Love Lockdown: The Best (And Worst) of Kanye West & Amber Rose
Before things got ugly, they were pretty good together.
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Love Lockdown - Before the epic Twitter beefs, it was all love between Kanye West and Amber Rose. Yes, it’s been six years since they ended their romance, and, let’s be honest, the pettiness has been so real on both sides ever since. But we have to imagine that there were some good times, too! Here’s a look at some of those ups (and a few infamous downs) in their relationship. —Britt Middleton (Photo: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
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Love at First Sight? - ‘Ye and Amber first linked up in 2008 after he saw her in Ludacris’s “What Them Girls Like” music video.(Photo: Julien M. Hekimian/Getty Images)
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Only Got Eyes for You - At that point, he was a rising star in the hip hop world while Muva admittedly was an exotic dancer trying to break through in the entertainment world. “When I told him I was an [exotic] dancer, he was like, ‘I don’t care if you’re a crack head. I don’t care if you’re a prostitute. I just want to be with you.’ That’s what made me love him,” she once told the New York Post. (Photo: George Napolitano/FilmMagic)
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Class Act - Before Kimye ruled the fashion scene, it was Muva and Yeezy. Whether dressed up or casual, their personal style made them ones-to-watch everywhere they went. He proudly had her on his arm at the 2009 Met Gala.(Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)
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Lovers in Paris - Something about the City of Lights that just brings out the love, no? They loved jet setting together, making Paris and the Chanel couture fashion show their kingdom.(Photo: Julien Hekimian/WireImage)
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Can’t Keep My Hands to Myself - Nope, there was no shortage of passion here.That’s likely why things between the two seemed to... escalate so quickly.(Photo: Michel Dufour/WireImage)
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We Outchea - You can’t deny this chemistry! Stylish and with bravado to match, they were poised to take over the world.(Photo: Richard Bord/FilmMagic)
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What Went Wrong? - Perhaps there were some growing pains to contend with? For one, Yeezy has acknowledged that he went through a deep depression after his mother, Donda West, passed away in 2007. Then there was that meme-perfect moment where he upstaged Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards and his self-imposed exodus from the public eye. For a while, though, they seemed pretty good together. (Photo: Ramey Photo/Corbis Images)
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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Calling him “your typical rapper in the industry,” she told the New York Post, “He can’t be faithful, and it’s not just with one person. He’s just unfaithful with a lot of different women. I got to the point where I thought, my heart can’t take it anymore. I don’t deserve this. I don’t care when people say that I owe him my life because I’m famous now. I don’t owe him nothing.”(Photo: WENN)
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What a Tangled Web - After two years together, they decided to break it off in 2010, but it was hardly a clean split. In a now infamous interview with Star magazine, Amber called Kim Kardashian a “homewrecker” and accused her of cheating with Kanye behind her back. (Photo: Agent 47/WENN)
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A United Front? - And it got even messier. "She was sending pictures, and I was like, 'Kim, just stop. Don't be that person,'” she told Star. "I thought at least she'd be woman enough to respond to me. She never responded." You’ll remember that, at the time, Kim was dating NFL running back Reggie Bush, whom Rose was linked to some months later. #Awkward(Photo: RODRIGO & LUIS JR. GUERRA/2009 RAMEY PHOTO/Corbis Images)
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Silver Linings - But when you really think of it, it wasn’t all bad. They each moved on to seemingly happier relationships, with Kanye marrying Kim in May 2014. Amber said “I do” to Wiz Khalifa in July 2013.(Photo: Julien Hekimian/WireImage)