Ye is still taking shots at Virgil Abloh, now bizarrely linking the late fashion designer’s passing to supposedly stealing from him.
During a weekend Parti livestream with Sneako, the artist formerly known as Kanye West actually used Abloh’s death as an example of what supposedly happens to people who “steal” from him.
“You know when n***s be really mad? It’s when you actually give them something ’cause they don’t want to actually receive, so they want to take it from them,” Ye explained around the 15-minute mark of the linked video. “But if you give it to them, it’ll make it really make them feel bad like, ‘Damn.’ And then the best? The blessings are bestowed as I bestow grace on these n***s.”
He went on, “And I’m like, man, n***s who go against me be dead, bro. N***s who steal from me, bro, look at Virgil, he dead, bro. N***s who steal from me and try to take the king position be dead, bro.”
“When we say ‘watch the throne,’ it’s only one throne. It’s only one king, and we know who the king is obviously. Who y’all watching, who y’all care about?” Ye added.
About a minute later in the stream, Ye listed Abloh’s 2018 appointment as Louis Vuitton’s artistic director as a source of trauma for him, alongside “dealing with [his] children,” and his mother’s death in 2007.
This isn’t the first time Ye has spoken badly about Abloh since he died in 2021 following a private battle with cancer.
One of the more recent times the rapper blasted his former friend and collaborator was during an X rant in early February where he wrote, “I LOVE TRAV VIRGIL AND DRAKE DRAKE THE REALEST ONE OF THOSE THREE THOUGH HE NOT FAKE COOL HE’S JUST TALENTED AF AND YES ITS FUCK VIRGIL AND ANY OF THESE OTHER N****S THAT WORKED FOR ME THAN USED ME THEN WENT AGAINST ME I LOVE VIRGIL AND HE USED THAT VERY LOVE TO BEAT NIGERIANS ARE SUPER SMART.”
