Donda’s House creative director Che “Rhymefest” Smith has shared a statement announcing that the Chicago non-profit will no longer be using the name of Kanye West’s late mother Dr. Donda West.
The decision comes after West’s wife, Kim Kardashian, went on a Twitter tirade aimed at her husband’s former songwriter on Saturday night (May 26).
In a statement posted to the Donda’s House, Inc. Twitter account, the organization explained, “Due to recent events that have occurred over the last 48 hours, we have decided to no longer use the name Donda’s House, Inc.
“This has been an incredibly difficult decision but the social media quotes from Kim Kardashian West, as well as the expressed interested of her family running the organization, has brought us to this decision.”
The statement continued, “Over the last five years we have put our students and our community first. We’d like to thank all of our supporters, and we assure you that our hearts have always been with the City of Chicago and we will continue to support youth in our future endeavors.
“We encourage Kim and Kanye to indeed pick up the baton of service.”
The controversy initially started after Rhymefest tweeted that West said “fuck the youth of Chicago” when he asked for help in rebuilding Donda’s House. He also said ‘Ye cared more about finishing his upcoming solo album than he did the non-profit started in his mother’s name.
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Fuck Rhymefest. Help the youth if you are helping the youth. Guide the youth in the right direction if you are guiding them. It sounds like they want to continue doing that but the way that this whole situation blew out of proportion was mostly his silliness. And also…. Fuck Kanye. & Fuck Kim Kardashian. Help the youth.
Fuck the youth. I mean, I did.
They should extradite your ass then sentence you to death you pedo.
He’s just changing the name dummy. Try reading. Situation blew out of proportion cause the foundation is named after Kanyes mom, so he’s saying yall can have that shit
I read the article and I am familiar with the details of what is happening FUCKFACE… which is why I said what I said… this shit isn’t about the name… or getting attention on social media…. it’s about helping kids.
This is what happens when social media, texting and what not becomes the way folks communicate. I know as a civilization we are rightfully advancing, but damn I yearn for the time when people simply had conversations with each other. When, if you had a problem you called the person or waited until you saw them. You didnt post shit, or have your proxy send subliminal messages via Twitter or instagram, or any other outlet.
I don’t have any social media, none. I recognize that it has positives, but it’s to much “look at me, look at me”. I simply cant fo it.
Kanye is lost, although he might be back in his music game with the Pusha T album cause the beats are fire.
Rhymest should keep the work moving forward however he can even if it means rebranding and starting anew.
Look at this white armenian bitch ! Kanye West felt really hard ! From his mental breakdowns to his marriage with kim kardashian I truly believe he crossed a line he cannot coming back from ! He might drop some good materials from time to time here and there but that’s it ! His last rant on TMZ about black people having a choice to be slaves four centuries ago is just another proof of how lost and beyond all hope he’d get his shit together ! I also remember dave chappelle telling a story bout Kanye before his rise to the fame and success back in 2001 where obviously he already had this kind of egomaniac selfishness attitude ! Marrying kim kardashian was such a poor choice ! This bitch had sex with half of the industry (ray-j, 50 cent, the game, marques houston, nick cannon, etc.). No wonder why Beyonce doesn’t want to have anything to do with her… Kanye sealed his downfall the day he married her nuff said.
I think Ye marrying that bitch in the first place was solely an ego trip on his part. At the time Ye was on that whole “I’m the biggest rockstar on the planet/everything I do is the best” shit. To him marrying the bitch was just a reflection of his status. Ye makes the best music, biggest checks, most trophies, etc so Ye obviously needs the most famous most attractive bitch in the world and to him that was Kim. You gotta think Kanye regrets marrying let alone knocking that bitch up. Dude hasn’t looked happy in years. Before he married her he was slaughtering charts and getting paid, since he married her he’s barely been able to keep out of bankruptcy, been admitted to a mental institution, had an album completely flop, and have basically the entire hip hop community turn against him even Jay. Fuck you know it was Kim spending Jay’s money and not Kanye. Ye really needs to get away from all those white people that’s what’s fucking him up.
He never said they had a choice and he cleared up what he meant to say. Quit lying and making up BS. He had his run at that top which was longer than most have. He’s in his 40s now WTF are you talking about? You coon ass cooning Negroe!
Kanye turning his back n his community to fit into white circles n be accepted. He will come crying for forgiveness in a few years when things go bad
That shit should have been handled in-house. Social media brings out the worst in people.
No shit Rhymefest did do a bitch move but Kim’s response is just ridiculous. Like a 13 year old girl wrote it. Responding to something as serious as that with a bunch of emojis, personal insults, taunts, and misspellings. lol.
I DONT LIKE IT UNLESS ITS BRAND NEW!