02,878
♪ I've been a menace
for the longest ♪

671
00:30:02,913 --> 00:30:04,121
♪ But I ain't
finished, I'm devoted ♪

672
00:30:04,155 --> 00:30:05,950
- Black Skinhead was a
very controversial video

673
00:30:05,985 --> 00:30:09,126
because it got leaked online before Kanye was done with it.

674
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,783
You know, Kanye is one
of the most controlling,

675
00:30:11,818 --> 00:30:14,510
famously kind of OCD
artists out there

676
00:30:14,545 --> 00:30:18,238
and bearing in mind he had a hugely successful career

677
00:30:18,273 --> 00:30:21,138
as a producer before he
became a solo artist.

678
00:30:21,172 --> 00:30:23,623
He really takes control from the beginning to the end

679
00:30:23,657 --> 00:30:25,073
of everything he does.

680
00:30:25,107 --> 00:30:28,490
He quickly took it down,
he rejigged a little bit

681
00:30:28,524 --> 00:30:32,011
and then released it
himself a week later.

682
00:30:33,944 --> 00:30:37,395
- [Narrator] 2013 also proved to be a personal milestone

683
00:30:37,430 --> 00:30:41,365
for Kanye, as he became a father for the first time

684
00:30:41,399 --> 00:30:44,678
with partner Kim Kardashian giving birth to a baby girl

685
00:30:44,713 --> 00:30:46,888
in June of that year.

686
00:30:46,922 --> 00:30:49,925
- After Kim and Kanye started dating relatively quickly,

687
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,963
she fell pregnant she had a very difficult pregnancy.

688
00:30:52,997 --> 00:30:54,757
The first thing
was that we noticed

689
00:30:54,792 --> 00:30:58,106
was she put on a lot of weight and for Kim Kardashian,

690
00:30:58,140 --> 00:31:01,695
that is, I mean that's a fate worse than death, probably

691
00:31:01,730 --> 00:31:03,594
not to be slim and beautiful.

692
00:31:03,628 --> 00:31:06,631
So she struggled a lot withthat and the press made fun ofher

693
00:31:06,666 --> 00:31:08,116
in various outfits.

694
00:31:08,150 --> 00:31:11,360
And compared and very unkindly talked about her

695
00:31:11,395 --> 00:31:12,603
during her pregnancy in that way

696
00:31:12,637 --> 00:31:14,294
and I think that was
very painful for her.

697
00:31:14,329 --> 00:31:16,331
But additionally, and
far more seriously,

698
00:31:16,365 --> 00:31:19,506
she had actual physical issues, she had preeclampsia,

699
00:31:19,541 --> 00:31:21,888
which meant she had
to deliver North early

700
00:31:21,923 --> 00:31:25,892
and then following the birth, she had a placental abruption,

701
00:31:25,927 --> 00:31:28,239
which meant that she had to have the placenta removed

702
00:31:28,274 --> 00:31:31,380
and it was also again life threatening and serious.

703
00:31:31,415 --> 00:31:35,315
- [Narrator] Kanye and Kim became engaged in October 2013

704
00:31:35,350 --> 00:31:39,354
and married on May 24th
2014 in Florence, Italy.

705
00:31:40,527 --> 00:31:43,323
- Kim and Kanye's
wedding in 2013

706
00:31:43,358 --> 00:31:46,533
was the biggest showbiz
story of the year.

707
00:31:46,568 --> 00:31:49,502
So they decide to get married, there's a huge proposal

708
00:31:49,536 --> 00:31:51,159
that ends up on YouTube.

709
00:31:51,193 --> 00:31:55,197
And then they decide that the wedding is gonna be in France.

710
00:31:55,232 --> 00:31:57,544
Versailles,
beautiful, wonderful.

711
00:31:57,579 --> 00:31:59,961
All of the guests
get flown to France,

712
00:31:59,995 --> 00:32:02,101
only to be told the night before the wedding,

713
00:32:02,135 --> 00:32:04,551
that they're getting flown to Florence in Italy.

714
00:32:04,586 --> 00:32:06,864
This is what happens when you got Kanye in charge

715
00:32:06,898 --> 00:32:07,727
of wedding plans.

716
00:32:07,761 --> 00:32:09,211
Anything is possible.

717
00:32:09,246 --> 00:32:11,282
He wants to make changes at thelast minute and Kim says yes

718
00:32:11,317 --> 00:32:12,214
because why not?

719
00:32:12,249 --> 00:32:14,803
They've got the money to do so.

720
00:32:14,837 --> 00:32:18,220
In May 2015, it was announced that Kim and Kanye

721
00:32:18,255 --> 00:32:20,947
were expecting
their second child.

722
00:32:20,982 --> 00:32:24,813
On June 21st 2015, Kim
confirmed via Instagram

723
00:32:26,401 --> 00:32:30,888
that she and Kanye
were expecting a boy
in December 2015.

724
00:32:30,922 --> 00:32:34,340
- Following the birth of North,she did get pregnant again

725
00:32:34,374 --> 00:32:36,135
with Saint and carried to term.

726
00:32:36,169 --> 00:32:39,897
But again had all
kinds of medical issues

727
00:32:39,931 --> 00:32:42,934
and was advised, according to her in the show,

728
00:32:42,969 --> 00:32:44,902
that she should not
be pregnant anymore

729
00:32:44,936 --> 00:32:47,318
and so they had
gestational carriers

730
00:32:47,353 --> 00:32:49,665
carry the next two babies.

731
00:32:49,700 --> 00:32:51,150
- I think Kanye's got
quite broad shoulders

732
00:32:51,184 --> 00:32:54,084
when it comes to dealing
with attention on him.

733
00:32:54,118 --> 00:32:55,740
I think actually he's
just quite like that.

734
00:32:55,775 --> 00:32:57,190
Then again, being
with the Kardashians

735
00:32:57,225 --> 00:33:00,228
brings a whole another level of scrutiny on you.

736
00:33:00,262 --> 00:33:02,092
They are the biggest reality stars in the world.

737
00:33:02,126 --> 00:33:03,921
Everyone knows them
across the globe.

738
00:33:03,955 --> 00:33:05,785
I think what's
surprising about Kanye

739
00:33:05,819 --> 00:33:07,062
is that he actually
allowed himself

740
00:33:07,097 --> 00:33:08,960
to be featured on
the reality show.

741
00:33:08,995 --> 00:33:11,066
I didn't think he'd wanna be associated, really,

742
00:33:11,101 --> 00:33:14,138
with that product but he seems to be okay with it.

