The Southside building will offer a recording studio for local artists.

Chicago rapper Rhymefest has bought Kanye West’s childhood home with plans to convert it into a community arts space.

Working with Kanye’s charity Donda’s House, he intends to convert the building into an “incubator” for local artists, offering a recording studio, events space and Southside music museum.

“We want to show bright spots in communities that [have] been divested from,” wrote Rhymefest. “We know more Lights exist here, they just need to be activated.”

Rhymefest is the creative director of Donda’s House, the arts charity set up in honor of Kanye’s mother, who died in 2007.

“Donda’s House envisions this facility as not only a homegrown hub of economic activity for the Southside but also a gathering place for the community with events and concerts,” the charity said in a statement.

“Donda’s House selected this location in particular because it is the former home of the organization’s namesake Dr. Donda West, who at one time provided similar services and support to incubate young artists.”

Earlier this week Kanye was hospitalised for exhaustion after several erratic live performances which led to the cancellation of the remaining dates on the Saint Pablo Tour.

[via XXL Mag]

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