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16 Nov, 2003

You Don’t Know My Name

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The artist releases You Don’t Know My Name, featuring West, from The Diary Of Alicia Keys. Keys:

It was the first time that I ever worked with at the time a kind of relatively unknown guy named Kanye West. He was this really excited guy. He had this song out called Through The Wire.He’s always been a super passionate guy.

Alicia Keys - You Don't Know My Name (Official HD Video)

7 Sep, 2005

‘George Bush doesn’t care about black people’

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West goes off the script while speaking at the Hurricane for Relief telethon to say that Bush doesn’t care about black people. Standing next to Mike Myers, West vents his frustrations about Bush’s slow response to the hurricane in New Orleans. He also says that America is slow to help the poor, blacks, and the less well off.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family, it says they’re looting. See a white family, it says they’re looking for food.

George Bush Hates Black People

8 Feb, 2006

Wins Grammy

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West wins the Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance for Gold Digger and Best Rap Album for Late Registration.

10 Nov, 2007

Donda West dies age 58

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West’s mother dies as the result of complications from a cosmetic surgical procedure after liposuction and a breast reduction. After the surgery, West is able to go home and takes Vicodin to help with the pain. The next day, she experiences a sore throat, pain and tightening in her chest, before collapsing in the early evening. A friend at the house calls 911 and West is taken to the hospital, where she is pronounced dead in the emergency room. West dies at 58 years old at the Centinela Freeman hospital. Her doctor:

She was interested in some cosmetic procedures and we had discussed that in order for her to go through with the procedures, which she was a good candidate for, she needed what’s called a medical clearance, which just about anybody over the age of 40 is required to have. Because of Donda’s age, she was required to get some cardiac clearance to make sure her heart is in good shape to go through for the surgery.

Kanye West’s rep:

Kanye West, his family and friends would like to thank everyone for the outpouring of support and kind words that have come in from across the country since the death of his mother

Wins Grammy

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West wins the Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance for Stronger, Best Rap Song for Good Life, and Best Rap Album for Graduation.

11 Sep, 2008

Smashes papparazi cameras

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West and his manager are arrested after violently destroying a paparazzi’s camera at the American Airlines terminal in Los Angeles International Airport.

I’m gonna ask you as a man to leave me alone.

Kanye West Attacks Photographer/Paparazzi

24 Nov, 2008

Releases 808s & Heartbreak

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West releases his fourth studio album, 808s & Heartbreak. An electropop and R&B album, 808s & Heartbreak sounds nothing like his previous works. The album, which West describes as “minimal but functional”, is primarily sung rather than rapped and contains extensive use of the Auto-Tune voice processor. The album features themes of love, loneliness, and heartache.

It’s a little bit of autotune and a whole lot of f*cked up life. This album was therapeutic- its lonely at the top.

Wins Grammy

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Estelle and West wins the Grammy for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for American Boy.

It is a song we wrote for fun and people love it. I can’t complain.

Estelle Talks "American Boy," Kanye West, Grammys

13 Sep, 2009

Interrupts Swift during VMAs

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During the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, West interrupts Swift’s speech. Swift, who wins the award for Best Female Video (You Belong With Me), is beginning her acceptance speech when West storms the stage and takes the microphone from her.

Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you, I’ll let you finish, but Beyoncé has one of the best videos of all time. One of the best videos of all time!

West is referring to Beyonce’s video for Single Ladies. Swift:

I was standing onstage, and I was really excited because I’d just won the award, and then I was really excited because Kanye West was onstage. And then I wasn’t excited anymore after that.

Taylor Swift: Kanye West: VMA Awards 2009 - Imma Let You Finish

15 Sep, 2009

Apologizes to Swift

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West calls Swift and apologizes for interrupting her speech at the MTV Video Music Awards.

Kanye did call me and he was very sincere in his apology. And I accepted that apology

23 Oct, 2009

Gets community service

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West and road manager, Don Crowley, must complete 50 hours of community service for the American Red Cross in exchange for the dismissal of charges stemming from the paparazzi Los Angeles airport camera attack. West’s lawyer, Blair Berk:

I am very pleased the court granted dismissal of all charges.

31 Jan, 2010

Wins Grammy

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indexJay-Z, West, and Rihanna wins the Grammy for Best Rap-Sung Collaboration and Best Rap Song for Run This Town.

10 Nov, 2010

Apologizes to Bush

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In an interview with Lauer on The Today Show, West apologizes to Bush for saying he doesn’t care about black people

I would tell George Bush in my moment of frustration, I didn’t have the grounds to call him a racist. I believe that in a situation of high emotion like that we as human beings don’t always choose the right words.

Kanye West Today Show Interview Matt Lauer George Bush Video FULL!