743
00:33:14,173 --> 00:33:16,623
The other side of it
is the Kardashian women

744
00:33:16,658 --> 00:33:20,041
haven't had the best
luck in relationships

745
00:33:20,075 --> 00:33:21,801
with guys who have
appeared on the show

746
00:33:21,835 --> 00:33:25,287
so you didn't worry,
would that jinx things

747
00:33:25,322 --> 00:33:28,083
but he seems to have
taken it in his stride.

748
00:33:28,118 --> 00:33:30,810
- [Narrator] The next
month, Kanye headlined

749
00:33:30,844 --> 00:33:33,502
the Glastonbury Festival in U.K.

750
00:33:33,537 --> 00:33:37,575
despite a petition signed by almost 135,000 people

751
00:33:37,610 --> 00:33:39,474
against his appearance.

752
00:33:39,508 --> 00:33:42,270
Toward the end of the set, he proclaimed himself

753
00:33:42,304 --> 00:33:45,928
the greatest living
rock star on the planet.

754
00:33:45,963 --> 00:33:47,551
- Kanye West is one
of those artists

755
00:33:47,585 --> 00:33:49,380
you either love or you hate.

756
00:33:49,415 --> 00:33:52,142
A lot of people have
called Kanye West,

757
00:33:52,176 --> 00:33:54,351
like Rolling Stone Magazine, one of the greatest artists

758
00:33:54,385 --> 00:33:55,593
of our time.

759
00:33:55,628 --> 00:33:57,008
But there are plenty of
other people who fail

760
00:33:57,043 --> 00:33:58,907
to see the magic of Kanye,

761
00:33:58,941 --> 00:34:01,565
including the crowds
at Glastonbury.

762
00:34:01,599 --> 00:34:04,740
In fact, when Glastonbury organizers announced

763
00:34:04,775 --> 00:34:07,191
that Kanye West was
going to headline,

764
00:34:07,226 --> 00:34:08,986
they actually got death threats.

765
00:34:09,020 --> 00:34:12,472
You know, there's
a lot of people who
fail to see the talent

766
00:34:12,507 --> 00:34:14,785
and vision of this artist.

767
00:34:14,819 --> 00:34:16,304
And I suppose, you know, Kanye

768
00:34:16,338 --> 00:34:18,754
who considers himself the greatest artist of all time,

769
00:34:18,789 --> 00:34:21,447
would say that,
you know, prophets,

770
00:34:21,481 --> 00:34:23,725
I mean, like Jesus, who
he compares himself to,

771
00:34:23,759 --> 00:34:26,728
aren't always
appreciated at the time

772
00:34:26,762 --> 00:34:28,281
is probably what he would say.

773
00:34:28,316 --> 00:34:30,594
But I just think not everybody likes his music.

774
00:34:30,628 --> 00:34:32,975
Not everybody thinks
that he's quite as good

775
00:34:33,010 --> 00:34:34,598
as he thinks he is.

776
00:34:35,599 --> 00:34:37,014
- In the last few years,

777
00:34:37,048 --> 00:34:38,809
I think probably starting with Jay-Z in 2008,

778
00:34:38,843 --> 00:34:40,397
there's this annoying habit

779
00:34:40,431 --> 00:34:43,745
of fairly reactionary
Glastonbury goers
making a big fuss

780
00:34:43,779 --> 00:34:46,713
that gets picked up by the media about how so and so,

781
00:34:46,748 --> 00:34:48,267
Jay-Z or Metallica or whoever,

782
00:34:48,301 --> 00:34:50,165
does not deserve to
play Glastonbury.

783
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:51,753
So there was this
massive petition

784
00:34:51,787 --> 00:34:56,171
with thousands of signatories say that Kanye

785
00:34:56,206 --> 00:34:58,139
was a kind of, booking
Kanye was a disgrace

786
00:34:58,173 --> 00:34:59,899
and he had nothing to do with the spirit of Glastonbury.

787
00:34:59,933 --> 00:35:02,350
And it is kind of
ridiculous because

788
00:35:02,384 --> 00:35:04,800
there's tons of differentpeople who play Glastonbury,

789
00:35:04,835 --> 00:35:08,597
there isn't one thing that you're allowed there

790
00:35:08,632 --> 00:35:13,637
and there is something aboutKanye that really riles people.

791
00:35:14,810 --> 00:35:18,331
He's hugely outspoken
in an abrasive way.

792
00:35:18,366 --> 00:35:21,196
And I think people particularly,some people particularly

793
00:35:21,231 --> 00:35:23,681
find it difficult
coming from a black man,

794
00:35:23,716 --> 00:35:25,511
coming from a rapper.

795
00:35:25,545 --> 00:35:28,617
And as everyone is entitled to like or dislike an artist,

796
00:35:28,652 --> 00:35:31,206
but I do think there's a kind of an unsavory undercurrent

797
00:35:31,241 --> 00:35:33,864
to how much people hate Kanye,

798
00:35:33,898 --> 00:35:36,694
whose I think artistic achievements on some level,

799
00:35:36,729 --> 00:35:39,525
are kind of inarguable the way that he's reshaped music,

800
00:35:39,559 --> 00:35:42,044
his influence is
sort of undeniable,

801
00:35:42,079 --> 00:35:43,632
even if you don't like him.

802
00:35:43,667 --> 00:35:46,048
And he had every
right to be there.

803
00:35:46,083 --> 00:35:48,810
What surprised me atGlastonbury was that beforehand,

804
00:35:48,844 --> 00:35:50,363
I was saying this
is either gonna be

805
00:35:50,398 --> 00:35:53,539
one of the best things ever or one of the worst things.

806
00:35:53,573 --> 00:35:57,301
There was a real thrill of like, what's gonna happen?

807
00:35:57,336 --> 00:35:59,821
And I was watching
it and it started off

808
00:35:59,855 --> 00:36:02,168
and it was fantastic
for the first few songs

809
00:36:02,203 --> 00:36:03,687
and it was just on
stage on his own

810
00:36:03,721 --> 00:36:07,104
with this bank of lights, and it was kind of intense

811
00:36:07,138 --> 00:36:10,314
and weird and
paranoid and stark.

812
00:36:10,349 --> 00:36:14,836
And then nothing else really happened and as it proceeded

813
00:36:14,870 --> 00:36:17,770
and around me people were looking a bit bored.

814
00:36:17,804 --> 00:36:20,428
And they weren't angry and they weren't thrilled.

815
00:36:20,462 --> 00:36:23,638
They were just like,
"Oh, is that it?"

