Ray said that the NSFW visuals caused problems with his fiancee Princess Love, while Dunham slams the video for featuring naked and unconscious women in the same bed with a rapist.
- Jun 28, 2016
AceShowbiz - Ray J isn't too happy to see a wax figure of himself featured in the music video for Kanye West's "Famous". The rapper, who's seen lying in a massive bed naked next to his ex Kim Kardashian and her husband, expressed displeasure in an interview with Entertainment Tonight at the BET Awards on Sunday, June 26.
"Man, I'm just trying to stay positive," Ray told the publication before revealing that the super NSFW visuals caused problems between him and his fiancee Princess Love. "I'm engaged. My marriage is all messed up 'cause of craziness," he shared. "I'm not part of nothing crazy. I walk down a good path."
"My fiancee tripping. It's all bad in my world, and that ain't cool," he added. "Don't put me part of nothing that's weird, that don't make no sense. Can I grow up?"
Ray isn't the only star appearing in the video who's not impressed with it. According to HollywoodLife.com, West's on-and-off enemy Taylor Swift was "furious" after finding out about the clip. At least one member of her girl squad also found it offensive and decided to speak out in a Facebook post.
Lena Dunham, one of Swift's A-list friends, took issue with the fact that some women were seen naked and unconscious in the bed along with alleged rapist Bill Cosby. In the lengthy Facebook message, she said she loved West and the entire Kardashian family, but it didn't stop her from disliking the video that she deemed "disturbing."
"The Famous video is one of the more disturbing 'artistic' efforts in recent memory," the "Girls" creator wrote. "Now I have to see the prone, unconscious, waxy bodies of famous women, twisted like they've been drugged and chucked aside at a rager? It gives me such a sickening sense of dis-ease."
"I'm sure that Bill Cosby doll being in the bed alongside Donald Trump is some kind of statement, that I'm probably being trolled on a super high level," she continued. "I don't have a hip cool reaction, because seeing a woman I love like Taylor Swift [f**k that one hurt to look at, I couldn't look], a woman I admire like Rihanna or Anna [Wintour], reduced to a pair of waxy breasts made by some special effects guy in the Valley, it makes me feel sad and unsafe and worried for the teenage girls who watch this and may not understand that grainy roving camera as the stuff of snuff films."
West debuted the "Famous" video during an exclusive premiere event in Los Angeles last week. Speaking to Vanity Fair, he said that the clip wasn't made in support or against anyone. "It's not in support or anti any of [the people in the video]," he explained. It's a comment on fame."
He realized that the controversial video would enrage people, and he said in a tweet last weekend that he's ready if someone filed a lawsuit over it. "Can somebody sue me already? #I'llwait," he wrote in the now-deleted post.
