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Kanye West surprises A$AP Bari with $162,000 Maybach two days after rapper crashed old one: ‘I’m about to cry’-Alicia Adejobi-Entertainment – Metro
How generous!
Kanye West has done his good deed for the week (Picture: GC Images)
Kanye West might just be one of the most generous celebrities around after buying A$AP Bari a brand new car just two days after the rapper crashed his old one.
Bari, real name Jabari Shelton, was mourning the loss of his former Maybach after getting into an accident that resulted in the front of the car being mangled.
It seems Kanye , 45, caught wind of the rapper’s frustrating situation and put his hand in his pocket to cough up an estimated $162,000 (£133,400) for a new Maybach SUV.
The two shared a text message exchange which has been circulating on social media, and sees Kanye write: ‘What’s your home address? Or where you rt now [sic],’ to which Bari responded and asked what the rapper would be sending.
The Yeezy founder then revealed: ‘Man I just asked [redacted] when it was coming and she said 2mrw afternoon.’
Attempting to keep the gift a surprise, Kanye added: ‘I don’t want to describe it. Just gonna wait till you get it.’
Bari, 30, later shared a now-deleted video to his Instagram stories of him receiving the car outside his home from a dealer, who coyly told him it was from Kanye.
Clearly shocked, Bari is heard saying from behind the camera: ‘Yo, this n***a Ye bought me a new f*****g Maybach, yo!
‘If you know me, you know I crashed my Maybach two days ago, bro! This n***a bought me a new Maybach truck, bruh. What the f**k is going on right now… I’m ’bout to cry, bro.’
Kanye’s friendship with Bari has been a controversial one in light of the A$AP Mob star’s legal issues.
A$AP Bari might want to be more careful with his new Maybach (Picture: Wireimage)
Kanye’s splurge comes after he was sued for allegedly failing to pay a production company (Picture: GC Images
In 2019, Bari admitted one count of sexual assault at the Old Bailey after sexually assaulting a woman in Shoreditch, London two years prior.
Kanye has since praised the rapper for supporting him, writing in one tweet: ‘Bari challenged me when no one else did and when he got in trouble I was scared to say he was my friend just like I did with [XXXTentacion] and that was some p***y s**t on my part.
‘I let the perception and the robots control me. That’s the true sunken place.’
The Gold Digger rapper also shared a screenshot of him and Bari together with the caption: ‘There’s no way I would have the number 1 record in the world without this man here. He broke me out of my pretentious rich n***a shell.’
Kanye’s splurge on the car comes after reports he was being sued for $7million (£6m) by a production company for breaching his contract after allegedly failing to pay them.
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