In a world that worships celebrity status over things like values, intelligence, and talent, it is easy to roll your eyes and dismiss anything a star has to say — especially if that star is an unpredictable, Trump-supporting rapper who was married to the hungriest of the camera-hungry Kardashians, the very embodiment, for many, of the word “vapid.”
But when you listen to Kanye West, or “Ye,” as he is now known, speak about his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, on Thursday night’s edition of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” you discover a thoughtful man who sees behind the Hollywood veil and isn’t afraid to call out the industry in which he exists for its detrimental role in shaping society, an ex-husband who saw his former wife “overly sexualized” by people “made in a laboratory,” and a dad who is worried about the future of his children.
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“Kim is a Christian,” Ye told Carlson, “but she has people who want her to go to Interview magazine and put her a** out while she’s a 40-something-year-old multi-billionaire with four black children and this is how fashion … how they want to present her.”
As an example, Ye, who shares four children — including two young daughters — with Kim, pointed to his ex’s shapewear brand, SKIMS, and the way in which it has been marketed.
“I had a lot of issues with the imagery of SKIMS,” he said. “I felt like there’s a lot of imagery that was overly sexualized and things I wouldn’t want to see my wife and definitely not my daughters doing in the future in order to sell product. But it reaches another level when it’s like, ‘OK, well this is what my wife is doing. This is what she is doing for our children.'”
In soft tones and without a discernable hint of malice, Ye, who blew up the internet this week with a simple t-shirt that read “White Lives Matter,” offered a fascinating glimpse into the mechanics behind the mega-star life and the mental manipulation that goes into creating a global brand like the Kardashians.
Whispering into his ex-wife’s ear, he said, are people like Corey Gamble, the beau of the family’s matriarch, Kris Jenner, and Vogue editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson.
“There’s so many things that are put in Kim’s head,” Ye explained. “They bring influencers, like no one ever knew where Corey Gamble came from, no one in the fashion world knows where [Karefa-Johnson] came from. These people were practically made in a laboratory in my opinion.”
Fear and friendliness, says West, are tools to drive profits.
“One of the things they’re really good at doing is being nice and being likable,” he said. “And what they do is for people who have some form of influence — whether it’s an educated black woman, like my mother, that became the head of the English department at Chicago State University, or whether it’s the most influential white woman on the planet, being my ex-wife — they have people that are around them at all times telling them what to be afraid of – not what to do or say, specifically, it’s what to be afraid of.”
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Chief among those “influencers” in Kim Kardashian’s life, Ye revealed, are the Clintons. The rapper learned after the duo’s divorce that Kardashian “had a close and secretive relationship with the Clintons, and that they were working on her to influence him to read from the script,” according to Carlson.
“It was interesting, [a] friend of mine told me that Kris and Kim had called him because he had influence inside the black community,” Ye said. “And had called him to say, to get him to influence people to take the vaccination.”
“And I don’t have [an] opinion on that, I just wanted to state that as a statement,” he added. “It was wild that I didn’t know how close my own wife was to the Clintons – I didn’t know, I didn’t realize it at the time.”
Repeatedly, you get the sense that things that should be uncontroversial and “obvious” are whipped into controversies and scandals, just to put money in other people’s pockets.
Take the shirts — worn by Ye, his friend Candace Owen, and the granddaughter of reggae legend Bob Marley, Selah Marley — that stole the spotlight during Fashion Week in Paris.
Ye said “White Lives Matter” is simply stating the “obvious,” but it’s a controversy because that’s not the message the powers that be want to be communicated by black influencers.
Ye clearly prefers to surround himself with people who aren’t afraid to speak their minds.
According to him, “if you have a person that isn’t afraid of them like a Russell Brand or Candace Owens, it’s not that we have to agree with this, but they’re not afraid to state what their opinion is.”
Even his desire to remain close to his children was blown up into a scandal.
“The media ridiculed me for getting the house next door to Kim to see my children, and they even said I was stalking her and her new boyfriend [Pete Davidson] because I bought the house next door to see my children,” he said.
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Online, it seems that West’s message was received loud and clear.
“Awesome Interview,” wrote one user on Twitter. “Kanye is not crazy. MSM push that he is ‘crazy’ because they are afraid of him.”
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Melissa Fine is the former executive editor of Casino Player, Strictly Slots, and Poker
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