Kanye West: Road to the BET Awards

The last year has been one of the biggest of Yeezy's career.

Kanye West - Music’s finest have been spied out and about rocking a fly crop of leather tops. From Kanye West to Chris Brown to Kendrick Lamar, these 15 dapper fellas show us how to pull leather off the right way.  Among the first to embrace the fashion-forward style, Mr. West commands the crowd donning leather on top of leather on top of leather. Fresh.    By Metanoya Z. Webb  (photo: Maxppp /Landov)
Soundtrack of 2011 — Watch the Throne - Jay plus Kanye, need we say more? From the first single, "H.A.M.," which added a new phrase to the urban dictionary, the summer banger, “Otis” (and the much-talked about chopped up Maybach in the song’s video), to the album's current chart-topping track “N---as in Paris”, W.T.T. was a true hip hop masterpiece. These heavy weights put everyone on notice that Jigga and Ye are still running this town. (Photo: Courtesy of Roc-A-Fella Records)
The Throne - Jay-Z's and Kanye West's kingly duo is set to rule over the BET Awards with a whopping five nominations: two for Video of the Year (for "Otis" and "Paris"), one for Best Group, one for Best Collaboration (for "Otis"), and one for the Coca-Cola Viewers' Choice Award (for "Otis").(Photo: Kyle Gustafson/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)Jay-Z & Kanye West (The Throne), " N----s in Paris" - Featuring dueling vocal snippets from 'Ye and Jay, the anthemic "N----s in Paris" had the whole world balling so hard and going cray.  (Photo: ROC Nation)

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Kanye West: Road to the BET Awards 2012 - Boom. That's the sound of the big breaking news that Kanye West is performing at the 2012 BET Awards. It's a surprise, yes, but it really shouldn't be. The last year has been one of the biggest of Yeezy's legendary career — celebrating with an amazing performance onstage at the BET Awards is only appropriate. Click on to follow Kanye's road to the 2012 BET Awards.  (Photo: Maxppp/Landov)

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