Donda West, mother of Kanye West, has compared her son to Jesus Christ, Mahatma Ganghi and Martin Luther King.
Speaking to The Baltimore Sun, Mrs West was asked whether her son had brought a more positive voice to an art-form often defined by violence, misogyny and greed."I do think that Kanye is a voice that can definitely be used and should be used not only in hip-hop but across the arts, period," she said.
"I think he is broader than a genre. ... I think he has a calling to reach a number of people. Kanye keeps it real. He touches the people.
"You never know how words can save a person's life, physically or otherwise. People like Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi or, in my view, Barack Obama, or Jesus Christ , people whose job it is to tell the truth , I see that in Kanye.
"Now, people like you are gonna go, 'Oh, Kanye's mom said he's like Jesus!' but ... when you have a gift, you didn't get it by yourself. ... Your truth is your truth."
