KANYE WEST. Rapper Kanye West, separated from Kim Kardashian, appeared with model Chaney Jones.
[Mis à jour le 1er mars 2022 à 11h18] Did Kanye West find the best lookalike of Kim Kardashian to replace it? The rapper, recently separated from his wife, appeared several times in his last weeks with his new girlfriend, Chaney Jones. Aged 24 (Kanye West is 44), this model has become known on social networks. On Instagram, the one who is also a businesswoman committed to the prevention of mental health disorders totals some 280,000 subscribers.
Kanye West and Chaney Jones have been spotted several times in recent weeks as the rapper split from actress Julia Fox. The young model also formalized this relationship by posting a selfie with the artist on her Instagram account. But what attracts all the more attention from the American media and Internet users is the disturbing resemblance of Chaney Jones with Kim Kardashian, the former wife of Kanye West…
If Kanye West has recently been talked about for his romantic conquests, lately it was also his name change that had made the headlines of the tabloids. Last October, rapper Kanye West officially and legally changed his name to “Ye”, without a last name or middle name. To justify this request to American justice, the 44-year-old artist invoked “personal reasons”. In 2018, on the occasion of the release of his album Yes, Kanye West had given a first element of answer concerning this nickname. “I believe ‘Ye’ is the most commonly used word in the Bible. In the Bible it means ‘you’. So I am ‘you’. And I am ‘we’. We went from Kanye, who means the unique, to Ye, which is a reflection of our good and bad sides, our confusion, everything. It’s more a reflection of who we are,” he explained on the radio. YourEDM.
Besides these philosophical debates, could these “personal motives” also be financial? As the American magazine explains Forbes, this name change could indeed bring him big. First, because “Ye” could relaunch the Kanye West brand, weakened by the recent escapades of the rapper, who has recently been more talked about for his eccentric campaign in the presidential election or for his divorce from Kim Kardashian.
According to calculations by Forbes, the fortune of Kanye West is already estimated at 1.8 billion dollars, in particular thanks to his Yeezy sneakers, in collaboration with Adidas, which would have brought him 1.5 billion dollars. “Ye”, “Yeezy”, the proximity of the two names, therefore of the two brands, could according to the magazine have financial advantages and bring in big money. In addition to these predictions, Kanye West’s name change has caused a lot of anchor in the press, United States like in Europe. Media exposure that’s also good for business. According to several marketing experts contacted by Forbes, a short name is also easier to identify.
“Yes”. After having made the request to justice, at the end of August, to change his name in the marital status, Kanye Omari West won his case with a Los Angeles judge, announces a spokesperson for the city court in Agence France Presse (AFP). From now on, the rapper is officially called “Ye”, his longtime nickname.
Kanye West, to justify this request and give up his last name, had invoked “personal reasons”. In addition to being his nickname, “Ye” is also the name of his album released in 2018 and in which he evoked his bipolar disorder. In recent years, however, Kanye West has mainly hit the headlines for his escapades of all kinds, ranging from his overhyped divorce with Kim Kardashian to his decried candidacy for the American presidential election.
The end of a long wait and the beginning of new controversies. After weeks of announcements, false hopes and postponement, dondaKanye West’s new album was finally released on Sunday August 29, 2021. On the program of this long-awaited disc, 27 titles, including collaborations with Jay-Z, The Weeknd, Travis Scott, Lil Dirk, Kid Cudi, Pop Smoke or Lil Baby, but also Chris Brown, Marilyn Manson or DaBaby.
And it’s precisely about these last two artists, united on the track Jail pt IIthat one of the controversies around donda was born. This song, which would have been blocked by his label Universal according to the accusations of Kanye West. It must be said that the two artists in question have recently been talked about for homophobic and sexist remarks for DaBaby, leading to his deprogramming of several festivals, but also for rape charges against Marylin Manson. As for Chris Brown, he was sentenced in 2009 for assault and battery on the singer Rihanna.
