Kanye West Calls ‘Black Lives Matter’ A Scam: “Now It’s Over”

Kanye West Responds To ‘White Lives Matter’ Shirt Backlash

Kanye West has responded to backlash after he and Candace Owens wore ‘White Lives Matter’ shirts during his YEEZY SZN 9 show during Paris Fashion Week. After social media went crazy, Ye posted a message to his Instagram Stories saying:

“EVERYONE KNOWS THAT BLACK LIVES MATTER WAS A SCAM. NOW ITS OVER YOU’RE WELCOME.”

“I am Ye, and everyone here knows that I am the leader,’ West, 43, said at the event while referencing his new legal name, adding: ‘You can’t manage me.’

Kanye West calls BLM a Scam via his Instagram stories pic.twitter.com/ka7pXemwvq

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Kanye publicly thanked Candace Owens back in February for publicly defending him during his rants against Kim Kardashian and her boyfriend, Pete Davidson.

It is not the first time that Ye has stoked controversy surrounding race, after saying in 2018 that he thought 400 years of slavery ‘was a choice.’

The Anti-Defamation League has previously called the phrase ‘White Lives Matter’ a hate slogan.

The slogan worn on West and Owens’ shirts has previously been used by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations as an attack against the Black Lives Matter movement and Black people more broadly.