Over the past week, celebrity drama on Twitter has been highly entertaining.
It all started when Kanye West declared that he would be changing his album name for the third time (from So Help Me God to Swish to, finally, Waves). By naming his album Waves, West offended rapper and cannabis connoisseur Wiz Khalifa. Khalifa tweeted that Max B, a rapper whose music is often characterized as “wavy,” created the wave; “that there is no wave without him.” He continued to tweet, “hit this kk and become yourself.”
To understand the rest of this event, understanding the context is especially important. In 2008, Kanye West was in a relationship with “exotic dancer” Amber Rose. This relationship lasted for two years. In 2011, Khalifa began dating Amber Rose. He had a child with her, married her in 2013, and finally divorced her in 2014. This complicated love triangle never caused any public animosity amongst the rappers, though.
Now, that being said, West interpreted Khalifa’s mention of “kk” to mean his wife, Kim Kardashian. And so, West went berserk. He went on a 20-plus tweet rant covering everything from Khalifa’s music (“no one I know has ever listened to one of your albums all the way through”), to his love affairs (“you let a [private dancer] trap you”), to his child (“You own waves????? I own your child!!!”), and even his pants (“I went to your twitter and you were wearing cool pants”). Khalifa responded with the clarification “KK is weed fool, reason’s why your not wavy.” In response to that, West tweeted, “I’m happy that I now know that KK means weed…please excuse the confusion…now back to #WAVES.”
Rose, the central figure of Kanye and Khalifa’s relationship, did not stay quiet through the feud. She tweeted, “Awww @kanyewest are you mad I’m not around to play in your [anus] anymore?” (Expectedly, this tweet has caused a plethora of disturbing memes to circulate on the Internet). Feeling that he had to clarify, West tweeted that “[he’s] not into that kind of [stuff],” that he “never let [exes] play with his [anus].”
If the participants of this feud were to be ranked, the internet’s consensus is largely that Khalifa was destroyed by West, who was destroyed by Rose, making Rose the ultimate champion in this incident.
A large number of West fans were disappointed about the fact that he dragged Khalifa’s child into the feud. West probably understood that he had crossed a boundary as he tweeted, “God’s dream… Never speak on kids again… all love… all blessings.” Being an avid reader of most of West’s social media posts, I am certain that this is the closest equivalent to an apology that he can manage.
It seems that the feud has now been resolved. West recently tweeted, “Me and Wiz spoke yesterday. Great convo. All positive.” Additionally, Kim Kardashian posted a picture of her with Rose on Instagram in which they look like “BFFs.” In today’s world, where social media plays such an important role, it seems that this is fairly reliable evidence of a resolution to the feud.
To conclude, two outcomes have come from this event. One, discussions of this event left all of Twitter thoroughly entertained for one full day. Two, it has increased the hype surrounding the already super-hyped album, Waves, that West is releasing on Feb. 11. West claimed that this “is not album of the year,” but rather, “album of the life.” Let’s hope he can back it up!