Controversial conservative political pundit Candace Owens opened up about her former friendship with Kanye West in light of his viral Drink Champs interview.
Over the weekend, Owens responded to a tweet about Kanye saying he took Soulja Boy's verse off of his Donda album because it wasn't good enough, which led to Soulja Boy pulling up texts from Kanye that stated otherwise.
Candace stated that this is nothing new for Kanye, writing, "Tbh he’s done this to a lot of people. Privately it’s one thing and then publicly it’s another. Feel like he’s hurt a lot people who have respected and looked up to him but never had to say sorry because he’s Ye. As an artist I respect him but as a man? Idk."
After Kanye praised "the way Candace Owen thinks" in a 2018 tweet, the two struck up a friendship. Owens then started a campaign that she dubbed "Blexit," which was aimed at drawing Black people away from the Democratic Party. Kanye then backed away from the partnership after Owens rolled out merchandise and claimed that Kanye designed the logo.
In a tweet from 2018, Kanye wrote, "I introduced Candace to the person who made the logo and they didn’t want their name on it so she used mine. I never wanted any association with Blexit. I have nothing to do with it."
Candace addressed the situation in her most recent tweets, and she compared what Kanye did to Taylor Swift to the Blexit situation. Candace wrote, "The irony being is that what he does to people is exactly what Taylor [Swift] did to him over the famous verse. Plays it one way privately and then publicly it’s something else. He did it to me over BLEXIT and it was horrible. Outright lied to the world."
Candace then added, "I had national political exposure at the time but his lie caused international headlines claiming I was a 'liar' who used him. Every person on my team and one person on his told me to drop the receipts but I didn’t. I was too shocked and hurt." She closed by saying, "Not sure why I decided to say this 3 years later. LOL Just more sure of [myself] now."
