"Come on now! How could you be me and want to be someone else?" That is what Kanye West said in an Aug 2005 interview with The Guardian. This week the controversial artiste was awarded an honorary degree by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This beats logic especially since he is a controversial figure who also happened to have dropped out of college. How did he manage to do this?
The institution defended the award saying Kanye got it for his "transformative, genre-defying work". Some of Kanye West's famous stunts include saying that Taylor Swift didn't deserve to win the best video award at the 2009 MTV Music Video Awards.
This is not to say that he came from a less fortunate background. His mother was a university professor and he got to spend some of his early life in China. To celebrate him, his wife Kim Kardashian posted a congratulatory message on her social media:
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