After Kanye West‘s latest controversy, it sounds like ex-wife Kim Kardashian has had enough. Over the weekend, Ye premiered a new song featuring his daughter, North West. Although usually that wouldn’t be a big deal, this time it also featured Sean “Diddy” Combs, who is in jail as he awaits trial on sex trafficking charges. Apparently, Kim was against North being on the track from the beginning, and now that Kanye has released the song without her permission, it looks like she’s ready to take legal action.
Kim reportedly wants to strip Ye of joint legal custody of their four children.
According to TMZ, Kim is trying to decide if she wants to pull the trigger and ask the court to strip Ye of his joint legal custody of their kids – North, Saint, Chicago, and Psalm – after he went against a decision the couple reportedly made in mediation. Kanye wanted to release the song, called “Lonely Roads Still Go To Sunshine,” and considering Combs’ involvement, Kim wasn’t just against it being released; she didn’t want North participating in the recording of the song at all.
Ye didn’t follow the process he and Kim agreed to when they are in conflict involving a parenting decision.
Because they disagreed on North’s participation in the song, a source told TMZ that because they each have joint say in decisions involving their kids, they went to mediation with a private judge on Friday with each of their lawyers present. The meeting ended with them agreeing North would not appear on the version of the song that was released, but obviously, that’s not what ended up happening.
His new song dropped on Saturday.
LONELY ROADS STILL GO TO SUNSHINE
— YEFANATICS (@yefanatics) March 15, 2025
YE KANYE WEST
PUFF DADDY feat.
KING COMBS (PUFF Son)
NORTH WEST
JASMINE WILLIAMS (new Yeezy artist from Chicago)
NEW SONG pic.twitter.com/CAQycwkACz
Not only did Ye release the song anyway, but he also seemed to share a post on X that indicated he doesn’t care about Kim’s opinion on the matter in the first place, tweeting (and then deleting), “THE MAN MAKES THE FINAL DECISION.”
Text messages revealed that Kim did not want Ye to release the song.
Ye shared screenshots of texts that he claimed were between him and Kim, discussing the new song.
“I asked you at the time if I can trademark her name. You said yes. When she’s 18, it goes to her. So stop,” Kim texted Kanye, via TMZ. “I sent paperwork over so she wouldn’t be in the Diddy song to protect her. One person has to trademark!”
“Amend it or I’m going to war,” Ye replied. “And neither of us will recover from the public fallout. You’re going to have to kill me.”
TMZ reported that Kim isn’t worried about physical custody because her children don’t spend much time with Ye anyway, and she isn’t interested in preventing them from having a relationship with their father. But stripping him of joint custody could help keep something like this from happening in the future, so this might be the best way she can protect them.
