Kanye West is trending worldwide after announcing his plans to run for president this election year. The moment took over Twitter and threw some of their fans into a state of confusion. Are you kidding? Are you serious? Kim Kardashian West as the first lady?
While memes and conspiracy theories are in full swing on social media, so is the digging mission for details of West’s past.
Some people went back to his childhood and mentioned that he lived in China. We won’t rule out Internet thoughts about a conspiracy connection, but there were more than a couple about its “ties” to China. But it is simple.
Kanye West is a Chicago native
As most West fans know, he was born in Atlanta but raised in Chicago. After West’s parents divorced when he was three years old, he and his mother, Donda West, moved to Windy City.
As a young child, West’s mother was an English teacher at Chicago State University and eventually ended up attending school as an English student.
Before that, he and his mother embarked on an adventure in China, and that fact is coming up again in the midst of their presidential statement.
Kanye West used to live in China as a child
As news of Kanye West’s alleged presidential offer spread across the globe, some social media users on Twitter and Weibo mentioned their old link to China. When West was 10 years old, his mother accepted a teaching position in Nanjing, China, as a Fulbright scholar, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Radii published excerpts from an old 2008 interview between West and writer Jake Newby, and the rapper / businessman spoke fondly of his time in the country.
This was captured after her mother passed away in 2007.
China was a time when my mother and I spent most of our time together, we spent a year together and she used to educate me at home. I was in school and I wasn’t doing as well, but it was actually because I was bored and after she homeschooled me, I did so well on the exams that they put me two grades higher in many different courses.
We really connected there, so it’s probably very emotional for me to go back to China. As soon as, you know, feel the energy and hit the ground and see familiar sights of your childhood and familiar smells, which is the most memorable sense of all, it will take me back to fifth grade with my mother. .
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West once said that living there made him feel like a celebrity
West’s old classmates were amused to discover that years later he became a hip-hop star in the United States. Many remembered him as kind and a little shy.
But West found that the experience was a good preparation for his life in public view. According to Thatsmags, he said:
“I think being in China prepared me to be a celebrity because, at that time, many Chinese had never seen a black person. They always came and they also looked at me, they fought me and everything. And that’s the way it is for me right now. “
Now he is going viral in the country because of the presidential candidacy, and some users of social networks call him Nanjing’s son. Meanwhile, others wonder if West is serious about his effort or if it’s a promotion for his next album.
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