Kanye West defends art after burying Pete Davidson in ‘Eazy’

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Kanye West is defending his “art” after being hit with backlash over his portrayal of Pete Davidson in his “Eazy” music video.

West, now known as Ye, shared a black-and-white image from the video on Instagram Sunday and explained that kidnapping a Claymation version of Davidson and burying him alive is acceptable because of the First Amendment.

“Art is therapy just like this view. Art is protected as freedom of speech,” West wrote.

“Art inspires and simplifies the world. Art is not a proxy for any ill or harm. Any suggestion otherwise about my art is false and mal intended ?.”

The Yeezy fashion designer, 44, may have felt compelled to defend his art after he was inundated with criticism for the violence against the Davidson caricature. Even the “Saturday Night Live” star’s pal Ricky Velez publicly admonished West for his online behavior.

“PD is my brother, none of this is funny to me nor entertaining,” Velez wrote on his Instagram Story last week. “A 44 year old man internet thugging is just sad.”

A screenshot of a Claymation Pete Davidson in Kanye West's
In the video, Davidson was buried alive and then decapitated.
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Another one of Davidson’s pals told Page Six that the video was “really scary,” but a source said the “Big Time Adolescence” star, 28, found the video “hysterical.”

“He finds the fact that Kanye included a cartoon version of him in his music video hysterical,” the source told “Entertainment Tonight” of Davidson. “He is almost flattered by it all because it is so ridiculous to him.”

The source added that the “Saturday Night Live” star “is not threatened by Kanye in any way, shape or form.

“He’s using this to grow in more ways than one, including for himself and his relationship with Kim,” the source continued. “He is turning all of the negativity into a positive thing.”

Davidson has been dating West’s ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, since last fall.


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