Kanye West was born on June 8, 1977, in Atlanta, Georgia. He moved to Chicago, Illinois, with his mother after his parents divorced when he was three years old. West grew up in a middle-class family in Oak Lawn, Illinois, and attended Polaris School for Individual Education after growing up in Chicago.
When West was ten years old, he moved to Nanjing, China, with his mother, who was a Fulbright Scholar teaching at Nanjing University. According to his mother, West was the only foreigner in his class, but he fit in well and quickly picked up the language, though he has since forgotten most of it.
Where did Kanye West go to college and high school? Did Kanye West go to film school?
West attended Polaris High School and Chicago State University for one year of art school. He later went to Chicago State University.
West showed an early interest in the arts, beginning to write poetry when he was five years old. West began rapping in third grade and writing musical compositions in seventh grade, eventually selling them to other artists.
West received a scholarship to Chicago’s American Academy of Art after graduating from high school in 1997 and began taking painting classes. Soon after, he transferred to Chicago State University to study English.
