{"id":24262,"date":"2019-05-24T12:45:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T18:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1044308"},"modified":"2019-05-24T12:45:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T18:45:55","slug":"kanye-west-believes-late-mother-donda-is-still-here-guiding-his-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/kanye-west-believes-late-mother-donda-is-still-here-guiding-his-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West Believes Late Mother Donda Is Still Here &#8220;Guiding&#8221; His Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.763636363636\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2014329\/rs_634x1024-140429125701-634.Kanye-West-Donda-West.ms.042914.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Kanye West, Donda West\" alt=\"Kanye West, Donda West\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Brian Ach\/WireImage.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"20.770186335404\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kanye_west\">Kanye West<\/a><\/strong> carries the memory of his mom each and every day.<\/p>\n<p>Close to 12 years after former university professor <strong>Donda West<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/56720\/kanye-s-mama-dies-after-plastic-surgery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passed away<\/a> at age 53, her son is sharing fond memories and making it clear that her presence is still felt. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This would have been the funnest time of her life to have those kids running around that house and being able to like go and buy them toys,&#8221; Kanye shared in a new clip from <em>My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the footage first shared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kim_kardashian\">Kim Kardashian<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KimKardashian\/status\/1131964569050501120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">page<\/a>, the Grammy winner also shared a special toy Donda&nbsp;purchased that made quite an impact.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember my mother bought me a bear that was multicolored and I was very into Takashi Murakami at that time on that third album, <em>Graduation<\/em>. So she bought it,&#8221; he shared with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/david_letterman\">David Letterman<\/a><\/strong>. &#8220;She said it kind of feels like Takashi Murakami and then I was sort of like I don&#8217;t want that. That ain&#8217;t no Takashi Murakami bear and stuff like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4\">\n<p>Kanye added, &#8220;And then she passed a few weeks after and I did everything I could to find that bear and place that bear on top of all the Takashi Murakami stuff I had in the house.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"socialcontent-twitter-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-type=\"async\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"43.272251308901\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"5.3141361256544\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Kanye opens up to David Letterman like you\u2019ve never seen him on My Next Guest, streaming on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/netflix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Netflix<\/a> May 31. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/44HG9skLXV\">pic.twitter.com\/44HG9skLXV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KimKardashian\/status\/1131964569050501120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58.392287234043\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"12.343085106383\">\n<p>In the final moments, the rapper reiterated just how much Donda impacts his life today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, she&#8217;s here with us and she&#8217;s guiding us,&#8221; Kanye shared.<\/p>\n<p>The proud father of four rarely speaks out about his mom&#8217;s death. In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/670934\/kanye-west-talks-about-mother-donda-west-s-death-in-q-interview-if-i-had-never-moved-to-l-a-she-d-be-alive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">during an interview<\/a> with U.K. music magazine <em>Q<\/em> in 2015, he said he didn&#8217;t want to discuss her passing too far &#8220;because it will bring me to tears.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58.247368421053\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8.8105263157895\">\n<p>But according to Kim&#8217;s Twitter post, Kanye is ready to get candid in his upcoming interview.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kanye opens up to David Letterman like you&#8217;ve never seen him,&#8221; she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KimKardashian\/status\/1131964569050501120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">teased<\/a> on social media.<\/p>\n<p><em>My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman<\/em> is streaming on Netflix starting May 31. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch a brand new episode of <em>Keeping Up With the Kardashians<\/em> Sunday at 9 p.m., only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1044308\/kanye-west-believes-late-mother-donda-is-still-here-guiding-his-family?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Ach\/WireImage.com Kanye West carries the memory of his mom each and every day. Close to 12 years after former university professor Donda West passed away at age 53, her son is sharing fond memories and making it clear that her presence is still felt. &nbsp; &#8220;This would have been the funnest time of her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 15:58:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}