Kanye West Says Pete Davidson Attacks Are 'Payback' For SNL Bit!
17.02.2022 - 23:25
/ perezhilton.com
Kanye West’s campaign against Pete Davidson continues.
At this point, it’s getting hard to keep track of all of Ye’s outbursts about the SNL star, whom he refers to as “Skete.” The endless Instagram posts (and alleged vicious rumor-spreading) all stem from the fact that Pete is dating the rapper’s ex-wife, Kim Kardashian — or so we thought. According to Ye, there’s another reason for these relentless attacks.
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As we previously reported, on Thursday the Grammy winner posted a screenshot from a Weekend Update bit that Pete delivered in 2018. At the time, the comedian was reacting to Ye’s recent controversial SNL appearance. He jokingly discussed mental health issues from the perspective of someone who’s been very open about his own. Here’s the full video, to refresh your memory:
Kanye shared a screenshot of the segment to his IG on Monday with the caption:
Around an hour later, the 44-year-old returned to the subject. This time he was more explicit about what was going on. He posted a video of a cell phone, upon which video from the Weekend Update bit was playing. (Instead of the YouTube link we shared above, it looked like an Instagram Reel excerpt from the same video that someone had edited to include captions.) In the specific section Ye posted, Pete joked:
Can’t say we disagree with him there. But of course Ye took serious issue with it. The father of four ominously captioned his post:
Ugh…
Remember that Brooklyn Nine-Nine meme, “Cool motive, still murder?” Yeah, just because he’s acting out of revenge doesn’t make his actions not harassment!
On top of that, this is a video from four years ago. We understand that the content of the clip might