On Thursday, Ye hit up social media with a plea about Sean “Diddy” Combs, who’s been locked up since getting arrested on sex trafficking charges last September.
“FREE PUFF,” he posted on X, the app that used to be Twitter. No one’s quite sure what sparked him to speak up about Diddy right now.
Shortly after his Diddy post, the 47-year-old artist called out to President Trump directly, writing “@realDonaldTrump PLEASE FREE MY BROTHER PUFF.”
Ye kept firing off thoughts on X, jumping from topic to topic, dropping his takes on “woke shit” and how the music business has done Chris Brown wrong.
The Donda artist brought up his controversial “slavery is a choice” stance again. This takes us back to 2018, when he first dropped this bomb during ‘TMZ Live’ with Harvey Levin. “When you hear about slavery for 400 years — for 400 years? That sounds like a choice,” he said. “Like, you were there for 400 years and it’s all of y’all? It’s like we’re mentally imprisoned. I like the word ‘imprisoned’ because slavery goes too directly to the idea of blacks … so prison is something that unites us as one race. Blacks and whites being one race. That we’re the human race.”
In a fresh post labeled as him “speaking my mind,” Ye swore he’s done filtering himself, bringing up his social media lockouts and how Adidas cut ties with him—which happened in 2022 after his antisemitic comments got him kicked from the sneaker giant.
Ye also posted a clip of a FaceTime call with Christian Combs, Diddy’s kid. Along with the video, he wrote about dads, their sons, and threw in some thoughts about Dave Chappelle.
“SON TO HIS DAD FOR EVERY SON WHO DAD IS LOCKED UP WRITE OR WRONG I WANT YALL TO LISTEN TO DAVE CHAPELLES JOKES VERY CLOSE,” he wrote. “THIS TIME LETS SEE HOW FUNNY IT GETS WHEN FAMILIES ARE SEPARATED ESPECIALLY BLACK FAMILIES.”
No one’s quite sure what made Ye speak up for Diddy right now, but here’s something interesting – besides his wife Bianca Censori, the only person Ye follows on Instagram is Diddy himself, as you can see in the screenshot below.
Fresh after TMZ reported before the Grammys that Ye had unfollowed everyone on Instagram except Taylor Swift, including his wife. Still unclear what made him drop Taylor too.
Just before that, Ye posted “1 following” on his Instagram Stories with a screenshot of his account. Billboard reports his next post showed Taylor as his lone follow at that time.
This isn’t Ye’s first time bringing up Diddy. He’s actually name-dropped him quite a bit lately. Last February, he mentioned a whole crew of famous faces like Bill Cosby, R. Kelly, Diddy, Taylor Swift, Jesus Christ, and Elon Musk in his Vultures track “Carnival” during a livestream.
After his 2022 Fox News spot, Ye jumped on Instagram to talk about Diddy and Boosie Badazz, who’d slammed his “White Lives Matter” YZY SZN 9 design. He shared some texts, saying Diddy “misspoke” but added, “I still love him.”
That same year, Ye shocked everyone by showing up at the 2022 BET Awards to give “Diddy” the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Right now, Diddy’s locked up in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, waiting for his trial on racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges.
