Kanye West has been called a “fucking moron” by Logic for wearing his infamous White Lives Matter T-shirt at last year’s Paris Fashion Week — although, he still has love for him.
Ye was spotted wearing the controversial shirt back in October while hanging out with conservative political pundit Candace Owens during his YZY Season 9 experience in Paris, France.
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Facing a sea of backlash, the shirt would kickstart Kanye West’s now notorious slew of anti-semitic controversies, which all began after he told Tucker Carlson in an interview on Fox News that he found his Paris Fashion Week stunt to be “funny.”
“My favorite response, ’cause I kept on thinking, ‘They’re looking for an explanation,” Ye said in part. “And people say, ‘Well, as an artist, you don’t have to give an explanation, but as a leader, you do.’ So the answer to why I wrote ‘White Lives Matter’ on a shirt is, because they do. It’s the obvious thing.”
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On Wednesday (April 26), during a vlog post on his YouTube channel, Logic reflected on some of the backlash he’s received over the years, and said that at least he wasn’t wearing “White Lives Matter T-shirts” and doing “dumb shit.”
“It’s kinda dope to realize the more people talking about me, positive or negative, makes me more rich,” Logic said. “Only I’m not like evil, so I’m not out here spewing bullshit out of my mouth or wearing White Lives Matter t-shirts or some dumb shit like that. Fucking moron.”
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He continued: “Love Kanye by the way, [just a] stupid fucking idea. Let me preface that. I love Kanye West I think he’s a genius I wouldn’t be here without him. I can have a fucking opinion, and as long as my opinion is respectful and from the heart then it is what it is.
“I would have not said something like that a few years ago because I would have been scared that I wouldn’t have gotten a Kanye verse or Kanye beat … and I could just give a fuck. Because if I ever meet Kanye West I’m just gonna shake his hand and talk to him like a man and have a fun conversation and that’s gonna be that.”
Logic has long held Ye in high praise. The Maryland rapper interlopes Kanye West on his No Pressure track “Celebration,” and references him with tracks like “Heard Em Say” from the same album. He also uses Ye’s Taiko drums from “Amazing” on his 2015 song “Contact.”
He also praised the Yeezus hitmaker for his artistry early on in his career, even when he was being accused of biting the very rappers who inspired him.
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“I’ve been so inspired by others from Kendrick to Drake to Cole to Kanye to everybody in a great way,” Logic said in a 2015 interview with Complex. “Like, ‘Oh he did this, I wanna try something like this.’ There’s less and less [of that]. It’s still there, I’m not ashamed, I never will be, and I don’t think you should be.
“Those same people who be like, ‘You sound like whoever’ — Kendrick, Cole, Kanye, Drake — Yes! If you say that reminds [you] of that, I did my job because this person is so incredible and I could stir up a similar feeling.”
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Logic’s comments come as Ye continues to deal with an onslaught of controversies both legal and otherwise. Most recently, a former teacher at his Donda Academy scrutinized the rap mogul for his bizarre regulations at the school, and issued a dire warning to parents that their kids may have trouble transferring elsewhere.
The comments were made by Cecilia Hailey, who is one of two women suing Ye for wrongful termination over claims she was let go after raising concerns about the school.
In a recent interview with TMZ, Hailey stressed that things are far worse than parents realize and that Donda Academy’s student body is severely behind in their education.
“Ye West, I am so thankful for the opportunity to be at your school, but things are not going the way they should, academically, socially or spiritually,” she said. “And you need to back down and try again with people who know what they’re doing, who can execute a vision, who can help you understand that we don’t know anything about producing albums, but we know how to educate.”
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She continued: “These children’s lives are in your hands and this vision, especially if you’re trying to carry out the vision of your mother, is just not working right now.”
Hailey added that the children aren’t graded on their academia and as a result, that could make it impossible for parents to transfer their kids to other schools since there is no way to gauge their performance.
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Hailey and another teacher have since filed a lawsuit against Donda Academy alleging that they were fired from the school because they reported education, safety, and health code violations to the authorities and that students were only fed sushi.
