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After being extensively criticized for harassing his estranged spouse Kim Kardashian and her new beau Pete Davidson for a number of weeks—and releasing a brief non-apology that was probably drafted by a fatigued publicist—Kanye West is again on his bullshit, exhibiting his most alarming habits but.
On Wednesday, West took to Instagram to drop the video for “Eazy,” his joint single with The Recreation, which reads primarily as a warning to Davidson, versus a considerate piece of artwork related together with his elusive new album Donda 2. Whereas the middling monitor didn’t obtain a lot fanfare upon its launch in January, of us will keep in mind the duvet artwork that includes a skinned monkey and the notorious lyric uttered by West, “God saved me from that crash simply so I can beat Pete Davidson’s ass.”
The Chicago rapper takes this disturbing message and imagery a step additional within the new black-and-white video, which options The Recreation rapping on high of a casket and stop-animation of West kidnapping an unmistakable clay rendering of Davidson and burying him within the floor. West even raps his verses whereas holding the SNL comic’s dismembered head. On the finish of the virtually four-minute clip, West, in clay kind, cuts a bunch of flowers which have grown round Davidson’s bloated head because it stands out from a grave, places them behind a car, and drives off. This, it appears, is an outline of the closely mocked truck of roses West despatched Kardashian on Valentine’s Day, which featured the phrase “MY MESSAGE IS KRYSTAL CLEAR” emblazoned on the facet of the automobile.
The video ends with a message that reads, “EVERYBODY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER INCLUDING SKETE [which is scratched out] YOU KNOW WHO.” The ultimate slide reads, “JK HE’S FINE.”
Regardless of no matter joke West thinks he’s pulling off relating to threats to Davidson’s life, he’s blatantly ignoring the pleas from his ex-wife to go away her and her new beau alone, which he beforehand revealed on Instagram by way of screenshots of textual content messages from her.
The time of the “Eazy” drop additionally feels calculated, as information broke earlier on Wednesday that Kardashian has been legally declared single by a Los Angeles choose, following a request she filed in December. Final week, the fact star requested the courtroom to reject a plea by West to halt the divorce proceedings, citing emotional misery brought on by her ex’s posts on social media geared toward her.
At this level, in West’s period of disturbing shenanigans, it wouldn’t be shocking if the musician had been holding onto the video for “Eazy” and waited to launch it in response to Kardashian’s emancipation from him. Simply yesterday, there was hypothesis that West had one thing up his sleeve when he met with one other estranged male companion to a Kardashian, Tristan Thompson, for dinner in Miami. He’s additionally been working round with an uncanny lookalike of his ex. And on Wednesday, Netflix dropped the third act of his documentary jeen-yuhs, if that performs any function on this newest stunt.
Regardless, it’s clear that West isn’t involved with accusations that his habits is abusive and genuinely terrifying for a lady of any degree of wealth or energy to expertise. Contemplating the best way he’s cozied as much as abusers over the previous yr–together with The Recreation, who was dominated chargeable for sexual assault in 2016, and Marilyn Manson–this newest incident will definitely spark extra discourse about what sort of habits our tradition deems acceptable if you happen to’re a gifted, well-known man.
Whereas West’s music has all the time closely featured misogyny, he appears to assume terrorizing his household is a powerful, provocative type of artwork. Ever since his assist of Donald Trump in 2018 and a brand new wave of dangerous behaviors, followers have been been lamenting that the previous West is gone. However after this newest incident, can we even need him again?