So many collaborations with controversial participants who fuel criticism on social networks or in the media. In addition, the Universal label would also have, according to the rapper’s words on Instagram, released this disc without his agreement, in addition to having “blocked” the song. Jail pt II. On the same social network, in a message since deleted, Kanye West published screenshots of conversations claiming that the album could not be released because DaBaby’s manager had not given the green light.
In 2020, Kanye West had sunk a lot of anchor with his decried candidacy for the American presidential election, which was held on November 3. The months preceding this deadline, the rapper had developed his electoral program, published a campaign clip and even offered a meeting of the most disjointed. At the center of its program, three “founding pillars of society”: family, faith and prayer.
“We, as a people, will rekindle our nation’s commitment to the faith, to what our Constitution calls ‘the free exercise of religion, including, of course, prayer.’ faith can be restored. By turning to faith, we will be the type of country, the type of people, that God wants us to be”, explained Kanye West in front of the American flag in black and white, between two photos of him and from his family. “America. What is America’s destiny? What is best for our nation, our people? What is fair, true justice? We need to think about all these things , together, as a people,” he added. “Support Kanye as president”, could we read on his website, where a large number of derivative products bearing the effigy of “Kanye 2020” are on sale.
For him, his candidacy was no coincidence, it was even dictated by God. “Let’s see if the appointment is for 2020 or for 2024, because it is God who appoints the president (…) If it is 2020, then I would have been appointed by God”, he explained to the Forbes newspaper in July 2020, adding that he would then be the candidate of a new party, called “Birth Day”. A candidacy motivated by Kanye West’s desire to gather black votes, which Joe Biden would be unable to do, leading the latest polls. “To say that the black vote is democrat is a form of racism and white supremacy”, explained the artist, adding: “America needs special people who lead. Joe Biden is not special.”
And if his failure in the 2020 presidential election was clear, Kanye West, or rather simply Ye, intends to reiterate his candidacy for the next deadline, in 2024.
If we no longer present Kanye West, his former wife is also very famous. Born on October 21, 1980 in Los Angeles, she became known in the 2000s in several successful reality TV shows in the United States, where she participated with her family (she will also be talked about for a sextape published in 2007, then another in 2018). After her marriage to music producer Damon Thomas from 2000 to 2004, and several other high-profile relationships, Kim Kardashian appears with longtime friend Kanye West.
From 2012, the two stars are inseparable, despite their respective relationship. In 2013, she became pregnant: North West, their first child, was born on June 15, 2013 in Los Angeles. The couple became engaged in October the same year and married on May 24, 2014 in Florence, Italy. Their second child, baptized Saint West, was born on December 5, 2015, then a daughter, Chicago, was born on January 15, 2015, born to a surrogate mother, Kim Kardashian having revealed that she could no longer have children. Finally, a fourth baby, Psalm, was born on May 10, 2019.
The couple announce their divorce in 2021 after six years of marriage. An over-mediatized separation which would be worth, according to the magazine Forbessome 2.1 billion dollars, between the fortunes of each, their property in common and their astonishing marriage contract.
Since his eccentric candidacy for the White House in the summer of 2020, the rapper has chained the escapades. After his disjointed campaign meeting where he ended in tears, at the beginning of July 2020, it was on Twitter that he decided to express himself in a series of equally strange tweets (and since deleted). In these messages, he explained that the family of his wife, Kim Kardashian, was trying to bring in doctors to treat him.
After nicknaming Kris Jenner, his mother-in-law, “Kris Jong-un”, referring to the North Korean leader, Kanye West implied that Kim Kardashian would have cheated on him. “I’ve been trying to divorce Kim since she met Meek (Meek Mill, an American rapper editor’s note.) at the Waldorf to talk about ‘prison reform’,” he wrote on Twitter, expressing his refusal to allow his mother-in-law, Kris Jenner, to approach her four children, North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm.
A new release that had worried about the mental health of Kanye West, who suffers from bipolar disorder. After having diagnosed it himself in his album Yes released in 2018, he explained in 2019 that this disease caused paranoid delusions in him. People with bipolar disorder alternate between manic phases, a state of high psychic excitement and depressive phases. A hereditary disease that can be treated with drugs that regulate patients’ moods, such as lithium.