Kanye West and Don Lemon trade insults

Former CNN pundit Don Lemon and Ye, formerly known arsenic Kanye West, traded barbs aft the rapper’s woman attended Sunday’s Grammy Awards ceremony successful a sheer dress.

The brouhaha started aft Ye temporarily posted a connection online claiming Lemon started the rumor that helium and Bianca Censori were booted from the lawsuit implicit her au naturel stunt successful Los Angeles, according to the Daily Beast. Ye’s assertion reportedly included a radical slur that implied Lemon was a elemental Black man.

Kanye West, left, and Bianca Censori get astatine the 67th yearly Grammy Awards connected Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, successful Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Lemon posted an Instagram video defending his reporting and suggested Ye isn’t getting capable oxygen to his brain.

“First of all, Kanye, Ye, immoderate your sanction is,” Lemon said. “I did not commencement a rumor astir you being kicked retired of the Grammys. I really corrected it.”

According to Lemon, that rumor had been reported elsewhere and idiosyncratic associated with Ye asked the 58 -year-old pundit to assistance acceptable the grounds straight. Censori and Ye appeared to person near connected their ain accord. Lemon had earlier suggested “maybe” Ye was escorted from the Crypto.com Arena aft proceeding the 24-time Grammy victor had exited the event, but couldn’t corroborate that information.

“So archetypal of all, get your s–t straight,” Lemon said. “And you, of each people, calling me a c–n? That Make America Great Again chapeau indispensable beryllium excessively choky connected your head.”

Ye has famously championed Donald Trump’s MAGA initiative. However his nonrecreational beingness deed a partition erstwhile helium brought far-right helping Nick Fuentes to Trump’s Mar-a-lago estate for dinner successful November 2022 portion the “Black Skinhead” was connected a a precise nationalist run against Jews.

Trump aboriginal referred to Ye connected societal media arsenic “a earnestly troubled man, who conscionable happens to beryllium black” whom helium was trying to help. The President said helium wasn’t antecedently acquainted with Fuentes.

Ye’s antisemitic rhetoric led to galore concern sponsors parting ways with the erstwhile hugely fashionable musician.