Imma not gonna let you finish: Kanye West grabs camera from paparazzi after asked if he’s ‘controlling’ wife Bianca Censori: ‘Are you crazy?’
Kanye West angrily snatched a TMZ reporter’s phone on Monday after she asked if he is “controlling” his wife Bianca Censori, 29, amid fans’ ongoing concern about her well-being.
“People wanna know if Bianca has her free will,” the outlet’s reporter asked West, 46, as he walked to Charlie Wilson’s Walk of Fame ceremony on Hollywood Blvd. in Los Angeles.
“Some people are saying that you’re controlling,” she added as the “Power” rapper suddenly confiscated her recording device and shoved it in his pocket.
With his face completely covered in a black mask, the former billionaire launched into a three-minute rant toward the reporter, asking her, “Are you crazy?”
“You think because you’re a white woman, you can walk up on me like that and ask me some dumbass s–t like that asking me about my wife, if she has free will? Are you crazy?”
Kanye West attended Charlie Wilson’s Walk of Fame ceremony on Monday.GIO / BACKGRID
West and Censori, a former Yeezy architect, legally married on Dec. 20, 2022. Censori is now notorious for wearing NSFW outfits, which fans believe were orchestrated by the “Love Lockdown” singer.
“You got free will, or you work for the devil?” West asked the reporter, demanding she tell him her full name and address.
Ironically dressed in a Taylor Swift Eras Tour crewneck, the reporter eventually identified herself as Melanie.
The TMZ reporter identified herself as Melanie.SPOT / GOME / BACKGRID
West called the reporter’s question “disrespectful.”GIO / BACKGRID
West continued ripping into Melanie, “You wasn’t asking me s–t when I couldn’t see my kids and now only have visitation and don’t have rights to where they go to school? You got questions for that, or are you part of the system?”
The Yeezy founder then demanded Melanie admit whether it was “wrong or right” for her to ask a “dumbass question, disrespectful” question to ask “a grown-ass superhero.”
“I just need my phone,” she repeatedly replied.
Melanie listened to West’s three-minute rant.SPOT / GOME / BACKGRID
“No, answer the question!” West demanded. “I’m supposed to answer your questions, answer my question. I got your phone now. They’re gonna arrest me for taking your phone?” he taunted her.
The encounter bizarrely ended with West asking Melanie about her salary and a job offer of his own.
“I’ll pay you double what they’re paying you. You want to work for me instead?” he asked.
The “Power” rapper spoke to a nearby police officer about the incident.SPOT / GOME / BACKGRID
West’s outburst comes the same day an insider told the Daily Mail that he keeps Censori from using social media for her “protection.”
“Bianca has always had social media, and she was active on it — until she married Kanye,” the source said. “He doesn’t want her to have it because he thinks that it will hurt her if she had to read the nasty things that people say.”
They continued, “He is pushing her nakedness all over his own [account] so that he can control her narrative. It is disturbing, and by shutting her off from the world he is causing her to become more and more isolated.”
