Kanye West, Ye, is famous for pulling the most incredulous trends in the name of fashion, but his latest fad is causing quite a stir.
On Monday (Oct 3), the fashion designer rocked the internet’s walls after debuting a new T-shirt from his upcoming collection that read “White Lives Matter.”
And as if pouring gasoline on the already brewing fire, Lauryn Hill’s daughter, Selah Marley, was also seen modeling one of the WLM shirts.
According to XXL, Selah was featured in Ye’s fashion show, rocking on the shirts, and later posted an Instagram story talking to Kanye West while sporting one of his oversized tops.
“Love u some @KanyeWest,” she captioned the video, which shows her joking around with the rapper/fashion designer backstage at the event.
Well, it’s safe to say that Twitter went ablaze after this video post. Most people couldn’t believe she’s actually wearing the WLM shirt considering her mother’s and grandfather’s (Bob Marley) Afrocentric archetype.
Here are some of the Twitter reactions:
Not Kanye crying about the Kardashians corrupting his black children and then putting LAURYN HILL’S DAUGHTER in a fucking white lives matter shirt. Why do so many of you still stan this clown
— C (@cibleezy) October 4, 2022
He had lauryn hill daughter in them threads too
— JXB (@JXB314) October 3, 2022
Kanye West got Lauryn Hill’s daughter wearing a “White Lives Matter” tee. This wont ebd well
— Al Capone (@Stunnah100) October 3, 2022
kanye having lauryn hill daughter molding a ‘white lives matter’ tee is literally crzy asf . streets done
— IMG_4463.jpeg (@FERRARITWOX) October 3, 2022
I know that is not Selah in that fawkin shirt… I KNOW THAT IS NOT LAURYN HILL’S DAUGHTER IN THAT GOD AWFUL SHIRT pic.twitter.com/Ola5JuCEMP
— Halle’s Vocal Cordsˣ | ᥫ᭡ (@SIRENSYMPH0NY) October 3, 2022
Lauryn Hill’s daughter and Bob Marley’s grandchild out here cooning with Donda son. Lawd hammercy ♀️ https://t.co/t7X4e5ZTO5
— Da Hood Historian (@ADA_bow) October 4, 2022
I absolutely expect this from Kanye but Selah Marley has disgraced the name and memory of her grandfather Bob Marley and everything her mother stands for. He was the world’s Black freedom fighter. If you don’t know her mother is the legendary Lauryn Hill. pic.twitter.com/70ODDFnhUR
— Khadijah Manasseh (@KhadijahManass1) October 4, 2022
Lauryn hill when her daughter walks through the door pic.twitter.com/qYvxUdnewQ
— DJ Skillz (@RnBMaster) October 4, 2022
Outraged by the tweets, Selah took to Instagram to get a few things off her chest regarding the criticism of her modeling Kanye’s WLM shirt.
See what the 23-year-old model wrote below:
You might recall that the last time Selah made headlines was when she spoke about her traumatic childhood triggered by her parents’ toxic relationship, Lauryn Hill’s physical abuse, and Rohan Marley’s absenteeism.
Lauryn addressed her daughter’s claims saying, “If I’m guilty of anything, it is disciplining in anger, not in disciplining.”
“If I am guilty of anything, it is disciplining in anger, not in disciplining. The toxic venom I ingested for standing on principle and confronting systemic racism far BEFORE it was the thing to say or do (everything you NOW celebrate everyone for!) — the people who called me CRAZY and have yet to apologize and say, ‘oh yeah, we were wrong,’ OF COURSE that seeped into my home, it was intended to,” Lauryn wrote.
“An entire operation trying to break an artist with a voice and knowledge of herself — way ahead of her time — was in motion. I was affected, my family was affected, my children were affected.”
Lauryn also said that Selah was on the road to healing and was “allowed her process.”
“Selah is on the road to healing and contextualizing her childhood and is allowed her process, but if you come for me, come for your own mama, and those absent fathers–come for them too, your grandparents, your great grandparents, your great great grandparents, Caribbean parents, African parents and everyone else damaged and judged for being black and forced to conform and assimilate to western standards of ‘order’ shaped through the filter and lens of anti-blackness.”
