Tina Knowles has spoken out in defense of her family following Kanye West’s shocking tweets attacking Beyoncé, Jay-Z, and their young children.
The controversial rapper launched a troubling social media tirade against the superstar couple on Tuesday, while also taking aim at their seven-year-old twins, Sir and Rumi.
Taking to her Instagram page on Wednesday, Tina – who is the mother of Beyoncé and Solange Knowles – appeared to try to lighten the mood by sharing one of her fan-favorite ‘corny joke’ posts.
However, the 71-year-old made her feelings about the recent attacks at her loves ones clear with a pointed message in her caption.
‘Corny joke, time! it’s hard to remain positive and classy in the face of ignorance and evil,’ the Cecred vice chairperson noted.
‘But I know that no weapon formed against me or my family shall prosper. This battle is not mine, but the Lords , I know that God has got this.’
Tina Knowles has spoken out in defense of her family after Kanye West’s shocking tweets attacking Beyoncé, Jay-Z and their young children
The controversial rapper launched a troubling social media tirade against the superstar couple on Tuesday, while also taking aim at their seven-year-old twins , Sir and Rumi
In the video, Knowles chose to keep things light as she quipped: ‘What happens when a snowman throws a tantrum? He has a meltdown.’
Fans made little mention of the joke as many instead chose to praise the grandmother for her elegant response to Kanye’s hurtful comments.
One fan wrote: ‘That’s what you call a Mothers way of clapping back with class. I love this!’
Another noted: ‘One thing about Tina is she does NOT play about her family and she’s gonna clock people every time.’
‘The attacks are too much,’ a different person commented. ‘Thank you for cleansing time. Tell the Carter family we love them.’
Someone else added: ‘And we not gonna give snowmen our attention because they will melt and clean themselves up eventually.’
Kanye’s outburst comes just weeks after the rapper appeared to take aim at Tina, teaming up with fellow rapper The Game, 45, to seemingly produce a song about the matriarch.
A video, posted by Kanye, saw The Game recording lyrics on top of the same song Tina was serenaded with after her appearance on The Jennifer Hudson Show – which was a version of Beyoncé’s hit song Formation with special lyrics added for her.
Tina stated that she’s trying to remain ‘classy in the face of ignorance and evil’ in a pointed message via Instagram
Kanye launched unprovoked attacks on Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s twins on X. Beyoncé is seen with the twins
Jay Z is pictured on a recent family day out with his eldest daughter Blue Ivy and Rumi at the Super Bowl LIX at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on February 9
He captioned the post: ‘TINA BY GAME PRODUCED BY ME.’
Prior to this, Kanye posted a picture of what appeared to be The Game’s phone, who had sent a banana emoji to Tina via direct message.
He captioned it: ‘This Game’s phone.’
Kanye fueled more confusion by posting the same emoji in a separate post, writing: ‘Tear that monkey up.’
He also shared the video of Tina in a glamorous red ensemble while she walked out to a choir.
The post read: ‘Game finna slide for the guys.’
It was later revealed that West is producing The Game’s upcoming album and that the track Tina — featuring West, The Game and Jim Jones — actually doesn’t appear to have anything to do with Beyoncé’s mom.
Instead, the song samples the Tina Turner hit What’s Love Got to Do with It. West used Instagram to unveil the three-part song on Tuesday.
Though Blue Ivy has been in the limelight ever since her birth in 2012, Beyoncé and Jay Z have notable been more reluctant to share as much about their twins with the world
The attacks at Beyoncé and Jay-Z continue were especially shocking as Kanye has previously worked with and supported the couple (Jay-Z, Beyoncé and Kanye pictured in 2008)
Elsewhere, Kanye has continued to spark outrage after taking aim at his ex-wife Kim Kardashian in a series of tweets.
Taking to the app on Tuesday, he claimed that he was put off by a white woman being in control of his black children.
The 24-time Grammy winner’s comments directed at his ex-wife came in reaction to a planned musical collaboration between his daughter North, and rapper Playboi Carti, 28, which he opposes.
Kanye is father to four children with Kim, 44: daughters North, 11, and Chicago, seven; and sons Saint, nine, and Psalm, five.
The Jesus Walks rapper also referenced his political leanings, saying he has been persecuted for his continuous support of President Donald Trump.
‘How many times you heard people say Kanye is wrong for supporting Trump?’ he asked.
‘Answer is a lot. How many times have you heard people say Kim’s wrong for how she playing with that mans kids. Never.’
The outburst comes just weeks after the rapper appeared to take aim at Tina (seen with Beyoncé), teaming up with fellow rapper The Game, 45, to produce a song about the matriarch
The Yeezy founder also said he was ‘tired of the media always talking s**t’ and propagating double standards.
‘White women not letting me see my kids or even have say so of where they go to school and controlling my kids name and likeness,’ he said. ‘Celebrities only speaking up to diss me for wearing a red hat.’
On Wednesday, the FourFiveSeconds singer claimed that people he knew were sent to try and mislead him into entering a medical facility under the guise of being a retreat.
‘I got knocks on my door – familiar faces saying, “Hey maybe you should come to a retreat”‘ he said.
Kanye then said he came to ‘find out it was the hospital so that’s what happened like a couple hours ago.’
