What’s the Tea With Ye?

By Laura Lipscei

Cameras click and lights flash as paparazzi eagerly await Kanye West and Bianca Censori at the 2025 Grammys. The couple finally walk down the red carpet–Censori in a fabulous black fur coat, Kanye in a basic black outfit—when one of the paparazzi asks Censori to reveal what’s under her gigantic jacket. Straight-faced as always, Censori slides down her jacket and displays…her naked body? That’s right, this past February, Censori pulled up to the Grammys in a completely transparent ‘outfit.’ It seems that, unlike her name would imply, Censori is not very censored, at least not when it comes to how she displays her body. Unsurprisingly, the couple faced some backlash after this shocking stunt, with many commenting on the audacity of disgracing the Grammys—a highly esteemed music awards show—with such a vulgar outfit. A couple days later, Kanye posted a long Tweet defending his wife, stating: “My wife’s first red carpet opened a whole new world…I keep staring at this photo like I was staring in admiration that night thinking wow I am so lucky to have a wife that is so smart talented brave and hot She took a break from shooting her first film to make a movie in real life.” Following this Tweet, Kanye slightly calmed down, which led many to believe that Censoris lack of censorization was a one time instance of lunacy, and that Kanye would return to his version of normal. Unfortunately, the calmness did not last, and beginning on February 8, Kanye began an extremely anti-semitic tirade, stationted mainly on X. Due to the explicit nature of his Tweets, I will exclude most of them from this article. However, some of his less explicit Tweets included the following:  

  • “I’M A NAZI”
  • “I’m going to normalize talking about hitler”
  • “Hitler was soooo fresh”
  • “IM NEVER APOLOGIZING FOR MY JEWISH COMMENTS”
  • “ANY JEWISH PERSON THAT DOES BUSINESS WITH ME NEEDS TO KNOW I DONT LIKE OR TRUST ANY JEWISH PERSON AMD THIS IS COMPLETELY SOBER WITH NO HENNESY”
  • “JEWISH WIVES RUN OVER THEIR HUSBANDS WHAT DOES THE TORAH HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT?”

As if the disturbing Tweets weren’t enough, Kanye went on to create merchandise on his Yeezy site with a swastika smack-dab in the middle of his designs, and even created a Super Bowl advertisement promoting his swastika T-shirts. Due to a lack of reason for these vile Tweets and swastika merchandise, many speculate that Kanye is suffering from some sort of mental breakdown, and I can’t help but agree after viewing his many Tweets and other anti-semitic actions. On a slightly happy-ish note, Censori and Kanye are rumored to be divorcing each other, which if true, could mean that at least Bianca Censori won’t be involved in Kanye’s lunacy anymore. 

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