Ever notice how some folks seem cursed by the stars to self-destruct in the most headline-grabbing ways? Take Kanye West—sorry, Ye Ye now—who’s been careening from public darling to walking PR nightmare faster than Mercury can retrograde twice in a month. I mean, it’s like the universe hit shuffle on his life’s soundtrack and landed on “disaster.” Once the poster child for hip-hop genius and reality-TV royalty, Ye’s recent antics—antisemitic tweets, messy splits, and throwing shade at Jay Z and Beyoncé’s kids—feel like the zodiac’s ultimate cosmic joke. You gotta wonder, is it just bad timing or a celestial sign that some stars are just meant to burn out spectacularly? Meanwhile, Jay Z and Beyoncé seem to be rewriting the script, giving Kanye’s legacy a lyrical side-eye during their long-awaited reunion on stage. Let’s dive into this celestial drama unfolding under our noses, because, honestly, the planets might be having a little fun at Ye’s expense.
I’m not normally one for following celebrity news, but it’s been difficult to ignore the downfall of Kanye West in recent years.
Ye, or Ye Ye, as he likes to be known these days, has become the true embodiment of the ‘your dad’s taking his divorce well’ meme after his split with Kim Kardashian.
In case you’ve made the sensible decision to be off X, you might have missed the 48-year-old’s vile antisemitic tweets which included claims that he ‘loves Hitler’ and that he is a ‘Nazi’, among other rants.
While he was able to find himself a new wife, Bianca Censori, he also reportedly split with her, not long after her X-rated stunt at the Grammys, but his outburst on social media was still a shock.
During that time, he also took aim at the kids of Jay Z and Beyonce, and now it seems as if the duo had their revenge, as they performed together for the first time in seven years at the Stade de France during Beyonce’s third Cowboy Carter Tour show in the French capital.
Ye’s name was erased from the song (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Jay Z sang N****s in Paris, which he famously released with Kanye back in 2011, but changed the lyrics as to avoid mentioning the rapper’s name.
During the rendition, fans noticed that Jay Z switched up the lyrics, rapping: “Gold bottles, scold models, Spillin’ Ace on my sick J’s. (Ball so hard) B***h, behave. Just might let you meet Bey’ – using his wife’s name instead of Ye’s.
Fans were quick to notice the subtle dig to remove Ye’s name from his own song, with some praising Jay Z for standing by his family following Ye’s sick posts on social media.
One wrote: “After the way Kanye talked about his kids, Jay is done with Ye for good.”
Another said: “You see he’s over Kanye & his mess he changed the lyrics.”
Beyonce and Jay Z really weren’t about to let Kanye West get away with those tweets (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
Although it’s seemingly impossible to get banned from X at the moment, given that people at the very top are spouting racist or homophobic views, Ye actually clarified that he’d removed his posts about the celebrity couple’s kids over fears that his account could be removed.
He said: “‘I need everyone to know that I took the post about Jay Z and Beyoncé’s family down… because there was a possibility of my Twitter being cancelled.”
LADBible has reached out to representatives of Jay Z and Kanye West for comment.
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