Along with a photo of Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, Kanye texted, “I live for this. Photo: Getty Images

Kanye West and Drake are beefing again, in this, the year of our Lord 2021. IM CRYING DRAKE GOT KANYE IN HIS JOKER ARC LMFAOOOO pic.twitter.com/yWNfZSzsFW— hasan♨️ (@flackospurity) August 21, 2021

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Tags: It all started on Saturday, when Trippie Redd’s new song, “Betrayal,” dropped, featuring a verse from Drake that seemingly calls out Kanye. I’ve been fucked with by nerd ass jock n- – – -s like you my whole life. The two have been quietly squabbling for the past few weeks (via proxies and Instagram comments) over the release dates of their respective albums, Donda and Certified Lover Boy, but it seems that the drama has finally spilled over onto main. Kanye posted an ominous screenshot of a group chat to his Instagram, which he later deleted. The screenshot also revealed Kanye had recently added Pusha T to the group (another one of Drake’s enemies). You will never recover. (Kanye, by the way, is 44.)

It’s at this point that things took a weird turn. I promise you.” It’s unclear who was in the group chat with Kanye, though it’s safe to assume Drake was CC’d, based on the initials of the people in the chat. Drake has yet to (publicly) respond to all of this, but to be fair to Kanye, who among us has not been pushed to the edge by a nerd-ass jock? “All these fools I’m beefin’ that I barely know / Forty-five, forty-four (Burned out), let it go / Ye ain’t changin’ shit for me, it’s set in stone,” Drake raps on the track.

Kardashian filed for divorce four months ago, and the tough decision is currently a plot line in the final season of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. Rapper rebounds with Bradley Cooper's model ex https://t.co/FaFZBw2HjS pic.twitter.com/e48u0KadsY— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) June 9, 2021

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Tags: Rumors of their romance kicked up on Deux Moi towards the end of May, who noted “After further looking into this, I don’t know if ‘dating’ is the right word, but there is perhaps some interest there” at the time. He later referenced her on “Christian Dior Denim Flow,” rapping “I wanna see Irina Shayk next to Doutzen” in a verse referencing models. The Devil works hard, Kris Jenner works harder, and Yeezus is still one step ahead. Photos: Getty Images

Kanye West and Irina Shayk, each one-half of a high-profile breakup, have reportedly rebounded into each other’s designer-clad arms. “In other words, yeah … they’re banging.”

Shayk and West actually go way back — before she and Bradley Cooper had a daughter together, and before West married Kim Kardashian. EXCLUSIVE PICTURES: Kanye West and Irina Shayk are DATING! She portrayed an angel in his “Power” music video back in 2010. “TMZ has confirmed they are 100% romantically together, but our sources say it’s unclear how serious they are at this point,” reads their report. In images obtained by the Daily Mail, they can be seen walking around their luxury hotel, with West taking pictures of her. Per TMZ, the rapper and model were spotted in French region of Provence on Tuesday, Kanye West’s 44th birthday (Happy belated Westmas to those who observe). Photo-Illustration: Vulture.

And, yes, Jeffree Star moved to a ranch in Wyoming in early December, a plan he had mentioned on Twitter back in August. Known for being an online nuisance and exaggerating the truth to go viral, she’s also the influencer behind last year’s “Coronavirus Challenge” parody where she licked an airplane toilet. xoxo” yesterday, fans and lurkers noticed. The initial rumor that Kanye West was cheating on Kim Kardashian West with a “male beauty guru” came from within the influencer community itself. Now that we’ve seen what 2021 can do, trust nothing. Yeah, according to “Page Six,” Kanye has been living at his Wyoming residence while he and Kim are separated. You have to laugh. Okay, but what about this receipt I just found? Another TikToker cited the fact that both the Kardashian-Wests and Star live in Hidden Hills, California, as well, but rich people doing rich things is not necessarily new or notable. Jeffree Star just deleted this tweet💀 pic.twitter.com/kzInV4yuvJ— oui’d (@thiswhiskey) January 6, 2021

