Kanye West continues to work on his upcoming album “Donda”, which is a tribute to his late mother and may be his childhood home in Chicago, Illinois.
Last week, the 44-year-old rapper deleted all the pictures related to his highly anticipated album from his Instagram page, leaving only one– a photo His mother, Donda West, raised the home where he grew up. The former professor and chair of the Department of English and Speech at Chicago State University died of previous coronary artery disease in 2007 at the age of 58. New York Post Report.
According to reports, West is rebuilding his childhood home in Chicago’s Soldier Field, where he will play his 10th studio album on Thursday. based on Photo taken From inside the stadium.
According to his mother’s 2007 memoir “Raising Kanye: Life Lessons from Hip-Hop Superstar Mothers”, West spent about eight years of his childhood in a 1,600 square foot home. Property records show that they sold the house for $121,000 in 2003.
The house was originally built in 1905 on a 7,000 square foot piece of land near the South Bank.exist Photo According to the New York Post, the front yard of the property is surrounded by unmaintained wild bushes and green plants.
Inside the house, there are three bedrooms, a bathroom, a dining area and a living room. There is a yard with a shed at the back of the house.
Less than a year before West released his first studio album “The College Dropout” in 2004, his mother sold their Chicago home. Tang Da said in her memoir that after her son clashed with some boys in Rainbow Beach Park, she decided to move. The boy refused to give up the bicycle and cut the bicycle tire.
In 2013, the rapper and another hip-hop artist, Rhymefest, co-founded Donda’s House, a non-profit youth art organization. West’s organization bought his childhood home in 2016 and plans to turn it into a community art incubator.
However, Donda’s House stated in 2017 that the house had to be demolished because it had “severe structural damage”. Chicago Tribune Report. The property was foreclosed several years ago.
In 2019, 16 years after his mother sold it, West bought the house back for $225,000 and plans to renovate it under his limited liability company Donda Services.
West’s childhood home appeared in the 2018 episode of “Walking with the Kardashian Sisters”. Currently, the estimated value of the property is US$246,900. Real estate broker.
Los Angeles, California-July 24: Kayne West participates in a dialogue between the LACMA director and Steve McQueen, Kanye West, and Michael Govin, discussed by NeueHouse and UTA Fine Arts co-hosted “All Day/I Feel Like That” at LACMA on July 24, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.
Photo: Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for LACMA
