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Ye could be embroiled in another legal battle with his ex-wife Kim Kardashian after she tried to bar him from releasing a new song with North West and Sean "Diddy" Combs.
On Saturday, March 15, the artist formally known as Kanye West released (then later deleted) a new song called "Lonely Roads Still Go To Sunshine." The track begins with an alleged phone conversation between Ye and Combs before the mogul's son King Combs, Northie and Yeezy newcomer Jasmine Williams contribute to the song.
“Doing everything I wanted, that’s the key to life," North raps. "When you see me shining, then you see the light.”
Before the song surfaced, Ye revealed that North's mother tried to get a judge to stop him from releasing the record. He posted a couple of screenshots from his text exchange with Kardashian, in which objects to the trademark she filed for North. Kardashian claimed he previously agreed to allow her to file trademarks on all their children's names. The kids would receive the trademarks when they turn 18, but Ye was not having it.
“I asked you at the time if I can trademark her name," Kardashian texted Ye per TMZ. "You said yes. When she’s 18, it goes to her. So stop. I sent paperwork over so she wouldn’t be in the Diddy song to protect her. One person has to trademark! We agreed when they were both i would get all of our kids names and trademarks So no one else would take them.”
"Amend it or I'm going to war and neither of us will recover from the public fallout," he replied. "You're going to have to kill me."
Kim reportedly sent out a cease-and-desist before Ye shared the song. He allegedly promised not to drop it even after Kim met with a mediator and a judge for an emergency meeting, which Ye didn't attend. She isn't a fan of North being around Ye amid his string of controversial antics online between his anti-semitic rant to his obsession with swatiskas and Nazi culture. She also doesn't want North associated with any of Combs' legal drama.
See what The Breakfast Club had to say about the situation below.