But this isn’t the first time that ‘Ye has tried to overcome his profound loss. Ten years after his mother died, Kanye was joined by his wife, Kim Kardashian, and their two kids at the time, to visit his mother’s grave in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. A source says it’s the first time the rapper’s children, North and Saint, visited their grandmother.
Kanye West is doing it for his family. The Life of Pablo rapper remains took his wife Kim Kardashian West, as well as the couple’s two children, 3-year-old North and 13-month-old Saint, to visit the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, grave of his mother, Donda West, who died in 2007, a source tells ET.
Donda West, the mother and onetime manager of rapper Kanye West, died Saturday in Los Angeles. BBC News quotes her publicist as saying she passed away “as the result of complications from a cosmetic surgical procedure,” but gave no more details. West’s spokesman said the family “asks for privacy during this time of grief.”
Born in Georgia, Kanye is the only child of Donda and Ray West, a photojournalist and Black Panther. The couple split when their son was 11 months old, and Donda and Kanye moved to Chicago, where she later began dating Blakely.
Just as Kris Jenner is to Kim Kardashian, Donda West was Kanye’s momager at the time of her death. She previously worked on the faculty of the English Department of Chicago State University.
FilmMagic As a child, Kanye West went weeks speaking in haiku and his watercolors were so professional you could hang them on a wall, said Ulysses Blakely, who dated the rapper’s mom, Dr. Donda West, for years. “This child was plainly and self-evidently extraordinary,” Blakely, who helped raise the rapper into his late teen years, told The Post.
Where is Kanye’s mother buried?
Ten years after his mother died, Kanye was joined by his wife, Kim Kardashian, and their two kids at the time, to visit his mother’s grave in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
West released a song dedicated to his mother last summer. Also titled “Donda,” the track featured the footage of West and his mother that has reemerged on social media Tuesday.
Kanye wasn’t able to visit Donda’s grave during her burial anniversary because he was on tour, and then his health spiraled. He canceled a Los Angeles concert on November 20 before nixing the remainder of his Saint Pablo tour and going to the hospital the following day.
Reportedly Kanye, suffered from a mental breakdown that his team called a “temporary psychosis due to sleep deprivation and dehydration.” It has been reported that the anniversary of his mother’s death was in part what triggered his mental breakdown, which left him hospitalized for more than a week.
In another clip, shared by user Sir Alexander Swain, shows the mother and son rapping along to West’s 2005 song “Hey Mama.”
A source said that after two months of being admitted into the UCLA Medical Center, Kanye is doing much better. Kanye is “living at home with the kids. He spends his days with the kids, and plays with them all day long.”
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