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Kanye West just dropped one of the most problematic songs you could imagine. It’s got Ye himself. It’s got Diddy. And it’s got Kanye’s daughter North West — despite protests from her mom, Kim Kardashian. Kanye posted the song, called “Lonely Roads Still Go to Sunshine,” on X, where he claimed it was “by Puff Daddy,” on March 15. It starts with Sean “Diddy” Combs, currently jailed on federal sex-crimes charges, telling Kanye on the phone how it “meant so much” that the rapper took care of Diddy’s kids. “Yeah, absolutely, I love you so much, man,” Kanye replies. “It’s like, you raised me.” Then, the full track comes in, which also features Diddy’s 26-year-old son, rapper Christian “King” Combs, and an alleged newly signed Yeezy artist, Jasmine Williams.
North raps a short verse, where she repeats the line, “When you see me shinin’, then you see the light.” Before he dropped the song, West posted screenshots of texts with Kardashian, his ex-wife, discussing their daughter and the process of trademarking her name. “I sent paperwork over so she wouldn’t be in the Diddy song,” Kardashian apparently writes. “To protect her.” Kanye then threatens, “Amend it or I’m going to war,” adding, “You’re going to have to kill me.” He wrote on X that the screenshot “shows that I’m not playing.”
Kanye has since deleted both the song and the text screenshot. Per TMZ, Kardashian had demanded a cease and desist on the song before he posted it, and Kanye said he wouldn’t drop it. “She’s called everyone she could to keep this song from coming out,” TMZ reported. Kardashian has not responded to the song or Kanye’s latest X antics.
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