11. He Knows How to Persevere
Back when he was just a struggling rap star, Kanye West got into a terrible car accident that saw his jaw wired shut (wait, that’s not the joke, yet). It was from his hospital bed, on a diet of liquids, that the future hip-hop messiah wrote his first hit single, “Through the Wire.” It’s a real success story, even if it is mildly ironic that Kanye’s (ahem) lack of inhibitions sprung from a time when he was physically unable to speak.
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