When Kanye West called himself the next Steve Jobs— on track to revolutionize "downtown, fashion, culture" and lead a company "worth billions of dollars"— no one was surprised.
The musical superstar has earned a reputation for having the biggest ego in the world.
It's not entirely undeserved either.
His fiercely anticipated album "Yeezus"leaked a few days early and is already getting great reviews.
How did we get to this point?
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Kanye Omari West was born in Atlanta, Georgia on June 8, 1977. His parents — Ray, an award-winning photographer and church counselor, and Donda, an English professor — divorced when he was three.
Donda raised Kanye on Chicago's South Side. She said her greatest parenting challenge was learning how to discipline him without killing his spirit.
"My parents required every one of us not just to do our best, but to be the best," Donda wrote in her memoir, "Raising Kanye: Life Lessons from the Mother of a Hip-Hop Superstar.""If you don't set that bar high, you can't expect your children to excel."
Growing up, he spent summers with his father. "He taught me how to think, how to use my mind," Kanye said. "A lot of parents say, 'Because I said so.' But he allowed me to ask questions."
The quote comes from this Teen Diaries TV clip.
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