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Just because Kim Kardashian wants nothing to do with Kanye West anymore doesn’t mean that his friends are off limits too.
Get your mind out of the gutter, we didn’t mean it like that. According to the Huff Post, Kim Kardashian took to Instagram to thank Kanye’s former designer Bobby Naugle for gifting her and her daughter, North, some exclusive merchandise that he had designed for the embattled artist formerly known as Kanye West which included attire from Kanye’s Roc-A-Fella days.
Known for designing the iconic bear that Yeezy used to constantly use in his album’s covers and artwork, Naugle gifted Kim and North some throwback gear that any Hip-Hop collector would’ve loved to get their hands on.
The Huff Post reports:
“He asked for nothing in return,” Kardashian wrote.
Kardashian, who added that the two stayed in touch, said Naugle “felt it be most appropriate” to give a number of vintage Ye items to her children after he was approached by collectors and auction houses.
She wrote that the merchandise, which was created between 2003 and 2005, includes “first-hand sketches” along with the rapper’s “original personal pink” Ralph Lauren polo.
“I would like to publicly thank Bobby for his kindness and generosity (it’s very rare in this industry), when he could have easily made a lot of money from selling off these items instead,” Kardashian wrote alongside a picture of the two.
Remnants of a music artist once universally loved, but now, well, y’all know.
What Kim and North will do with this is anyone’s guess, but we wouldn’t be surprised if North rocks some of this stuff in the future as she seems to really love her dad.
What do y’all think of Bobby Naugle’s gifts to Kim and North? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Kanye West’s antisemitic rants has cost him dearly both in his music career and other business ventures, but now we get to see how his unhinged rants affected the personal life of his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian.
Variety is reporting that in the latest episode of The Kardashians, cameras were around Kim Kardashian when Kanye took to Twitter to spew his antisemitic rhetoric, and naturally, it did not go over well in the Kardashian household. Touching on the situation, Kim admits that “It’s really confusing for me that it’s so different than the person that I married because that’s who I loved and that’s who I remember,” and that “I’ll do anything to get that person back.”
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Of course, like the rest of us, she loved the old Kanye, but doesn’t want to get involved in his messiness. “I don’t ever want to jump in and be apart of a downfall for the father of my kids,” she said.
Variety reports:
“It’s really fucking hard,” she adds. “And I don’t wish that upon anybody.”
In the episode, Kardashian is in conversation with her sister, Khloé Kardashian, distraught over how to navigate her emotions and the public backlash against her ex-husband’s hate speech, while continuing to support her children and their father. “I’m just not OK. I’m just having such a hard day today,” Kardashian says through tears to her sister. “I literally haven’t changed my outfit in like two days. I just have to get it together. I just can’t.”
“You don’t have to get it together. You don’t have to be strong all the time,” Khloé tells Kim. “You’re allowed to go through this and have your feelings. What you’ve been dealing with is not okay.”
“I feel so bad for him,” Kim responds. “I don’t even think he feels bad for himself because I don’t even know if he knows how…I just feel so bad.”
Many women who’ve been scorned by an ex would gladly watch their former lover’s life crash and burn before them, but Kim isn’t one of those women. Good for her.
Still, Kim felt that if she weighs in on Kanye’s rants that “he’ll probably go off on me,” and the way he was acting at the time, he probably would have. Still, after Kanye’s unprovoked rant against the Jewish community, Kim took to Twitter to denounce hate speech, but never mentioned Ye in the tweet saying “I stand together with the Jewish community and call on the terrible violence and hateful rhetoric towards them to come to an immediate end.”
Well, she tried.
Kanye, meanwhile, felt the backlash immediately as he was canceled by millions of his fans and dropped by adidas, Gap, Balenciaga, and basically every other venture he had going for him at the time.
Well, at least he doesn’t have to see Kim and Pete Davidson enjoy life together anymore.
What do y’all think of Kim Kardashian’s reaction to Kanye West? Should she have called him out at the time or was she smart to keep her distance? Let us know in the comments section below.
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As of late, Kim Kardashian has been more open to talking about her feelings and experiences during her marriage to Kanye West, and now she’s revealing that it was Kanye West who actually started the rumor that she had an affair with Drake.
According to BuzzFeed, Kim Kardashian exposed the source behind the whole “Kim and Drake” rumor, and it came from non other than her own husband at the time. After Drake dropped the “Kiki do you love me?” line in his hit song “In My Feelings,” social media went crazy with conspiracy theories that he was referring to Kim Kardashian, who at the time was married to his rival, Kanye West. Naturally, this led to Kanye calling out Drake for being “disrespectful” even though Kim denied having ever hooked up with the King of The North.
Heck, Drake even sampled Kim K’s voice in a new song just last month. Was he trolling Kanye? No one knows but Kanye hasn’t responded to the cut thus far.
Now, all these years later, Kim is looking back on the situation and pulled Kanye’s card for the role he played in the embarrassing situation. In this week’s episode of The Kardashians, she dropped a bombshell that no one saw coming… though, we probably should’ve.
BuzzFeed reports:
“The one that was supposed to protect me, and still does interviews saying they will be my forever protector, is the one that is hurting me the most,” Kim tells Kris. “He was the one that started a rumor that said I was hooking up with Drake, having an affair — our whole marriage he accused me of that publicly.”
She continued: “The person that’s supposed to protect me the most publicly would accuse me of having an affair throughout our whole marriage,” adding, “I really can’t wrap my head around how he thinks he is a protector.”
Honestly, we shouldn’t be surprised. Kanye West was and still is on some other sh*t.
Ever since Kanye got married to Bianca Censori he’s left Kim alone (for the most part) so we doubt he’ll respond to herallegation, but we wouldn’t be surprised if he mentions it at some point on a social media post. Sometimes it seems like the man just can’t help himself.
What do y’all think of Kim Kardashian revealing it was Kanye West who started the Drake affair rumor? Let us know in the comments section below.
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