Kanye West is a popular American rapper and he is famous for making melodious music. He is an American producer, rapper, fashion designer, and entrepreneur. His first album college dropout gained a lot of success in 2004. Kanye is one of the most successful singers and has won plenty of awards. He has won 21 Grammy awards but has been nominated for about 69 times. Recently he has moved away from the music scene but concentrated on his business expansion. Yeezy and Adidas’ partnership has helped him earn and a huge amount of fortune. Let’s get to know more about Kanye West.
Who is Kanye West’s wife?
Kanye West is happily married to Kim Kardashian and if we combine the net worth of the couple it reaches $4.1 billion. During all these years Kanye has been able to collect a huge among of $100 from various endorsements. Most of the royalties and other fortunes have been coming in due to the popularity of his brand Yeezy and now that he has done a partnership with Adidas there is no looking back.
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Kanye West Assets and Liabilities
While checking the assets and liabilities we have come to the following conclusion:
- Real estate assets = $120 million
- Music catalog including G.O.O.D Music = $80 million
- com website = $100 million
- Value of Yeezy brand = $3 billion
- Other assets = $20 million
- Total assets = $3.32 billion
Early life and beginning of a career
Kanye West was born on 8th June 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents got a divorce when he was very young and he moved with his mother to Chicago. He started practicing music as he was interested in becoming a singer. Luck also favored him and he got a chance to pursue the career of music at the age of 20 only. He started working as a producer and collaborated with famous singers like Janet Jackson and Alicia Keys.
Kanye got the opportunity to work on the album of Jay-Z named Blueprint and gained a lot of appreciation for his great work. Even though he was working as a producer for capital records he always wanted to become a rapper. Unfortunately, Kanye got into an accident and he broke his jaw. He continued the hard work and kept recording his debut album. He remixed and rapped it and earn 10 Grammy nominations while the album was certified triple platinum in the US. The second album named late registration was released in 2005 and sold over 2.3 million copies in the US alone. Some of his other hit albums are:
- 808s & Heartbreak(2008)
- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy(2010)
- A collaboration album with Jay Z
- Watch the Throne(2011)
- Yeezus(2013)
- The Life of Pablo(2016)
- Ye(2018)
- Jesus is King(2019)
Kanye West Year Wise Net WorthÂ
Kanye is one of the richest rappers in the USA and his name has appeared in Forbes many times. According to the latest updates his total net worth is 1.3 Billion US dollars.You will be surprised to see how huge his net worth is. Let’s take a look at his earning year wise.
- $17,000,000 2007
- $30,000,000 2008
- 2009 $25,000,000
- 2010 $12,000,000
- 2011 $16,000,000
- 2012 $35,000,000
- 2013 $20,000,000
- 2014 $30,000,000
- 2015 $22,000,000
- 2016 $18,000,000
- 2017 $22,000,000
- 2018 $90,000,000 2019
- $100,000,000 Total: $437,000,000
