Trust him to have an opinion on everything.
Always interesting to read though. Below is what
he wrote on UK Daily Mail about the twitter fight
between Kanye, wiz Khalifa and Amber last
night...
"‘Are you OK mate?’ I tweeted to Kanye
West last night.
He’s not really my ‘mate’, I guess.
But I’ve met him a few times, and get on
very well with his wife Kim Kardashian.
The reason I asked such a simple public
question was because I follow him on
Twitter and he appeared to have taken
sudden and dramatic leave of his senses.
In an explosion of tweets, Kanye went after his
big rap rival Wiz Khalifa in spectacular style.
It was the nearest thing to verbal social media
diarrhea that I’ve ever witnessed.
Tweet after tweet after tweet burst out of his
feed, the mood and tone of Kanye’s thought
process swaying between blind rage, sneering
insult, and finally pure viciousness.
He slayed Khalifa for everything from his music
and fashion to his weight, wife and young son.
There was just one problem.
Kanye had got it all horribly wrong.
His ire was sparked by a tweet from Khalifa
which said: ‘Hit this kk and become yourself.’
Kanye, who dated Khalifa’s estranged wife, the
model Amber Rose, for two years, assumed this
was a derogatory reference to his own wife Kim.
It wasn’t.
It was a reference to cannabis.
More especially, Khalifa’s own strain of cannabis,
Khalifa Kush, which he has been very publicly
marketing for some time.
But in the very singular, self-absorbed world of
Kanye West, there is only one ‘kk’ that matters
and it’s Ms Kardashian.
This is not the first time Kanye’s gone berserk, of
course.
He’s an unpredictable, emotional, spontaneous
maverick who often does and says things before
his considerable brain has properly engaged.
It’s what makes him one of the most compelling
and engaging stars in the world, and I for one,
greatly enjoy his talent and his erratic behaviour.
But as I was chuckling away at this Twitter
tantrum, he suddenly wrote something which
made me stop laughing.
It wasn’t the ‘you let a stripper trap you’ jibe
about Amber Rose, distasteful though that was.
She can look after herself as she made very clear
by the eye-wateringly explicit tweet she fired back
at Kanye last night concerning his alleged sexual
proclivity.
(Amber Rose filed for divorce from Khalifa in 2014
but it was never finalised and there have been
numerous rumours recently that they are
reconciled).
No, it was Kanye’s next tweet: ‘I know you mad
every time you look at your child that this girl got
you for 18 years.’
Soon followed by this: ‘You wouldn’t have a child
if it wasn’t for me.’
And then this: ‘I own your child!!!!’
That child, Sebastian Taylor Thomaz, is two years
old.
I’ve no problem with a couple of famous rappers
going after each other in public.
But I have a big problem with one of them using
an innocent two-year-old boy to do it.
Especially when the perpetrator is himself a very
protective father of two young children.
Kanye was not, as some instantly and
sensationally assumed, suggesting with the
phrase ‘I own your child’ that he’s the boy’s
father. He was sneering that if he hadn’t split
from Amber Rose, then she wouldn’t be with
Khalifa and there would be no child at all.
But that perhaps deliberate ambiguity may be lost
on many.
After 30 minutes of abuse spewing his way,
Khalifa finally tweeted ‘KK is weed fool’ to Kanye.
At which point there was a temporary cessation
in hostilities, presumably as the dime slowly
dropped all over Kanye’s gold jewellery-laden
head.
When he returned to Twitter, his tone was
dramatically different.
‘I love Wiz,’ he declared. Something which
wouldn’t have been immediately apparent from
the apoplectic cyperspace onslaught he’d been
waging against him just minutes before.
‘I love all my brothers, and all the people, and I
love the world,’ added Kanye. ‘All I want is peace
and positive energy.’
Riiigght.
Again, not an immediately obvious mission
statement from a man who had just tweeted,
‘Don’t ever ever ever come out the side of your
mutherf***ing neck bro or bruh’ at his new great
love.
Kanye then announced he had deleted all his
insulting tweets.
‘It’s all about positive energy, blessings blessings,
positive energy blessings,’ he explained. ‘I’m
happy that I now know that KK means weed…
please excuse the confusion….’
Hmmm.
Not so fast, Mr West.
I can excuse almost all your excess.
I even laughed my head off when you ambushed
Taylor Swift on stage to ruin her big moment at
the VMAs, not least because you were right that
Beyoncé should have won Best Female Video that
year.
But I can’t just laugh off the way you dragged a
little boy into your war with a love rival.
Just as I loathe and detest parents who use their
children as battering rams against each other in
divorces, so I loathe and detest big stars doing
the same to score cheap points in Twitter feuds.
I’ve always thought that Kanye West is a pretty
classy guy beneath all the bluster; a stupendously
gifted musician, snappy dresser, brilliant
entrepreneur, evocative speaker, incurably
romantic husband and doting father.
But by targeting young Sebastian in such a
despicable manner, I lost a lot of respect for him.
It was a pathetic, petty and woefully insensitive
thing to do.
I hope Kanye wakes up today after a thoroughly
disturbed sleep, reflects on what he did, and
makes a full and sincere apology to that boy, and
to his father Khalifa.
He won’t want to; Kanye is about as big on
apologies as Donald Trump.
But it would help restore the damage that his
indefensible comments have caused, not just in
the moment but forever. Those deleted tweets
have all been screen-shot for posterity, meaning
that when he’s older Sebastian will inevitably
read them and wonder what exactly the legendary
Kanye West meant when he said he ‘owned’ him?
Kanye, I know you genuinely believe you are the
Muhammad Ali of the music business, Greatest of
All Time.
Not least because you reminded us of this very
fact in the middle of last night’s rant.
But last night, I’m afraid the only title you won
for yourself was a rather simpler one, comprised
of two words ironically also beginning with the
letters ‘KK’.
King Klutz."
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