Dropout Bear

Dropout Bear (also known as the Kanye Bear, and Graduation Bear) is 21-time Grammy Award winning American rapper and record producer Ye's (formerly known as Kanye West) mascot. Dropout Bear is used in his albums The College Dropout and Late Registration. West wears the bear's head and arms in the artwork cover for The College Dropout, while for the cover of Graduation—the Dropout Bear was transformed into an animated character by the works of Japanese artist Takashi Murakami.

History

Dropout Bear first appeared on Kanye's debut album The College Dropout, which shows Kanye wearing a costume of the bear while sitting on a set of gym bleachers. It soon became his trademark as it received a large amount of positive public response. The original bear was just a college mascot but soon transformed into a smaller but still anthropomorphic bear that represented Kanye, and is featured on the cover of Late Registration. Dropout Bear transformed into an animated character on the album cover of Graduation, which would mark its last appearance and not appear in any of Kanye's following albums.

The Dropout Bear can also be seen on the cover for the 2006 live album, Late Orchestration, which shows the bear walking down Abbey Road, London, as a parody of the Beatles album, Abbey Road.

On Graduation he was a fully animated character as he was in the 2008 music video Good Morning. Released on August 25, 2008. Soon the animated bear became the official brand logo on clothes in Kanye West's online store.

Good Morning Music Video

West's music video entitled Good Morning featured Dropout Bear in a cartoon/realistic hybrid animation style. The characters featured in the video have anthropomorphic features and live in a world parallel to the human world where animals are the humans. The buildings all have names of Kanye West Songs on them like "Stronger". The theme of the video is Dropout Bear rushing to his college graduation dealing with car troubles, waiting too long in the line for the bus, being ignored by a taxicab, and missing the train. He finally makes it to graduation and receives his diploma in front of his class. This is the first of Kanye West's music videos that features an anthropomorphic character as the protagonist.

KIDS SEE GHOSTS Animated Series

Dropout Bear comes back after 10 years as an animated character in the KSG animated series with Kid Cudi's mascot Kid Fox. Whilst not much is known about the series, all we know is that it is inspired by 808 And Heartbreaks. We will know more when it will come out soon as said by the trailer the show got cancelled because Cudi was friends with Pete Davidson who was the boyfriend of Kim Kardashian .