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Kanye West Out Of Grammys Lineup Due To “Concerning Online Behavior”: Report
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ronald Martinez / Getty Trolling and harassment on the Internet does have its consequences. Kanye West has reportedly been removed from the Grammys lineup due to “concerning online behavior.” In case you’ve been willfully avoiding his name, Ye has been firing virtual shots at his ex-wife Kim Kardashian and her new boyfriend Pete Davidson for weeks. Part of the fallout has been many, including comedian DL Hughley, calling out and likening Ye’s behavior as stalking and harassment. Now, according to The Blast, the showrunners of the Grammy Awards have decided to remove the “Power” rapper from the award show, citing his timeline, basically. Reportedly, Ye’s people received a call on Friday, March 2020 from the Grammy organizers telling him his services were n...
Kanye West Barred From Performing at the Grammys Due to ‘Concerning Online Behavior’
Kanye West has been barred from performing at this year’s Grammy Awards ceremony. The Blast originally reported on Friday that the Recording Academy “unfortunately” decided to pull him from the show’s lineup “due to what they deem to be concerning online behavior.” The rapper’s rep confirmed the news to SPIN. The decision was made after Ye continually harassed his ex-wife Kim Kardashian’s boyfriend Pete Davidson in social media posts and music videos. He was also recently suspended on Instagram for 24 hours after using a racial slur against Trevor Noah (who also happens to be hosting the Grammys) after The Daily Show host addressed West’s ongoing feud with Davidson on his show. Noah responded to the post with words of concern in a Daily Show segment. “You’re an indelible part of ...
Julia Fox WhiteWomansplains Kanye West Behavior
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Edward Berthelot / Getty Have no fear, a white woman will explain Kanye West’s behavior for everybody. According to Ye’s latest ex, Julia Fox, the guy is harmless and Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson have nothing to worry about. Despite the allegedly abusive and bullying behavior Yeezy has been exhibiting on social media, at least until Instagram suspended him for 24 hours, Fox insists the targets of his vitriol need not worry. Reports TMZ: Related Stories We got Julia after a workout at Barry’s Bootcamp in WeHo, and asked her about Kanye’s string of threats against Pete … which started while she and Ye were still dating. Many people think Kanye’s crossed a line, Julia sees no real danger on the horizon. ulia says Kanye wouldn’t follow through on any phys...
Ye FKA Kanye West Fears Pete Davidson Will Make Kim Kardashian A Drug Addict
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Michael Reaves / Getty The ongoing breakup saga between Ye FKA Kanye West and his ex-wife Kim Kardashian continues to roll on, and the latest instance adds to a mountain of already explosive happenings. Via Instagram, Ye voiced concerns that Kardashian’s new beau Pete Davidson will get the social media superstar hooked to drugs. Ye took to Instagram Wednesday (March 16) morning and shared a follower’s reply regarding the matter. “The way Skete used Kim’s marital status [to] address Kanye was a sneak diss towards her & she didn’t even catch it,” the fan wrote in the screen-capped image. In the caption of Ye’s post, he wrote, “[I’m] really concerned that SKETE will get my kids mom hooked on drugs He’s in rehab every 2 months.” Related Stories While Davi...
Kim Kardashian Hops In Kanye West’s IG Comments & Tells Him To Cut The Crap
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Arnold Jerocki / Getty Kanye West is back on Instagram to make his now ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, life a living hell. After agreeing to chill with the Instagram posts about his fallout with his ex-wife Kim Kardashian, West is back at it, this crying about Kardashian allegedly “limiting access” to his children. Ye also claimed Pete Davidson’s boo is not allowing the kids to visit his faux church for Sunday Service. Kardashian, unlike Ye, has been very mum on social media refraining from clapping back at problematic Chicago rapper who has been dissing her boyfriend, but that all changed on Monday when she decided to hop in his Instagram comments. Under his latest post on Monday (Mar.14), Kim K told Yeezy, “Please stop with this narrative, you were just here t...
DL Hughley Fires Back After Kanye West Threatens To “Hurt” Him
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bobby Bank / Getty D.L. Hughley is unfazed by Kanye West’s recent threats against him online after the comedian blasted him for his antics regarding Kim Kardashian, responding on social media over the weekend. The Original Kings of Comedy star clapped back at the Donda 2 rapper on Sunday (March 13th) on his social media accounts, mocking him for his behavior and swiping at his mental health issues. Hughley made his comments after West made a series of posts through his Instagram account targeting the comedian, who had taken him to task for his behavior towards estranged wife Kim Kardashian in an interview with DJ Vlad including stating that he was “stalking her” as the two are in the midst of a divorce. In a now-deleted post, the artist now known as Ye wr...
