Beyoncé’s Dad Addresses Kanye West’s Comments About Her Kids

Mathew Knowles, the father of Beyoncé, said he hopes Kanye West will get “help.”

On Tuesday, the rapper now known as Ye posted disgraceful remarks on social media containing an ableist slur to attack Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s children, Rumi and Sir, who are 7 years old. He has since deleted the post, which made national headlines.

“WAIT HAS ANYONE EVER SEEN JAY Z AND BEYONCES YOUNGER KIDS,” Ye wrote at the time. “THEYRE RETARDED NO LIKE LITERALLY AND THIS IS WHY ARTIFICAL INSEMANATAION [SIC] IS SUCH A BLESSING.”

The post continued, “HAVING RETARDED CHILDREN IS A CHOICE.”

While Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles, seemingly reacted to the slight by quoting Scripture, her dad had a more direct response.

“People pay a price for being stupid, especially in the music industry,” Mathew Knowles told TMZ on Friday.

“I’m hopeful Kanye gets the type of help he needs, in terms of mental health,” he added.

Ye announced in 2018 that he had been diagnosed “with a mental condition,” later revealed as bipolar disorder. The rapper claimed earlier this year that he had been misdiagnosed, however, and has autism instead — and said at the time that he hadn’t taken his medication.

The “Real Friends” rapper named Jay-Z on Friday as one of the “12 rap kings,” and famously stormed the stage at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards to champion Beyoncé. But he appears to have fully fallen out of favor with the couple following Tuesday’s post, and a source told Page Six that Jay-Z and Beyoncé have even considered taking legal action.

Ye, whose earlier works garnered near-universal acclaim, was kicked off X (then Twitter) in 2022 for threatening to go “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE.” He has since praised dictator Adolf Hitler and sold swastika-emblazoned T-shirts.