Kanye West has laid off of Pete Davidson in recent months but that doesn’t mean Ye’s fans won’t remind the comedian of him.
Footage emerged over the weekend of the former Saturday Night Live star signing autographs for a fan when he obliged the obscure request of having him sign as “SKETE” on a pair of children’s YEEZY slides.
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Davidson was thrown off at first after signing a bunch of posters but eventually went along with the alternate signature idea: “Yeah, you know what, why not?”
Pete added that he’s going to buy a plethora of extra YEEZYs lying around and sell personalized “SKETE” versions at his comedy shows as merchandise.
“We’re actually gonna buy all the extra ones and sell them at the shows that say SKETE,” he said.
Watch the clip below.
Kanye West and Pete Davidson have a tumultuous history which saw Ye repeatedly harass and blast the actor on social media while he was dating his ex-wife Kim Kardashian. PD even got Ye and Kim’s kids tatted on him and they dated from late 2021 until the summer of 2022.
The Chicago mogul’s online attacks on Davidson prompted the comedian to spend time in trauma therapy.
According to People, a source close to Davidson said he sought treatment following the harassment he received from dating Kardashian for nine months. After the couple split, Ye declared Davidson “dead” in a mock newspaper clip.
“The attention and negativity coming from Kanye and his antics is a trigger for [Pete], and he’s had to seek out help,” the source said.
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“[Pete] has no regrets for dating Kim and wants it to be made very clear that she’s been nothing but supportive of him throughout their relationship. Moving forward he just wants to focus on his career.”
Davidson returned as a guest host for Saturday Night Live earlier this month and starred in an “I’m Just Pete” sketch playing off Barbie‘s “I’m Just Ken” where he brought up how people still call him SKETE but he couldn’t legally name-drop Ye in his reply.
“People online still call me SKETE because of a guy whose name I can’t say legally,” he belts.
