'Can't tell me nothing'
Days after his
White Lives Matter controversy and the endless social media spats he's had since,
Kanye West went on Fox News to start some more fires.
This time, the Donda rapper took aim at the body positivity moment, which he called "unhealthy" and "demonic".
Ye gave a wide-ranging interview to Tucker Carlson, touching on everything from his ex-wife,
Kim Kardashian, to his support of
Donald Trump and his pro-life beliefs.
The 45-year-old spoke about his "good friend" Lizzo, saying she often gets attacked on social media by "bots" whenever she announces she's lost weight.
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Ye said these bots criticise the 'Good As Hell' singer because the "media wants to put out a perception that being overweight is the new goal."
Ye, who ignited a torrent of controversy by wearing a White Lives Matter t-shirt to his Paris Fashion Week show earlier this week, described the body positivity movement as "demonic" and part of an attempted "genocide of the Black race".
When quizzed about his fashion week t-shirt, Ye said he's not listening to all the critics. One, American academic, author and activist Marc Lamont Hill, describing the stunt as
"disgusting, dangerous and irresponsible".
Ye told Carlson: "I don’t care about what people’s response is. I care about the fact that there are more Black babies being aborted than born in New York City at this point," he said.
"That 50 per cent of Black death in America is abortion. So I really don’t care about people’s response I perform for an audience of one and that’s God."
Carlson mentioned how Ye was also criticised when he wore a Make America Great Again hat when he visited Trump at the White House in 2018.
"My so-called friends/handlers around me told me said that if I like Trump my career would be over," Ye said.
"That my life would be over.
"They said stuff like people get killed for wearing a hat like that. They threatened my life.
"They basically said that I would be killed for wearing the hat. I had someone call me last night and said anybody wearing a White Lives Matter shirt is going to be green lit.
"That means that they are going to beat them up if they wear it. I’m like okay, green light me then."
After Ye's t-shirt was criticised he doubled down on his criticism of the BLM movement, writing on Instagram, where he has 18m followers: "Everyone knows Black Lives Matter was a scam. Now it's over. You're welcome."
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has since invited Ye to a "free, open, online Black Power class," taught by the Director of the BLM Grassroots Dr Melina Abdullah to "deepen their understanding".
Their statement added: "We invite them into courageous conversation on race, racism, and why we say 'Black Lives Matter'."
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