One of the world's best-selling music artists with 160 million records sold, West has won 24 Grammy Awards, the joint tenth-most of all time and most awarded for any hip hop artist jointly with Jay-Z. Ye ( / j eɪ/ YAY born Kanye Omari West / ˈ k ɑː n j eɪ/ KAHN-yay June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer.
