Tina Knowles is going high and maintaining her dignity ahead of the press tour for her upcoming memoir, Matriarch.
After rapper Kanye West attacked her 7-year-old grandchildren in a heinous, unprovoked tirade, Mama Tina took to Instagram with an indirect message for the problematic rapper.
“It’s hard to remain positive and classy in the face of ignorance and evil,” wrote the 71-year-old. “But I know that no weapon formed against me or my family shall prosper. This battle is not mine, but the Lords, I know that God has got this.”
The sentiment had been the caption to her recent “corny joke” video on Instagram, but has since been changed to simply read: “Corny joke, time!”
Fans took to the comments to praise Knowles’ “restraint.” One wrote, “Bey had a LOOOOONG talk with mama T about what she could and couldn’t say. This message was a lot more than a corny Joke yesterday and for that Mama T we applaud your restraint.”
Another replied, “One thing about Tina is she does NOT play about her family and she’s gonna clock people every time.”
On Tuesday (March 18), Ye took to X, formerly Twitter, and attacked Beyoncé and JAY-Z‘s youngest children, describing them using an ableist slur.
(L-R): Solange, Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian at 2012 BET Awards
Christopher Polk/Getty Images For BET
“WAIT HAS ANYONE EVER SEEN JAY Z AND BEYONCES YOUNGER KIDS. THEYRE RET**DED. NO LIKE LITERALLY. AND THIS IS WHY ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION IS A BLESSING […] I NEED YALL TO [KNOW] JAY Z OR NOBODY HAVE NO POWER OVER ME,” Ye wrote in the since-deleted tweets.
He later called out Hov for not “coming to [his] aid when it came to [Kim Kardashian] taking [his] kids.” In another deleted post, the Chicago native wrote, “F**K JAY Z AND HIS WHOLE FAMILY. ESPECIALLY HIS SHOOTERS. AT LEAST JAY Z AND BEYONCÉ GET TO RAISE THEIR RET**DED A** KIDS AND NOW THAT YOU THINK JAY Z PU**Y A** MADE ME TAKE IT DOWN I GOT TO DOUBLE DOWN.”
Ye admitted to feeling “slighted” when Jay and Bey didn’t attend his wedding back in 2014 and believes they could’ve “used their cultural position” to help him “have more leverage” against Kardashian in the custody battle over their four children.
Kardashian is now pursuing sole custody.
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