816
00:36:24,811 --> 00:36:26,779
And that in a way
disappointed me more

817
00:36:26,813 --> 00:36:29,230
than if it had been terrible because I thought,

818
00:36:29,264 --> 00:36:31,577
"Oh dear people should
not be reacting to Kanye

819
00:36:31,611 --> 00:36:34,131
"in a kind of shrugging way."

820
00:36:34,165 --> 00:36:37,617
And it was a real if you're star rating the reviews,

821
00:36:37,652 --> 00:36:40,310
it was a sort of
three out of five set

822
00:36:40,344 --> 00:36:43,278
when you wanted it to really be like one or five.

823
00:36:43,313 --> 00:36:47,144
You wanted him to polarize and within the field,

824
00:36:47,178 --> 00:36:48,318
he didn't really polarize.

825
00:36:48,352 --> 00:36:49,871
There were good bits of the set,

826
00:36:49,905 --> 00:36:51,666
and there were bad
bits to the set.

827
00:36:51,700 --> 00:36:54,565
And it almost felt like he fell to earth a little bit

828
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:55,877
and I know that he
was quite unhappy

829
00:36:55,911 --> 00:36:57,879
with aspects of
that performance.

830
00:36:57,913 --> 00:37:00,606
♪ And we'll do anything
when the time's right ♪

831
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:01,986
♪ Uh, baby, you're making it

832
00:37:02,021 --> 00:37:03,298
♪ Harder, better,
faster, stronger ♪

833
00:37:03,333 --> 00:37:04,541
♪ Baby, you're making it

834
00:37:04,575 --> 00:37:07,026
♪ Now that that don't kill me

835
00:37:07,060 --> 00:37:09,304
♪ Can only make me stronger

836
00:37:09,339 --> 00:37:11,617
♪ I need you to hurry up now

837
00:37:11,651 --> 00:37:13,895
♪ Cause I can't
wait much longer ♪

838
00:37:13,929 --> 00:37:16,242
♪ I know I got to be right now

839
00:37:16,277 --> 00:37:18,417
♪ Cause I can't
get much wronger ♪

840
00:37:18,451 --> 00:37:20,902
♪ Man, I've been
waiting all night now ♪

841
00:37:20,936 --> 00:37:23,456
♪ That's how long I been on ya

842
00:37:23,491 --> 00:37:26,010
[soft music]

843
00:37:36,642 --> 00:37:39,886
- [Narrator] On the
14th of February 2016,

844
00:37:39,921 --> 00:37:42,682
Kanye finally released
his much anticipated

845
00:37:42,717 --> 00:37:44,374
eighth studio album.

846
00:37:45,616 --> 00:37:47,653
The album went through
four name changes

847
00:37:47,687 --> 00:37:52,347
before Kanye finally settled with "The Life of Pablo".

848
00:37:52,382 --> 00:37:54,487
- What was really interesting about "The Life of Pablo"

849
00:37:54,522 --> 00:37:57,456
was it was kind of an
evolving living album,

850
00:37:57,490 --> 00:37:59,492
unlike any other album
that had come before.

851
00:37:59,527 --> 00:38:01,598
Rather than having
that official release,

852
00:38:01,632 --> 00:38:04,048
this is the end product
it's done and dusted

853
00:38:04,083 --> 00:38:06,154
and just enjoy it what is.

854
00:38:06,188 --> 00:38:08,605
He continued tinkering
with it and editing it

855
00:38:08,639 --> 00:38:10,123
after it'd being released.

856
00:38:10,158 --> 00:38:13,575
So the final product wasn't really the final product.

857
00:38:13,610 --> 00:38:14,404
It was evolving.

858
00:38:14,438 --> 00:38:16,820
So that was interesting.

859
00:38:16,854 --> 00:38:19,305
I think, as well with the sound of "The Life of Pablo"

860
00:38:19,340 --> 00:38:22,929
it was more organic,
maybe family sound,

861
00:38:22,964 --> 00:38:24,931
I think you could tell
that his home life

862
00:38:24,966 --> 00:38:26,692
kind of seeped into that record,

863
00:38:26,726 --> 00:38:30,178
sort of like gospel stuff in there and religious references

864
00:38:30,212 --> 00:38:32,698
and just kind of
warm, uplifting album

865
00:38:32,732 --> 00:38:35,010
that showed he's hopefully back to his best

866
00:38:35,045 --> 00:38:38,600
and he's moved on from his mental health troubles.

867
00:38:38,635 --> 00:38:42,535
- The album "The Life of Pablo" people like that more.

868
00:38:42,570 --> 00:38:44,710
It seemed like people are really feeling the vibe of it

869
00:38:44,744 --> 00:38:46,125
and everything.

870
00:38:46,159 --> 00:38:48,369
It's because I was able
to make the Yeezys.

871
00:38:48,403 --> 00:38:49,300
You know what I'm saying?

872
00:38:49,335 --> 00:38:50,509
I guess as a creative person,

873
00:38:50,543 --> 00:38:53,788
you gotta have a bunch
of creative outlets.

874
00:38:53,822 --> 00:38:56,066
- Kanye's in quite a
strange phase creatively

875
00:38:56,100 --> 00:38:59,345
because he's sort of famed for producing albums

876
00:38:59,380 --> 00:39:03,038
which are very complete
cohesive works.

877
00:39:03,073 --> 00:39:05,696
Very different to the
one that came before,

878
00:39:05,731 --> 00:39:09,597
maybe you know dropped unannounced still impressive.

879
00:39:09,631 --> 00:39:12,876
And with "The Life of Pablo", it was talked about

880
00:39:12,910 --> 00:39:15,672
for over a year
before it came out.

881
00:39:15,706 --> 00:39:18,778
It had different titles,
he released singles

882
00:39:18,813 --> 00:39:20,159
that ended up not
appearing on it.

883
00:39:20,193 --> 00:39:22,023
And then they're
kind of reinstated.

884
00:39:22,057 --> 00:39:25,475
There was this messy launch and then the confusion

885
00:39:25,509 --> 00:39:26,683
over whether it was gonna be,

886
00:39:26,717 --> 00:39:28,581
how it was going to be available

887
00:39:28,616 --> 00:39:30,859
until you can be
able to buy it on CD

888
00:39:30,894 --> 00:39:32,896
and then you couldn't because it was only gonna be

889
00:39:32,930 --> 00:39:34,173
through Tidal.

890
00:39:34,207 --> 00:39:35,968
And then because it was
on a streaming platform

891
00:39:36,002 --> 00:39:37,625
and nobody actually owned it,

892
00:39:37,659 --> 00:39:39,903
he was then able to
kind of tinker with it.

