North West is one of the collaborators on her father’s new album ‘Vultures,’ who performed with him at his listening party during Miami’s Art Basel

Kim Kardashian and daughter North West attend the Western Conference Semifinal Playoff game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Golden State Warriors at Crypto.com Arena on May 12, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by

It will be interesting to see if or how Kim Kardashian reacts after Kanye West’s latest noxious stunt — donning a black KKK hood while having their 10-year-old daughter North on stage with him, as he performed the title track from his new “Vultures” album.

During the performance of the track early Tuesday morning, the controversial rapper wore what clearly resembled a KKK hood, and he used the song to hit back at complaints about his past antisemitic behavior. With North a few feet away, as a video shared by Page Six shows, West rapped that he had just had sex with a Jewish woman, whom he referred to with a vulgarity. “How I’m antisemitic? I just (expletive) a Jewish (expletive),” West said, repeating the second line.

US rapper Kanye West, husband of US reality TV star Kim Kardashian, carries their daughter North, following a reported baptism ceremony at the Armenian St. James Cathedral in Jerusalem’s Old City on April 13, 2015. (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)

The concert, dubbed the Vultures Rave, took place early Tuesday morning during Miami’s Art Basel. Along with North, two of West’s other four young children with ex-wife Kardashian also appeared to be in attendance, Page Six reported. The other two, Saint, 8, and daughter Chicago, 5, were being watched over by his self-described new wife, Bianca Censori.

West brought North on stage with several other album collaborators — Charlie Wilson, Lil Baby, Freddie Gibbs, Chris Brown, Young Thug — to perform her musical verse that’s included on one of the song’s albums, the New York Times and other outlets reported. In the track, North introduces herself as “Miss Westie,” rapping: “It’s your bestie/Miss, Miss Westie/Don’t tryna test me/It’s gonna get messy/It’s gonna get messy/Just, just bless me/Bless me.”

Complex reported that people loved seeing North up on stage rapping. The girl is no stranger to being in the public eye, which is unsurprising given her reality TV mother and her father, who has long loved to incite outrage. North gave an interview when she was 7 years old about how she once wanted to be a boxer and then wanted to “do art on the side,” or be a dog-walker, a basketball player or a rapper, Teen Vogue reported.

PARIS, FRANCE – JULY 06: (L-R) Anna Wintour, Kim Kardashian and North West attend the Jean-Paul Gaultier Haute Couture Fall Winter 2022 2023 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on July 06, 2022 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Kardashian has generally appeared to be happy to have North in the public eye, though the influencer and shapewear entrepreneur faced backlash in 2022, when she made light of her daughter’s discomfort about being photographed while sitting next to Anna Wintour at Paris Fashion Week, BuzzFeed News reported.

Several years ago, Kardashian started posting TikTok videos with North, a mother-daughter collaboration that West, ironically, was not happy about. In early 2022, the rapper expressed disapproval of his daughter being on the popular video platform, saying in a podcast interview: “My children ain’t going to be on TikTok without my permission.”

Several months later, Kardashian acknowledged that her ex-husband could have been right, when North dressed up as the rapper Ice Spice and posted a clip of her lip-syncing a few lyrics from her song, “Boy’s a Liar, Pt. 2.”

“As soon as I saw the words, I was like, ‘Oh no, we’re taking this down,’” Kardashian told Time in June. “I saw on the internet [people saying], ‘Kanye [West] was right,’ and maybe he was in that instance.”

During Kardashian and West’s marriage, from 2014 to 2017, she often sought to downplay or excuse his controversial public outbursts about politics, race, music and other matters, which the New York Times said tended to toe the line of “accepted celebrity rabble-rousing.”

That ended last year, when West lost lucrative professional associations with Adidas, where his Yeezy brand sneaker was a best seller, after he wore a shirt that read “White Lives Matter” at Paris Fashion Week and wrote an online post in which he threatened to go “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE.”

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 13: Antonio Brown, Kanye West and North West attend Super Bowl LVI between the Los Angeles Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals at SoFi Stadium on February 13, 2022 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images)

Despite backlash and subsequent reporting about his longtime fascination with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party, West doubled down in a series of interviews with right-wing pundits, including Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones. He told Jones:  “I love Jewish people, but I also love Nazis,” and “I do love Hitler.”

In October, the New York Times published an investigative report that said West’s 10-year partnership with Adidas was beset by his fixation on Hitler and Jewish people, with West allegedly telling a Jewish Adidas manager to kiss a portrait of Hitler every day and told his Adidas colleagues that he admired Hitler’s “command of propaganda.”

“Vultures” is a production of West and his longtime collaborator, Ty Dolla $ign. West made several appearances around the Miami area in the past week, playing songs from the album, which he said would be released Friday, the New York Times said.

But his choice to wear the black hood for his listening party, and his vulgar lyric about the unnamed Jewish woman, upset many social media users, Page Six reported. People called him “disgusting” and “sick”  Others also found it especially disturbing that he had his daughter with him at the time.

“North looks so uncomfortable with Kanye wearing a KKK mask,” someone said. “Get her off the stage bro.”