Kanye West Serenades His Mom

I know that this is a "daddy blog" but I came across this touching clip from The Life and Rhymes of Kanye West, a filmed concert that originally aired in 2005 on MTV, on which Kanye performs "Hey Mama," the song he wrote about his relationship with his mom, from his album Late Registration.

Kanye's mom, Donda, passed away this week. She raised her son as a single mother and the bonds between parent and child were extremely tight. In this video, Donda West is in the audience and he calls her up on stage so he can sing to her. The two hold hands and dance and the whole thing is just really sweet... and maybe extra sad, in light of recent events.

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• As parents, we should all be so lucky to have such tight bonds with our grown children. Whether dad or mom, whether son or daughter, here's to parents and kids everywhere.