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cont’d<br />
relief and his interruption of singer Taylor<br />
Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.<br />
West’s efforts as a fashion designer include<br />
collaborations with Nike, Louis Vuitton, and<br />
A.P.C. on both clothing and footwear, and<br />
have most prominently resulted in the YEEZY<br />
collaboration with Adidas beginning in 2013.<br />
He is the founder and head of the creative<br />
content company DONDA. His 2014 marriage<br />
to television personality Kim Kardashian<br />
has also been subject to widespread media<br />
coverage.<br />
West is among the most acclaimed musicians<br />
of the 21st century, and is one of the bestselling<br />
artists of all time, having sold more<br />
than 32 million albums and 100 million digital<br />
downloads worldwide. He has won a total of<br />
21 Grammy Awards, making him one of the<br />
most awarded artists of all time and the most<br />
Grammy-awarded artist to have debuted in<br />
the 21st century. Three of his albums have<br />
been included and ranked on Rolling Stone’s<br />
2012 update of the “500 Greatest Albums of<br />
All Time” list. He has also been included in a<br />
number of Forbes annual lists. Time named<br />
him one of the 100 most influential people in<br />
the world in 2005 and 2015.<br />
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