Kanye West keeps doubling and tripling down on his "white lives matter" shirt that he debuted at his Yeezy fashion show in Paris. Having subsequently called Black Lives Matter a "scam," he has now shared a text conversation with Sean "Diddy" Combs, in which Ye cusses out Combs for trying to talk sense into him.
In a series of text messages between Ye and someone saved in his phone as "Puff" — presumably Diddy, f.k.a. Puff Daddy — Combs tried to get through to Ye, repeatedly offering to meet him in person and saying, "This is hurting our people. Stop."
Ye's responses included "FUUUUUCK YOU" and "come do something illegal to me." He also appeared to threaten Combs with some antisemitic comments.
As of this writing, all of Ye's responses to Diddy are still posted on Instagram, although he's known for scrubbing his Instagram page on a near-daily basis, so they surely won't last for long. See the screenshots below.
Earlier this week, Diddy addressed the "white lives matter" shirt in an Instagram video. He said:
I am not about to be addressing every last thing that's going on in the world on the internet, but the thing I do have to address is this 'white lives matter' T-shirt. I've always been there, and I will always support my brother Kanye as a free thinker. But the 'white lives matter' t-shirt, I don't rock with it, you know what I'm saying? I'm not with it. And what the press and what fashion is doing, thinking it's a joke. But right now, all America has planned for us is poverty, incarceration and death. So, before I can get to any other lives matter — which, all lives matter, you know what I'm saying — that Black Lives Matter, don't play with it. Don't wear the shirt. Don't buy the shirt. Don't play with the shirt. It's not a joke.
In a series of text messages between Ye and someone saved in his phone as "Puff" — presumably Diddy, f.k.a. Puff Daddy — Combs tried to get through to Ye, repeatedly offering to meet him in person and saying, "This is hurting our people. Stop."
Ye's responses included "FUUUUUCK YOU" and "come do something illegal to me." He also appeared to threaten Combs with some antisemitic comments.
As of this writing, all of Ye's responses to Diddy are still posted on Instagram, although he's known for scrubbing his Instagram page on a near-daily basis, so they surely won't last for long. See the screenshots below.
Earlier this week, Diddy addressed the "white lives matter" shirt in an Instagram video. He said:
I am not about to be addressing every last thing that's going on in the world on the internet, but the thing I do have to address is this 'white lives matter' T-shirt. I've always been there, and I will always support my brother Kanye as a free thinker. But the 'white lives matter' t-shirt, I don't rock with it, you know what I'm saying? I'm not with it. And what the press and what fashion is doing, thinking it's a joke. But right now, all America has planned for us is poverty, incarceration and death. So, before I can get to any other lives matter — which, all lives matter, you know what I'm saying — that Black Lives Matter, don't play with it. Don't wear the shirt. Don't buy the shirt. Don't play with the shirt. It's not a joke.
