KANYE West has been slammed by critics for wearing a controversial T-shirt to his daughter North West’s basketball game.
Fans fear the top may “embarrass” his eldest child in front of others at the sporting event.
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Kanye, 45, was seen standing court-side at his daughter’s game wearing a white long-sleeve shirt, black jeans, and knee-high boots that appeared to be rubber.
The shirt had a graphic on the front and, on the back, the words “White Lives Matter” were printed.
Kanye paired the look with a black baseball cap with “2024” printed across the brim.
The father of four has been facing backlash over the shirt since he debuted it at a fashion show for his YZY brand, where models wore the same top.
Candace Owens, who attended the show, wore the same top and posed alongside Kanye in it for a photo shared on Instagram.
Photos of the rapper wearing the top were shared on Reddit, where critics weighed in.
While some slammed the look – one Kanye has been wearing with relative consistency for some time – others focused on the shirt and the implications it may have for North.
The original poster shared the pics with the caption: “More pictures of Kanye at North’s game yesterday. Looks like he shaved his beard completely.
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FANS RESPOND
“Doing this at his daughter’s event is 1000x worse than doing it at a fashion show. Like, if he’s there to draw attention to himself, he’s not there to support her. So spiritually ugly.”
Another commenter wrote: “North is also at the age to be extremely embarrassed by this. I feel awful for her.”
“Not to your girl’s basketball game … and he is filming it too,” a third critic commented.
Someone else chimed in: “This is so embarrassing. Why are they calling his manic episode to publicly interfere with his children’s lives like this?”
“Is this guy a fashion icon? He looks like my old drunk uncle,” another critic joked.
TIME OUT
Kim Kardashian also attended the basketball game but did not sit with her estranged husband.
The outing came shortly after Kanye threatened the Kardashians star in an interview on Fox News.
Kanye was on the sideline during the game, shouting at some points and laughing with friends at others.
Kim, meanwhile, was seated in the front row, but stayed focused on her daughter and did not engage with her ex.
The SKKN mogul kept it casual in an all-black ensemble.
She wore a black windbreaker-style jacket over a tank top and leggings.
Kim capped the look off with a pair of black and white Vans sneakers and her blond hair in a sleek bun.
TALKING TO TUCKER
One day earlier, Kanye gave an explosive interview with Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, where he rehashed his nasty custody battle over the four children he shares with the SKIMS mogul.
During the second portion of their conversation, the rapper brought up his objections to the exclusive private school his children attend.
He previously discussed the drama in social media posts.
“What they do is take all of the celebrities, the actors, and the basketball players, and throw them in this one school, and they indoctrinate the kids,” Kanye claimed to the host on Friday.
“My son, Psalm, is brilliant. So right now, they are looking to figure out how to indoctrinate him to make him be another part of the system.”
The Chicago native previously made public that he wants his children to attend his own Donda Academy.
In the interview, Kanye then turned his attention directly to Kim, revealing a “compromise” the two have reached over where their children go to school- one he seems to agree with.
“Right now we have a compromise,” he said, adding: “but I’m not finished ’cause I don’t compromise.”
KANYE’S BATTLE
Kanye previously threatened to take legal action against Kim to gain more control of their four children in the midst of their nasty feud.
Last month, the 45-year-old took to Instagram to attack his estranged wife in a series of posts, many of which focused on the pricey private school his children attend.
In one post he threatened to get the courts involved, writing: “I was driven crazy before I’m not going crazy no more It’s not up to Calabasas or Hulu where my kids go to school.”
“I’m not the crazy one here. It’s up! I won’t stop until I have a say so on my kids no matter what it legally takes.”
He captioned the post: “Come and get me. I’m a man of God. The father’s job is to be the bad guy sometimes.”
SKIMS SCANDAL
Kanye continued his attacks against Kim on the Tucker Carlson show, telling the host that he blames her for stealing ideas from his brand, Yeezy, for her brand, SKIMS.
He also slammed the reality star’s shape-wear company for using “sexualized imagery” to sell products.
“I had a lot of issues with the imagery of Skims,” he began.
“There was a lot of imagery that was overly sexualized and things I would not wanna see my wife and my daughters doing to sell their product in the future.”
Kanye spoke about his personal involvement with SKIMS in the early days while he and Kim were still married.
“Skims is based on a lot of the Yeezy ideas,” he alleged.
“I had to use my relationships in fashion in order to establish Kim so fashionable people would say ‘I’m down to wear Kim’s line.'”
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