Kanye West has launched a brand new music which options his 11-year-old daughter North and Sean “Diddy” Combs.
The rapper, 47, shared the music, titled “Lonely Roads Nonetheless Go to Sunshine,” in a post on X on Saturday, March 15.
The observe options Combs — who’s credited as Puff Daddy — the disgraced rapper’s 26-year-old son King, North and musician Jasmine Williams, whom West famous is a brand new Yeezy artist from Chicago.
The music begins with a voice recording, seemingly of Combs, 55, and West talking over the cellphone.
“I wanna simply thanks a lot for simply caring for my youngsters, man,” the person believed to be Combs could be heard saying within the dialog. “Ain’t no one attain out to them, ain’t no one name them.”
“Completely, I like you a lot man,” West replies. “You raised me. Even after I ain’t know you, know what I am saying?”
Amongst different lyrics within the music, North could be heard rapping: “Whenever you see me shining, then you definitely see the sunshine.”
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West additionally shared now-deleted screenshots of a textual content dialog between himself and North’s mom, Kim Kardashian, who advised West that she had trademarked their eldest kid’s identify in an try to cease the music from being launched, in keeping with TMZ.
“I’m by no means talking with you once more,” West advised his ex-wife within the textual content dialog, per the outlet.
“I requested you on the time if I can trademark her identify. You stated sure. When she’s 18, it goes to her. So cease,” Kardashian, 44, continued. “I despatched paperwork over so she wouldn’t be within the Diddy music to guard her. One individual has to trademark!”
The outlet reported that Kardashian additionally claimed that she and West had an settlement to trademark all of their youngsters’s names once they had been born “so nobody else would [use] them.”
“Amend it or I will conflict,” West replied. “And neither of us will get better from the general public fallout. You are going to need to kill me.”
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West has beforehand defended Combs — who’s presently in jail awaiting his trial for alleged federal intercourse crimes — and stated that he believes the music producer ought to be free of jail.
In a collection of posts on Feb. 6, West wrote that “they” had been “attempting to make an instance out of Puff,” amid different anti-Semitic feedback wherein he praised Adolf Hitler and stated in a deleted submit that he is “by no means apologizing” for his hateful statements.
Combs was indicted in September 2024 on expenses of intercourse trafficking, racketeering and transportation to interact in prostitution, and has since pleaded not responsible to every cost. He has been denied bail, and his trial is scheduled to start in Might.
West has beforehand confronted scrutiny for different hateful social media posts, together with one wherein he talked about X proprietor Elon Musk’s one-armed salute that he gave at Donald Trump’s inauguration (which Musk responded to, saying, “The ‘everyone seems to be Hitler’ assault is sooo drained”).
Quickly after, West was dropped by his agent, and the corporate Shopify shut down his clothes web site after he tried to promote T-shirts with swastikas on them.
