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Kanye screams at Wiz Khalifa that he’s the reason they can wear cool pants

Waves.

 

Miles Klee

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Posted on Jan 27, 2016   Updated on May 27, 2021, 7:36 am CDT

When you’re as big as Kanye West, you can take anything personally. Even a casual tweet like this one, from fellow notable rapper Wiz Khalifa:

Those familiar with Wiz’s predilection for marijuana—or those who have a similar habit themselves—may recognize the term “kk” for what it is: a strain of weed.

Kanye, meanwhile, was in the midst of a Twitter frenzy as he announced (and and live-retooled) his new album, now tentatively titled WAVES instead of Swish, boasting all the while of its limitless promise. 

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692083418083921921

Perhaps it’s the adrenaline that accounts for what happened next.

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Yes, Kanye was apparently so tightly wound about his forthcoming masterpiece that he mistook a completely chill stoner tweet as a potentially lewd joke about his wife, Kim Kardashian

At least, that’s what it looks like. There’s always the slim chance Khalifa was being extra-shady with a double entendre, but odds are he was way too high to pull off something like that.

No matter: Kanye unleashed his full fury in tweets that he later deleted.

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Then, at last, he declared victory. And so did everyone else.

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https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/692431167417651200

https://twitter.com/arianasins/status/692428890636226561

Was this all a giant misunderstanding, or did Khalifa really step to his OG pants master? There’s only one thing that we can say with certainty: Kanye has never, ever, been mad online.  

Update 3:59pm CT, Jan. 27:

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692449772117069824

Photo via Jason Persse/Flickr (CC BY SA 2.0)

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*First Published: Jan 27, 2016, 5:09 pm CST