Kanye West Declares ‘Skete Davidson’ Is Dead After 9 Months of Harassing Him
This time, Kanye's using the Gray Lady to make bizarre threats.
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On Monday, Kanye “Ye” West declared that the very-much-alive Pete Davidson had kicked the bucket in a bizarre, now-deleted Instagram post, just days after the comedian and West’s ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, reportedly broke up. The billionaire rapper-cum-designer posted a fake New York Times front page with a single all-caps headline that read, “Skete Davidson Dead At Age 28.”
Regardless of whether or not the faux paper was just another one of West’s sad attempts at humor, it’s part of a growing pattern of harassment and stalking of his ex-wife and her former boyfriend. As my colleague Caitlin Cruz wrote in February:
West posted about the pair’s custody fight (including an accusation that Kardashian withheld the location of their child’s birthday party); made a song about how he wants to beat up Kardashian’s new boyfriend, Pete Davidson; publicly asked her to come back to him while performing at a benefit concert; sent a truck emblazoned with the phrase “MY VISION IS KRYSTAL KLEAR” with a bed full of flowers to Kardashian’s home for Valentine’s Day; posted and deleted paparazzi photos of Kardashian and Davidson, again threatening him; repeatedly shared screenshots of his private communication with Kardashian; and talked about the dissolving marriage publicly.

Disturbingly, this wasn’t the first time West “killed” Davidson this year. In the rapper’s music video for “Eazy,” released in March, a claymation caricature of the comedian is seen kidnapped and decapitated in one version, and attacked in another. West also attempted to disseminate a rumor that Davidson had AIDS (shockingly, this wasn’t the catalyst for West’s 24-hour ban from Instagram).