It's hard to be shocked by anything Kanye West says these days ... but he still made some jaw-dropping statements about his ex Kim Kardashian during his recent interview with DJ Akademiks.
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00:00We're going to start with Kanye West pushing Kim Kardashian
00:04closer and closer to the edge in this battle over their kids.
00:08Because of something he said in an interview
00:10he did over the weekend.
00:11He went, did an interview with DJ Akademiks,
00:15dressed like this.
00:17Although he started when he first showed up,
00:22he did not have on the black KKK outfit.
00:26So it's the opposite of Bianca's story.
00:28He's fully covered.
00:29Yes, completely covered, wearing that outfit,
00:33and saying something about the kids, the four children
00:37that he has with Kim Kardashian.
00:39And the reason I say this is pushing Kim, she has tried.
00:43She has tried not to go into court
00:46and to fight to get full custody.
00:49Because she wants, has made this very clear,
00:51she wants her kids to have a relationship with their father.
00:54She's not trying to stand in the way of that.
00:56But when he says things like this, at some point,
01:00she has to be thinking, I don't know
01:04if this is good for our kids to be around this.
01:07And the guy in the black KKK hood, yeah, maybe not.
01:10In that hood, and saying things like this about his kids.
01:13With the situation with the kids,
01:14I hear you speak about that a lot.
01:16Nobody really spoke on your behalf.
01:17But even when you speak about Kim, people might be like,
01:19well, you picked her.
01:21Like, you put yourself in that.
01:23Absolutely, I did.
01:24That was my fault.
01:25Maybe they're saying that you don't take accountability.
01:27No, that was my fault.
01:29I didn't want to have children with this person
01:33after the first two months of being with her.
01:36But that wasn't God's plan.
01:38I did not want to have kids with this person.
01:42It is, that's just, I mean, obviously, he intended it,
01:46I think, as a jab at Kim, which it is.
01:48But his kids, especially North, is at an age.
01:51It's his kid's mother.
01:52Right, and North is at an age,
01:54she's definitely gonna know this stuff.
01:56We get to a point where we don't think
01:57that Kanye West can shock us anymore,
01:59and then he says something that is so shocking, so alarming.
02:04It's one thing to go after Kim,
02:05say whatever you want, I guess, his ex-wife.
02:07It's horrible, but he says it.
02:09To say things that will redound against the kids
02:12is just unforgivable.
02:13I mean, we've been through this so many times.
02:15We say it all the time,
02:15wearing the Nazi shirt is unforgivable.
02:17The Klanhood itself, right?
02:19The fact we're sort of glossing over that
02:20to a bigger point about the insult
02:22he had towards his wife,
02:23and we're not even talking about the fact
02:25the guy's wearing a Klanhood.
02:26It's just, we're just beyond,
02:29we're through the looking glass now.
02:30I don't even know where to go with this anymore.
02:31Yeah, and the thing about the kids,
02:35at some point here, and not,
02:37for the younger ones, it's at some point.
02:39For North, it's right now, right?
02:41That you're, even if she doesn't see it,
02:43even if somehow Kim is able to keep that away from her,
02:49the kids that she, her friends at school,
02:51they're gonna know about it.
02:52They're gonna see it.
02:54And it's just, it puts them in,
02:55puts the kids in a horrible situation,
02:57puts Kim in a horrible situation.
03:00And at some point, you just go like, ah.
03:03And at some point, is there also a discussion
03:05about should he not be put on camera?
03:08Should they not be doing an interview with him?
03:12Should we not be giving him attention?
03:14Having sat in this very, very position
03:17that we're in right here,
03:19where you start to do an interview with Kanye,
03:21and things seem normal,
03:23and then suddenly there's a comment made
03:26where you go like, okay, this isn't,
03:28I don't blame AK for that.
03:29I mean, he showed up and hoped to get a good interview.
03:32But when he says things like that, I get your point.
03:36He also said something about, unbelievably,
03:40defending this tweet that he did a couple weeks ago
03:43about Jay-Z and Beyonce's kids.
03:45I'm not gonna repeat what he said.
03:46It was absolutely awful.
03:48He deleted it, and then doubled down on it
03:51in a later tweet.
03:53This is what he had to say about this,
03:55how he's defending this, I don't know.
03:57The Jay-Z tweet, Jay-Z's kids tweet,
04:00makes the, that even seem so bad.
04:05Every week, it's like.
04:06Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:07I feel like that was probably the worst tweet you've said.
04:11Or the best.
04:13Or the strongest.
04:16Yeah.
04:18What do you say to that when he says,
04:19or it's the best or the strongest thing I've ever said?
04:22Yeah, it's, this is a tough position, like I said.
04:26More than, there's the outrageousness of what he's saying.
04:30But some of that, you could look at it and say,
04:31look, he's obviously dealing with mental health issues,
04:35and that may be part of that.
04:36But either way, for Kim Kardashian,
04:38the bottom line is, he is out there saying these things
04:41that can be damaging to your children.
04:43So how do you react?
04:44How are they not damaging to your children?
04:47Yeah.
04:47I mean, how would, I mean, are you just,
04:51you feel for them?
04:52I mean, it just feels like a therapist bill.
04:54I was gonna say, there's a lot of therapy coming.
04:57Hi, my name is Brielle, I'm from Rochester.
05:00So the initial interview with academics in Kanye,
05:05from my perspective, the initial comments,
05:09if he was trying to hold himself accountable,
05:12then making harsh statements against his children
05:15is kind of contradicting.
05:17And also, two of the worst case scenarios can happen.
05:20They can stumble across the interview
05:23and then change their perspective on their dad,
05:26or Kim can have a hard time trying to hide it
05:30from her kids, which is unfortunate.
05:33Yeah, have a hard time hiding it,
05:34and then also have a hard time explaining it
05:36at some point when they do see it.
05:39It'd be tough enough if you're in a troubled relationship
05:42having this stuff happen privately,
05:44but having it publicly out there forever,
05:47this never goes away,
05:48this clip will be on the internet forever,
05:50it's really tough for those kids.
05:51Yeah, absolutely.