Candace Owens, the 33-year-old conservative activist, talk show host and provocateur, has lurked around the margins of Ye’s stardom for a few years now. Recently she has stepped in to share the spotlight. Earlier this month, the Chicago-born, 45-year-old rapper and designer formerly known as Kanye West — who has legally changed his name to Ye — hosted a fashion show in Paris at which he and Owens both sported long-sleeved shirts.
It’s tricky to disentangle Ye’s friendship with Owens from his hard pivot into conservative politics. In late November of 2016, he said onstage that he would have voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election, . He met with the then-president-elect in December 2016 to discuss “multicultural issues,” and the two seemed at the time to have established a friendly rapport.the public launch of Ye’s mutual-admiration relationship with Owens. In April of that year, Yethat he loved “the way Candace Owens thinks.” At the time, Owens was the communications director for the student-focused conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA.
Of course, at the same time, “The comments turned off one segment of the population who loves him, but brought him a brand-new crowd of fans who may not have paid attention to him in the past,” Wright says. “In recent years Kanye has been more in the Christian circles, and really tight with the southern Evangelical church base. A lot of those people tend to be Trump supporters. They tend to be conservative.
That fall, things briefly soured between Ye and Owens. Many outlets reported that Ye had designed T-shirts for Owens’s “Blexit” campaign urging Black voters to leave the Democratic Party. Owens herself
Candace Owens and Kanye West be like
They should seek mental health instead of being involved in fashion shows.
Why give them free publicity?
They are not too proud to beg for some funding
I don’t care.
The 'genius' is being played to purchase Parler.
Who?
Of course. That 🤡 always does or says something outrageous for attention. What a waste…
Nutter Kanye is being sued for megabucks by George Floyd’s family for the lie he told about Mr. Floyd’s death. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I think she played him!?
Yes she is using him for his money. That's what the GOP does. They were both leftist 10 years ago anyways
The wouldn’t dare wear this in Brooklyn.
George Floyd's family just sued Kanye. And I hope the Floyd family gets every penny that they're suing Kanye for.
How can Kanye be so good at making music and so bad at everything else?