Kanye West Calls E! a ‘Slave Ship’ During Emotional Exchange With Kim Kardashian In New Film

A tearful Kim Kardashian begs Kanye West to stop “burning bridges” in the entertainment and fashion industries in the new documentary, In Whose Name?, which was released on Friday, September 19.

“I don’t care about the music business. I don’t care about the work field. I’m in a slave business. I’m a slave to Universal,” West tells his then-wife during a phone call that took place after West was dropped by his talent agent over his antisemitic rants in 2018, per People.

The reality star, now 44, argues that having a job like hers “doesn’t make you a slave,” the outlet reports.

But the rapper, now 48, claps back, “E! is a slave ship for you,” referencing the network behind her family’s long-running reality show, Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

Kardashian, who says she “can’t sleep” and has been “crying all day,” replies that the companies she worked for “provided a life for me that I never would have been able to provide, and I’m very grateful for that.”

The SKIMS founder tells West that he is “offending a lot of people”and “you’re gonna wake up one day and you’re gonna have, like, nothing.”

The conversation ends with West angrily warning the mother of his four children to “never put that into the universe.”

As Globe previously reported, the documentary also features an explosive confrontation in which West, who reveals he has stopped taking his bipolar medication, rages at his then-mother-in-law, Kris Jenner, blaming the family for his mental health issues.

West and Kardashian split after more than six years of marriage in 2021. Their divorce was finalized in 2022.