Kanye West Mother is Dead

Kanye West’s mother, Dr Donda West (58), died Saturday after a cosmetic surgical procedure, her publicist Patricia Green said. There is no word yet on what the procedure was, but people who have too much fat removed during liposuction have gone into hypovolemic shock and died, so … Kanye’s rep issued this statement: "The family respectfully asks for privacy during this time of grief." Kanye was in London when he was told. He is on his way back to the U.S.

Dr Donda West, managed the Kanye’s businesses and educational foundation, and she was the subject of his song Hey Mama. In Hey Mama, on West’s 2005 album Late Registration, he sang: "Hey Mama, I wanna scream so loud for you, cuz I’m so proud of you. I appreciate what you allowed for me, I just want you to be proud of me." Kaney’s non-profit organisation aims to improve literacy and stop people dropping from out of school. In May, she published the book Raising Kanye: Life Lessons from the Mother of a Hip-Hop Star, in which she paid homage to her famous son.

It’s really sad Donda died this way. She sounds like she was already a beautiful person inside and out.