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Popular radio host Charlamagne Tha God slammed Kanye West as needing "white validation" after his latest headline grabbing stunt.
The Breakfast Club co-host shared his thoughts after West wore a T-shirt that read "White Lives Matter" and had a picture of the Pope on the front to his Paris Fashion Week show alongside right-wing commentator Candace Owens.
Ye (West's preferred name) has been embroiled in a number of public arguments with several big-name celebrities including Hailey Bieber and Gigi Hadid, who called him out after he publicly criticized Vogue editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson's negative review of his Yeezy runway.
"It's amazing that you give Kanye what he wants and that's attention... he knows exactly what he's doing and people fall for it every time," Charlamagne began.
Charlamagne added that he's said this about Kanye previously, but people call him a "hater" for calling out the "Heartless" rapper.
"But the reality is, there's not too many people in the world that openly seek white validation like Kanye West," Charlamagne stated.
"Whenever he's going through something, whenever he's got beef with a corporation, or beef with his ex-wife, he becomes so pro-Black."
Charlamagne said that it seemed like when things were going well for Kanye, that was when he seemed more likely to make controversial statements about race, such as the time he said "slavery was a choice" and "Black people focus on race too much."
"Then when he's in these circles like at the Paris fashion shows, then it's 'white lives matter,'" Charlamagne said. "Kanye West loves white validation, he longs for it."
Ye's T-shirt, which was also worn by models on the runway, has angered Black Lives Matter social justice campaigners who have long called for an end to systemic racism and police brutality.
But just hours after his runway show, Ye called the Black Lives Matter movement "a scam" in an Instagram post.
"Everyone knows that Black Lives Matter was a scam. Now [it's] over. You're welcome," he wrote.
Also on Instagram after his show, Ye criticized global Vogue contributing editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson who attended the Yeezy show and labeled it "pure violence."
Ye reacted to an Instagram post by Karefa-Johnson where she shared screenshots of text messages she'd sent to a friend after the show about her "gut reaction" to it.
In one of the messages, she wrote: "The danger is that, this very premise, the idea that white supremacy is in danger of extinction [is] what justifies mass incarceration, murder en masse, indeed even the advent of slavery.
"The idea that Blackness must be snuffed out for it will surely [supersede] whiteness in power and influence if given the chance, and it's so hugely irresponsible to furnish the most dangerous extremists with this kind of fiction narrative."
Some of fashion's biggest names rushed to support Karefa-Johnson.
Gigi Hadid, 27, told Ye that he should not "insult that writer" and that he wished he "had a percentage of her intellect."
"You have no idea haha.... As if the 'honor' of being invited to your show should keep someone from giving their opinion ..? Lol. You're a bully and a joke," she wrote on Instagram.
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