Charlamagne has stated he believed that Kanye West‘s newest on-line tirade and public stunts are the results of him being “envious” of Kendrick Lamar‘s present success.
Over the previous week, Kanye West (who now goes by Ye) has been surrounded with infamy. He was first criticised for having his spouse Bianca Censori put on a see-through gown whereas on this 12 months’s Grammy Awards crimson carpet so he might promote his upcoming Yeezy assortment.
Then, final Friday (February 7), Ye shared a slew of offensive and anti-Semitic tweets the place he referred to as himself a “Nazi” and retracted his apology to the Jewish group, and confirmed assist for Diddy and Chris Brown regardless of their respective sexual assault and home abuse fees. Ye obtained immense backlash and subsequently deactivated his X/Twitter account yesterday (February 9). Within the time since, his Yeezy web site began promoting a swastika t-shirt earlier than being shut down by operators Shopify.
Whereas on The Breakfast Membership radio present, Charlamagne theorised that “Kanye has been appearing out all week as a result of he’s envious of Kendrick’s second”. When fellow co-host Jess Hilarious introduced up that Ye stated he had been recognized with autism, Charlamagne referred to as it one other cry for consideration.
“That’s simply consideration in search of, he’s doing that as a result of he’s envious of Kendrick’s second,” he continued. “He needs this was him as a result of Kendrick is having a second for being a prolific artist who took out his primary opp; Drake. Kanye needs that was him on this second, so he’s been doing all these antics for consideration all week as a result of he’s making an attempt to get folks to do precisely what they’re doing proper now, and that’s speaking about him.
“However Kanye, that may be a sideshow in comparison with what Kendrick did on Sunday on the Grammys and what Kendrick goes to do that Sunday on the Tremendous Bowl.”
Hilarious went on to joke about Ye’s marriage with Bianca Censori being “low-cost,” which Charlamagne piggybacked off the again of, saying: “All these antics are low-cost, in the meantime you bought folks on that stage being rewarded for his or her artwork the best way that you simply used to, Kanye. Kendrick Lamar obtained rewarded 5 instances for a diss report to your primary opp – you would like that was you. […] We don’t care, Kanye. […] I don’t care that you simply’re a billionaire, there’s loads of corny-ass billionaires.”
This weekend noticed Lamar grew to become the primary solo rap act to headline an NFL Tremendous Bowl Halftime present, with SZA, Serena Williams and Samuel L Jackson all making appearances all through his efficiency.
He performed a medley of songs from his previous and current catalogue, together with ‘Not Like Us’ – which is now probably the most coveted rap track in Grammy historical past after successful 5 awards (together with File and Track of The 12 months) at this 12 months’s award ceremony.
Coinciding with Charlamagne’s idea, Kanye dropped a brand new track titled ‘Magnificence And The Beast’ throughout Lamar’s halftime present on his web site, yeezy.com. The track was first previewed at a ‘Vultures’ listening expertise in China final September and is anticipated to characteristic on Ye’s upcoming solo album, ‘Bully’.
In current information, Associates‘ David Schwimmer referred to as for Elon Musk to ban Ye from X/Twitter: “We are able to’t cease a deranged bigot from spewing hate-filled, ignorant bile… however we CAN cease giving him a megaphone, Mr. Musk.”
