Kanye West Trivia Quiz Questions with Answers
What is Kanye West's birth name?
A: Kanye Omari West.
What is the name of Kanye's third studio
album?
A: Graduation.
When was Kanye West born?
A: June 8, 1977.
Where was Kanye West born?
A: Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Kanye's parents divorced when he was how old?
A: Three.
Who is Kanye's father?
A: His father is Ray West, a former Black Panther.
Who is Kanye's mother?
A: West's mother is Dr. Donda C. West, the Chair of the English Department at
Chicago State University.
Kanye was raised in a middle-class background, and attended
what High School in suburban Oak Lawn, Illinois?
A: Polaris.
What age was Kanye when he moved with his mother to
Nanjing, China?
A: 10.
How old was Kanye when he began writing poetry?
A: 5.
Yeezus, West's sixth album, was became the rapper's sixth
consecutive what?
A: Number one debut.
What did Kanye's mother, Donda West, die of?
A: Complications from cosmetic surgery.
Kanye's mother said she first noticed West's passion for
drawing and music when he was in what grade?
A: The third grade.
What grade was Kanye in when he started rapping?
A: The third grade.
What grade was Kanye in when he began making musical
compositions?
A: The seventh grade.
At what age did Kanye write a rap song called "Green Eggs
and Ham"?
A: At age thirteen.
West invested how much money and took over a year to
produce his second album?
A: Two million dollars.
After high school, Kanye received a scholarship to what
school?
A: Chicago's American Academy of Art.
At the age of 20 Kanye decided to drop out of college to
pursue what?
A: His musical dreams.
Kanye West's first official production credits came when he
produced eight tracks on what album?
A: Down to Earth, the 1996 debut album of a Chicago rapper named Grav.
West spent much of the late-1990s doing what for a number
of well-known artists and music groups?
A: Producing records.
West got his big break in what year, when he began to
produce for artists on Roc-A-Fella Records?
A: The year 2000.
Successful as a producer, West's real ambition was to be a
what?
A: Rapper.
Multiple record companies ignored West because he did not
portray what type of image?
A: The gangsta image prominent in mainstream
hip hop at the time.
On October 23, 2002, Kanye fell asleep at the wheel and was
involved in a near-fatal what?
A: Car crash.
Kanye's 2002 car crash left him with a shattered jaw, which
had to be what?
A: Wired shut in reconstructive surgery.
When was the album, The College Dropout, eventually issued
by Roc-A-Fella?
A: In February 2004.
Kayne's album, College Dropout, was voted the what by two
major music publications?
A: Top album of the year.
"Jesus Walks", the album's fourth single, reached what on
the Billboard pop charts?
A: The top 20.
What did Kanye West hire for his second album Late
Registration?
A: A string orchestra.
By the end of 2005, how many Late Registration albums had
been sold in the U.S.?
A: Over 2.3 million.
Kanye West raised a lot of controversy in when he posed on
the cover of Rolling Stone wearing a what?
A: Crown of thorns.
When was "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy", Kanye's fifth
studio album, released?
A: In November 2010.
Kanye released the collaborative album Watch the Throne
with what artist?
A: Jay-Z.