893
00:39:39,937 --> 00:39:42,492
So there was a sense in which at one point you think,

894
00:39:42,526 --> 00:39:45,149
is this record ever
gonna be finished?

895
00:39:45,184 --> 00:39:47,393
Was he just gonna
keep working on it?

896
00:39:47,428 --> 00:39:50,189
And it's quite a
strangely messy,

897
00:39:50,223 --> 00:39:52,847
oddly sequenced record anyway.

898
00:39:52,881 --> 00:39:54,780
And from somebody that's used to sort of coming out

899
00:39:54,814 --> 00:39:57,265
with these quite
emphatic statements,

900
00:39:57,299 --> 00:39:59,301
there's a strange
sort of development

901
00:39:59,336 --> 00:40:02,960
which makes me wonder ifperhaps there's some uncertainty

902
00:40:02,995 --> 00:40:06,101
or self doubt or what exactly he's trying to achieve

903
00:40:06,136 --> 00:40:09,242
by having this kind of constantly unfinished album.

904
00:40:09,277 --> 00:40:11,417
[soft music]

905
00:40:11,452 --> 00:40:14,144
Kanye premiered the new album at Madison Square Garden

906
00:40:14,178 --> 00:40:17,492
as a part of the presentation of his Yeezy Season 3

907
00:40:17,527 --> 00:40:18,666
clothing line.

908
00:40:20,219 --> 00:40:23,360
The album was met with mixed reviews from critics.

909
00:40:23,394 --> 00:40:26,259
Rolling Stone Magazine
dubbed it both a mess

910
00:40:26,294 --> 00:40:28,089
and a masterpiece.

911
00:40:28,123 --> 00:40:30,954
However, despite the reviews, the album was still able

912
00:40:30,988 --> 00:40:35,372
to make it to number one
on the US Billboard 200.

913
00:40:35,406 --> 00:40:37,374
- At the time, "The Life
of Pablo" was released,

914
00:40:37,408 --> 00:40:40,446
it was actually the most successful streamed album.

915
00:40:40,481 --> 00:40:42,517
It still went to number
one in the charts.

916
00:40:42,552 --> 00:40:44,277
It was released only on Tidal

917
00:40:44,312 --> 00:40:47,522
through his pal's Jay-Z's streaming service.

918
00:40:47,557 --> 00:40:49,697
But despite that
limited release,

919
00:40:49,731 --> 00:40:51,422
it's still racked
up platinum status

920
00:40:51,457 --> 00:40:54,149
and was the first
album to do so.

921
00:40:55,323 --> 00:40:57,083
- [Narrator] After Life
of Pablo's release,

922
00:40:57,118 --> 00:41:01,191
Kanye's music career
seem to be back on form.

923
00:41:01,225 --> 00:41:06,058
However, in late 2016, Kanye experienced a series of events

924
00:41:06,092 --> 00:41:09,371
which really affected
his mental state.

925
00:41:09,406 --> 00:41:12,340
- I think one of the major factors that plays a part

926
00:41:12,374 --> 00:41:16,586
in his mental breakdown was Kim's robbery ordeal in Paris

927
00:41:16,620 --> 00:41:20,175
when massed armed robbers entered her hotel room,

928
00:41:20,210 --> 00:41:25,111
tied her up and stole millions of pounds worth of jewelry.

929
00:41:25,146 --> 00:41:27,838
- The five men all dressed as police officers

930
00:41:27,873 --> 00:41:31,393
entered through this door, theythen handcuff the concierge

931
00:41:31,428 --> 00:41:33,292
before putting a gun to his head

932
00:41:33,326 --> 00:41:36,640
and demanding that he took them to her apartment.

933
00:41:36,675 --> 00:41:39,436
Kim Kardashian was
then herself tied up,

934
00:41:39,470 --> 00:41:43,923
she has said to be badlyshaken, but physically unharmed.

935
00:41:43,958 --> 00:41:46,167
- Kanye wasn't with
her at the time,

936
00:41:46,201 --> 00:41:48,479
but understandably it had a massive effect on him

937
00:41:48,514 --> 00:41:51,103
knowing that his
wife was in danger

938
00:41:51,137 --> 00:41:53,139
and how shaken up
she was with it.

939
00:41:53,174 --> 00:41:55,763
Shortly after that,
Kanye canceled his tour

940
00:41:55,797 --> 00:41:59,145
and he was hospitalized
for a period of time

941
00:41:59,180 --> 00:42:03,943
where he underwent treatment for his mental health

942
00:42:03,978 --> 00:42:06,014
and his own benefit, really.

943
00:42:06,049 --> 00:42:09,915
- I think when two very famous people are in a relationship,

944
00:42:09,949 --> 00:42:12,952
there's sort of it operates on two levels on the one hand,

945
00:42:12,987 --> 00:42:15,092
it's these two people
who are in love.

946
00:42:15,127 --> 00:42:17,612
And on that level,
there's this great,

947
00:42:17,647 --> 00:42:19,338
the way that Kanye
talks about Kim,

948
00:42:19,372 --> 00:42:21,685
the way that he responded when she was robbed in Paris,

949
00:42:21,720 --> 00:42:23,963
just going short up a show.

950
00:42:23,998 --> 00:42:25,240
Everything he says he reveals

951
00:42:25,275 --> 00:42:28,243
this great affection
and admiration.

952
00:42:28,278 --> 00:42:31,557
And you know, he loves the family they started together.

953
00:42:31,592 --> 00:42:34,353
He thinks she's just a
fantastic human being,

954
00:42:34,387 --> 00:42:36,286
an entrepreneur.

955
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:39,323
But then it's also this kind of chemical reaction

956
00:42:39,358 --> 00:42:43,258
of two very famous people, makes life very hard

957
00:42:44,466 --> 00:42:47,400
and much harder than
if he was with somebody

958
00:42:47,435 --> 00:42:49,126
who was not in the public eye.

959
00:42:49,161 --> 00:42:51,750
And she's very good
at being famous.

960
00:42:51,784 --> 00:42:54,649
She's very kind of relaxed.

961
00:42:54,684 --> 00:42:57,514
It's like, that's her
art form is celebrity.

962
00:42:57,548 --> 00:43:00,241
Whereas his art
form are elsewhere,

963
00:43:00,275 --> 00:43:03,140
it's music and he would like thinking of fashion and art

964
00:43:03,175 --> 00:43:04,659
and all these other things.

965
00:43:04,694 --> 00:43:07,248
And he's not actually very good at being famous.

966
00:43:07,282 --> 00:43:09,699
He can't relax into it.

967
00:43:09,733 --> 00:43:13,392
When you compare him to Jay-Z, his friend and mentor.

