Kanye West Snatches Photographer’s Phone After Being Asked If Wife Bianca Censori Has ‘Free Will’ in Their Relationship

Kanye West was involved in a verbal altercation that turned physical in Los Angeles on Monday when he was asked if his wife Bianca Censori had “free will” in their relationship.

West, 46, was in the area to support artist Charlie Wilson, 71, as he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The question posed to the photographer came as a source exclusively told DailyMail.com that the Grammy-winning artist had banned his wife, 29, from using social media to protect her from negative comments.

In Monday’s daytime incident, West, Kim Kardashian’s ex-husband, was caught on camera snatching a phone from a photographer’s hand who began a series of interrogations that upset him.

“Hi Kanye, how are you? It’s good to see you. People want to know if Bianca has free will. Some people say you’re controlling her,” the photographer said.

In the clip published on TMZ, the camera was seen out of focus after West grabbed it and asked the photographer: “Don’t come asking me that stupid shit,” he said. “I’m a person, brother.”

West, who was wearing an all-black ensemble, including a full face mask, asked the photographer why they had the nerve to ask him “some stupid, disrespectful questions about my wife” instead of asking him about more pertinent topics. , such as his access and parental rights to his four children with his ex-wife Kardashian.

—Do you have questions about that or are you part of the system? he said. ‘Do you understand what I’m saying? Do you understand what I’m saying?

‘Was it wrong for you to ask me about my wife, some dumb, disrespectful shit like that? Was she right or wrong?’

West continued his line of questioning as the photographer asked him to return the phone.

“Answer the question, I’m supposed to answer your questions, answer my questions,” he said, disregarding the possible consequences of snatching the phone from the photographer’s hand and refusing to give it back.

“I have your phone now: I’ll be arrested for taking your phone, then I’ll be arrested for taking your phone,” he said.

West described himself as an ‘adult superhero’ and ‘a legend’ as he continued to question the photographer about the silly and disrespectful question he was asked.

The photographer again asked him for his phone back, while handlers and organizers could be heard trying to corral West towards the event he was there for in the first place.

West asked the photographer for his name and address, and offered to double his salary with a job for him, before handing the person his phone back.

‘Do you want to work for me instead?’ he said. “Oh, now you’re smiling…get his contacts.”

A source told DailyMail.com that Censori’s use of social media has changed amid her relationship with West.

“Bianca has always had social media and was active on it, until she married Kanye,” a source said. ‘He doesn’t want her to have it because he thinks she would be hurt if she had to read the nasty things people say.

“He convinced her that since she’s a star now, she has to remain a mystery and it’s creepy to those who know her as it feels like another form of control.”

The source juxtaposed West’s limiting of Censori’s social media intake with the way he presented it on his own social media pages.

“He’s pushing her nudity all over his (account) so he can control his narrative,” the source said. “She is disturbing and by isolating her from the world, he is causing her to become more and more isolated.”

West lost several lucrative partnerships after a series of media appearances in late 2022 in which he made anti-Semitic statements and praised Adolf Hitler.