Peep Kanye West’s ‘The School Dropout’ Bear 20-Years Later

Kanye West’s former fiancée has shared a glimpse of the polarizing artist’s inventive course of throughout The School Dropout album period amid the twentieth anniversary of its launch.

In response to Ye’s ex-fiancée, Alexis Phifer, his preliminary sketches of the long-lasting bear had been drafted at her home in 2004 simply earlier than the album dropped. She shared a prolonged Instagram Story not too long ago detailing quite a lot of West’s course of crafting the bear, remarking on how Ralph Lauren completely impressed the bear and that he began drawing the top first.

Phifer claims West was going to throw the sketches away after he faxed them to the report label till she satisfied him to let her “hold the artwork.”

Phifer dated West on and off for years earlier than getting engaged in 2006, solely to name it quits a few yr later. Not solely have the drawings, contemplating she stored the drawings for some 20 years, stood the take a look at of time, very similar to the music, however so has West’s affect.

Kanye’s ex girlfriend Alexis Phifer, simply disclosed that she preserved the unique sketches of Kanye’s iconic ‘dropout bear’ from his debut album “The School Dropout,” which he had supposed to discard.

20 years later, she nonetheless have them ❤️ pic.twitter.com/8YXUYIaYHi

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