Following a very public break-up with Kim Kardashian, Pete Davidson received some not so kind words from Kardashian’s ex-husband, Kanye West. In a since-deleted Instagram post, West shared a mock-up of a fake New York Times front page, which read, “Skete Davidson Dead At Age 28.” This wasn’t the first time West expressed disdain toward Davidson while Davidson and Kardashian were dating: In a video for “Eazy,” a song by The Game on which Ye is featured, West kidnapped and buried an animated version of the comedian. He has also made several violent threats to Davidson numerous times on social media over the past few months.
A source close to Davidson spoke with People and revealed that since April of this year, Davidson has “has been in trauma therapy in large part” due to posts by West.
“The attention and negativity coming from Kanye and his antics is a trigger for [Pete], and he’s had to seek out help,” the source said.
The source also noted that since the breakup with Kardashian, Davidson “has no regrets for dating Kim and wants it to be made very clear that she’s been nothing but supportive of him throughout their relationship.”
“Moving forward, he just wants to focus on his career,” the source said.
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Once upon a time, it seemed as though Kanye West and Kid Cudi were, if not the best of friends, then at the very least close colleagues as a result of the mentor/protege relationship they shared when Cudi first rose to prominence after writing on Kanye’s 808s And Heartbreaks. The two remained close collaborators for the next decade, even joining forces in 2018 for the joint album Kids See Ghosts, which was one of the better projects to come out of their GOOD Summer release schedule. So how did they go from that to Cudi catching a stray on Kanye’s Instagram post trolling Pete Davidson after he broke up with Kim Kardashian?
Well, Pete Davidson might be the linchpin to the whole falling out between them, as Davidson and Cudi have shared their own friendship over the years stemming from Cudi’s many appearances on Saturday Night Live, on which Pete was a regular cast member since 2014. In addition to bonding over their love of comedy, both men have been open about their struggles with mental health, with Pete even going as far as crediting Cudi’s music with saving his life. “I would have killed myself if I didn’t have Kid Cudi,” he told The Breakfast Club in 2016. All three celebrated Cudi’s 35th birthday at Nobu with Kardashian and Timothee Chalamet in 2019.
Kanye’s issues with Cudi likely came to a head after he and Kim filed for divorce in 2021 and Kim began dating Pete late that year. Kanye, sensitive soul that he is, took issue with his wife moving on while he wanted to reconcile, viewing Pete as the biggest obstacle to their reunion. After Kanye launched several social media attacks on his rival earlier this year, it’s clear that he wanted Cudi to side with him. And while Cudi never publicly sided with Pete, an increasingly paranoid Kanye began taking even neutrality as a sign of betrayal.
In one Instagram post, he wrote, “I just wanted my friend to have my back the knife just goes in deeper.” He also declared that Kid Cudi was disinvited from his album Donda 2 (honestly, no big loss for Cudi there, all things considered), prompting Cudi to call him a “dinosaur” in the comments of the post. Two months later, both featured on Pusha T’s album, but Kid Cudi minced zero words when talking about their proximity. “I am not cool w that man,” he told his Twitter followers. “He’s not my friend and I only cleared the song for Pusha cuz that’s my guy. This is the last song u will hear me on w Kanye.”
Hey! So I know some of you heard about the song I got w Pusha. I did this song a year ago when I was still cool w Kanye. I am not cool w that man. He’s not my friend and I only cleared the song for Pusha cuz thats my guy. This is the last song u will hear me on w Kanye -Scott
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Pusha’s response to that? “It f*cking sucks,” he told Vulture.
Now that the Davidson/Kardashian relationship is no more, now feels like a good time to break down the beef between the rapper and the former Saturday Night Live star. So, let’s get into it.
September 2018: West’s Donald Trump rant on SNL
On the September 29, 2018 episode, in a rant that didn’t make it onto air, West said many things, including, “So many times I talk to a white person and [they] say, ‘How could you like Trump, he’s racist?’ Well, if I was concerned about racism, I would have moved out of America a long time ago.”
The next week, Davidson addressed the rant during “Weekend Update,” saying, “What Kanye said after we went off the air last week was one of the worst, most awkward things I’ve seen here, and I’ve seen Chevy Chase speak to an intern. He added, “Then Kanye said that Democrats broke up Black families with welfare and that slavery’s not real. You know how wrong about politics you need to be for like me to notice? Do you know how annoying that is? Like, Kanye is a genius, but a musical genius. Like Joey Chestnut is a hot dog-eating genius, but I don’t want to hear Joey Chestnut’s opinions about things that aren’t hot dog-related.”
December 2018: Mental health tweets
In December that year, Ye fired off a bunch of tweets about his mental health, which Davidson applauded, writing, “Bravo Kanye West for standing up for yourself and speaking out against mental health. I can’t explain to you enough how difficult and scary it is to be honest about stuff like this. We need people like Kanye. No one should ever point fingers at you for your bravery in speaking about mental health. I’m seriously disgusted.”
The two continued to be on good terms in January 2019, when they, Kardashian, Kid Cudi, and Timothée Chalamet celebrated Cudi’s birthday with dinner at Nobu. Davidson later revealed he didn’t know West or Chalamet would be there, saying that March, “Kanye kept ordering the whole entire time. I didn’t know he was coming. And I already put my card down to pay, ’cause I thought it was just me and Cudi, and then Chalamet showed up, and then Kanye showed up, and I was like, ‘F*ck.’ And then I had to book two more gigs in Ohio.”
