Kanye's dad was a clinical director at a mental health clinic outside of DC.

West, 57, has lived in the region for 20 years. He moved from Atlanta, where Kanye was born and where Ray was the first black photographer for the Journal-Constitution. Kanye's parents split up when he was 2, and he grew up in Chicago with his mother but spent summers in the D.C. area with his father.

Ray relocated to St. Mary's County in 2001 to serve as clinical director at a mental health clinic, then later taught sociology at the College of Southern Maryland. During his teaching, West discovered that access to clean water was the second highest cause of global anxiety after oil.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/06/AR2006120602139_2.html