Kanye West paid his respects during his hometown show in Chicago
earlier in the week. Taking the stage at the United Center on the second night
on his sold-out Watch the
Throne concert with Jay-Z, the seven-time Grammy
nominee dedicated his performance to the woman who raised him and thanked Jay
and Beyoncé for supporting him during his “darkest hours.”
“It’s a glorious occasion,” said ‘Ye. “But right now
I want ya’ll to put two fingers in the air right
now. I wanna dedicate
this show to the lady that brought me to Chicago at age three, the
first black female chair of the English department at Chicago State University,
Dr. Donda Claire Ann West. I know she up there looking down right now and she
helped me get through these past four years, when America turned
they back on me, when the world turned they back on me for tellin’ ya’ll the
motherfuckin’ truth.”
He continued, “And now I’m leading the Grammy
nominations. And I just wanna thank Beyoncé and Jay-Z for standing by me in my darkest hours and you,
Chicago, for standing by me in my darkest hour and giving me
reason to feel like I should stay alive when the world thought I should die and
staying by my side.”
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