968
00:43:13,426 --> 00:43:17,051
Jay-Z again, very good
at it, very smooth

969
00:43:17,085 --> 00:43:21,572
and Kanye just seems so
stressed out by fame.

970
00:43:21,607 --> 00:43:26,025
And yet, now more than ever, he can't escape it.

971
00:43:26,060 --> 00:43:28,338
- [Narrator] These events really damaged Kanye's career

972
00:43:28,372 --> 00:43:32,756
leading to a vast array of controversial outburst.

973
00:43:32,791 --> 00:43:35,276
- One of the things is really hard to work out with Kanye

974
00:43:35,310 --> 00:43:39,142
is how much of his provocations are calculated

975
00:43:40,522 --> 00:43:42,628
to sort of get attention
or to make points.

976
00:43:42,663 --> 00:43:45,735
And how much is
simply him splurging.

977
00:43:45,769 --> 00:43:48,116
And I think there's
been quite a few cases

978
00:43:48,151 --> 00:43:51,154
where somebody has set him off, there's been a tweet

979
00:43:51,188 --> 00:43:53,777
or there's been someone making fun of him on a chat show

980
00:43:53,812 --> 00:43:55,641
and he lashes out.

981
00:43:55,676 --> 00:43:59,438
And that, to me, doesn't seem like a thought through thing

982
00:43:59,472 --> 00:44:01,509
and I sometimes wonder about his stage invasions

983
00:44:01,543 --> 00:44:02,924
at award ceremonies.

984
00:44:02,959 --> 00:44:04,926
Is he thinking in the
car on the way there

985
00:44:04,961 --> 00:44:08,171
that's what I'm gonna do or does it just sort of erupt

986
00:44:08,205 --> 00:44:11,243
and there's probably
like a bit of both

987
00:44:11,277 --> 00:44:15,281
but I think a lot of his
more outrageous tweets

988
00:44:15,316 --> 00:44:17,490
it's just him uncensored.

989
00:44:17,525 --> 00:44:19,907
And then I think he feels that there's a value

990
00:44:19,941 --> 00:44:21,184
in being uncensored.

991
00:44:21,218 --> 00:44:23,462
So he doesn't then
go back and regret

992
00:44:23,496 --> 00:44:25,844
or apologize for
all these things.

993
00:44:25,878 --> 00:44:28,985
But I think a lot of it
comes out spontaneously

994
00:44:29,019 --> 00:44:30,745
and then he justifies it.

995
00:44:30,780 --> 00:44:33,023
And some of the
stuff I find as a fan

996
00:44:33,058 --> 00:44:34,438
is kind of embarrassing.

997
00:44:34,473 --> 00:44:35,681
It's like, why are you wasting your time doing that?

998
00:44:35,716 --> 00:44:37,648
Why are you feuding
with this person?

999
00:44:37,683 --> 00:44:40,721
Why are you making this
kind of crass remark?

1000
00:44:40,755 --> 00:44:43,033
Why are you sort of
stooping to that?

1001
00:44:43,068 --> 00:44:45,587
But that's because that's him.

1002
00:44:45,622 --> 00:44:48,763
That's part of him that he can make this fantastic art

1003
00:44:48,798 --> 00:44:50,972
and then make you put
your head in your hands

1004
00:44:51,007 --> 00:44:52,940
with some stupid tweet.

1005
00:44:53,941 --> 00:44:56,357
[soft music]

1006
00:45:11,441 --> 00:45:15,341
After his rehab visit,
Kanye surprisingly met

1007
00:45:15,376 --> 00:45:18,275
with the then President
Elect, Donald Trump

1008
00:45:18,310 --> 00:45:20,761
to discuss politics and life.

1009
00:45:22,452 --> 00:45:26,836
News footage of the meetingshowed a peculiar side to Kanye

1010
00:45:26,870 --> 00:45:28,699
as he just smiled
and said nothing

1011
00:45:28,734 --> 00:45:30,460
during the whole
press conference.

1012
00:45:30,494 --> 00:45:31,944
- I think Kanye
meeting with Donald

1013
00:45:31,979 --> 00:45:35,051
took everyone by surprise because Donald wasn't known

1014
00:45:35,085 --> 00:45:37,950
for being popular among
the black community.

1015
00:45:37,985 --> 00:45:41,885
And seeing Kanye visit
him at Trump Tower

1016
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:45,544
and then have a rather lengthy conversation and come out

1017
00:45:45,578 --> 00:45:49,582
and endorse the president was quite surprising.

1018
00:45:49,617 --> 00:45:51,792
- I made a hat that said, "Make America Great"

1019
00:45:51,826 --> 00:45:54,484
without the again and
Trump wore the hat

1020
00:45:54,518 --> 00:45:56,589
because he said he's
willing to adjust

1021
00:45:56,624 --> 00:45:59,972
because he realized that the word again hurts us as people,

1022
00:46:00,007 --> 00:46:01,905
specifically black
people, the idea.

1023
00:46:01,940 --> 00:46:04,908
Because we say, "Whenwas America ever great for us?"

1024
00:46:04,943 --> 00:46:08,256
So we made and updated hatthat said, "Make America Great"

1025
00:46:08,291 --> 00:46:09,982
and Trump wore the hat.

1026
00:46:10,017 --> 00:46:13,848
So he is open to
adjusting and listening.

1027
00:46:13,883 --> 00:46:15,850
I just wanted y'all
to put this online

1028
00:46:15,885 --> 00:46:18,749
so everyone can
definitely see it.

1029
00:46:19,889 --> 00:46:23,099
- I think despite Trump
winning the election,

1030
00:46:23,133 --> 00:46:25,998
I think among Kanye fans, they weren't too pleased

1031
00:46:26,033 --> 00:46:27,862
that he had endorsed Trump

1032
00:46:27,897 --> 00:46:30,106
because of some of thecontroversial things he'd said.

1033
00:46:30,140 --> 00:46:32,763
He seems kind of backtracked on that support

1034
00:46:32,798 --> 00:46:35,490
that he gave him but I think the damage was already done

1035
00:46:35,525 --> 00:46:37,113
when he was pictured
at the meeting

1036
00:46:37,147 --> 00:46:39,356
and what he came
out with after that.

1037
00:46:39,391 --> 00:46:41,255
- I think it's the bravery

1038
00:46:41,289 --> 00:46:44,223
that helps you beat
this game called life.

1039
00:46:44,258 --> 00:46:48,089
They try to scare me to not wear this hat, my own friends,

1040
00:46:48,124 --> 00:46:51,472
but this hat it gives
me power in a way.