All right, pack it up, Sherlock. “i can’t say WHO cuz he’ll sue me hint hint but it’s part of the reason Kanye’s so religious now it’s his self hatred ….” she wrote in the caption. At the time, the internet was like “Not now, girl.” The day began with the news that Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West are reportedly headed for divorce after six years, but since the day included an insurrection, make no apologies for not having the bandwidth for 2021’s most insane rumor yet. But on TikTok, the chaos is already taking on new life. Ugh, Jeffree. Wyoming … I know one thing about Wyoming … Isn’t that where Kanye lives? The TikTok rumor got picked up by blind-gossip Instagram account @DeuxMoi, which reposted the item, adding that they “think it’s not true” because Star has been dating. Related

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Tags: A reminder that Instagram Stories are not a reliable source. Who do we have to blame for this?Ah, if it were that easy. Here’s how the internet fed a rumor about Jeffree Star and Kanye West having an ongoing affair and where the hell it came from in the first place. I’m ready for Sunday Service 🕊 pic.twitter.com/6kCA4kNrfu— Jeffree Star (@JeffreeStar) January 6, 2021

Jeffree Star is still fanning the flames on Twitter. But the controversial YouTuber used to tweet suggestively at several celebrities. Jeffrye. However, Kanye famously lives in Cody, Wyoming, and Jeffree laid his claim in Casper, Wyoming, which are at least three hours apart. Meanwhile, the Kardashian-West clan has remained silent on this issue, the divorce in general, and the insurrection taking place at the behest of their president. On Wednesday, she posted a TikTok saying “a lot of people in the scene” (okay, ew) have known about the affair. Did he ever respond to that report claiming that he paid off his sexual-assault accuser so they wouldn’t go public?No, he simply donated $25,000 to a local Wyoming children’s charity a few days later and continued posting on social media like nothing happened. He was so into it, he missed the fact that a whole siege was happening. Photo-Illustration: Vulture, Getty Images and Jeffree Star/Twitter

Yesterday, Jeffree Star posted a scandalous selfie, feeding rumors about his alleged affair with Kanye West, around the same time that violent Trump supporters were storming the Capitol. The culprit is TikToker Ava Louise. Another “receipt” people clung to is an old lyric of Star’s from the 2009 song “Bitch, Please!” In a verse fantasizing about different celebs, he sings (?) “Gave Zac Efron my poker face and left him with chills / And 3OH!3 warned me not to trust you hoes / Sucked off Kanye West, now I’m one of the bros.”

Then yesterday, mid-riot, comes a selfie that many fans see as “confirmation.” Star arrives in full glam and with a premeditated caption. “my source is legit I promiss [sic]” So, obviously people assumed it was the ever-litigious Jeffree Star. But if you’re just catching up, let us rot your brain with yesterday’s fourth-biggest news. Ava Louise claims she’s being sued by the family, and beauty influencer Cole Carrigan is posting his own receipts exposing an alleged relationship with Kanye West. Star did appear to delete a 2011 tweet replying to Kanye with “last night was so fun!

The issues were slightly more pedestrian in the swing state of Arizona, where West was also thrown off the ballot Thursday after a local judge ruled that the rapper’s Republican voter registration in Wyoming disqualified him from running as an independent presidential candidate in the Grand Canyon State as a matter of state law. The Kentucky effort was marked by an effort targeting students at college campuses, with a particularly strong presence at the University of Louisville, where signature gatherers tried a variety of sales pitches — including deceptive ones. The most remarkable case is in Virginia, where a number of electors for West were unaware that they had signed paperwork to be his electors. Further, there is a latent desire to oppose anything that even has the slightest hint of a Trumpist effort to cause chaos in November. The West campaign’s lawyer in Arizona, Tim LaSota, has since appealed the decision to the state supreme court. The first two firms have deep Republican ties. Tags: Per the campaign’s finance reports, the Chucktown Bar & Grill in North Charleston was paid $3,900 by the West campaign. An overdue campaign finance report filed with the Federal Election Commission on the Friday of the holiday weekend provided the new insight into what, exactly, the rapper is doing. In defiance of the court order, the West campaign submitted further signatures to Arizona Secretary of State on Friday afternoon after the secretary of state was enjoined from accepting more petitions from the rapper. This prompted a letter sent to LaSota from the secretary of state asking that the West campaign “please spare us any further publicity stunts.”

