Ye has taken aim at the late Virgil Abloh… once again.
During a recent livestream with controversial streamer Sneako, the artist formerly known as Kanye West made a crude joke about his former friend who died after a private battle with cancer. At one point during the stream, which was to promote the Donda 2 album, Ye abruptly announced, “Ah, man, I gotta use the bathroom. Where’s Virgil’s grave?”
The comment received a few laughs within the room, while Sneako uncomfortably smiled before putting his head in his hands.
“I don’t endorse that joke,”the streamer said. “Rest in peace.”
But Ye didn’t stop there. He went on to dismiss Abloh’s relevancy and support, suggesting no one cared enough about him to get mad about the bathroom joke.
“One of the people that Virgil, like, changed their lives are gonna come after you,” Ye said, “So that means no one is coming after you.”
The stream went down just days after Ye used Abloh’s death as a warning to anyone who tried stealing from him.
“You know when n****s be really mad? It’s when you actually give them something ‘cause they don’t want to actually receive, so they want to take it from them,” Ye said during another livestream with Sneako. “But if you give it to them, it’ll make it really make them feel bad like, ‘Damn.’ And then the best? The blessings are bestowed as I bestow grace on these n****s.
“And I’m like, man, n****s who go against me be dead, bro,” he continued. “N****s who steal from me, bro, look at Virgil, he dead, bro. N****s who steal from me and try to take the king position be dead, bro… When we say ‘watch the throne,’ it’s only one throne. It’s only one king, and we know who the king is, obviously. Who y’all watching, who y’all care about?”
X users slammed Ye over his Abloh comments, questioning why he was mocking the death of someone he once considered a friend.
Elsewhere in the Sneako stream, Ye reflected on several moments that left him with “trauma”: the 2007 death of his mom, Donda West; issues involving his children; and Abloh’s appointment as Louis Vuitton’s menswear creative director in 2018. He spoke the latter in a 2022 interview with Clique TV, admitting Abloh’s LV gig caused him “a lot of pain and jealousy.”
