Kanye West claims he hasn’t seen son Saint in any respect “this yr” — regardless of Web page Six acquiring photographs of them collectively in January.
The rapper-turned-fashion designer, 47, made the allegations on X (previously Twitter) Tuesday morning with out offering any additional rationalization.
Within the January snapshots, West and his three youngest kids could possibly be seen buying at a 7-Eleven retailer in Tokyo’s Ginza district.
His tweet got here amid a flurry of comparable statements the place West claimed he was attempting to get “the fitting” lawyer to struggle the mom of his 4 kids, Kim Kardashian, for custody.
In a single tweet, West — who now goes by Ye — even questioned why celebrities like Beyoncé, Jay Z, Rihanna, Elon Musk and President Trump are “all watching and letting Kim take [his] children from [him] in actual time.”
“Yall wanna say I’m appearing out reason for issues in my childhood, However I don’t get to be a dad,” he mentioned partially.
“You guys could make a distinction. I’m f–king shaking typing this I’ve had my rights stripped as a result of I wore a f–king pink hat,” he added, referencing the “Make America Nice Once more” cap he publicly sported in assist of Trump.
He additionally said that he doesn’t “want to simply ‘SEE’ [his] children,” however that he wants the possibility to “increase them,” mentioning that he’s a “good dad” and a “nice father to have.”
The “Heartless” rapper adopted up with yet one more tweet, saying, “I HAVE TO SUPPRESS THE FACT THAT MY KIDS HAVE BEEN TAKEN FROM ME AND EVERYONE JUST WATCHES.”
“I want a plan to train my rights with my children,” he mentioned in a separate assertion.
West made comparable allegations towards the Skims founder in March when he tweeted that he has “beef with those that froze [his] account took [his] children away and tried to place [him] in jail AND ITS STUCK.”
The “All Falls Down” rapper then in contrast “seeing” his 4 children — North, 11, Saint, 9, Chicago, 7, and Psalm, 5 — to having “visitation” in jail.
The previous couple — who bought married in 2014 earlier than splitting in 2021 — kickstarted their feud as soon as once more after West featured their eldest daughter in a track with disgraced rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs towards Kardashian’s needs.
The Skims founder referred to as an emergency assembly with a mediator and a choose to cease her ex-husband from releasing the track. West nonetheless went via with dropping the monitor, nonetheless, after initially saying he wouldn’t.
After that, West appeared to upset Kardashian much more when he deliberate to host the Tate brothers, Andrew and Tristan, at his residence whereas North was visiting him.
The “Kardashians” star was pressured to finish North’s go to together with her dad early when she came upon that the brothers — who had been arrested in Romania in 2022 and later charged with making a prison group to sexually exploit girls — had been on their approach.
A supply informed Web page Six on the time, “Kim’s precedence is the well-being and security of her kids and to guard them from being round Kanye’s controversial habits.”
Since then, Kardashian, 44, has contemplated altering her custody settlement with West, per TMZ.
The exes beforehand agreed to share joint bodily and authorized custody of the children once they settled their divorce in 2022.
Regardless of his battle for his children, West beforehand made headlines when he mentioned, “I didn’t wish to have kids with this particular person after the primary two months of being with them, however that wasn’t God’s plan.”
