The plastic surgeon who performed enhancement on Kanye West’s mom a day before she died has given up his medical license.  Although Jan Adams wasn’t held legally responsible for Donda West’s fatal complications, he has drawn other fire. “A series of complaints were filed against Mr. Adams, but he chose to surrender his license instead of contest them,” California Medical Board spokeswoman Candis Cohen said in a statement. More.

 Dr. Jan Adams, the plastic surgeon who operated on rapper Kanye West’s mother before she died, will spend the next year in jail on a drunken-driving rap. Last year, Adams pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor DUI charge. When Adams was arrested in late June, police said he was driving the wrong way on Interstate 680 (between Sacramento and San Francisco) and that his blood alcohol level was .20 percent. Read the rest here.

Rapper’s cousin worked on fatal procedure. A relative of Kanye West is being investigated in connection with the death last year of the rapper’s mom. Stephan Scoggins, 46, reportedly supervised Dr. Donda West’s post-surgical care following her tummy tuck and cosmetic operation. But Scoggins, West’s nephew and Kanye’s cousin, is said to have left her home alone while he attended a baby shower. Subpoenas have been issued by the California Consumer Affairs Department to determine whether Scoggins is in any way responsible for West’s fate due to post-operative complications. Get more on Kanye West including music, news, photos and video here.

Rapper is “super-devastated” by mom’s death. Could the frustration of grief over his mom’s death be behind Kanye West’s recent clashes with photographers? Maybe it’s a coincidence, but just days after People magazine published West’s first public comments on losing his parent, the rapper is explaining his second arrest in three months. Kanye was questioned by police in England, but not charged this past weekend after a cameraman claimed the rapper shoved his camera into his face, causing a cut. West took to his blog to write about the incident outside Newcastle’s Tup Tup Club: “I put my hand up to the camera in self-defense! …My security yelled, ‘Get the camera off him!’ I guess, in all the commotion, the camera scraped his nose.” West barely escaped felony charges in September when he and an assistant were caught on video destroying another photographer’s equipment at an airport. Instead, West was issued a misdemeanor. He further blogs, “When will there be a law passed that simply enforces that someone has to ask to take a photograph of you?” People quoted West as saying that his mother’s death, due to cosmetic surgery complications last year, left him “super-devastated. I didn’t do any interviews after my mom passed,” he tells the mag. “I wasn’t ready to speak about [it]. Now I’d rather talk it through than commit suicide. …I feel like I moved to California, then my mom moved to California, and she did stuff she wouldn’t have done if we’d stayed in Chicago. If I’d never made it in the music business, it never would’ve happened.”

Ex-millionaire label head’s financial woes continue. Former Roc-a-Fella Records boss Damon Dash doesn’t have “a pot to p–s in,” says a lawyer who recently sued him. “They’re broke,” Jason Gabbard says of Dash and his wife, following a suit over $148,505 in unpaid fees. The lawyer tells The New York Daily News that Dash owed a fashion firm the cash before the suit was settled. Earlier this year, the entertainment entrepreneur’s New York home was reported in foreclosure, and just this month his Chevy Tahoe was seized after he reportedly stopped paying the $714.99 monthly lease. If that’s not enough, Dash faces an outstanding debt of $2.1 million in New York state taxes and at least three other pending suits and unpaid tabs.

Kanye West opposed procedure that proved fatal.

The cosmetic procedure that led to deadly complications for a rapper’s mom was certainly not his idea. In fact, Kanye West’s aunt Yolanda tells a British publication that he opposed Dr. Donda West’s plan to get a tummy tuck, in order to lose weight. “There were some moments when she dieted, some moments when she’d lose the weight,” says the aunt, “but you know how we do. We pick the weight back up, and she finally got to a point where she just wanted to get it done and completely be done with the dieting…Did Kanye want it done? No. But he’s a momma’s boy and what mom wanted was what he wanted to make sure she had. And now he’s got no mom.”