1041
00:46:54,095 --> 00:46:55,200
- [Narrator] On top of that,

1042
00:46:55,234 --> 00:46:56,649
Kanye was still getting involved

1043
00:46:56,684 --> 00:46:58,789
with online Twitter
controversies

1044
00:46:58,824 --> 00:47:02,793
having a go at a variety of organizations and individuals

1045
00:47:02,828 --> 00:47:05,417
such as the Grammys,
music critics,

1046
00:47:05,451 --> 00:47:09,490
and even stating that he is thegreatest rapper of all time.

1047
00:47:09,524 --> 00:47:11,009
- Kanye's mother said that one of the things he got

1048
00:47:11,043 --> 00:47:14,633
from his father was this sort of intolerance for injustice.

1049
00:47:14,667 --> 00:47:16,290
And sometimes that
manifests itself

1050
00:47:16,324 --> 00:47:17,808
in a political statement.

1051
00:47:17,843 --> 00:47:21,398
And then at other times what he defines as injustice

1052
00:47:21,433 --> 00:47:23,918
seems kind of trivial.

1053
00:47:23,953 --> 00:47:27,473
It's like he's upset because he hasn't got a Grammy

1054
00:47:27,508 --> 00:47:29,165
or an MTV award.

1055
00:47:29,199 --> 00:47:34,135
And his rage about those things, seems to be equivalent

1056
00:47:34,170 --> 00:47:36,482
to his rage about
political things.

1057
00:47:36,517 --> 00:47:38,415
In fact, sometimes it
seems to eclipse that

1058
00:47:38,450 --> 00:47:41,039
from some more about award shows than he has about

1059
00:47:41,073 --> 00:47:42,074
Black Lives Matter.

1060
00:47:42,109 --> 00:47:44,939
And he has the sense in a way

1061
00:47:44,974 --> 00:47:48,667
that success is like a
science or like sport

1062
00:47:50,048 --> 00:47:52,705
and that there are rules

1063
00:47:52,740 --> 00:47:54,224
and there are winners and losers

1064
00:47:54,259 --> 00:47:56,986
and it should just be obvious who is the best and who isn't.

1065
00:47:57,020 --> 00:47:58,677
And of course, in art,
it's not like that

1066
00:47:58,711 --> 00:48:00,161
and people just have preferences

1067
00:48:00,196 --> 00:48:03,475
and maybe they prefer another video to his video

1068
00:48:03,509 --> 00:48:04,959
or a Beyonce video.

1069
00:48:04,994 --> 00:48:07,375
And there's part of him that just cannot accept that

1070
00:48:07,410 --> 00:48:09,619
and despite his
enormous success,

1071
00:48:09,653 --> 00:48:12,104
feels, in some
way, hard done by.

1072
00:48:12,139 --> 00:48:14,796
[upbeat music]

1073
00:48:14,831 --> 00:48:16,143
- [Narrator] It was easy to say

1074
00:48:16,177 --> 00:48:18,248
that at this point
in Kanye's career,

1075
00:48:18,283 --> 00:48:20,802
his mental state
and attitude to life

1076
00:48:20,837 --> 00:48:24,220
had changed from
his earlier career.

1077
00:48:24,254 --> 00:48:26,291
- This thing that the
media tries to make

1078
00:48:26,325 --> 00:48:29,984
this ongoing story
and everything for
hits and about that.

1079
00:48:30,019 --> 00:48:33,712
I don't think people care about me and her in that way.

1080
00:48:33,746 --> 00:48:36,818
People care about
their families.

1081
00:48:36,853 --> 00:48:39,787
If you like my
music, listen to it.

1082
00:48:41,547 --> 00:48:44,033
[soft music]

1083
00:48:49,555 --> 00:48:52,006
- [Narrator] After a period of Kanye only hitting headlines

1084
00:48:52,041 --> 00:48:56,769
for controversy reasons, some positivity was much needed.

1085
00:48:57,943 --> 00:49:01,257
This came in 2018 when
Kanye and his wife, Kim

1086
00:49:01,291 --> 00:49:03,811
announced the birth
of their third child.

1087
00:49:03,845 --> 00:49:07,470
A daughter named Chicago who was born via gestation carrier

1088
00:49:07,504 --> 00:49:08,402
in January.

1089
00:49:09,886 --> 00:49:13,165
- For that third child Kim decided to use a surrogate

1090
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:15,926
rather than giving
birth naturally.

1091
00:49:15,961 --> 00:49:17,790
There was a lot of
media speculation

1092
00:49:17,825 --> 00:49:19,309
about who the surrogate was.

1093
00:49:19,344 --> 00:49:21,760
I understand the family wanted to keep that private.

1094
00:49:21,794 --> 00:49:22,864
They did let people know

1095
00:49:22,899 --> 00:49:24,176
that they had
handpicked this person,

1096
00:49:24,211 --> 00:49:26,937
they were happy with
her carrying the baby.

1097
00:49:26,972 --> 00:49:28,560
[soft music]

1098
00:49:28,594 --> 00:49:29,837
- [Narrator] The
couple's happy news

1099
00:49:29,871 --> 00:49:31,390
reaped high level
of media coverage,

1100
00:49:31,425 --> 00:49:33,979
not just because of
Kenya's recent trouble

1101
00:49:34,014 --> 00:49:36,878
but also because of their daughters manner of birth

1102
00:49:36,913 --> 00:49:38,673
and her name.

1103
00:49:38,708 --> 00:49:40,054
- Kim's always been quite open

1104
00:49:40,089 --> 00:49:42,815
about why she used a surrogate.

1105
00:49:42,850 --> 00:49:44,714
She has couple of
high risk conditions

1106
00:49:44,748 --> 00:49:48,718
after her previous births that could cause harm to her

1107
00:49:48,752 --> 00:49:50,237
and potentially the baby.

1108
00:49:50,271 --> 00:49:52,998
So her and Kanye explored all the options available to them

1109
00:49:53,033 --> 00:49:54,551
and they decided that surrogacy

1110
00:49:54,586 --> 00:49:57,761
was definitely the
best option for them.

1111
00:49:57,796 --> 00:50:01,041
- [Narrator] In May 2019, Kanye and wife Kim,

1112
00:50:01,075 --> 00:50:03,767
welcomed their fourth
child, Psalm West.

1113
00:50:03,802 --> 00:50:06,460
[upbeat music]

1114
00:50:10,740 --> 00:50:15,745
On January 6th 2019,
West started his
weekly Sunday service

1115
00:50:16,470 --> 00:50:17,643
church orchestration.

