Kanye West is mourning his mother, who died after cosmetic surgery developed complications this weekend.
Dr Donda West, 58, died in Los Angeles on Saturday "as the result of complications from a cosmetic surgical procedure", her publicist Patricia Green announced.
Green added the family "asks for privacy during this time of grief".
Donda - who raised her son alone after her husband left her when Kanye was three - was chairwoman of the Kanye West Foundation, a charity set up to improve literacy and stop young people dropping out of school.
Patricia Green added: "May Donda's work and deeds be an inspiration to each of us, may we start each day knowing that support of family and community are central to purpose."
In May, Donda published a book Raising Kanye: Life Lessons from the Mother of a Hip-Hop Superstar.
