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Awards show chaos to social media rants: Inside Kanye West’s biggest controversies of all time

Some are actually unbelievable

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ByHelen Williams

25th April 2025, 12:55

Kanye West once said how “usually the things he likes are the most are controversial to other people,” and it turns out he wasn’t wrong. Kim Kardashian‘s ex-husband has had some ‘OMG’ moments in his time, but these days his online rants are proving to be more concerning than entertaining. Kanye has been suspended from X before for some of his tweets and the rapper’s controversies don’t stop at social media.

Kanye West’s award show controversies

When it comes to Kanye’s messy moments, there’s a standout occasion that probably comes to mind for a lot of people – the 2009 VMAs.

Kanye stormed on stage in the middle of Taylor Swift’s award acceptance speech and said Beyoncé should’ve won.

It was a super controversial moment that went down in pop culture history, and Barack Obama called Ye a “jacka**” over it, per The Guardian.

No one could’ve predicted how years later, it would have developed into a full-blown feud, which now actually has multiple chapters.

He claimed he never wanted kids with Kim Kardashian

Amid Kim and Kanye’s ongoing custody battle, he made claims he never wanted kids with her.

Speaking to DJ Akademiks, Kanye said: “I didn’t want to have children with this person after two months of being with her, but that was in God’s plan.”

DJ Akademiks said he was forewarned by Ye that he’d be wearing the outfit. He shared how he didn’t believe he would actually show up in it.

Kanye ran for president and supported Trump

It seems that X, formerly known as Twitter, is really Kanye’s go-to place to share everything he wants to say with the world.

He opted to run for president in 2020 and 2024, something he’s repeatedly said was to be in his future.

In an interview with Forbes, Ye seemed pretty confident he’d win votes by running under ‘the Birthday Party’. He explained: “Because when we win, it’s everybody’s birthday.”

The rapper also has controversially supported Donald Trump on numerous occasions and often wore a MAGA hat from around 2018, which was seemingly the height of their friendship.

Kanye’s gone on more rants than we keep track of

Kanye has been going off on rants for years, and his controversies date back decades at this point.

In 2005, he and Mike Myers presented at a Hurricane Katrina benefit concert.

The televised moment is one people will likely never forget as Kanye went off script and called out the president.

He said: “George Bush doesn’t care about Black people.”

Per Entertainment Weekly, George W Bush responded to Kanye’s words, saying that he didn’t “appreciate” them and added how it was “The worst moment of his presidency.”

Ye’s rants aren’t limited to TV, either, as he’s also made many anti-Semitic remarks online.

The father-of-four was dropped by his talent agency, and Adidas cut ties with him over his comments.

Kanye’s talent agency also sued him after his antisemitism. To this day, he still tweets in support of Hitler.

Despite being suspended from X in the past, he still frequently posts offensive slurs online.

Throughout 2025, Ye has posted many awful tweets involving Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Kim Kardashian, his kids, and multiple rappers.

His words reportedly had Kim and Beyoncé “in crisis talks,” at one stage.

Kanye’s nearly-nude girlfriend

Ye’s controversies aren’t just limited to his own personal actions, he and his partner, Bianca Censori, have caused a stir on multiple occasions due to her lack of clothing in public.

There have been countless times Bianca’s looks have raised eyebrows as she and Kanye stepped out.

Recently, the two showed up at the 2025 Grammys, and Bianca’s outfit choice certainly turned heads on the red carpet.

Bianca wore a sheer dress without anything underneath it to the event and left people shook.

Feud with Pete Davidson

Kanye hasn’t been afraid to make a lot of his views known.

And when it comes to how he felt about Pete Davidson, Ye never seemed to hold back.

He took to social media on multiple occasions to attack Pete and once shared a threatening post via IG.

The post featured a photo of a fake New York Times newspaper headline reading: “Skete Davidson Dead at Age 28.”

Per Harper’s Bazaar, Pete is reportedly in “trauma therapy” after the online harassment.

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