Kanye
(slang) To interrupt (a speech).
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Born ~2009 · 1 year of recorded useSeen in the wild
A Comunidade Israelita de Lisboa (CIL) pediu às Câmaras de Faro e de Loulé e ao Governo que não concedam quaisquer apoios públicos a um concerto no estádio do Algarve do músico norte-americano Kanye West Saiba mais:…
Yeah, Kanye put it into his actual music and his merch store. At that point it is unavoidable for people who are fans of his music.
Controversial US rapper Kanye West, who recently was banned from the UK after a series of antisemitic remarks and releasing a single called 'Heil Hitler', will have a concert in Tbilisi in June. Tickets for the show s…
Reported in Russian media today: The vile and ostracised Kanye West will perform in Georgia. The concert will take place on June 12 in Tbilisi at the Paichadze Stadium. Tickets are expected to go on sale soon. K…
You either die MF DOOM or live long enough to see yourself become Kanye West
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(slang) To interrupt (a speech).
In what probably put his film on the map more than winning the Oscar itself, the short documentary winner Roger Ross Williams got Kanye’d when accepting his award for “Music by Prudence.” As Mr. Williams, the director, was making his spe…
“That's seriously a "Kanye? Is that you?" kind of situation. Like who else could you IMAGINE doing that? You'd be so embarrassed. Though the possibility of "performance art/social experiment" is there too. Like "will anyone say anything?"”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Dave Chappelle, who has been aligned with Ye, aka Kanye West, in the past, brought the producer onstage after a comedy set. https://hiphopwired.com/3053242/dave-chappelle-kanye-west-onstage-comedy-set/”
— Bluesky· May 2026“While the great hiphop civil war has forever stained Drake's catalogue for me and turned once loved drizzy bops into skipped ick's, at the same time, I also remember Kanye's redemption arc during MBDTF; ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE”
— Bluesky· May 2026“if it turns out this is a kanye west cover i will be *very* concerned”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Cue the NPR interview where Dave complains about Kanye stealing his jokes for a Final Solution mixtape...”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(slang) To interrupt the speech of (someone).
Taylor sings her monologue song on Saturday Night Live with Bill Hader (left) and Jason Sudeikis (right) making sure she doesn’t get Kanye’d again.
“A Comunidade Israelita de Lisboa (CIL) pediu às Câmaras de Faro e de Loulé e ao Governo que não concedam quaisquer apoios públicos a um concerto no estádio do Algarve do músico norte-americano Kanye West Saiba mais: expresso.pt/lusa/2026-05-06...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Yeah, Kanye put it into his actual music and his merch store. At that point it is unavoidable for people who are fans of his music.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Controversial US rapper Kanye West, who recently was banned from the UK after a series of antisemitic remarks and releasing a single called 'Heil Hitler', will have a concert in Tbilisi in June. Tickets for the show start at ₾700 ($260).”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Reported in Russian media today: The vile and ostracised Kanye West will perform in Georgia. The concert will take place on June 12 in Tbilisi at the Paichadze Stadium. Tickets are expected to go on sale soon. Kanye never made it to Moscow. #FuckKanye”
— Bluesky· May 2026“You either die MF DOOM or live long enough to see yourself become Kanye West”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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