Rapper Kanye West, and musician Paul McCartney released a song called, "Only One" on Thursday, New Years Day. West provides the vocals while McCartney plays the organ on the track that is about West and his mother Donda, who died in 2007.
The song's words are Donda communicating to West and his daughter, North, he said in a statement.
"My mom was singing to me, and through me to my daughter" West said.
A spokesperson for West told Rolling Stone Magazine that the song is also "a simple brainstorming session between the two, with McCartney improvising on the keyboards and Kanye vocally sketching and shaping ideas in a stream-of-consciousness riff."
"Kanye sat there with his family, holding his daughter North on his lap, and listened to his vocals, singing, 'Hello, my only one...,'" the statement said. "And in that moment, not only could he not recall having sung those words, but he realized that perhaps the words had never really come from him. The process of artistic creation is one that does not involve thinking, but often channeling. And he understood in that moment that his late mother, Dr. Donda West, who was also his mentor, confidante, and best friend, had spoken through him that day."
