Rare photo of 9-year old Kanye West..

Kanye's sensitive side could  be seen in never-before-seen pictures of the All Of The Lights hitmaker as a child sitting patiently on the Washington DC Metro with his hands folded and a thoughtful look in his eye.

While Jay-Z dealt drugs and shot his own brother and Snoop Dogg was once charged with being an accessory to murder, Kanye learned to speak Chinese and do Tai Chi when he was ten and grew up in the middle class South Shore area of Chicago.

Although his late mother, Donda, and his father, Ray, divorced when he was three, they remained amicable and Kanye lived with his mother but spent summers with his father.

It was on one such visit that the now 37-year-old rapper met future stepmother Brenda Bentley, who shared this exclusive snap of him aged nine.

She remembers him as a mild mannered boy who wouldn’t dare interrupt his father - let alone an awards ceremony - and always called her 'Miss Brenda.'

She recalls: 'We were on the Metro because we were going to a parade downtown.

'He was with his father, so he knew he had to behave. Ray wasn’t too strict as a dad, and it was summer – so that was playtime.

According to Brenda, Kanye 'broke' when he lost his 'anchor', his mum to a breast reduction surgery.

I can see greatness and sensitivity in his eyes.. he looks adorable