Pete Davidson Allegedly Checked Ye FKA Kanye West Via Now Deleted Text Messages
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: James Devaney / Getty Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, employed social media to take digs at his estranged wife Kim Kardashian‘s romantic partner, Pete Davidson, often using violent gestures at times. The comedian allegedly fired back after a series of text messages from him directed towards the Chicago superstar urged him to, quote, “grow the f*ck up.” Davidson, who isn’t a heavy social media user, reportedly posted the now-deleted text messages which showed high praise for Kardashian as a mother to West’s children. “Yo it’s Skete. Can you please take a second and calm down. It’s 8am and it don’t gotta be like this,” began the string of texts, confirmed as official by Page Six. The texts continued with, “Kim is literally the best mother I’ve ever met. W...
Kanye West Offers “Pawn” DL Hughley The Fade: “I Can Afford To Hurt U”
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Ronald Martinez / Getty The Kanye West Is Reckless on Social Media Tour is chugging right along with no end in sight. This time, Ye responded to recent criticism DL Hughley sent his way by threatening the Kings Of Comedy comedian. In a recent interview with DJ Vlad, Hughley likened Ye’s treatment of Kim Kardashian, at least in social media, to that of a stalker, or a domestic abuser if we’re keeping it a bean. Clearly, Ye wasn’t too happy about the comparison. Taking to his preferred method of communication, Instagram, Ye posted the old clip of DL Hughley fainting on stage and added some vitriol to the caption (which also included a stray shot at Charlamagne Tha God. “We gone stop letting practicing drug addicts be used by leftist to Willie Lynch ou...
Kanye West Hires Jason Lee As His Head Of Media and Partnerships
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty You can’t see Kanye West doesn’t think outside the lines. The artist who now prefers you call him Ye has officially hired infamous blogger, reality star and Hollywood Unlocked founder Jason Lee as his media manager. The Daily Mail first reported that Ye brought on Lee to “[help] broker deals” be in charge of his “public image” per a source. This comes after Ye has basically kept himself in the media spotlight thanks to disparaging his ex-wife Kim Kardashian’s new boyfriend, Pete Davidson, and sharing any all tea with his millions of social media followers with barely a filter in sight. Related Stories Lee doesn’t come without his own drama, he was forced to retract a debunked news report from Hollywood Unlocked that the Queen of Engla...
Kanye West Served Subpoena For Federal Fraud Trial of Ex-Employee
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images / Getty Ye, also known as Kanye West, will be appearing in court after being summoned to testify in a trial involving his former employee. The rapper and culture maven was issued a subpoena to appear and testify at the upcoming federal trial of Arjun Dhillon, which is set to take place at the Drisken Courthouse in Chicago, Illinois. Dhillon is facing charges of wire fraud, which involved him “falsely representing his association with Kanye West to secure a $250,000 payment” to a philanthropist based in Florida, according to prosecutors. The victim managed to prevent the fraud after contacting his bank. Dhillon is also alleged to have created several fake email accounts to convince the victim that he was still...
Kanye West Posts Divorce Poem To Instagram Following Kim Kardashian’s Restored Single Status
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Byron Cohen / Getty Welp, it happened. Kim Kardashian is finally legally a single woman again, and, of course, Kanye West is in his feelings about it. Ye, who frankly has been giving us borderline stalker vibes throughout this whole saga, recently defended his “Eazy” video, in which he buried alive a clay version of Kim’s new boo Pete Davidson. Ye said the visuals in the video were “art” and that art “is therapy just like this view.” Well now, Yeezus is getting his “therapy” through a softer form of art. He wrote a poem about the pain of divorce and posted it on Instagram. “Divorce feels like your doctor don’t know shit / Divorce feels like walking on glass,” Kanye wrote. Related Stories He then likens the split with Kim to “running throu...
D.L. Hughley Says Kanye West Is “Stalking” Kim Kardashian, Twitter Debates
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Bobby Bank / Getty D.L. Hughley isn’t one to pull his punches when it comes to sharing his opinions. In a recent interview, the comedian reasoned that Kanye West’s behavior when it comes to Kim Kardashian amounts to “stalking.” Hughley sat down for an interview with DJ Vlad when he laid down his compelling rationale. After telling the host that Yeezy’s antics when it comes to his ex-wife and Pete Davidson have “never been funny,” he went in. “I think that I’ve watched too many times when things like that happen and a woman or somebody is not believed and then things escalate,” said Hughley. “He is stalking her. You can think it’s cute. If it was my daughter, I’d do something about it. I don’t think it’s funny. I think that you can’t write a beat so ...
