It has been a whirlwind week for Kanye West. After stirring controversy with Monday’s Yeezy trend present, the place he and fashions sported “White Lives Matter” shirts, the 45-year-old rapper sat down with Fox Information Channel’s Tucker Carlson the place he sounded off on various hot-button points, together with abortion.
“You simply got here from Paris Trend Week, you simply landed and you’ve got the lanyard nonetheless on from it and there’s {a photograph} on it. What’s that?” Carlson requested.
“It is a {photograph} of a child’s ultrasound,” West mentioned on Thursday’s Tucker Carlson Tonight.
“You designed that. Why? What does that imply?” Carlson probed.
“It simply represents life. I am pro-life,” West clarified.
“You put on it on a badge. What sort of response do you get?” Carlson requested.
“I do not care about individuals’s responses, however I care about the truth that there are extra Black infants being aborted than born in New York Metropolis at this level,” West replied. “That fifty% of Black dying in America is abortion. So I actually do not care about individuals’s response to that. I carry out for an viewers of 1 and that’s God.”
West, who goes by Ye, would not disguise his conservative views. Throughout his failed presidential run in 2020, the Grammy winner publicly revealed he and ex-wife Kim Kardashian thought of aborting their first youngster. West’s speaking level on the marketing campaign rally was the start of the top of his marriage.
West additionally talked to Carlson about supporting Donald Trump. The rapper was the previous president’s most well-known supporter and did not draw back from carrying Trump’s signature “Make America Nice Once more” hat in public.
“My so-called associates/handlers round me advised me if I mentioned that I preferred Trump that my profession could be over. That my life could be over. They mentioned stuff like individuals get killed for carrying a hat like that. They threatened my life,” West defined. “They principally mentioned that I’d be killed for carrying the hat. I had somebody name me final evening and mentioned anyone carrying a ‘White Lives Matter’ shirt goes to be green-lit. Which means they’re going to beat them up in the event that they put on it. I am like, you recognize, OK, inexperienced gentle me then.”
West went on to sentence the media.
“We’re in a battle with the media. Like, the vast majority of the media has a Godless agenda, and their jokes aren’t working,” West declared. “This entire like ‘Oh, Ye’s loopy’ and all these items, they do not work as a result of the media has, you recognize, they’ve additionally watched travesties occur, simply even particularly to me, and simply watch it and act prefer it wasn’t taking place. They usually keep quiet about it.”
Presumably, West would not put Fox Information within the “Godless” class.
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