IT was bad enough that Kanye West produced a song featuring disgraced rapper Diddy from inside prison.
But once his ex-wife Kim Kardashian learned their 11-year-old daughter North West also appears on the track all bets were off.
Kanye West has told his ex-wife he was prepared to ‘go to war’ with the ‘Kardashian mob’[/caption]
Kim Kardashian with 11-year-old daughter North West[/caption]
Kanye West produced a song featuring disgraced rapper Diddy from inside jail[/caption]
Bombshell texts between the former couple — leaked by Kanye, 47, on X at the weekend then swiftly deleted — have exposed just how toxic their relationship has become.
The rapper chillingly told his ex he was prepared to “go to war” with the “Kardashian mob” and that they would have “to kill” him.
On Lonely Roads Still Go To Sunshine — which also features Diddy’s son Christian “King”, 26 — North can be heard rapping, “When you see me shining, then you see the light.”
Sean Combs is in prison in the US, facing a litany of sex crime offences, including sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution.
Insiders claim Kim, 44, was “horrified” over her daughter’s involvement with the track and had tried to block its release on Saturday.
The SKIMS founder is reported to have sent cease-and-desist letters to Kanye, who she divorced in 2022 and with whom she shares three more children — Saint, nine, Chicago, seven, and Psalm, five.
An emergency hearing reportedly took place, where Kanye — who didn’t attend proceedings — initially agreed to delay its release.
But after learning Kim holds the sole ownership of the North West trademark and was attempting to stop their daughter featuring on his music, Kanye took to X to air his grievances.
He shared a screenshot of his alleged conversation with Kim, including a picture of the legal paperwork.
According to Kanye’s posts, he furiously wrote to Kim: “I’m never speaking with you again”.
Explaining that she was trying to “protect” North from being associated with Diddy, Kim is alleged to have responded: “I asked you at the time if I can trademark her name. You said yes. When she’s 18 it goes to her. So stop.
“I sent paperwork over so she wouldn’t be in the Diddy song. To protect her. One person has to trademark! We agreed when they were born I would get all of our kids names and trademarks so no one else would take them.”
Kanye appears to have hit back: “Amend it or I’m going to war. And neither of us will recover from the public fallout.”
Chillingly, he added: “You’re going to have to kill me.”
The trend of celebrities trademarking their names and their children’s is nothing new. It prevents unauthorised use of their name and image, essentially stopping other people from cashing in on their brand.
After posting and deleting the heated exchange, Kanye claimed he does not have a say in his children’s upbringing.
He wrote: “I don’t want to just ‘see’ my kids, I need to raise them.
“I need to have say so of where they go to school and who their friends are and whose houses they sleep over and whether my daughters wear lipstick and perfume.
Kanye has been accused of exploiting his current wife, Bianca Censori[/caption]
Kim breaks down while talking about Kanye on The Kardashians[/caption]
“All these rights have been taken from me by the Kardashian mob, Hulu and Disney [the production companies behind the reality series The Kardashians] and the biggest agenda to use the selectively bred black children to be platforms to influence black people.”
He went on to compare his limited access to his kids to being in jail.
He added: “Just seeing my kids is like visitation . . . it’s like I’m in prison ‘seeing’ my kids.
“I don’t care if I live or die or if I’m in jail or free.”
Kanye, whose X account was temporarily deactivated in February after he posted vile anti-semitic messages, added: “And I especially don’t care about whatever these p*y a celebrities got to say that are slaves to the Jews.”
I’m never speaking with you again
Kanye to Kim
This was a doubling down on his hate-filled rhetoric last month, when he wrote: “I love Hitler”, “I’m a Nazi”, and, “I have hit women before”.
Kanye later deleted his attack on the Kardashians, but his online antics didn’t stop. He posted a casting call for singers for his Sunday Service choir, a weekly gospel service he runs in LA, often accompanied by his children.
Listing his recruitment demands, he wrote “all males”, “no fat people”, and “the skin complexion of Sean Combs and darker”.
He added he was looking for people “with shaved heads or must be willing to shave head if approved” and, in a twisted addendum, “must be comfortable wearing swastikas”.
Kim has not commented on her ex-husband’s war of words in public.
‘I’m going to war’
But, behind closed doors, she is said to be consulting with lawyers and has pledged to do “whatever it takes to protect her kids from the hateful speech that Kanye continues to spur at this time”.
As per their 2022 custody arrangement, Kim and Kanye are believed to have joint physical and legal custody over their kids — though Kanye has previously claimed he only sees them 20 per cent of the time.
According to the original agreement, any dispute regarding their children is to be dealt with in mediation.
If either parent fails to participate in mediation sessions, it is agreed that the other party will get to make a decision by default.
While Kim rarely discusses Kanye in public to protect her children, she was forced to break her silence in 2022 after the rapper spent weeks discussing their split and her parenting in interviews.
She wrote on Instagram at the time: “Divorce is difficult enough on our children and Kanye’s obsession with trying to control and manipulate our situation so negatively and publicly is only causing further pain for all.”
Kim is right to be wary of provoking Kanye — he is prone to lashing out and galvanising hatred along the way.
Despite the fact that the rapper has been publicly disgraced and dropped from brands including Adidas, Balenciaga and talent agency CAA as a result of his anti-semitic and misogynistic comments, he still has 33.3million followers.
Everything that I text Kanye will be put on the internet
Kim Kardashian
In 2020, while their marriage was secretly imploding, Kim tried to publicly defend her husband, who suffers from bipolar disorder.
Kanye had taken to social media to claim his wife was trying to have him hospitalised against his will and called her mum and manager, Kris Jenner, “Kris Jong Un”, in reference to the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
Kim asked fans to show Kanye “compassion and empathy”, adding that he is a “brilliant but complicated person”. But, over the years, as his public outbursts have increased and their relationship has deteriorated further, the reality star has stopped defending him.
In 2021, Kim was reportedly horrified after Kanye took aim at her then boyfriend, Pete Davidson, 31.
The rapper trolled former Saturday Night Live star Pete (whom he called ‘Skete’) on social media, alleging he had Aids and doctoring a newspaper headline to read “Skete Davidson Dead at Age 28”.
Kanye also released a music video portraying an animated version of himself kidnapping and decapitating a character, who looked like Pete.
Kim and Pete split after nine months in August 2022, and the comedian has since said he needed “trauma therapy,” in large part, due to Kanye.
‘Best for my kids’
Later that year, the rapper again took aim at his former mother-in-law, posting a picture of his two daughters and writing, “Don’t let Kris make you do Playboy like she made Kylie [Jenner] and Kim do”.
He later shared a text that Kim had sent him, asking him to stop talking about her mother in public after Kris pleaded in a message: “I’m almost 67 years old and I don’t always feel great and this stresses me to no end.”
Last year, in an episode of reality show The Kardashians, Kim broke down in tears while reflecting on the emotional and mental stress she has been under.
She said: “Everything that I text Kanye will be put on the internet. And I have to sit here and not say anything ever because I know one day my kids will appreciate that and I know that’s the best thing for them.”
Now, as Kanye — who last month was accused of exploiting his current wife, Bianca Censori, 30, by encouraging her to wear a see-through dress to the Grammys — proclaims war against Kim and her family, the reality star is doing all she can behind the scenes to fortify her foundations.
Sadly, Kim can try to shield their children and her family as much as possible with legal letters and red tape, but as long as Kanye has a platform to spew his anger, he is going to use it.
