Kanye West released three versions of a black-and-white film featuring his son Saint to promote his upcoming “Bully” album amid a series of hateful rants on social media.
The rapper, who legally changed his name to Ye, wrote via X early Wednesday, “EVERY VERSION OF THE BULLY FILM The first link started acting up Other songs on other versions.”
He added that the three films were titled, “SCREENING VERSION,” “POST HYPE VERSION” and “POST POST HYPE VERSION,” and shared a black-and-white photo of his child flashing a giant smile with grills.
The approximately 45-minute videos featured Saint, 9, fighting off wrestlers in a ring with a mallet.
There was no dialogue and West’s new songs, which included samples from Cortex’s “Huit Octobre 1971” and the Supremes’ “You Can’t Hurry Love,” played as soundtracks over the films.
In February, the Yeezy founder, 47, said his new album was inspired by Saint beating up another child.
“My son was playing with some kid and then he kicked him,” West said on “The Download” podcast with Justin Laboy at the time.
“I asked my son, I said, ‘Why did you do that.’ And Saint responded with a simple, ”Cause he weak.’ And I was like, ‘This man is really a bully right here.’”
The father of four — who also shares North, 11, Chicago, 7, and Psalm, 5, with ex-wife Kim Kardashian — boasted at the time that his eldest son “definitely” picked up his behavioral patterns from “young Ye.”
West’s latest project with Saint comes on the heels of him releasing a new song with North, which upset Kardashian, 44, as it also featured embattled rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs.
In a since-deleted post on X, the “Runaway” rapper disputed with the “Kardashians” star over their eldest child’s trademark.
“I sent paperwork over so she wouldn’t be in the Diddy song to protect her,” Kardashian allegedly said, referencing the song “Lonely Roads Still Go to Sunshine.”
West then responded via text, “Amend it or I’m going to war. And neither of us will recover from the public fallout. You’re going to have to kill me.”
Kardashian did not publicly respond to her ex leaking their private texts, but it was reported shortly after that she contemplated going to court to strip West of his custody rights.
The exes — who settled their divorce in 2022 — have joint legal and physical custody of their kids.
Page Six reached out to Kardashian’s reps for comment on the reality star’s feelings about Saint’s involvement in the “Bully” films but we did not immediately hear back.
As West is thrusting his own children into the spotlight more, he is tearing his former friends’ kids down.
On Tuesday evening, the “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” rapper claimed on X that Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s 7-year-old twins, Rumi and Sir, suffer from a mental disability.
He then shared he only removed the post because of the “possibility” his account would get canceled.
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