Kanye West is such an interesting figure. Despite his constant controversy, he has an insane amount of fans who’ll continue to buy into whatever he does, whether it’s selling $200 socks or attending an unorganized listening event.
So it still shocks me that he still does insane things just before he’s about to drop an album to get some attention.
His latest stunt might be his weirdest. I don’t even know how to explain it, but on Wednesday the Chicago rapper shared a series of photos that show off his new titanium dentures, and boy are they crazy to look at.
In all honesty, they resemble a steel kitchen door that waiters at restaurants walk in and out of with your food. They also look like the fake “grills” my friends and I would wear as kids. We would grab titanium foil and just wrap it around our teeth and boom, we had grills.
But West is a multi-millionaire. There’s no doubt he has better taste than this right? I guess not.
Here are the photos he posted on his Instagram story:
Initially, some on social media incorrectly claimed that Ye removed his real teeth altogether and replaced them with these titanium dentures. But don’t worry — even the “Blood on the Leaves” rapper isn’t that crazy.
An undisclosed person who is close to Ye told The Washington Post, “The technical term is fixed prosthodontics. They are fixed and permanent. This goes way beyond veneers or grills. It’s quite unlike anything that has been done before.”
They continued, “It’s experimental dentistry to say the least.”
The undisclosed source also told the Washington Post that none of his (real) teeth were removed and that the procedure cost $850,000.
Ye’s daughter, North West, joined in on the fun and got some new grills of her own.
In the photo shared on Kim and North’s TikTok account, Ye’s oldest daughter showed off about half of her teeth covered in diamonds.
While everyone is focused on teeth, the biggest headline from this is that Ye is doing everything but dropping his new collab album with Ty Dolla $ign, “Vultures.” Following his normal album rollout for the last decade, the album is announced, a date is shared and then it’s delayed.
After doing that another three or four times, the album will finally come out and in the meantime, he will go on insane rants and do other things to hold your attention.