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Apparently, Kanye West‘s fire still burns with love for his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian.

Rapper Future released his latest album, Never Liked You, which features a collaboration with the still infatuated Ye. The song, “Keep It Burnin,” and the accompanying video were released  Friday.. As Ye has done with his most recent songs, he talks about the love he has for Kardashian without mentioning her name.

Ye speaks on life events while referencing his children’s mother in the song. He subtly mentions buying a house next to Kardashian and insinuates his next presidential run, and his “spouse” being with him in 2024.

“Imma buy a home next to your home if I miss you,” he sings.

“Rubbin’ on your ass, but your mouth is the issue. When you run for ’24, I bet your spouse gon’ be with you. Who put this together? Me, that’s who. ‘We did it, Joe,’ but what they really do?”

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At least in this latest reference, he is not attacking Kardashian’s current boyfriend, Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson.

In a previous collaboration with the rapper The Game, “Eazy,” Ye spoke violently of harming Davidson in not one video but two videos. The first of the two videos showed the controversial artist revealing disturbing images in claymation figures. The video clip shows a claymation version of Ye kidnapping and burying alive the SNL comedian.

In the second video for “Eazy,” there emerged  caricature of Davidson being attacked. There is a skinned monkey on the cover of the single, and it is prominent in the video.

Ye says in the song, “God saved me from that crash/Just so I can beat Pete Davidson’s ass,” and that’s when an animated figure wearing a red sweatsuit with a hoodie appears on the screen. Across the chest, the nickname Ye gave Davidson, “Skete,” is written, and the face is blurred.

The skinned monkey kicks and then jumps on the “man” and continuously punches him in the face as the song goes on.

Source: Infatuation? In New Video with Rapper Future, Kanye West ‘Keeps It Burnin’ for Kim Kardashian

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Kanye West Cannot Perform in Australia Without Being Fully Vaccinated http://philadelphiaobserver.com/kanye-west-cannot-perform-in-australia-without-being-fully-vaccinated/ Sat, 05 Feb 2022 13:49:54 +0000 https://philadelphiaobserver.com/?p=3417

By Ryan Steal

There’s no gray area when it comes to COVID, particularly in Australia, and that’s why Australia’s Prime Minister has made it clear he won’t respect anyone’s rank when it comes to dealing with the pandemic. According to the Prime Minister, not even a celebrity from the U.S., a world’s superpower country, will be spared from these rules. So, it had to get personal. The prime minister, Scott Morrison, went as far as asking American rapper Kanye West to stay away from Australia if he wasn’t ready to get fully vaxed.

Kanye West is now preparing for his visit to Australia for the “Donda 2” listening parties in March. Morrison will have no problems at all if West gets the double jab before then.

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“The rules are you have to be fully vaccinated,” Morrison said in a news conference, according to Independent.

Morrison said the COVID rules weren’t at all targeting an individual.

“They apply to everybody, as people have seen most recently,” the politician continued. “It doesn’t matter who you are, they are the rules. Follow the rules – you can come. You don’t follow the rules, you can’t.”

According to sources, West has yet to receive full COVID vaccination and a booster jab. The reason behind this is a little bit religious. He claimed that the COVID vaccine is the “mark of the beast,” and that the U.S government is using the vaccine to inject people with chips.

“It’s so many of our children that are being vaccinated and paralyzed,” the billionaire rapper told Forbes in 2020.

Source: Kanye West Cannot Perform in Australia Without Being Fully Vaccinated

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Kim Kardashian Explains How Kanye Wearing ‘MAGA’ Hat Changed Her http://philadelphiaobserver.com/kim-kardashian-explains-how-kanye-wearing-maga-hat-changed-her/ Fri, 24 Dec 2021 15:45:58 +0000 https://philadelphiaobserver.com/?p=3223

Like many people, Kim Kardashian West had a negative reaction when she saw her then-husband Kanye West wear a red “Make America Great Again” baseball cap.

However, she said the experience has changed her in ways she views as positive.

 
 
 

Kardashian West admitted as much during a recent podcast interview with former New York Times columnist Bari Weiss, and said the rapper’s decision to wear the hat during a 2018 “Saturday Night Live” performance made her “very nervous.”

“I didn’t want him to wear the red hat. I’m not really a rule-breaker, so my personality would be like, ‘OK, you guys don’t like the red hat? I’ll take it off,’” Kardashian said. “I remember other people were around and it became a thing where he wasn’t going to go on because he wanted to be who he is.”

Kardashian West said that ordinarily she is “very neutral,” but said “that night I was very forceful with him and told him he had to take off the hat.”

But she said she would do things differently now.

“And now, looking back, I think, why should he take that off if that’s what he believes in? Why can’t he wear that on TV? Half of the country voted for [Donald Trump], so clearly other people like him,” she said.

Kardashian West said she learned a lot from that situation.