1116
00:50:17,678 --> 00:50:20,129
Which includes soul
variations of both West

1117
00:50:20,163 --> 00:50:24,340
and others songs attended by multiple celebrities.

1118
00:50:25,306 --> 00:50:28,965
- Kanye himself has had some kind of spiritual reawakening

1119
00:50:28,999 --> 00:50:30,829
related to his Christian faith.

1120
00:50:30,863 --> 00:50:33,694
And he has been expressing that through the setting up

1121
00:50:33,728 --> 00:50:35,730
of what he calls
his Sunday service,

1122
00:50:35,765 --> 00:50:40,218
where he performs and organizes a Sunday service.

1123
00:50:40,252 --> 00:50:43,083
The location changes,
it's by invitation only.

1124
00:50:43,117 --> 00:50:45,913
It's not a normal church, it's usually outside.

1125
00:50:45,947 --> 00:50:48,122
He controls and tells
people what to wear,

1126
00:50:48,157 --> 00:50:50,538
there's a dress code
because, God forbid,

1127
00:50:50,573 --> 00:50:55,474
Kanye's senses are assaulted by ugly colors or fabrics.

1128
00:50:55,509 --> 00:50:58,132
And he has a choir that
he leads and they sing

1129
00:50:58,167 --> 00:51:00,307
and it's mostly singing.

1130
00:51:00,341 --> 00:51:01,998
- They say like with this whole like Sunday service

1131
00:51:02,032 --> 00:51:04,207
is supposed to
spread positivity.

1132
00:51:04,242 --> 00:51:05,553
- [Interviewer] Promoting it.

1133
00:51:05,588 --> 00:51:07,383
- Yeah, so that's the
whole point of this,

1134
00:51:07,417 --> 00:51:09,178
it's supposed to bring
everybody together

1135
00:51:09,212 --> 00:51:12,353
and just have a good time and just vibe as well

1136
00:51:12,388 --> 00:51:14,079
and enjoy his music.

1137
00:51:15,529 --> 00:51:18,359
- As Kim has said, there's no preaching, there's no sermon,

1138
00:51:18,394 --> 00:51:19,981
it's a lot of singing,
and it's a chance

1139
00:51:20,016 --> 00:51:22,225
to just connect
to a higher power.

1140
00:51:22,260 --> 00:51:24,779
A lot of celebrities go, we've seen Brad Pitt there

1141
00:51:24,814 --> 00:51:26,229
on more than one occasion.

1142
00:51:26,264 --> 00:51:29,508
We've seen the Kardashian clan,Kendall is there frequently

1143
00:51:29,543 --> 00:51:31,717
and they attend and it is,

1144
00:51:32,994 --> 00:51:35,480
a lot of criticism
has been leveled at it

1145
00:51:35,514 --> 00:51:37,758
because it seems like everyone's worshiping Kanye.

1146
00:51:37,792 --> 00:51:41,071
In fact, the other choir membersare seen as his disciples.

1147
00:51:41,106 --> 00:51:42,901
And we do know he
calls himself Ye

1148
00:51:42,935 --> 00:51:47,388
and even like this whole Jesus kind of comparison.

1149
00:51:47,423 --> 00:51:49,666
So there has been some criticism

1150
00:51:49,701 --> 00:51:53,360
that Kanye has actually createdsort of a cult of Kanye.

1151
00:51:53,394 --> 00:51:55,396
Are they worshiping him or are they worshiping God?

1152
00:51:55,431 --> 00:51:58,813
Kanye says no, I mean his albumwas called "Jesus is King".

1153
00:51:58,848 --> 00:52:00,884
So he would argue
that that's not true.

1154
00:52:00,919 --> 00:52:02,714
But this has been a real
expression, I think,

1155
00:52:02,748 --> 00:52:06,511
of his personal recommitment to Christianity.

1156
00:52:20,663 --> 00:52:23,666
♪ Jesus walks

1157
00:52:23,700 --> 00:52:25,909
♪ Jesus walks

1158
00:52:25,944 --> 00:52:30,949
♪ Jesus walks with me

1159
00:52:31,881 --> 00:52:34,642
♪ Jesus walks

1160
00:52:34,677 --> 00:52:37,231
♪ Jesus walks

1161
00:52:37,266 --> 00:52:39,268
♪ Jesus walks with me

1162
00:52:39,302 --> 00:52:41,615
- Interestingly,
and unsurprisingly,

1163
00:52:41,649 --> 00:52:44,997
Kanye's newfound faith has caused tension at home,

1164
00:52:45,032 --> 00:52:46,723
he doesn't want
North wearing makeup,

1165
00:52:46,758 --> 00:52:50,210
he doesn't want him wearing all the sexy outfits

1166
00:52:50,244 --> 00:52:51,452
that she favors.

1167
00:52:51,487 --> 00:52:53,937
He wants her to tone
it down as his wife,

1168
00:52:53,972 --> 00:52:55,629
which is, you know, fair enough.

1169
00:52:55,663 --> 00:52:57,872
But Kim is not happy with this.

1170
00:52:57,907 --> 00:52:59,391
She doesn't want
the rules changed

1171
00:52:59,426 --> 00:53:01,117
at this stage of the game.

1172
00:53:01,151 --> 00:53:03,809
And that has definitely
been a source of tension

1173
00:53:03,844 --> 00:53:07,019
which we've seen
play out on the show.

1174
00:53:07,054 --> 00:53:10,230
- [Narrator] Kanye performedthe first public Sunday service

1175
00:53:10,264 --> 00:53:13,819
at Coachella on Easter
weekend, April 2019.

1176
00:53:14,751 --> 00:53:18,962
♪ You're the only power

1177
00:53:18,997 --> 00:53:22,966
♪ That can save
this world today ♪

1178
00:53:23,001 --> 00:53:26,867
♪ Power

1179
00:53:26,901 --> 00:53:30,836
♪ Power

1180
00:53:30,871 --> 00:53:34,944
♪ Power

1181
00:53:34,978 --> 00:53:39,362
♪ Power that can save us today

1182
00:53:39,397 --> 00:53:41,191
♪ Beautiful morning

1183
00:53:41,226 --> 00:53:43,435
- I think it's more of a message of spreading kindness,

1184
00:53:43,470 --> 00:53:45,299
caring for others,
especially in a society

1185
00:53:45,334 --> 00:53:46,714
in which we live today.

1186
00:53:46,749 --> 00:53:48,198
I think that's important.

1187
00:53:48,233 --> 00:53:52,789
And so if we're not gonna listen to our parents,

1188
00:53:52,824 --> 00:53:54,550
well, we're gonna
listen to Kanye.

