“They make us hate ourself and love they wealth,” he raps on All Falls Down, a track in which he criticizes the unbridled consumerism of African Americans in the US. That first album not only earned West industry recognition in the shape of a Grammy, but also reflected the spirit in which his mother Donda had raised him, with values such as self-improvement and being a positive example for African-Americans. I wanted to open my window and scream to everybody walking by, ‘Hey, this is my kid!’” I sat there, listening halfway holding back tears – halfway jamming. “I sat in the parking lot and listened to the whole CD.
In it, she recounts the excitement she felt upon hearing her only son’s debut album, The College Dropout. She was often seen with him at events and wrote a book just five months before her death: Raising Kanye: Life Lessons from the Mother of a Hip-Hop Superstar. The tragedy prompted California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to tighten cosmetic surgery laws with the Donda West Act, which requires that all cosmetic surgery patients receive prior medical clearance following a physical examination.Ī professor at Chicago State University’s English department, Donda West left her teaching job to act as “momager” for her son. According to People magazine, the subsequent autopsy concluded that the death was due to heart failure as a result of multiple postoperative factors. “She would still be alive if I had never moved to Los Angeles,” West would say later, expressing his feeling of guilt in an interview with Q Magazine. “I want to forget and stop hating,” he wrote in a message he posted on Twitter.Īfter undergoing liposuction and a breast reduction, Donda, then 58, left the operating room apparently in good health, but died at home the next day. Several years have passed since West, 44, announced in an unorthodox fashion that this latest work would be dedicated to his mother he did so by sharing a text conversation with a friend along with a photo of the plastic surgeon who operated on her the day before her death. But just hours after it hit streaming services on Sunday, the artist complained on social media that Universal Music Group had released it without his approval. His first long-awaited release since 2019, Donda is not just the rapper’s post-pandemic comeback, but also a love song to his mom who died in November 2007. Rapper Kanye West had never made a secret of his devotion to his late mother, Donda West, and has now named his 10th studio album after her. Kanye West and his mother Donda West in May 2007, months before she died.
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