“No matter what, it taught me to be a little bit more empathetic for people that just want to do what they want to do: freedom of speech! And if you want to wear the hat, wear the hat,” she said. “I respect the fact that he knew exactly what he believed in and always stood by that. To me, that’s a good quality to have, no matter who is against you and no matter what the circumstances are. I think that it’s just admirable and it’s just a really cool quality. Even if it’s not what I agree with, or even if I would have done it differently, I think it’s commendable.”

Source: Kim Kardashian Explains How Kanye Wearing ‘MAGA’ Hat Changed Her

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‘He Needs to Stop the BS’: Kanye Has Childhood Home Replicated at Chicago Stadium Ahead of Third ‘DONDA’ Listening Event http://philadelphiaobserver.com/he-needs-to-stop-the-bs-kanye-has-childhood-home-replicated-at-chicago-stadium-ahead-of-third-donda-listening-event/ Fri, 27 Aug 2021 10:20:17 +0000 https://philadelphiaobserver.com/?p=2770 Kanye West is turning up the dial on nostalgia as he prepares for a third listening event for his upcoming album “DONDA.”

The event is set to take place Thursday, Aug. 26,l at Chicago’s Soldier Field, and if all goes according to plan, it will precede the drop of the anticipated album, finally. West’s return to the city quite literally marks a return to home, even more so as crews hustle to recreate a replica of his childhood home inside the stadium.

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Kanye West shared a photo of his childhood home on Chicago’s South Side (left) days before photos show a construction crew replicating the home at the city’s Soldier Field ahead of his third ‘DONDA’ listening event. (@kanyewest/Instagram, @westsubever/Twitter)

On Aug. 20 the “College Dropout” rapper shared on social a photo of the home in which he grew up. The South Shore residence has sentimental value to the rapper, who purchased it for a reported $225,000 last year. The home was first owned by his late mother, Donda West, beginning the 1980s, however, she later sold it in 2004, just three years before her untimely passing.

West previously held listening events at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. West would go on to set up temporary lodging at the stadium to finish working on the album that was dealt two release pushbacks. But as one fan predicted, his return home to Chicago, Illinois, may have been a part of the plan from the beginning.

For the first event, West donned an all-red outfit, complete with red shoes and a nude mesh-like face covering, symbolizing what some believe to be “hell.” The second event West saw West wearing black attire but concluded the music by ascending into the air, symbolizing the journey to “heaven.”

Now with the focal point being his return to home, fans suspect “he will be wearing white and he’s in heaven” and at some point may feature an hologram of his mother.

Source: ‘He Needs to Stop the BS’: Kanye Has Childhood Home Replicated at Chicago Stadium Ahead of Third ‘DONDA’ Listening Event

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Connecticut rapper YNT Juan fatally shot at age 17 http://philadelphiaobserver.com/connecticut-rapper-ynt-juan-fatally-shot-at-age-17/ Mon, 16 Aug 2021 09:15:56 +0000 https://philadelphiaobserver.com/?p=2701 His murder is the 25th homicide this year in Hartford

Teenage rapper YNT Juan was fatally shot over the weekend in Hartford, Connecticut.

The 17-year-old artist, born Juan Bautista Garcia, was shot dead in a parked car at 258 Martin St. just after 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, police officials confirmed to NBC Connecticut and Fox 61.

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The rapper had over 25,000 Instagram followers and recently promoted his new remix to Kanye West’s “Power,” which was shared with his 4,000 YouTube subscribers on Aug. 3.

“He was only 17-years-old,” a childhood friend of Garcia told HipHopDX. “He never went live on his Instagram to talk about drama, he only went on there to support his friends or promote his music. [He] didn’t even get to graduate school yet.”

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Hartford Police major crime and crime scene divisions are investigating the circumstances surrounding his death.

YNT Juan’s murder is the 25th homicide this year in Hartford. He is among the unsettling list of rappers who have been killed following Chicago rapper King Von’s murder in Nov. 2020.

Last month, Zerail Dijon Rivera, a rapper in the Los Angeles area, was talking with a friend on Instagram Live when he was ambushed in front of viewers and his murder broadcast over the social media network.https://www.youtube.com/embed/kSrkz_pROco?feature=oembed

Rivera, who performed under the name Indian Red Boy, was killed late July in Hawthorne, theGRIO reported. In a press release, the Hawthorne Police Department said they responded to a shooting call at a multi-level gated apartment complex on South Chadron Avenue to find “a 21-year-old male slumped in the front seat of a vehicle parked in the carport to the rear of the building.”

