Playboi Carti has responded to Ye (formerly Kanye West) after the embattled rapper bashed him about allegedly snubbing Ye from his Music album and then requesting vocals from Ye and Kim Kardashian’s daughter North West.
“YE STFU,” Carti replied on X early Wednesday (March 19).
West — who has been criticized over his repeated antisemitic hate speech — addressed the “Magnolia” rapper hours later. “SHOULD CARTI HAVE EVEN SPOKEN TO MY BABY MAMA AT ALL,” he seemingly asked his 33 million X followers.
Ye continued to take shots at Carti: “CARTI IS JUST A WAY MORE BASIC DUMBER VERSION OF VIRGIL FINESSING YE AND DRAKE CO SIGNS.”
Kanye is referencing when Kardashian posted a SKIMS shout-out on Music to her Instagram Story, and Carti replied by asking his “niece” North to send some vocals for a potential collab. The embattled Chicago artist had felt Carti crossed the line with his initial request for North to send some music, and declared that his daughter wouldn’t be working with the “All Red” rapper.
“I DECIDED NORTH WONT BE DOING ANY SONGS WITH CARTI HOW IT LOOK FOR ME TO GET LEFT OFF THE ALBUM AND THEN HE ASK KIM TO HAVE VOCALS FROM MY DAUGHTER,” Ye wrote earlier. “I DONT A F–K ABOUT NONE OF THIS INDUSTRY S–T AND HOW ITS A SKIMS LINE IN THE FIRST PLACE AND I DONT GIVE A F–K WHAT NO COMMENTS THE MAN HAS THE FIRST AND FINAL SAY OVER HIS KIDS.”
He went on to bring up Carti’s baby mother, Iggy Azalea, and their son, Onyx, in a separate tweet, seemingly trying to get the little boy on Ye’s own music. Azalea chimed in and requested that he keep her son out of whatever issues he has with Carti.
“Ye, I understand the point you want to make,” she wrote in part on X in response. “I say this with kindness & as a mother: Please, leave my child out of this.”
It’s been a turbulent week for Ye, who has fired away at peers such as Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Ty Dolla $ign, Travis Scott, Tyler, The Creator, Pusha T and more already. He even released the self-directed short film version of his Bully album early Wednesday, which stars his son Saint West — whom he also shares with Kardashian — and was edited by Hype Williams.
