KANYE WEST'S MOTHER DONDA WEST DIES

Donda West, the mother and onetime manager of rapper Kanye West, died Saturday in Los Angeles.
A spokesperson for the family had no other details at this time.
West, 58, a retired professor and former chairwoman of the Chicago State University English department, was a tireless supporter of her son as he both earned success and stirred up controversy.
"Kanye likes to think as a hobby and speak his own mind. He was always like that," Donda West told InStyle earlier this year. "He came out of the womb looking like he had that attitude."
As CEO of West Brands LLC and co-founder of the Kanye West Foundation, she teamed with her son to develop a nonprofit that aimed to combat the dropout problem in high schools in 2005. In May, she released the book Raising Kanye: Life Lessons from the Mother of a Hip-Hop Superstar.
Donda West raised her son as a single mother in the Chicago neighborhood of South Shore after divorcing his father Ray, a former Black Panther, when Kanye was 3.

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Kanye and Fam have my sincere sympathy at this time.

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The mother of hip-hop mogul Kanye West died following a "cosmetic procedure" in Los Angeles this weekend, her publicist told CNN Monday.
But Patricia Green, the publicist for Dr. Donda West, did not give details about the procedure or exactly what the cause of death was.