There also was a protest held outside the secretary of state’s office on Friday afternoon. West has paid the firm $20,000. In other words, the nearly $7 million spent so far could just be the tip of the iceberg for what West might spend over the last two months of the 2020 presidential election. Atlas Strategy Group, the firm run by Keller, was paid nearly $1.3 million. Since then, the West campaign’s public facing communication has been almost entirely limited to Keller’s Twitter account and legal briefs filed in various court cases as the rapper has attempted to secure ballot access. The exceptions include Isaac Ford, whose father and brother were both Democratic congressmen from Memphis; he was paid $25,000 by the West campaign. Lane Ruhland, who has represented Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in federal court, filed on behalf of West’s presidential campaign in Wisconsin. Ruhland’s firm, Husch Blackwell, was paid $10,000 by the West campaign. While Democratic operatives have expressed skepticism about whether West’s candidacy actually takes more votes from Joe Biden than from Donald Trump (as some Republicans seem to believe), West’s campaign has also sparked opposition based on principle. A reporter for NBC News tweeted that the protesters were paid signature gatherers for the campaign’s effort in Arizona and that showing up was a precondition for them to get paid for their work. West, of course, still has plenty of money to spend. Arizona based Fortified Consulting was paid $1.5 million with another $1.2 million owed to it in outstanding debt, and Long Island-based Millennial Strategies was paid $2.6 million. Democratic superlawyer Marc Elias represented the plaintiffs in the successful effort to boot West from the ballot in Virginia, and in Arizona, there were “blockers” who attempted to impede the efforts of signature gatherers for West. Andrew Baldleon told Intelligencer that he was approached on campus while waiting for a university shuttle bus to “sign a petition to get Kanye off the ballot.” Baldleon said “I don’t know how to say no” and signed after the person gathering signatures insisted that West was “a nutcase on social media.”

AJ Yarbrough, a junior at the school, said that someone approached him simply asking about “trying to get an independent candidate on the ballot.” He said that he didn’t realize it was Kanye West until he finally noticed the rapper’s name at the top of the form. Photo: GC Images

So far, Kanye West has spent nearly $7 million of his own money on what continues to be one of the most befuddling presidential bids in the history of American politics. A source familiar with the effort said that Tidball was hesitant to file that paperwork. The rally was held as part of his unsuccessful effort to gather sufficient signatures to appear on the ballot in the state, including — according to the campaign’s FEC filing — paying various businesses and churches in the Charleston area to allow signatures to be gathered on their premises. It’s unclear how much of this money was paid directly to these entities and how much was simply used to pass through to other vendors. So far, he has only held one campaign event, a peculiar July rally in South Carolina where he donned a bulletproof vest and criticized Harriet Tubman. In a statement to Intelligencer, Gregg Keller, the top strategist for the West campaign, described the decision as “a typical, tired political show trial” and insisted the campaign would appeal. In his efforts to get back on the ballot in West Virginia, he is being represented by Mark Adkins and Richie Heath, who represented Donald Trump, Jr. As to the question of who is paying these workers and how much, the campaign finance reports filed by the West show three firms receiving the bulk of the campaign’s spending. That establishment’s owner told Intelligencer at the time that his radio sales representative had approached him about allowing his business “to be a place where citizens could come out to petition for [West] to be on the presidential ballot.” New Bethel Sounds of Praise, a church where the woman answering the phone at the time said that there was no such effort taking place, was only paid $1,000 by the West campaign. However, that seems likely to change over the next two months. The South Carolina effort was promoted by the only press release ever sent out by the West campaign — to reporters in the state based on a press list provided by CJ Westfall, a local Republican operative and fan of the rapper. Keller is a long time Republican operative in Missouri who is the former executive director of the American Conservative Union and worked for Senator Josh Hawley. The RNC paid their law firm, Bowles Rice, nearly $17,000 in May. She simply said “maybe.”

