Jaden Smith doesn't need to discuss Ye… or footwear… or one thing.

The Karate Child star abruptly walked away from a crimson carpet interview on Wednesday simply seconds after a reporter talked about the artist previously often called Kanye West.

Complicated journalist Jillian Hardeman-Webb invoked Ye whereas contextualizing Smith's collaborator Steven Smith, who beforehand collaborated with the "Gold Digger" rapper on his Yeezy footwear line.

"I see that you simply're working with Steven Smith, who designed Yeezy footwear with Ye," she stated on the crimson carpet for Druski's screening of Coulda Been Love season 2. "What are y'all cooking up?"

Lower than a second after Hardeman-Webb completed her query, the musician walked off, exiting the interview with out saying a phrase.

After a number of seconds handed, Hardeman-Webb turned to the digicam and responded, "I suppose we'll by no means discover out."

Leisure Weekly has reached out to representatives for Jaden Smith and a consultant for Ye for remark.

Smith has a tumultuous historical past with Ye. He has incessantly cited the Yeezy mogul as a major affect for his personal musical profession, and made headlines when he sported a Batman costume to the "All the Lights" rapper's 2013 marriage ceremony to Kim Kardashian.

"I wore the Batman swimsuit to intensify my expertise on the marriage ceremony and promenade, which was enjoyable, but additionally on the marriage ceremony I felt as if I wanted to guard everybody there and wanted to have the right gear to take action," Smith told GQ in 2015.

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Nonetheless, in 2018, Smith stated he not hangs out along with his musical idols like Ye, Donald Glover, and Drake. "I at all times felt like Little Homie earlier than and that allowed me in all of their circles," he told Complex. "However now that I'm on the charts subsequent to them, I'm not likely Little Homie anymore."

The next yr, Smith was solid to play a younger model of Ye in Omniverse, a Showtime anthology sequence about an alternate-universe model of the "I Am a God" rapper that the 2 musicians have been set to executive-produce collectively. The undertaking by no means got here to fruition.

In 2022, Smith attended Yeezy's present at Paris Trend Week, however he left the occasion after Ye walked out in a shirt bearing the slogan "White Lives Matter." In a sequence of since-deleted X posts, Smith defined that he "needed to dip."

"I can't stand behind what Kanye's saying. He doesn’t have the total help of the youth," he wrote on the time, The Unbiased reported.

In posts that stay on-line, Smith added, "Black Lives Matter" and, "I don't care who's it’s, if I don't really feel the message I'm out."

Smith was named inventive director of Christian Louboutin in September. He additionally lately launched a nonprofit group referred to as I Love You that’s devoted to offering free meals and clothes to homeless folks within the Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles.

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Ye lately issued an apology for his repeated antisemitic feedback over the previous few years, citing his bipolar dysfunction as one of many causes for his erratic conduct.

"I stated and did issues I deeply remorse," he wrote in a longwinded advert revealed in The Wall Avenue Journal in January. "A few of the folks I really like probably the most, I handled the worst. You endured worry, confusion, humiliation, and the exhaustion of attempting to have somebody who was, at occasions, unrecognizable. Wanting again, I grew to become indifferent from my true self."

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