UPDATE: Kanye West's Mom's Doctor Pens Letter About His Album & Mom's Death

UPDATE:

Dr. Jan Adams wrote Kanye West a lengthy letter responding to his album cover. You can read it below. The rapper later tweeted it with the caption: "Open letter from Jan Adams    This is amazing. Thank you so much for this connection brother. I can't wait to sit with you and start healing."

On Saturday (April 28), Kanye West revealed that the cover of his upcoming album will be a photo of the plastic surgeon who performed a cosmetic procedure on his mother, Donda West, the day before she died in 2007.

The rapper shared a screenshot of a text conversation that he was having with his friend Wes. In the conversation, the artist posted a picture of the doctor. "This is my album cover. This is Dr. Jan Adams. The person who performed my mom's final surgery. Do you have any title ideas?" Kanye said. "I want to forgive and stop hating."

That's when Wes replied, "LOVE EVERYONE." The rapper responded, "I love that." As many of us can remember, Donda passed away in November 2007 after Dr. Adams gave her liposuction, a tummy tuck, and a breast reduction. PEOPLE reported at the time: "Donda West, the mother of rapper Kanye West, died of heart disease while suffering 'multiple post-operative factors' after plastic surgery, the L.A. coroner said Thursday. But an autopsy failed to determine the exact role these factors played in her death following liposuction and breast-reduction surgery, officials said."

Since Kanye's new album cover is very shocking, to say the least, The Blast decided to reach out to Dr. Adams about it. The outlet asked him how he felt about the rapper using a picture of him on his project. The surgeon replied, “It’s a Macguffen…” The Blast reads.

"So a 'MacGuffin' is an old-school term in film first popularized by the great director, Alfred Hitchcock. Essentially, it is a term used to describe the thing everyone is focused on, but the thing doesn’t really matter. The thing is just a symbol meant to represent the ideas and emotions the artist is trying to express."

This means that the photo of Adams is merely a symbol for the larger picture, which is West forgiving and loving everyone. 

Read the doctor's lengthy note to Kanye about his album cover below. You can also read the entire letter here, via The Blast.

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