Kim Kardashian Quickly Defends Kanye West After Controversial Livestream Comments Lead People To Believe He Was Defending R. Kelly!

Soooo… was Kanye West talking about himself? Or about R. Kelly? Or something else entirely?!
Kim Kardashian West has come out in her husband’s defense after certain comments he made on a livestream this weekend were starting to attract a LOT of attention on social media.
Related: Are Kim & Kanye Out Of Touch, Or Nah?!
In a livestream video captured on Sunday by Kris Jenner, Kanye went off while talking about the late Michael Jackson, saying (below):

“They just gonna pull up full documentaries on him. Then they gonna come with the Michael [Jackson] documentary. … We can all enjoy all their music all we want. I thought I wasn’t going to go there today. If we’re gonna tear down artists, let’s go ahead and take [Leonardo] da Vinci out the Lourve. Let’s take down all the art.”

Uhhh… wait, what did Leonardo da Vinci do?!
Fans hearing those comments quickly thought of a name Yeezy didn’t say on the stream — R. Kelly, in light of his recent controversies — and wondered if that was the reference ‘Ye was trying to make with the “we can all enjoy all their music all we want” line.
After all, other public figures have recently tried to go down that same path, with very poor results.
But before things could blow up TOO big, Kim tried to quell it all (below) by confirming it wasn’t about R. Kelly… it was just about Kanye:

I’m going to nip this in the bud right now. Kanye was speaking about his own experience of everyone quick to say they are cancelling him because of differences in opinion & not being perfect. The analogies were in context to his own experiences, not defending anyone else.

— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) January 14, 2019