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Even with all the pomp and bombast that accompanies even the slightest mention of Kanye West, ‘Ye always manages to fall back to Earth on occasion.  At the peak of his game, it’s often easy to forget that Yeezy is indeed a mere mortal who gets by with a little help from his friends, which made it all the more touching at The Throne show in Chicago when he extended his thanks to Jay and Beyonce and his mother who raised him.

“It’s a glorious occasion. 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.”