Kanye West Donates Money, Shoes to Homeless Man in Chicago

Zachary Stieber
10/6/2018
Updated:
12/30/2023

Kanye West was captured on camera donating $100 to a homeless man and promising to get him a free pair of Yeezys.

The interaction took place in Chicago on Oct. 5, following West’s trip to a dentist, reported TMZ.

The homeless man gave West his mother’s contact information so West could follow through on the promised shoes.

A video recorded by TMZ showed West dialing the number in his phone.

The homeless man asked for the Yeezys, saying he hadn’t owned any shoes for six months.

Moving Back to Chicago

West recently announced that he plans on moving back to Chicago.

During an event for Open Mic Chicago in support of public schools in the city on Sept. 17.

“I gotta let y'all know that I’m moving back to Chicago and I’m never leaving again,” he said, according to TMZ.

Sources told the outlet that West and his wife have already found a house in Chicago, but noted the couple is planning on keeping all of their properties in Los Angeles.

In addition to moving personally to Chicago, the rapper and businessman plans to move his Yeezy offices from Calabasas to Chicago.

West’s third child was named Chicago West.

“Kanye and I are happy to announce the arrival of our healthy, beautiful baby girl,” Kim Kardashian West wrote on her app at the time of the birth, in January. “We are incredibly grateful to our surrogate who made our dreams come true with the greatest gift one could give and to our wonderful doctors and nurses for their special care.”

Twitter user @andyeezus posted a video of the crowd cheering as West spoke to them, and before he came on they chanted his name.

West’s Support of Trump

West has been in the news frequently for supporting President Donald Trump.
The rapper performed on “Saturday Night Live” recently, while wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat.

West said he was “bullied” by people backstage, who tried to get him to take the hat off.

“They bullied me backstage. They said, ‘Don’t go out there with that hat on.’ They bullied me and then they said I’m in the sunken place!” he said. “I think the universe has balance. Ninety percent of news is liberal—90 percent of TV, L.A., New York, writers, rappers, musicians—so it’s easy to make it seem like it’s so, so, so one-sided.”

West has been praised by President Trump for his support.

From NTD.tv