Kanye West Discusses Death Threats For Backing Trump, Why He Wore ‘White Lives Matter’ T-Shirt
Hip-hop artist Kanye West touched on a range of hot-button topics in an Oct. 6 interview on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” including why he donned a T-shirt emblazoned with the words “White Lives Matter” and revealing he received death threats for his embrace of former President Donald Trump.
The musician, also known as “Ye,” turned heads when during his Yeezy Season 9 collection presentation in Paris, France, on Oct. 3, he wore a T-shirt featuring the words “White Lives Matter.”
At the Paris event, West was joined by conservative commentator Candace Owens, who wore a matching T-shirt and later took to Twitter to share images of the garment, which featured the late Pope John Paul II on the front and the words “White Lives Matter” on the back.
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) October 3, 2022
The T-shirts sparked some controversy on social media, with Temple University professor and BET host Marc Lamont Hill calling West’s decision to wear the T-shirt “disgusting, dangerous, and irresponsible.”
In his interview with Tucker Carlson, West said his decision to wear the T-shirt came from a sense that it was the right thing to do and was based on his conviction that all life is precious.
“It’s using a gut instinct, a connection with God,” he said, adding that it was an expression of “a black man stating the obvious.”
“The answer to why I wrote ‘White Lives Matter’ on a shirt is because they do,” West said. “It’s the obvious thing.”
The phrase “white lives matter” originated in 2015 as a response to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, which protested the deaths of black men at the hands of police. In 2020, BLM protests often turned violent with mobs vandalizing property and police vehicles.
West told Carlson that he received a threatening phone call over the T-shirt.
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