Kanye West

He’s rewritten the rulebook of music and had more impact on the world of hip-hop in the 2000s than any other rapper or producer. A controversial, outspoken, acclaimed visionary: the man is KANYE WEST. “This is pop music as theatre, boundary-pushing hip-hop as spectacle.” (Rave Magazine, August 2011) Stronger, Jesus Walks, Touch the Sky, Gold Digger, Diamonds from Sierra Leone, Hey Mama, Heartless… KANYE WEST drops immortal singles like clocks drop minutes. Just when the world thought he couldn’t get much higher, in 2010 he delivered the album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, home to singles All of the Lights, Monster and Runaway. “Yeezy goes for the grandeur of stadium rock, the all-devouring sonics of hip-hop, the erotic gloss of disco, and he goes for all of it, all the time,” Rolling Stone said of the album. “Ridiculously maximal, blowing past all the rules of hip-hop and pop, even though, for the past half-decade, he’s been the one inventing the rules.” “WEST delivered a...