“The risk for me would be in not taking one - that's the only thing that's really risky for me.” That is what rapper Kanye West said about taking risks to become the man he is today. Kanye West is a rapper, producer, and songwriter that won many awards for his art, including 2 Grammys and an American Music Award. My essay is about the risks he took to become the artist he is today. 26 years ago, Kanye decided to drop out of college to become a full-time rapper, producer, and songwriter. He decided that college was interfering with his music career so he decided to drop out so he could devote his time to creating music. In 1997, Kanye decided to devote his time to his music and dropped out of college. Text evidence that shows that he dropped out to devote his time to music is “Ye decided to drop out of college to pursue a musical career, which as we know worked out very well for him.” This tells us how Kanye dropped out of college to devote his time to becoming a full-time musician. …show more content…
Text evidence to support that he was in the music industry as a producer before he dropped out is “Before he released The College Dropout, Kanye was the industry's go-to producer, incorporating classic soul samples into the work of artists like JAY-Z and Alicia Keys that would come to define the sound of Roc-A-Fella Records.” This tells us how Kanye was already an up-and-coming producer before dropping out and how he worked for other artists as a