Kanye West Releases Song With Diddy And Daughter, North
Rapper Kanye West waded into controversy yet again this weekend when he released a song featuring his 11-year-old daughter North West and Sean "Diddy" Combs, who is currently imprisoned on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution.
Kanye released the song, titled "Lonely Roads Still Go to Sunshine," on Saturday in a post on X. It featured Sean "Diddy" Combs and North West. Kanye also revealed that it included Combs' son Christian "King" Combs as well as musician Jasmine Williams.
The song was deleted from social media the following day, and Kanye shared what appeared to be a contentious text message conversation between him and Kim Kardashian, his ex-wife and the mother to his daughter, North.
In the text conversation, which has also since been deleted but has been preserved in screenshots, Kardashian said that Kanye gave her permission to trademark North's name and that she filed paperwork to prevent North from appearing in the song with Diddy.
Kardashian said that she owns the trademarks to all of her children's names "so that no one else would take them," and she intends to give the trademarks to the children when they turn 18.
West did not seem happy with this response, as he told Kardashian to "amend" the trademark filing or "I'm going to war," threatening that "neither of us will recover from the public fallout."
"You're going to have to kill me," he said.
West previously expressed support for Diddy, posting "FREE PUFF," in a since-deleted post on X on Feb. 6, referring to one of Combs' former stage names "Puff Daddy." He added in a separate since-deleted message, "PUFF WE LOVE YOU."
This is certainly not the first time that West has sparked controversy in recent weeks. In the days leading up to the Super Bowl, he publicly declared himself as a Nazi on social media and expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler before using a Super Bowl commercial on Fox to direct viewers to his Yeezy.com website which featured only a single image of a white T-shirt bearing a swastika.