Although West had also gathered signatures in North Dakota, the campaign didn’t file there because the state requires candidates to submit personal financial disclosure forms. After all, it is natural for Democrats to believe that the presidential candidacy of a celebrity who is publicly struggling with mental illness, has worn a Make America Great Again hat in the Oval Office, and has boasted of his friendship with Jared Kushner is not based on the purest motives. He told Nick Cannon in a recent interview that he had spent $50 million on Sunday Service, an elaborate mix of prayer circle and musical performance that West regularly holds on Sundays. Yarbrough then asked the signature gatherer about a pitch being given to students about the rapper potentially coming to campus. In what was almost certainly a first in American history, two electors for West successfully sued to have the candidate removed from the ballot in the state on Thursday. So far, those millions have made West likely to appear on the ballot in at least 12 states — including swing states like Minnesota and Iowa. Fortified Consulting shares a mailing address with an established Republican firm Lincoln Strategy Group — and Meghan Cox, a partner at Lincoln Strategy, was with the Kanye West protesters on Friday. The West campaign’s lawyers don’t represent its only ties to the GOP. in a 2019 lawsuit. There is also ongoing litigation in five other states where he still hopes to make the cut. The Republican ties, combined with West’s previous support of Donald Trump, has nonetheless prompted action by Democrats to thwart the rapper’s campaign. West’s campaign is expected to take more concrete form now that the filing deadlines have passed. The obstacle there was not the rapper but his running mate, Biblical life coach Michelle Tidball. Starting from Keller, who once interviewed to be Donald Trump’s campaign manager, down to electors with longstanding ties to the Republican Party, there has been a consistent, although not exclusive trend of Republicans flocking to the West campaign. The final lineup of states where West will appear on the ballot was set on Friday when West filed to appear on the ballot in Kentucky and Mississippi. Millennial Strategies is a firm that’s worked for Democrats and was paid money for a variety of services including $444,000 for polling and $205,000 for “campaign website services.”

The campaign has also spent over $260,000 on lawyers, most of whom have Republican ties.

Anyway, this is a totally fine substitute for scoring a ticket to Kanye’s opera Nebuchadnezzar at the Hollywood Bowl. She screams ‘Chick fil-A,’ though. Then, the Sunday Service revellers join Kanye, and the aerial shots make it kind of look like a highly overcast Jesus Christ Superstar. Or doomsday preppers eschewing society out in the wilderness. There’s an envoy of tanks, or maybe they’re Tesla cybertruck prototypes, and Kris Jenner steps out of one in a big teddy coat in what is the highlight of the video. They walk hand-in-hand in a way that looks vaguely Biblical, maybe, in a wandering through the desert way. Or District 12 from The Hunger Games. A Popeye’s sandwich diss track this is not. Just when you thought you were safe from the pop culture news cycle for one blessed, federal holiday, Kanye West just had to turkey-drop the video for “Closed on Sunday,” the fourth track from his gospel-rap-Christian-radio-rebrand album Jesus Is King. North gets to scream at the top of her lungs. Instead, West and family cradle their children in cozy puffy Carhartt on an expansive gray cliffside. The video is semi-surprisingly devoid of any Chick fil-A product placement imagery; there are no too-cheery drive-thru attendants or allusions to the company’s recent anti-LGBTQ hate group affiliations in sight. Related

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