The protagonist of today's story is a middle-aged American man named Kanye West.
Maybe this name is very unfamiliar to many Chinese people.
It doesn't matter if you're not familiar with it, because this American has another jianghu title that is often on the hot search:
Kanye
If you want to list the titles like the Dragon Mother in "Game of Thrones", it is estimated that Kanye will not necessarily lose to the Dragon Mother.
Defender of the honor of hip-hop in the United States
Since his debut, the top awards such as the Grammy Awards, the Billboard Music Awards, and the World Music Awards have been thrown up by Kanye.
The only presidential candidate in the American entertainment industry
In 2020, Kanye announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States, thus breaking with the previous "love bean" Trump.
Although Kanye's presidential campaign this time is a sloppy one, he has become the only presidential candidate among the top entertainment figures in the United States in history. (When Donald Reagan ran for president, he was just a second-tier actor in Hollywood, not a top performer.)
Challenger of Nike's hegemony
Kanye founded Yeezy, a sports brand with Nike a few years ago, and later turned against him, Kanye ran away with his own brand, claiming to destroy Nike and complete the anti-monopoly hegemony.
Guardian of Billions of Dollars in North America
Forbes once released a data that said kanye is the richest hip-hop singer in North America, with a net worth of $1.3 billion and an annual income of $150 million.
This data infuriated Kanye: labor and management are so much money? Isn't that looking down on me? My family's savings are $3.3 billion, not $1.3 billion!
The guide of the global internet celebrity CP
Who is the most influential couple CP in the United States?
It is estimated that it is Kanye and his famous wife: Kim Kardashian.
Kardashian became famous earlier than Kanye, and was on the Forbes Global Celebrity List very early, and she came from the kardashian giants of the most famous celebrity family in the United States.
It is no exaggeration to say that Kanye and Kardashian are simply the traffic owners of the American gossip media editor who completed the KPI assessment, and every day the American hot search provides a steady stream of Internet celebrity topics.
If you put the above titles together, it is estimated that you will not see what it has to do with China.
But life is just that:
This hip-hop singer, billionaire, business magnate, and Internet celebrity godfather with exaggerated words and deeds is a chinese fan!
On July 4, 2020, the National Day of the United States, Kanye announced that he would participate in the presidential campaign to challenge Trump.
Immediately someone asked online: As a U.S. presidential candidate, how do you see China?
Kanye responded on his personal social media account as follows:
"I love China, I love China, I love China. This country has changed my life, changed my mind and made my horizons so broad. ”
Kanye also made "I love China" a warm trifecta to express his position and emotions.
What is even more unexpected is that there were many erroneous remarks in the United States at that time that linked the epidemic to China, and it is reasonable to say that people in the entertainment industry will hardly touch these topics.
However, Kanye is Kanye after all, and he has no scruples to publicly express his anger on the Internet and refute these erroneous views:
"The epidemic is not the fault of any country, the Chinese people are not wrong, China is not wrong!"
It is estimated that even our Chinese ourselves are difficult to understand:
Why would an American hip-hop singer who is out of words and deeds and uninhibited express such fiery emotions about a culture-advocating stable and restrained China?
To get to the bottom of the story, our story goes back 34 years.
In 1987, Chicago State University's Head of English Department, Tangda West, brought a 10-year-old black child to Nanjing, China.
Donda West was Kanye's mother, and this black child was the future Kanye.
At that time, Kanye's mother came to participate in the Sino-US cultural exchange project and worked as a foreign teacher at Nanjing University.
Due to the divorce of his parents, Kanye followed his mother to China and studied at The Confucius Temple Primary School in Nanjing.
In the 80s, Chinese rarely saw foreigners, let alone black foreigners, and even many classmates touched Kanye's face, thinking that it was not coated with a layer of black paint.
More than 30 years later, on a television interview program that was broadcast live to a nationwide audience, the sharp-tongued host asked a question bluntly:
"How did you feel in China back then?"
Kanye replied almost without hesitation:
"It's amazing, I felt something outside of the United States for the first time, and I changed a lot and even learned Mandarin."
Kanye even declared that if I was elected president, I would move NBA games to Nanjing.
In November 2008, Kanye gave a solo concert in Beijing.
Before the singing began, he specially issued a search announcement, hoping to invite his classmates at Confucius Temple Primary School to listen to his concert.
Perhaps in the future, Kanye's resume will add two titles:
The first Rapper of Jinling City in the East
Notable alumni of Stone City Confucius Temple Primary School