North West may be a star in her own right, but it doesn’t mean that Kim Kardashian has to exercise a bit of censoring when it comes to her child. In March 2023, West uploaded a video to their shared TikTok account in which she impersonated rapper Ice Spice and sang along to the track “Boy’s a Liar, Pt. 2.” The video was quickly taken down at Kardashian’s request, however, due to the nature of the song’s provocative lyrics. In the track, the rapper sings, “Sayin’ he home, but I know where he at like / Bet he blowin’ her back / Thinkin’ ’bout me ’cause he know that it’s fat (damn).”
“As soon as I saw the words, I was like, ‘Oh no, we’re taking this down,’ “The Kardashians” star told TIME magazine in a cover story published that June. “I saw on the internet [people saying], ‘Kanye [West] was right,’ and maybe he was in that instance.” The controversy came just two years after Kanye West spoke out about his aversion to his children being on social media. “My children ain’t going to be on TikTok without my permission,” he previously admitted in an interview with Hollywood Unlocked.
The decision sparked a larger conversation about children and their access to social media, with Kardashian admitting she will continue to allow her daughter the freedom to express herself. “She loves making slime videos and doing her little hair tutorials, and I will fight for her to be creative,” she told TIME.
