Halsey has distanced herself from Ye during a performance at Los Angeles’ Fairbanks Lawn. The moment would come at the end of her show before the singer would launch into the track ‘Tokyo Narita – Freestyle’, which name-drops the artist.
Halsey made her thoughts on Ye, formerly Kanye West, clear the other night, proclaiming “Fuck Kanye” while introducing her song ‘Tokyo Narita – Freestyle’. The singer would perform the track during her show at the Los Angeles Fairbanks Lawn yesterday.
A clip, which has since gone viral on social media, shows Halsey introducing the surprise song during her Back To The Badlands Tour performance by saying, “Alright, we’re gonna do this one, but it’s fuck Kanye, okay?”
The moment came towards the end of the setlist, which featured several tracks from the singer’s 2015 debut album Badlands. After taking the audience through a nostaglic setlist, with tracks ‘Hold Me Down’, ‘Ghost’, ‘Young God’, and more, the singer would take a moment to introduce ‘Tokyo Narita’, which mention Kanye by name: “So we laid down on the floor next to our brand-new bed / Just so would listen to this new Kanye West.”
In 2020, Halsey, who, like Ye, has struggled with bipolar disorder, took to social media to say, “personal opinions aside,” no one should be joking about Ye’s mental health.
“No jokes right now,” the pop star wrote on X at the time. “I have dedicated my career to offering education and insight about bipolar disorder and I’m so disturbed by what I’m seeing. Personal opinions about someone aside, a manic episode isn’t a joke. If you can’t offer understanding or sympathy, offer your silence. … Taking this opportunity to make offensive remarks and [vilify] people with mental illnesses is really not the way to go. … This is the exact triggering sh– that causes people to keep quiet about it.”
In 2025, Ye would go on several antisemitic tirades. In February, the rapper would proclaim, “I love Hitler” and “I’m a Nazi”. At the Super Bowl earlier this year, Ye would also run an ad that would direct viewers to his website, Yeezy.com, where fans would discover he was only selling a white t-shirt with a black swastika on it.
“I’m never apologising for my Jewish comments,” Ye would go on to write on social media. “I can say whatever the fuck I wanna say forever. Where’s my fucking apology for freezing my accounts?” he’d write in reference to X disabling his account over his comments.
“I don’t even know what the fuck anti Semitic means,” he continued. “It’s just some bullshit Jewish people made up to protect their bullshit,” and added, “Jewish people actually hate white people and use black people.”
Given that context, it makes sense that Halsey would want to distance herself from the disgraced rapper and make her position clear. I mean, not even Dave Blunts wants to associate with Ye anymore, which has gotta sting.
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