Kanye West's 2018 Tweet and Its Long Afterlife in Kirk's Circle

Showing 37 Kanye West videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Kanye West's most consequential intersection with Kirk's world traces to his April 2018 tweet expressing support for Candace Owens, a moment both Kirk and Owens later described as transformative for their Blexit movement and their broader partnership building conservative outreach to Black Americans. Owens has since described the period following that tweet as one where figures including David Horowitz, Eric Weinstein, and Rick Rubin inserted themselves into her and Kirk's circle, characterizing their involvement as an effort to assign handlers and manage the fallout from West's public alignment with her.

Other coverage here extended into West's own turbulent later public controversies, which Owens revisited in a separately teased time-capsule conversation recorded during his 2022 statements, alongside her account of tracing Erika Kirk's own alleged connection to the 2018 tweet's aftermath through a period of unclear New York City employment history. A genuinely consequential early alliance, and a more speculative later reexamination of who benefited from managing its consequences, gave coverage of West a throughline from 2018 celebrity politics to 2025 assassination-adjacent investigation, with the same handful of names resurfacing across both periods of Kirk and Owens's public life.