--- title: Kanye West Video Game description: Kanye West is making a video game based on Only One his collaboration with Paul McCartney which is a tribute to his late mother Donda West canonical: https://time.com/3718645/kanye-west-video-game/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-23T15:55:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:17:07.192Z og:title: Kanye West Is Working on a Video Game og:description: It's a tribute to his mom og:url: https://time.com/3718645/kanye-west-video-game/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kanye West Is Working on a Video Game twitter:description: It's a tribute to his mom twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Kanye West Is Working on a Video Game ## Video: Five Things Kanye West Is Better At Than You [Watch (HLS stream): Five Things Kanye West Is Better At Than You](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/PuUqNINz.m3u8) (1:50)  _Published 2015-07-14. We take a look at the top five thing Kanye West is amazing at ... according to Kanye._  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Feb 23, 2015 3:55 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Feb 23, 2015 3:55 PM UTC Kanye West is following in the very [successful footsteps](http://time.com/2977187/kim-kardashian-hollywood-game-dante-inferno/) of his wife, Kim Kardashian. Over the weekend, West discussed a video game he is creating based on his recent single “Only One,” a collaboration with Paul McCartney that pays tribute to his mother Donda, who died of complications from surgery in 2007. “It’s my mother going through the gates of heaven,” he said in a [Feb. 20 interview](http://youtu.be/wZVKKJbEsdc?t=55m54s) with Power 105.1’s morning show _The Breakfast Club_. “We’ve been working on it for like six months.” [In a statement](http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kanye-west-releases-only-one-first-single-from-forthcoming-solo-album--first-reveal-of-several-musical-collaborations-with-paul-mccartney-to-come-300014984.html) about the single, West said, “My mom was singing to me, and through me to my daughter.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3718645/kanye-west-video-game/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3718645/kanye-west-video-game/"},"headline":"Kanye West Is Working on a Video Game","datePublished":"2015-02-23T15:55:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:17:07.192Z","description":"It's a tribute to his mom","url":"https://time.com/3718645/kanye-west-video-game/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3718645/kanye-west-video-game/","name":"Kanye West Is Working on a Video Game"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Five Things Kanye West Is Better At Than You","description":"We take a look at the top five thing Kanye West is amazing at ... according to Kanye.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/PuUqNINz/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-07-14T21:11:23.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/PuUqNINz.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3718645/kanye-west-video-game/","duration":"PT1M50S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3718645/kanye-west-video-game/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```