1189
00:53:54,584 --> 00:53:56,310
- He performs a lot
of that type of music

1190
00:53:56,345 --> 00:53:58,208
that are performed in churches around the world

1191
00:53:58,243 --> 00:53:59,382
and the country.

1192
00:53:59,417 --> 00:54:00,866
So it's not like
it's just his music

1193
00:54:00,901 --> 00:54:02,385
and he's not even the one

1194
00:54:02,420 --> 00:54:04,076
that's doing most of the performances in the past.

1195
00:54:04,111 --> 00:54:06,009
Like he has other
people helping him out.

1196
00:54:06,044 --> 00:54:08,460
And he's just kind of there to promote it and do his thing

1197
00:54:08,495 --> 00:54:10,600
and vibe to it like everyone else is I guess.

1198
00:54:10,635 --> 00:54:13,293
[upbeat music]

1199
00:54:16,468 --> 00:54:19,299
- [Narrator] On
October 25th 2019,

1200
00:54:19,333 --> 00:54:23,924
he released "Jesus is King", a Christian hip-hop album.

1201
00:54:25,097 --> 00:54:27,514
On the U.S. charts, the
album became the first

1202
00:54:27,548 --> 00:54:31,966
to ever top the billboard 200 top RnB hip-hop albums,

1203
00:54:33,278 --> 00:54:36,246
top rap albums, top
Christian albums

1204
00:54:36,281 --> 00:54:39,526
and top gospel albums
at the same time.

1205
00:54:41,597 --> 00:54:44,979
On December 25th
2019, Kanye released

1206
00:54:45,014 --> 00:54:47,810
a sort of prequel album
to "Jesus is King"

1207
00:54:47,844 --> 00:54:49,674
called "Jesus is Born".

1208
00:54:49,708 --> 00:54:53,125
This is also a part of this gospel Sunday service.

1209
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:57,164
It has 19 songs, which includesa cover of West's own song,

1210
00:54:57,198 --> 00:54:58,407
"Ultralight Beam".

1211
00:54:58,441 --> 00:55:00,167
♪ We on an ultralight beam

1212
00:55:00,201 --> 00:55:01,789
♪ This is a God dream

1213
00:55:01,824 --> 00:55:03,998
♪ This is a God dream

1214
00:55:04,033 --> 00:55:08,382
♪ This is everything

1215
00:55:08,417 --> 00:55:13,422
♪ This is everything

1216
00:55:15,113 --> 00:55:16,804
♪ We on an ultralight beam

1217
00:55:16,839 --> 00:55:18,979
♪ We on an ultralight beam

1218
00:55:19,013 --> 00:55:20,394
♪ This is a God dream

1219
00:55:20,429 --> 00:55:22,569
♪ This is a God dream

1220
00:55:22,948 --> 00:55:26,435
- I believe that the
world can be changed,

1221
00:55:27,539 --> 00:55:30,266
the world can be
saved through design,

1222
00:55:30,300 --> 00:55:33,511
through unselfish design, through unselfish creation.

1223
00:55:33,545 --> 00:55:36,755
[upbeat music]

1224
00:55:36,790 --> 00:55:39,551
- [Narrator] Despite Kanye West's outspoken behavior,

1225
00:55:39,586 --> 00:55:41,657
it is hard to deny that
he is one of hip-hop's

1226
00:55:41,691 --> 00:55:45,971
most influential rappers
the world has ever seen.

1227
00:55:46,006 --> 00:55:48,422
- Kanye West will
definitely be remembered

1228
00:55:48,457 --> 00:55:50,562
as one of the greatest
rappers of all time

1229
00:55:50,597 --> 00:55:51,805
when all is said and done.

1230
00:55:51,839 --> 00:55:53,910
His production is
second to none,

1231
00:55:53,945 --> 00:55:56,568
even throughout his
meltdown that he had,

1232
00:55:56,603 --> 00:55:59,502
it hasn't done too much
to dent his reputation.

1233
00:55:59,537 --> 00:56:02,436
Even his reality star family, love them or hate them,

1234
00:56:02,471 --> 00:56:03,472
haven't done
anything to take away

1235
00:56:03,506 --> 00:56:04,921
from the quality of his music.

1236
00:56:04,956 --> 00:56:07,303
I think if he keeps innovating the way he has done,

1237
00:56:07,337 --> 00:56:10,340
he's gonna be remembered as one of the best for sure.

1238
00:56:10,375 --> 00:56:11,652
[soft music]

1239
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- We were never
trying to make radio,

1240
00:56:13,033 --> 00:56:14,862
we were trying to break radio.

1241
00:56:14,897 --> 00:56:16,623
That's a lot of
artistic freedom.

1242
00:56:16,657 --> 00:56:19,522
We keep on trying to break records and allow the artist

1243
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to be free.

1244
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That's the whole movement.

1245
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1246
00:56:25,735 --> 00:56:28,117
- [Narrator] Kanye's future may always be uncertain

1247
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but it is safe to say that his legacy will live on

1248
00:56:31,292 --> 00:56:33,053
and his albums will
go down in history

1249
00:56:33,087 --> 00:56:37,816
as some of the most influentialalbums of the 21st century.

1250
00:56:37,851 --> 00:56:40,198
- People make the mistake of taking Kanye too literally

1251
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when he's making these
bombastic statements.

1252
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And one of the
reasons he does it

1253
00:56:44,513 --> 00:56:47,274
is because it's sort
of gets attention.

1254
00:56:47,308 --> 00:56:50,311
Another thing is to goad himself into being better

1255
00:56:50,346 --> 00:56:52,003
if you make these
outlandish claims,

1256
00:56:52,037 --> 00:56:54,074
you have to try and at
least live up to them.

1257
00:56:54,108 --> 00:56:55,558
Plus, there's always been a tradition in hip-hop

1258
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of saying you're the best.

1259
00:56:57,698 --> 00:56:59,976
Way back when people in the first ever hip-hop record,

1260
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people were saying how great they were with women

1261
00:57:02,807 --> 00:57:04,602
or how good their watch was.

1262
00:57:04,636 --> 00:57:06,224
And he's doing
that, he's doing it

1263
00:57:06,258 --> 00:57:09,434
on this kind of
massive nuclear scale.

1264
00:57:10,849 --> 00:57:13,818
- [Narrator] Kanye's genius is noticeable around the world

1265
00:57:13,852 --> 00:57:17,166
and he will forever be one of the greatest hip-hop artists

1266
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of all time.

1267
00:57:18,616 --> 00:57:21,135
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