Donda West, mother of Kanye West and former English professor and chairwoman of Chicago State University’s English department, has died on Saturday night in Los Angeles at the age of 58, a spokesman for the rapper said.
“The family respectfully asks for privacy during this time of grief,” the spokesman added.
A cause of death has not been released.
It was known that Kanye and his mother, Donda West, share a strong bond. Kanye West, 30, often spoke of his close relationship with his single parent mother, who raised him alone after her husband left when Kanye was only 3. She was the inspiration for the song, “Hey Mama,” on Kanye West’s 2005 album “Late Registration
In May, she published the book “Raising Kanye: Life Lessons from the Mother of a Hip-Hop Superstar
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