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Kanye West Begs Trump to Free Diddy From Jail in All-Caps Meltdown

The rapper even announced a collaboration with Diddy’s fashion label during the tirade in which he also ranted about slavery and Jews.

Kanye West begged President Donald Trump to free Sean “Diddy” Combs from jail during an overnight social media rant.

In a tweet tagging Trump, West wrote: “PLEASE FREE MY BROTHER PUFF.” In another, he added: “ALL THESE CELEBRITY N---AS AND B---HES IS P---Y Y’ALL WATCH OUR BROTHER ROT AND NEVER SAY S--T.”

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Combs—who previously went by “Puff Daddy”—was arrested in September on suspicion of sex trafficking and racketeering for allegedly forcing women to participate in days-long sex parties he dubbed “freak-offs.”

More than 150 alleged victims—many of them men and boys—have since accused Combs of sexual assault, leading to more than 30 civil suits, according to The New York Times. Combs and his lawyers have denied all of the allegations.

Firing off dozens of posts over the course of several hours, West called on his followers to figure out who exactly is “AFTER PUFF” and announced he was selling a collaboration between the two mens’ fashion labels—Sean John and Yeezy. West said he’d spoken with Combs about the project “before they locked him up” and would now be “splitting the profits 50/50.”

“THEY TRYNA PROVE A POINT AND YALL KNOW THAT YALL F---ING KNOW THAT AND SITTING LAUGHING AT THE F---ING INTERNET ON INSTAGRAM THIS MAN GAVE HIS LIFE TO US THIS MY IDOL THIS MY HERO,” West, who now goes by “Ye,” he wrote.

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The tirade comes just days after West, 47, paraded his basically naked wife Bianca Censori, 30, on the Grammy Awards red carpet, sparking concerns that Censori had been coerced into the stunt.

I HAVE DOMINION OVER MY WIFE,” he wrote early Friday. “I DONT MAKE HER DO NOTHING SHE DOESNT WANT TO BUT SHE DEFINITELY WOULDNT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO IT WITHOUT MY APPROVAL YOU STUPID ASS WOKE PAWNS.”

West also felt compelled to defend the musician Chris Brown, who has a history of violent episodes against women, saying “THEY” had tried to cancel him.

Brown famously pled guilty to felony assault in 2009 after he beat his then-girlfriend Rihanna, sending her to the hospital, and has been arrested repeatedly since then, People reported. Several women have accused him of sexual misconduct, which he denies.

When West’s followers pushed back against his comments, he wrote, “SLAVERY IS A CHOICE,” and invited them to “COME AT” him: “THAT’S HOW WE SPOT THE K--NS LET THESE WHITE PEOPLE AND JEWISH PEOPLE TELL YOU WHAT TO DO.”

Later, he ramped up the antisemitism even further, writing, “F--- ALL OF YOUR F--- A-- UNFAIR BUSINESS DEALS ANY JEWISH PERSON THAT DOES BUSINESS WITH ME NEEDS TO KNOW I DONT LIKE OR TRUST ANY JEWISH PERSON.”

West previously called slavery a “choice” during a 2018 interview with TMZ. He later tried to clarify his point that slavery was a mental condition, not just a physical one, as evidenced by the fact that enslaved people “stayed in that position” for 400 years, “even though the numbers were on our side.”

He has also previously praised Hitler.

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On Tuesday, West revealed on an episode of Justin Laboy’s podcast that although he had been hospitalized for a psychiatric emergency and diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2016, he now believes he has autism instead.

Since receiving his new diagnosis, he has stopped taking medication for bipolar disorder, saying he’s only willing to take “stuff that doesn’t block the creativity.”

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