Playboi Carti Tells Kim Kardashian to Get 'Niece North' to Send Him a Song, Ye Responds: 'Too Far'

A SKIMS-referencing lyric off Playboi Carti’s soon-to-be-No. 1 new album MUSIC has led to some choice words from the artist formerly known as Kanye West, who was conspicuously absent from the long-awaited project’s assembled guest stars. As previously reported, Carti’s blockbuster Whole Lotta Red follow-up saw the influential Atlantan enlisting Travis Scott and Kendrick Lamar, among others, with the latter showing up for three of the album’s 30 tracks. Ye, meanwhile, is not featured, at least not vocally, despite widespread assumptions earlier into the MUSIC rollout that he would be.

The lyrics in question stem from “FINE SHIT,” with SKIMS, co-founded in 2019 by Kim Kardashian and Jens Grede, getting a mention in the second verse, like so:

“I bought that ho a lot of clothes, but she love her Skims”

Kim, seemingly, is a fan of the song, or at least the brand nod, and made a point to share a screenshot of her listening to the track to her Instagram Stories on Monday.

Carti was quick to catch wind of the shoutout, later responding by telling Kim, who shares four children with ex-husband Ye, to have his “niece” North West, 11, “send me a song.”

Not long after Kim and Carti’s exchange, Ye addressed both his absence from MUSIC and his stance on North working with Carti. To illustrate his point, Ye, notably, mentioned Carti’s own ex, Iggy Azalea, and their son, Onyx. He also theorized that he was left off Carti’s new album “because of his tweets,” which back in February saw him telling fans everything from “I’m a Nazi” to “I’m not a Nazi.”

Despite the latter statement, Ye was quick to return to such rhetoric and was at one point seen wearing a swastika t-shirt while out and about in the Los Angeles area. Amid earlier pushback, he referenced both Joaquin Phoenix’s performance art-driven I’m Still Here mockumentary and the late Sid Vicious.

“I decided North won’t be doing any songs with Carti,” Ye said in a tweet shared late Monday. “How it look for me to get left off the album and then he ask Kim to have vocals from my daughter? I don’t give a fuck about none of this industry shit.”

Elsewhere, Ye said he had “held my tongue about not being on Carti’s album,” arguing that Carti took it “too far” by mentioning North to Kim.

“Nobody finna play with me,” Ye said.

As of this writing, neither Carti nor Kim had publicly responded to the latest from Ye. As for MUSIC, the album is currently on track to land Carti his biggest opening week yet, with final numbers widely projected to more than double those of Whole Lotta Red's first week on the charts back in 2020.