Lawsuits, Abusive Tweets & Worse! Kanye West's Most FIERY Feuds Ever Revealed
Aug. 9 2016, Published 10:00 a.m. ET
Nobody messes with Kanye West! Click through these slides to see the 39-year-old's most heated feuds yet.
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West and sister-in-law Kylie Jenner's feud began when Jenner, 18, inked a deal with Puma. She previously walked in West's Yeezus fashion shows, and West felt betrayed. "It's like if I made a show Sunday night, and didn't tell any of you all about it, but I did a couple shows with y'all first. So people saw me and were all, 'Ah, he's cool on camera.' And somebody offered me a deal, and I, like, did it and didn't tell none of y'all, and brought all my cool friends," he explained on KUWTK. But it seems like they settled their feud for now, as West tweeted back in February that Puma couldn't divide their family.
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West also had a bout with Nike before he signed with Adidas. He demanded royalties from the athletic company after learning other rappers would be designing for the brand, and they refused. He slammed the company in his song, "Facts," rapping, "If Nike ain't have Drizzy, man they wouldn't have nothin…if Nike ain't have Don C, man they wouldn't have nothin'…Yeezy, Yeezy, Yeezy, they line up for days, Nike out here bad, they can't give sh*t away…Yeezy in the house and we just got appraised, Nike, Nike treat employees just like slaves…Tell Adidas that we need a million in production."
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Then, West got into it with another footwear brand! The rapper slammed Zappos' CEO Tony Hsieh for allegedly giving him unsolicited advice, saying "Meanwhile, he sells all this sh*t product to everybody, his whole thing is based off of selling sh*t product." Zappos fired back by offering a "sh*t product" on their website for a limited time.
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West and Taylor Swift's feud began in 2009 when he interrupted her acceptance speech at the MTV VMAs. West apologized via Twitter a year later, but Swift already penned the track "Innocent" about the incident. West then accused Swift of using the incident for publicity, and they were at war again until 2015, when the duo was set to collaborate. Swift then presented West with the Video Vanguard Award at the 2015 VMAs, and he sent her flowers. But then he released the track "Famous," and claimed Swift was okay with it. She shot back that she wasn't, prompting Kim Kardashian to release a secret recording of their conversation. They've been at war ever since.
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West and his ex-girlfriend Amber Rose got into a heated feud after West slammed her in an interview. "If Kim had dated me when I first wanted to be with her, there wouldn't be an Amber Rose," he said. "It's very hard for a woman to want to be with someone that's with Amber Rose...I had to take 30 showers before I got with Kim." She responded by slamming him for slut-shaming, and later took her ex-husband's side against the rapper!
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West got into it with Wiz Khalifa after Khalifa tweeted about West changing his album name from SWISH to WAVES (eventually becoming The Life of Pablo). "4th you let a stripper trap you. 5th I know you mad every time you look at your child that this girl got you for 18 years," West shot at him. Rose fired back in Khalifa's defense, "Awww @kanyewest are u mad I'm not around to play in ur a--hole anymore? #FingersInTheBootyA--Bitch."
2014 GQ Men Of The Year Party – Arrivals
Jimmy Kimmel and West waged war on each other after Kimmel spoofed West. He slammed at the time: "JIMMY KIMMEL IS OUT OF LINE TO TRY AND SPOOF IN ANY WAY THE FIRST PIECE OF HONEST MEDIA IN YEARS," later Kanye added, "JIMMY KIMMEL PUT YOURSELD IN MY SHOES…OH NO THAT MEANS YOU WOULD HAVE GOTTEN TOO MUCH GOOD P***Y IN YOUR LIFE…" "JIMMY KIMMEL IS OUT OF LINE TO TRY AND SPOOF IN ANY WAY THE FIRST PIECE OF HONEST MEDIA IN YEARS," later Kanye added, "JIMMY KIMMEL PUT YOURSELD IN MY SHOES…OH NO THAT MEANS YOU WOULD HAVE GOTTEN TOO MUCH GOOD P***Y IN YOUR LIFE…"
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West may be BFF with Jay-Z, but he didn't appreciate his collaboration with Justin Timberlake! "And I got love for Hov but I ain't fucking with that 'Suit & Tie'," West said at the time. Timberlake responded by changing the lyrics during a performance to "my hits so sick, got rappers acting dramatic". The two reportedly settled their feud after the 2015 VMAs.
Evel Knievel
Evel Knievel sued West in 2007 for using his persona in the "Touch the Sky" music video. Knievel claimed the video was "vulgar" and "offensive," and did not want his image associated with "promoting his filth to the world" . They both declined to comment on their settlement.
Finally, West sued Chad Hurley after a video of his proposal to Kardashian leaked on MixBit. The couple claimed he was not invited to the elaborate event and was not authorized to record it. Hurley lost the suit and had to pay Kardashian and West $440,000.
