The resurfaced clip — in which Pete calls out the rapper for behaving like a “jackass” — began making the rounds on social media after Ye leveled insults at the comedian in a number of since-deleted Instagram posts last weekend.
After months of escalating conflict, Kim Kardashian has officially unfollowed Kanye West on Instagram.
On Thursday, eagle-eyed fans noticed that Kim — who filed for divorce from the rapper over a year ago — had stopped following her soon-to-be ex-husband.
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In case you weren’t aware, the conflict between Pete and Ye stems from the fact that Pete is currently dating Kim, whom Ye has spent months publicly trying to get back together with.
As I’m sure you’ve seen, the dispute reached new heights last weekend when the Donda rapper was called out for harassing Kim and Pete in a string of since-deleted Instagram posts, including several where he leaked their private text messages.
provide some context, Pete talked about Ye's mental health during a "Weekend Update" segment in 2018, which aired the week after Ye appeared as a musical guest on the show and controversially made an impromptu speech about Donald Trump while wearing a MAGA hat.
It’s important to mention that Ye was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2016 and, at around the time of his SNL appearance, was facing a lot of criticism for his vocal support of Trump and extremely controversial statements on slavery.
In the past, Ye has treated his bipolar with medication, but he's also been open about the fact that he often will stop taking meds when he’s working on new music.
In fact, not long after he appeared on SNL, Ye informed fans that he was no longer taking medication, explaining that it stifles his creativity. “I cannot be on meds and make watch the throne level or dark fantasy level music,” he tweeted at the time.
A year later, Kim told Vogue that “being on medication is not really an option” for Ye, “because it just changes who he is.”
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And so, during the short SNL excerpt that began making the rounds last week, Pete — who was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder in 2017 — can be seen making light of Ye's stance on medication and suggesting that he should be treating his condition.
“Kanye, I know you're like, ‘Yo, this is the real me, I'm off the meds.’ Take ‘em!” he jokes, before making reference to his own condition. “There's no shame in the medicine game, I'm on ‘em! It’s great! Take them. There's nothing wrong with taking them.”
In the segment, he goes on to accuse the rapper of acting like a “jackass” and using his bipolar disorder as an “excuse.”
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“Being mentally ill is not an excuse to act like a jackass,” he says. “I'm quoting my therapist, my mom, and my mailman. Sorry, Carl. Seriously, one time I stopped taking my meds and I bit my mom. It's all good. I bought her a house.”
