Kanye West treated fans to an unexpected guest appearance during his concert in Mexico City on Friday, January 30.
The 48-year-old rapper performed many of his biggest hits and also debuted an unreleased song alongside his 12-year-old daughter, North West.
“You know, I never left you,” West sang while dressed in an all-white jumpsuit, according to videos circulating on social media. “‘Cause every road that leads to heaven is right beside you / so I can say, ‘Hello, my only one.’”
North joined her father for the performance, harmonizing with him onstage. She wore an oversized black outfit and styled her blue hair long and straight. Afterward, she posted a photo of her look on her Instagram Stories without adding a caption.
North is the oldest child of West and his former wife, Kim Kardashian, who finalized their divorce in 2021. Though their relationship was once tense, the former couple has grown closer through supporting North’s musical interests.
“I’m a really empathetic person. I mean, at the end of the day, we’re always family,” Kim, 45, shared earlier this month on sister Khloé Kardashian’s “Khloé in Wonderland” podcast while discussing their coparenting journey. “I always look at it that way, no matter what’s going on. There are times when I have to be super protective and there are times when, at any moment, I would love that relationship. I’ve always said that.”
She added, “The music side and the producing isn’t my thing, and that’s her bonding thing with her dad. Even just coming up with stuff, we have to communicate about how North moves through that world and all these opportunities that come her way and having to filter that and respecting his opinion on the things that go on with his kids is really important.”
In addition to North, Kim and West are parents to sons Saint, 10, and Psalm, 6, and daughter Chicago, 8.
While raising their children together, the former couple has focused on encouraging each child’s individual passions.
“[North] is homeschooled, and a lot of it is me helping her do a lot of the teachings and … we do a lot of realistic courses [of] things that she’s really into,” Kim explained on the podcast. “She’s really into math. We’ll give budgets and we’ll go around and we’ll get stuff and we’ll add it all up and subtract it all. She has a brand-building class. It’s, like, an actual course and a curriculum. [It’s] fully interactive learning, and she had an idea of making hats and making jewelry and all the things she wanted to make, so we made it a course.”
North is also enrolled in a music class, where she regularly visits a recording studio to write, record, and produce her own songs.
“It’s been so fun to see her blossom,” Kim said. “I’ll add her writing out all her lyrics as part of her spelling tests. We do all of the things at home that she really enjoys and are challenging, and I think [people] would be proud to see how smart she really is and how creative she really is.”
Last year, North revealed that she was working on her first album, titled Elementary School Dropout, a tribute to her dad's debut studio album, College Dropout.