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Today is Father's Day—the very first that Kanye West celebrates with his daughter.
Kim Kardashian, his longtime girlfriend, gave birth yesterday in Los Angeles to a baby girl. It's been a long time coming. (Just about nine months, we bet!) The pregnancy—the couples's relationship in general, really—has taken much of the media spotlight for the past few months.
Kanye's sixth solo album, Yeezus, leaked on Friday—five days before its anticipated release date of June 18. This is his first child.
Kim and Kanye go way back—from his appearances on her E! shows Keeping Up With The Kardashians and Kourtney & Kim Take Miami, to their recent public appearances together, like at this year's Met Gala.
Here is a Brief History of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian's relationship.
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Kanye's Lyrics on 88 Keys' "Stay Up! (Viagra)"
Date: September 2008Lyric: “Try imagining/Something passionate/Between you, Cassie, and Kim Kardashian/Maybe that’ll work when you get to hit that ass again/Or you can grab a Red Bull and sip that twice/Now y’all can have sexy time, it’s nice!”
Kanye gives a flaccid friend some solid advice. The first of many Kardashian references in his music.
Kim's Appearance on Kanye's Puppet Show "Alligator Boots"
Date: 2008
Kanye West and Rhymefest once had a hip-hop puppet show called Alligator Boots in the works, and in the show's pilot episode (which was cancelled by Comedy Central before it's first episode), Kim Kardashian stars as Princess Leia.
In the clip, Kim K ditches Storm Trooper Kanye for a puppet named Beary White.
Kim and Kanye Both Appeared on April/May 2009 Complex Cover
Date: 2009
Kanye covered one side of Complex's April/May 2009 cover where he gave an in depth history of the making of the "Air Yeezy," and spoke on public perception, insecurities, and the "Kanye West brand." Kim Kardashian graced the opposite cover—where she revisited her past cover stories, and her new fame, at the time. Kim first posed on Complex's cover in 2007—and it was her magazine cover, ever.
Kanye's Lyrics on Keri Hilson's "Knock You Down"
Date: April 2009Lyric: "You was always the cheerleader of my dreams/And seemed to only date the head of football teams/And I was the class clown that always kept you laughing/We were never meant to be, baby we just happened."
On Keri Hilson's chart-topping hit "Knock You Down," Kanye's verse had a few lines about a certain "cheerleader of his dreams." Three years later, it seems pretty likely that he was talking Kim, who was dating Miami Dolphins running back Reggie Bush at the time.
Kayne's Lyrics on Jamie Foxx's "Digital Girl (Remix)"
Date: July 2009Lyric: “Your body make a baller spend cooked coke cash/Plus every good girl wanna go bad/In Playboy mags like Stacey Dash/Or Kim Kardashian, be a lady at... it.”
Kanye's verse on Jamie Foxx's "Digital Girl" remix with Drake and The-Dream has a few standout lines that may reference Kim—he's talking about sending nude photos, then about good girls going bad—like Stacey Dash who posed for Playboy at 40. Finally, 'Ye shouts out Kim K for being "a lady" about it.
Kim's "Jam (Turn It Up)" Video Shoot
Date: December 2010
Kim began working with The-Dream on a track called "Jam (Turn It Up)" in fall 2010 as part of a charity effort where half of the proceeds from the sales would be donated to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. The track was released to iTunes on March 2, 2011, but for months rumors circulated that Kanye would be featured in the video.
While it was never released to the public, the two did film a pretty steamy music video together, directed by Hype Williams—Kim released photos of the shoot a month later. "He's a musical genius, so I would be honored to work with Kanye," she told MTV News at the time.
"Kicking It With Kanye" Kourtney & Kim Take New York Episode
Date: January 2011
Around the time Kim was shooting the video for her single, "Jam (Turn It Up)," Kanye appeared on an episode of Kourtney & Kim Take New York. While Kourtney and Kim were shopping for the new location of their store, DASH, Kanye rolled through because the girls "respect his fashion taste and style."
Kanye's Lyrics on "Cold"
Date: April 2012Lyric: “And I’ll admit, I fell in love with Kim/‘Round the same time she had fell in love with him/Well, that’s cool, baby girl, do ya thing/Lucky I ain’t have Jay drop him from the team.”
"Cold" (formerly "Theraflu" and "Way Too Cold) was Kanye's official announcement that he is in love with Kim K. It all starts with "Tell PETA my mink is draggin' on the floor," which is just weeks after Kim was flourbombed on the red carpet for wearing fur.
Ye kicks it off with talking about how he has respect for Wiz Khalifa, and finishes with declaring his love for Kim and ethering her ex-Kris Humphries.
Kim Hears "Cold" on Keeping Up With The Kardashians Episode
Date: Aired July 2012
If it wasn't for Rob Kardashian, Kim may have never heard "Cold." Just kidding. "Yeah I've heard it, so what?" Kim snapped back at him. We were able to see Kim's reaction to hearing the song that sparked the public start of their relationship.
Kanye's "White Dress" Song
Date: October 2012
Snippets of Kanye's "White Dress" were floating around the Web last Fall but the track, off RZA's soundtrack for The Man With The Iron Fists, was released in full in October. The entire track is a semi-proposal to Kim K—it also fits right in with a Lucy Liu scene in the movie—but it's undeniably about the love of his life.
Kanye's "Perfect B***h" Song
Date: August 2012
Last summer, Kanye went to a party at the PH-D Rooftop Lounge in New York City and pulled out his laptop to play new tracks. According to sources, West played music for 45 minutes including a song about finding the “perfect bitch.” He rapped “verses about his search for the perfect woman and how he has now found the ‘perfect bitch,'" sources said.
Kanye confirmed on Twitter that "Perfect Bitch" was about Kim but the track was never made available:
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Kanye Cleans Out Kim's Closet on Keeping Up With The Kardashians
Date: August 2012
Kanye brought his stylist, Renelou Padora, to Kim's house to clean out her closet on an episode of last season's Keeping Up With The Kardashians. "I think it's so ironic that I'm always giving my friends their closet makeovers, so for the roles to be reversed, it's like, oh my god," Kim said.
Their Pregnancy Announcement During Performance at Revel
Date: December 31, 2012
Kim and Kanye had been together for over a year when Kanye announced that they were expecting their first child together. He did it onstage, at a show at Atlantic City's Revel nightclub, going from singing about loving someone to "Runaway" to announcing Kim K is expecting his first child. "Now you're having my baby, and it means so much to me," he said—all in Autotune.
Kanye Performs "Awesome" at Met Gala
Date: May 6, 2013
The full HD video of Kanye West performing at the 2013 Met Gala in New York City has still not been released but thanks to the Vines of various models, we heard a snippet of his new music.
Teresa Palmer recorded the first snippet of Kanye's new song, reportedly named "Awesome," and it sounds like he's singing, "I got a hope, I got a chance, cause baby you're awesome:"
Coco Rocha recorded another portion of Kanye's performance with the caption "Kanye telling Kim not to worry what anyone says that she's awesome. Quite touching really," but has since taken it down.
Kim Reveals They're Expecting a Girl on Keeping Up With The Kardashians
Date: June 2, 2013
On the season premiere of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Kim revealed that she and Kanye are expecting a baby girl. "I’m so excited we’re having a girl," Kim said. "Who doesn’t want a girl? They’re the best and I know that’s really what Kanye has always wanted. He wanted a little girl."