In a recent livestream that began as a conversation with the producer Digital Nas, Kanye West went on an emotional rant, going after the Kardashians, Kris Jenner, and even other prominent Black entertainers. But the eruption was after Ye set his sights on British artist FKA Twigs, who recently cast his daughter, North West, in her music video for Childlike Things.
West, caught off guard and furious, accused Twigs of cutting him out entirely and dealing with Kim Kardashian instead. To Ye, that was the ultimate indignity.
“Twigs, you got to apologize … You shouldn’t be playing with my kids,” West told her, evidently upset. “Put my daughter in that dark-ass video. Here is what I am going to do; I will end you. Do we have a problem, n####?”
West says it’s not just creative differences but a matter of control, legacy, and his sense that his kids are being used without his consent. In the live stream, he railed against the systemic disrespect he feels for his parental authority, particularly concerning the Kardashian empire.
(“You can’t put out an album that said I’ll ‘Wrap you up, I’ll tape you. Take you to the hotel room and some super duper stars) After two kids, which he doesn’t have,” Kardashian tweeted, possibly a dig at his estate’s failed plan to release posthumous music, or just gibberish.) “YOU WOULD NOT HAVE A CHILD IF IT WEREN’T FOR ME,” he continued, invoking a small, sleepy-eyed, apple-cheeked child. On Instagram, he wrote: “Kriss [sic] and Kim put out a statement without my approval … that’s not what a wife should do White supremacy.” “Kris and Kim chose to put out a statement about my mental health without my consent,” he also wrote.
“The grandmother that has the children has the power.”And on Twitter, Ye lashed out at his wife for a leaked sex tape that he believes launched both of their careers: “Kris, I’m in Cody if you’re not planning another one of your children’s playboy shoots.” Note that he also writes “that” without “if.”It continued to hurtle downward: “Everybody knows the movie get out is about me,” he tweeted, referencing a film about Black people being used for their well-being. “That’s what we deal with. And I bet not not one Black celebrity says s###. They ain’t gone say s###.”
Whether Twigs thought she was doing things right or checking with Kim for her blessing, the move didn’t register as cool for Kanye. Kim isn’t the gatekeeper of his kids’ artistic image. That’s his territory. And in Ye’s view, anyone who overlooks that fact does so at their peril.
“If y’all go to Kim to get rights to my kids to work with y’all in any way, I’m gonna use everything in my power and every ounce of my body to bring the sunken place called Wexit to light,” he said, using a term popular on social media to depict situations from which it is nearly impossible to extract oneself.
FKA Twigs has not publicly responded, but it’s safe to assume her team is on high alert. Finding yourself in the crosshairs of Kanye’s anger is no joke, especially not regarding his children. And although West’s career is full of such outbursts, this one hits very close to home for him. His protectiveness over North is raw and unfiltered, covered in all the usual artistic ego and emotional volatility you’d go to a Kanye West song to experience.
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