Kim Kardashian is mulling over a big decision ... whether to go to court and ask a judge to strip Kanye West of joint legal custody of their 4 kids, because her ex-husband has flagrantly ignored their custody agreement.
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00:00There is a war that has erupted between Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.
00:06It involves swastikas, it involves their kids,
00:12and ultimately it could... and Diddy.
00:16And it could also involve a judge.
00:18Yes, because Kim is really upset about this new song
00:22that Kanye dropped over the weekend.
00:24It's called Lonely Roads Still Go to Sunshine.
00:28It features Northwest rapping.
00:31It also features Diddy's son, King Combs.
00:34And you also hear Diddy himself on that,
00:37which is the main reason Kim wanted to stop this song from coming out.
00:42So here's the backdrop to this.
00:44Kim... I just think we should put this out there.
00:48She has always tried to get Kanye and their kids to have a relationship.
00:55He has not really been around the kids that much.
00:58He chooses not to do that.
01:00But when he does, she's always been accommodating,
01:05except for this situation, because of what Charles just said.
01:08She's afraid this creates danger for the kid to be part of this,
01:13where Diddy's involved.
01:15While Diddy's in the middle of this indictment and all the lawsuits.
01:18That's right. So Kanye recorded this,
01:22Kim found out, and Kanye said he was going to drop it.
01:26And Kim said, I do not want you to do that.
01:29They had a dispute under the term...
01:31When you say drop it, that he was going to put out the song.
01:33I'm sorry. That's right. That's what the kids...
01:35Sorry, I know. You're so street.
01:37You're so street, I didn't understand.
01:39So, so, so the...
01:43Here's the deal.
01:44When lawyers try to be street. Anyway.
01:46They have an agreement in their divorce
01:49that if there's a dispute over decisions for the children,
01:53this has to do with their joint legal custody,
01:56they'll go to a mediator.
01:58And there was a mediation on Friday,
02:00where they went back and forth on it,
02:04and Kanye ultimately agreed,
02:06okay, I won't release the song.
02:09Right. We should say Kanye was not actually there at this meeting.
02:12His lawyer was.
02:13His lawyer was.
02:14So they made a decision that he wouldn't.
02:16He did. On Sunday. Yesterday.
02:18He released the song.
02:20Kim is really upset.
02:22Yeah, she is upset for the reasons you said.
02:25To put North on this track that is clearly going to attract
02:30a lot of attention for the fact that you are hearing
02:32what sounds like a jailhouse conversation between,
02:35a phone conversation between Kanye and Diddy
02:38at a time when this is just a perilous time for Diddy, obviously,
02:44people are throwing all sorts of allegations,
02:46and now North is featured on a song with Diddy.
02:49She has every right to be upset.
02:51The way Kanye is behaving so erratically
02:53is just beyond the pale.
02:54There are close calls that parents have,
02:56maybe you get a mediator to talk about
02:58what extent you want the child to have social media,
03:00what school you want them to go to.
03:02To be around a guy in a Nazi sweatshirt,
03:04dropping a track with an accused sex trafficker
03:07is beyond the pale stuff,
03:08and she would win in front of any judge,
03:10let alone a mediator,
03:11and she really has a duty now at this point as a parent
03:13to intervene.
03:14I mean, Kanye is just off the reservation
03:16in terms of his behavior,
03:17and I know he's her father, but...
03:18There's only one way of intervening,
03:19and that would be to go back to court
03:21and ask a judge to strip Kanye of joint legal custody
03:27because of this,
03:28and I think when you look at what Kanye posted last night,
03:33I mean, he's declaring war.
03:35He is saying, test me.
03:37The man makes the final decision.
03:40Kind of says it all.
03:41I think Kim has always,
03:42because we've been at this place before
03:44where they disagree about things,
03:46and it seems like Kim has always deferred to
03:49wanting to maintain,
03:51wanting Kanye to be able to maintain
03:54a good relationship with the kids
03:56when he wants to see them,
03:57and so she maybe doesn't want to inflame things by...
04:01That's the word.
04:02No, no, no, that's the word.
04:04What I'm hearing is she's just afraid
04:07that when you set Kanye off,
04:10it's dynamite blowing up.
04:12Yeah.
04:13I mean, that's kind of what it is.
04:14By the way, he posted this weekend,
04:17before he posted the song,
04:18or maybe it was after,
04:19but he posted what he says are text messages
04:22between himself and Kim,
04:24and it's clear, if they're accurate,
04:27that she's upset that he's going forward with this.
04:30He's saying things like,
04:31I'm never speaking to you again.
04:33Well, he said something else.
04:34He says, basically,
04:35you're going to have to kill me.
04:37Yeah.
04:38So, I mean, how much more incendiary can you get than that?
04:44Hey, guys.
04:45Ashley here from Arizona.
04:47Listen, as a mom myself,
04:49I can totally relate to Kim's feelings,
04:52her perspective on not wanting North
04:54associated with this at all,
04:56and I did actually listen to the song.
04:58It's painting Diddy in a not bad light,
05:02so it almost comes off as an optimistic vibe
05:05going on to it,
05:06so I can understand why she does not want her daughter involved with this,
05:10and the fact that Kanye is fighting with her on that is,
05:14I would be scared,
05:15and I really think that, you know,
05:18he needs to consider, like,
05:20the serious repercussions of maybe potentially
05:22never seeing his kids again,
05:23and, you know,
05:25but I am kind of curious to know, like,
05:27what he's holding out on as far as, like,
05:30this we'll both go down together situation,
05:33but we know that he deals with, like, mental health,
05:35so could it be connected to that?
05:37I think everything is connected to that.
05:40I mean, I don't know how you take that calculus away
05:44from everything he's doing.
05:46It's all connected to that.