Kanye West Net Worth 2022: Biography, Salary, Income

Kanye West is ranked as the 3rd richest black person in America. His total Net worth is around $6.6 billion. Also, he is one of the most popular American personalities in the world. He is one of the most famous and most popular Singers, Song producers, and Writers in the USA. He is a versatile person who is currently doing plenty of things and reached a total worth of $6.6 billion.

Kanye West was born on 8 June 1977. Kanye West is a perfect example of versatility because he is a Record producer, Songwriter, Film Producer, Rapper, Fashion designer, Music Video Director, Singer, Actor, Businessperson, and Screenwriter.

Kanye West Net Worth

Kanye West is a Singer, Rapper, entrepreneur, and film actor. He is the 3rd richest black American born in the history of the USA. He became famous and got fame with his album named “The College Dropout”. He is now one of the most prestigious and award-winning singers in America who has won 21 Grammys out of 69 nominations.

In recent years, his interest has turned to gain a reputation in the business world. The total income of $100 million earned by Kanye is derived from various endeavors he is doing.

He had a partnership with Adidas and Yeezy brand. Also, he received plenty of royalties from various companies. His major income part is derived from these royalties and Partnerships with brands.

He received a large amount of royalty from the Yeezy brand out of sale which is around $1.5 billion.

This is the royalty from the sale of the northern region and holding the 100% stakes of the Yeezy brand gets around $1 billion from western region sales. Let’s have some key facts about Kanye west for quick information.

Key Facts

• He is one of the richest black American personalities recorded in US history.
• Throughout his career, he has sold more than 140 albums.
• He is the owner of around $100 million in real estate property.
• He is the 100% owner of the Yeezy brand.
• The valuation of Yeezy enterprise adds the total amount of $3-$5 billion to the net worth of Kayne.
• He also had a partnership with The GAP which facilitates the increment of the total net worth of 1$ billion in Kayne’s worth.

Kanye West is one of the richest American personalities with the lowest expense. Let’s have an outlook on the assets and liabilities of Kanye West.

Assets

Kanye West Owns real estate property in America worth $120 million. He had a music catalog named G.O.O.D music which added around $80 million to his worth. He also earns around $100 million in direct income from the official website of Yeezy.com.

The amount of $5 Billion added to the valuation of the Yeezy brand. $1 billion recorded income from the partnership of The GAP. He also had various miscellaneous equity, Cash, and other assets around $400 million. When we sum up all the amounts then we got a Total net worth of $6.7 billion.

Liabilities

The combined liabilities and expenses done by Kayne West are not more than $100 million.

Early Life Net Worth of Kanye West 

The full name of Kanye West is Kayne Omari West. He was born on 8th June 1977 in Atlanta, which is located in Georgia. His parents take divorced when he was just 3 years old.

This changes his life and he has to move to Chicago. After some years, he meet with her mentor named DJ No I.D. He starts learning with him and start experimenting with his mentor.

In the year 1997, he received a scholarship from the American Academy of Arts. Well, he didn’t take this and transferred to Chicago State University. At the age of 20 years, he dropped out of his schooling career and start focusing on his music career.

After leaving college he starts experimenting with music and working for some local artists. During this period he learns his style and starts representing this to make his name.

He got his first credit in the production of the album named “Down to Earth”. He also produce music for other artists during this period named Foxy Brown, Harlem World, and Deric “D-Dot” Angelettie.

Kanye West Music Career

His music career started in the 90s but he got a break in the year 2000 when he start working with one of the most popular producer houses of that time named Roc-A-Fella records.

Under this production house, he worked with Ludacris, Alicia Keys, and Janet Jackson. He also introduced his album named Jay-Z’s in 2001.

His role in this album makes him very popular and on this behalf, he was called on “Call of Talent” with Jay-Z, Beyoncé, John Legend, Alicia Keys, and Janet Jackson. With this event, he becomes a successful music producer and the world start recognizing his work.

He always wants to be a rapper and that’s why he talked to the head of Capitola records to sign a contract with him to join

Roc-A-Fella Records in the year 2001. He faced a serious car accident in the year 2002. His Jaw becomes damaged brutally but he is an inspired person who has recorded the song by the wire which is attached to his jaw.

He announce to release of his debut album “The college dropout” on August 2002 but the album become leaked months before the date of the announcement.

He planned to make a remix version of it and this plan works. With his album, he got 10 nominations for Grammys. This album gives him the fame he wanted to become famous and now he is standing as one of the richest black Americans in US history.

After this event, he started working on his 2nd album which is named Late Registration. He also spent around $2 million on the production and he also books an orchestra for his album.

This album also become famous for selling more than 2.3 million units only in the USA. After that, he released various other albums and reach the height of success in very less time.