Source: Connecticut rapper YNT Juan fatally shot at age 17

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Teyana Taylor Becomes First Black Woman to Be Named Maxim’s Sexiest Woman Alive http://philadelphiaobserver.com/teyana-taylor-becomes-first-black-woman-to-be-named-maxims-sexiest-woman-alive/ Thu, 10 Jun 2021 19:57:51 +0000 http://philadelphiaobserver.com/?p=2483

Leave it up to Teyana Taylor’s signature ripped body to land her on the cover of Maxim as its first Black Sexiest Woman Alive.

The Coming 2 America actress became a trending topic on Monday after word spread on her historical magazine cover. The singer/director/actress covers the July/August issue after topping Maxim’s hot 100 list, Essence reports.

“I’ve followed Maxim for a long time and I’ve always felt like I should be on the cover,” Taylor said. “So to actually get the call saying they want me on the cover really means a lot. I was like, what? They want me on the cover? Okay!”

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The jack of all trades works hard as a music artist, dancer, entrepreneur, wife, and mother of two daughters 5-year-old Junie and her baby girl Rue Rose. She also lends her skills to fashion brand Pretty Little Thing as its creative director and prides herself in her work as a music video director.

“Honestly, directing is one of the best things that I’ve ever done, and one of my favorite things in my career that I’m doing, ‘cause I kind of always had that eye,” she said.

She gained worldwide attention when she starred and choreographed Kanye West’s 2016 music video for “Fade.” Her NBA player husband Iman Shumpert and daughter Junie also appeared in the video following a standout dance performance from the Harlem native.View this post on Instagram

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The 30-year-old took to Instagram to express her excitement about her history-making magazine cover.

“As an entrepreneur, wife, a busy mother of two & working behind the lens in my director bag I tend to hide behind my sweats & vintage tees, My “Spike Tey” glasses, and whatever hairstyle I’ve mustered up that day,” she said in the lengthy caption. “So as you can see I don’t have much time to be and feel sexy. This particular day was dope because it made me see another side of myself.”

Source: Teyana Taylor Becomes First Black Woman to Be Named Maxim’s Sexiest Woman Alive

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Kanye West takes anti-vaccine, anti-abortion stance in US presidential bid http://philadelphiaobserver.com/kanye-west-takes-anti-vaccine-anti-abortion-stance-in-us-presidential-bid/ Fri, 10 Jul 2020 17:13:42 +0000 http://philadelphiaobserver.com/?p=1290

Kanye West has given more details about the policy platform he will adopt in his bid to become US president in November, declaring himself anti-abortion, sceptical about a Covid-19 vaccine and keen to return “fear and love of God” to education.

In an interview with Forbes, he announced that he would run under the banner of the Birthday party, “because when we win it’s everybody’s birthday”. His campaign slogan is a leaner version of Barack Obama’s “Yes we can” message, reading simply “YES”.

West has missed the deadline to appear on the ballot in a number of states, but he argued that he could be added as a latecomer due to the coronavirus.

 

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He said he was “going to speak with Jared Kushner, the White House, with Biden” to make his bid a reality – although he was also critical of the presumptive Democratic nominee.

He said: “Obama’s special. Trump’s special. We say Kanye West is special. America needs special people that lead. Bill Clinton? Special. Joe Biden’s not special.”

West’s campaign advisers are his wife, the TV star Kim Kardashian-West, and the Tesla founder Elon Musk, both of whom have endorsed him. Speaking about Musk, West said: “I proposed to him to be the head of our space programme.”

West said that if he were to win – either in 2020 or 2024, the year in which he previously hinted he would run – it would be “God’s appointment”. He praised Donald Trump as “the closest president we’ve had in years to allowing God to still be part of the conversation”.

Source: Kanye West takes anti-vaccine, anti-abortion stance in US presidential bid

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Kanye Defends T.I.’s ‘God-approved’ Comments About Teen Daughter’s Virginity http://philadelphiaobserver.com/kanye-defends-t-i-s-god-approved-comments-about-teen-daughters-virginity/ Fri, 03 Jan 2020 12:52:38 +0000 http://philadelphiaobserver.com/?p=426

 

 
 

*On Sunday, Kanye West appeared at the Union Rescue Mission on Skid Row in Los Angeles and chopped it up about his spiritual journey and the one year anniversary of his Sunday Service experience.

The hip-hop star also confessed that working with the choir has helped him confront some of his demons, as seen in footage captured by TMZ (watch the clip above).

“I ain’t telling nobody what to do. I’m expressing what I been through. ‘Cause you know people love to take a soundbite and say, ‘This was not exactly devil-approved by the internet’,” he began. “You can be speaking on something that’s God-approved…you know what I’m saying?”

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He continued, “Like all those songs we be dancing to, twerking to, [and] they tried to play T.I. They tried to play T.I., but he’s talking about something God-approved.” Ye’s added, referencing T.I.’s controversial “hymen checks” for his 18-year-old daughter, Deyjah Harris.

Source: Kanye Defends T.I.’s ‘God-approved’ Comments About Teen Daughter’s Virginity

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