Fake reports of Kanye West's death hit the internet yesterday.

The death hoax claimed that West had died in a "bizarre car crash in Los Angeles involving two luxury cars" reports E! News.

Although the story wasn't linked to any credible news source it was very popular on Facebook and Twitter where it even made the number one trending topic as 'RIP Kanye West'.

This prompted West's girlfriend, Amber Rose, to put an end to the rumour by writing: "This RIPKanyeWest topic is not funny and its NOT TRUE! He has people like myself and his family that love him very much," she tweeted.

"Its in extreme poor taste to have that as a trendy topic. It's totally disrespectful to make up a story like this where all human and we all make mistakes and to say someone died cuz of a mistake is ridiculous. U wouldn't want someone to say that about u Or someone u love it's not funny. #LongLiveYeezy!!!!!" (sic)