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Kim Kardashian is helping husband Kanye West mark a bittersweet day: the birthday of his late mother, Donda West, who passed away in 2007 at age 58.

Kanye West is going back to his roots.The rapper purchased his childhood home in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood for about $225,000, according to local news station WGN9.Ye's late mother, Donda West, bought the home in the early 1980s and sold it in 2004.The property reportedly went through foreclosure before it was bought by West’s former collaborator, Rhymefest, who planned to turn the home into an “arts incubator.” The rapper, Kim Kardashian West and Rhymefest soon got into a public feud

Kanye West has plunked down more than $200K for a piece of memorabilia from his past: his childhood home in Chicago’s South Shore neighbourhood.