Kanye West is no stranger to controversy, but there’s one scandal he apparently wants nothing to do with.
West took to his Instagram Stories this week to call out rapper Bhad Bhabie—whose real name is Danielle Bregoli—for sampling his song in her diss track aimed at Alabama Barker.
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Bhabie sampled West and Ty Dolla $ign‘s hit “Carnival” in her new song “Ms. Whitman,” which references her ongoing feud with Barker. (In December 2024, Bhabie accused Barker of stealing her boyfriend, Le Vaughn. Bhabie and Le Vaughn share an 11-month-old daughter, Kali Love).
As West explained, while he did give Bhabie permission to sample his track, he didn’t want to get in the middle of her beef with Barker.
“I just got sent a song and asked if I could clear the sample,” he said in the video.
“Only reason why I clear anything is because so many people try to stop me, they stop clearances, and everything has been very difficult for me. So I always—anybody asks me, I always clear it,” he continued, adding, “But I’m not cool with being put in the middle of all of this at all. So any verse going viral using my voice and all of that, it’s like, I didn’t do it.”
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West went on to insist that he was on good terms with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, Alabama’s dad.
“Yo, I’m not in the middle of none of this AI beef. People throwing my voice on things, the whole ‘Carnival’ sample,” West said. “I just talked to Travis Barker, I would never be in the middle. I don’t even know what’s going on.”
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Alabama Barker shared West’s Instagram video on her own TikTok video but disabled the comments.
Travis Barker and West are connected through the Kardashian family, as West was married to Kim Kardashian from 2014 to 2022 and Travis is married to Kourtney Kardashian. Travis shares Alabama, 19, with ex-wife, Shanna Moakler.
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