Having been surprisingly quiet since his triumphant victory over 50 Cent in both the Billboard and UK charts, Kanye West, normally first in line to talk up his own talents, has this time left it to his mother to tell us all how great he is.
Mrs West was telling the Baltimore Sun how Kanye's voice represents a more positive tone within hip hop, before adding that his voice should "be used not only in hip hop but across the arts, period. I think he is broader than a genre. I think he has a calling to reach a number of people. Kanye keeps it real. He touches people".
And she didn't stop there. "You never know how words can save a person's life, physically or otherwise. People like Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi or, in my view, Barack Obama, or Jesus Christ - people whose job it is to tell the truth - I see that in Kanye".
She concluded "Now, people like you are gonna go, 'Oh, Kanye's mom said he's like Jesus!' [as if we would] but when you have a gift you didn't get by yourself...your truth is your truth".