Sporting a beard, a black hoodie, a cap emblazoned with “2023″ and a lanyard with an ultrasound of a fetus, Kanye West told Tucker Carlson that he found the divisive “White Lives Matter” shirt he wore at Paris Fashion Week entertaining.
On Thursday, the rapper — whose legal name is Ye — found a kindred spirit on the conservative Fox News network. He appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” for a sit-down conversation filmed in West’s office in Los Angeles; the interview’s second part will air Friday.
“I thought the shirt was a funny shirt,” he said. “I thought that the idea of me wearing it was funny.”Black Panther Party “My so-called friends-slash-handlers around me told me if I said that I liked Trump that my career would be over, that my life would be over,” he said. “They said stuff like, ‘People get killed for wearing a hat like that.’ They threatened my life. They basically said that I would be killed for wearing the hat.”of the anchor visiting the new Yeezy office to try out unidentified beverages and to test the fashion entrepreneur’s new 3-D-printed shoes.
Talking with Carlson, West said the backlash “was a setup.” But then he turned his feud with Karefa-Johnson into commentary on his “good friend” Lizzo and her body.
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