In February 2022, West shared an edited version of the Captain America: Civil War poster, which pits West, Drake, Megan Fox, Travis Scott, and Future against Davidson, Kardashian, Cudi, Billie Eilish, and Taylor Swift. This is also around the time Ye started calling Davidson “Skete,” as the caption read, “THE INTERNET HAS STILL NOT FOUND A DECENT PICTURE OF SKETE.”
In March, a text conversation between West and Davidson leaked. The most famous takeaway there was Davidson telling West he was “in bed with your wife” and sharing a photo of him in said bed to prove it. West later said, “At this point, it’s going too far. The boyfriend texts me, antagonizing me, bragging about being in bed with my wife. He texts me, talking about bragging about how he’s in bed with my wife. And it’s like, well, who’s watching my children?”
Shortly after, West expressed concern that Davidson was going to get Kardashian “hooked on drugs.”
April 2022: Stand-up
As comedians do, Davidson worked this significant life event into his stand-up act. At Netflix’s comedy festival in April, Davidson made light of Kanye saying his rival has AIDS, saying he had an “AIDS scare” this year before revealing West told him he has it: “I better call my doctor: The guy who made College Dropout thinks I have AIDS.” He also joked that he hopes West “pulls a Mrs. Doubtfire.”
May 2022: Davidson’s SNL farewell
On Davidson’s final episode of SNL in May, he briefly poked fun at his Ye drama, starting, “Hello Colin [Jost] and [Michael] Che and millions of people only watching to see if I bring up Kanye.”
August 2022: Breakup
Kanye West gives us the morning news by trolling the Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian break up while taking a shot at Kid Cudi. pic.twitter.com/mzvVYw7cPe
Things on the Davidson/West front have been mostly quiet over the past few months as Davidson and Kardashian continued to enjoy dating each other. Just a few days ago, though, it was revealed the two had decided to end their relationship after nine months. Naturally, this brought West much joy: This morning (August 8), West celebrated by sharing a fake newspaper headline that read, “Skete Davidson Dead At Age 28” (and has since deleted the post).
That’s where things stand now and given that Davidson and Kardashian are no longer romantically linked, there may not be much reason for this Kanye beef to continue, especially since Davidson isn’t an active social media user and hasn’t responded to most of the jabs Ye has thrown. So, while Pete Davidson is alive and well, Skete Davidson may truly be dead.
Kanye West took to his Instagram to react to the split between his ex-wife Kim Kardashian and comedian Pete Davidson after a short-spanned relationship. Kanye West responded to the break-up news between Pete Davidson and his ex-wife Kim Kardashian in a now-deleted post on Instagram. West took the disturbing post down after Kim reportedly asked […]
A “source close to” Kardashian reportedly told The Daily Mail, “Kim won’t stand for this. She is demanding that Kanye take the post down, but he won’t. She has been vigorously defending Pete. She’ll never get back together with Kanye over the way he’s treated the people she loves and respects. She has tried incredibly hard to have a good co-parenting situation for the children. She won’t stand for this type of behavior from him.”
Kardashian has yet to offer a public comment of her own about the post.
This isn’t the first time she has addressed Ye’s behavior in recent months: On a May episode of The Kardashians, she said to her family, “I do recognize the impact that my relationship has had on my family, and I’ve never had the opportunity to just say: I’m sorry, guys.” Later, though, she did share a Father’s Day tribute for West, writing, “Thank you for being the best dad to our babies and loving them the way you do! Happy Father’s Day Ye.”
Fans of celebrity relationships had a loss to mourn a couple days ago, when it was revealed that Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian had broken up after nine months of dating. Now, Kanye West has decided to take the mourning a little more literally with his celebration of the relationship’s end.
On Instagram this morning, Ye shared a fake front page of The New York Times, which features mostly just a giant headline reading, “Skete Davidson Dead At Age 28,” with “Skete” being the nickname West has used with Davidson since the start of his and Kardashian’s romance. Below the headline is a subhead, a jab at Ye’s former collaborator and Davidson’s current friend, Kid Cudi: “Kid Cudi meant to play funeral but fearful of bottle throwers.” That’s a clear reference to Cudi’s recent performance at Rolling Loud, which he ended early after audience members repeatedly threw things at him on stage.
Kanye West gives us the morning news by trolling the Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian break up while taking a shot at Kid Cudi. pic.twitter.com/mzvVYw7cPe
West has made it clear on many occasions that he’s not a fan of Davidson and his relationship with his ex-wife. He perhaps most notably showed that with a video for “Eazy,” in which an animated Davidson gets kidnapped and buried. If that was intended as an intimidation tactic, it didn’t seem to work, as Davidson apparently thought it was pretty funny.
Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson have wrapped up their romance. A source tapped in with E! News and said the two decided to call it quits after nine months of a whirlwind romance.
The source cited that their schedules and distance “made it really difficult to maintain a relationship,” while adding the couple still has “a lot of love and respect for each other.”
Hitting Instagram, Kanye West shared a photoshopped edition of The New York Times in celebration of the break-up. The paper reads: “Skete Davidson Dead at Age 28”
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