Halsey Distances Herself From Ye Before Performing ‘Tokyo Narita’ Freestyle: ‘It’s F— Kanye, OK?’

Halsey called retired Ye, the creator formerly known arsenic Kanye West, during an eventful archetypal nighttime of her Back to Badlands Tour.

The infinitesimal came astatine the extremity of a packed setlist astatine Los Angeles’ Fairbanks Lawn that included galore of Halsey’s earliest standouts from her 2015 Badlands debut album, celebrating its 10th day this year. After moving done “Hold Me Down,” “Ghost,” “Young God” and more, the vocalist took a little intermission earlier diving into “Tokyo Narita” — her 2016 freestyle with Lido that references the rapper by name: “So we laid down connected the level adjacent to our brand-new bed/ Just truthful we could perceive person to this caller Kanye West.”

“Alright, we’re gonna bash this one, but it’s f— Kanye, OK?” the vocalist said earlier kicking disconnected the song.

Back successful 2020, Halsey — who has struggled with bipolar upset since she was a teen — took to societal media to say, “personal opinions aside,” nary 1 should beryllium cracking jokes astir Ye’s intelligence health.

“No jokes close now,” the popular prima wrote connected X astatine the time. “I person dedicated my vocation to offering acquisition and penetration astir bipolar upset and I’m truthful disturbed by what I’m seeing. Personal opinions astir idiosyncratic aside, a manic occurrence isn’t a joke. If you can’t connection knowing oregon sympathy, connection your silence. … Taking this accidental to marque violative remarks and [vilify] radical with intelligence illnesses is truly not the mode to go. … This is the nonstop triggering sh– that causes radical to support quiescent astir it.”

Halsey continued by saying a batch of radical who are bipolar stay undiagnosed due to the fact that of these misunderstandings. “You tin hatred someone’s actions oregon opinions without contributing to stigma that damages an full assemblage of sometimes susceptible radical each for a mates of laughs,” she continued. “If you wanna deliberation idiosyncratic is an a–hole, spell ahead.”

Halsey volition execute her 3rd and last nighttime astatine Fairbanks Lawn connected Thursday (Oct. 16) earlier heading to Mexico City.

Check retired a clip of the infinitesimal below.