Grammy-winning rapper Kanye West has social media thinking twice about him. Yeezy has hit up Twitter to toss up an unexpected salute to conservative Candace Owens.
Yeezy went to the social media giant Saturday (April 21) to praise Owens’ way of thinking.
I love the way Candace Owens thinks
— ye (@kanyewest) April 21, 2018
only free thinkers
— ye (@kanyewest) April 21, 2018
I don't subscribe the term and concept of God fearing. That's a dated mentality that was used to control people. We are in the future. If God is love and love it's the opposite of fear then…🤔🤷♂️ to fear God makes no sense 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
— ye (@kanyewest) April 21, 2018
live in love not in fear
— ye (@kanyewest) April 21, 2018
be fearless. Express what you feel not what you've been programmed to think.
— ye (@kanyewest) April 21, 2018
get past the past
— ye (@kanyewest) April 21, 2018
The more people contribute to real time global consciousness the faster we evolve
— ye (@kanyewest) April 21, 2018
Owens almost immediately responded to Kanye’s co-sign and also addressed media bashing her reputation.
I’m freaking out. @kanyewest ….please take a meeting with me. I tell every single person that everything that I have been inspired to do, was written in your music.
I am my own biggest fan, because you made it okay. I need you to help wake up the black community. https://t.co/Uz1nB9K0Oz— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) April 21, 2018
Far right? Allow me to clarify: I believe the black community can do it without hand-outs. I believe the Democrats have strapped us to our past to prevent us from our futures. And I won’t stop fighting until all black Americans see that.
I’m not far right—I’m free. pic.twitter.com/wtqCuYPtM2— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) April 21, 2018
Out of curiousity… are you still pretending to be black? https://t.co/sZa04UHRUa
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) April 21, 2018
Kanye West tweets 7 words and leftists rush to smear me as far-right & anti-LGBT. So what terrified them?
The truth did. The left is losing control of their blacks. Ready to be awakened? Watch the truth about my journey off the plantation w/ @RubinReport. https://t.co/YviWe4PQk0 pic.twitter.com/GcN35gBoIa— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) April 21, 2018
The Internet has since ripped Kanye for giving Owens a nod and took shots at her publicized issues toward the Black Lives Matter movement.
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/987823632452898816
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/987768240985296896
Did Kanye just really speak positively about Candace Owens? Hell just froze over?
— southernvalleygirl (@BillingsLorrie) April 21, 2018
I think the black community needs to STOP supporting Kanye financially & then maybe he’ll open his fucking eyes & realize he’s black! He uses the black card when it’s convenient for HIM! #candaceowens
— nella0721 (@Danella0721) April 21, 2018
https://twitter.com/Saint_Howie/status/987784472715321344
As I've said many times before, if I had no dignity I would be a very rich man by now. Candace Owens is making money off of denigrating black folks for her mostly white audience. Same as that Noir guy, same as Stacey Dash, same as Allen West etc. https://t.co/ljA5kgvcS1
— Herb Lawrence (@Ecnerwal23) April 21, 2018
I can handle a racist. A racist has to cope with that disease. But people who act like inequality doesn’t exist because they don’t recognize it in their “perfect world” frustrate me. Nothing innovative about the way #CandaceOwens thinks, just a bit unpopular. #KanyeWest
— Quia Tarantino (@QuiaTarantino) April 21, 2018
Owens is known for her conservative views and having problems with the Black Lives Matter movement.
Black Lives Matter protesters showed up to my @UCLA event to protest. Here is a video clip of me smacking them down with the truth; they’re a bunch of whiny toddlers, pretending to be oppressed for attention. pic.twitter.com/riBA0A3J1I
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) April 20, 2018