Kanye Convinced... Someone Is Sabotaging Kim Kardashian's Bourgeoning Legal Career

Does it make sense? No! But that hasn't stopped Kanye before.

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Kim Kardashian’s quest to become an attorney is the celebrity vanity project that has launched a bunch of headlines here at Above the Law. But her progress has been stalled by failing the California baby bar (aka the First-Year Law Students’ Examination) twice, and maybe a third time?

But in an appearance on the Drink Champs podcast, Kanye West, the soon-to-be ex-husband of Kardashian, reportedly has some THOUGHTS about why she’s had some trouble with the licensing exam:

“My wife was in a session with the lawyer that was training her, and the lawyer started making bad suggestions, and I was like, ‘Man, this dude is an idiot’. They’ve got an idiot training my wife. She gon’ fail the bar a third time,” he said.

Um, excuse me but how exactly would Ye know what a “bad suggestion” for the bar exam even is? He sure as shit is not a lawyer. In fact, the only person in that room who has actually passed the bar exam is the so-called “idiot.”

He went on:

“They can put a lawyer who gives you all the right things and just enough wrong things that you just missed your test by this much. You’ll get ’em next time,” he continued.

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Wait… why? Why would someone who is taking time out of their own schedule to teach Kardashian sabotage her? Wouldn’t there be far more to gain from bragging on getting the infamous Kardashian to pass the bar exam? Oh, don’t worry. Ye has thoughts about that as well.

“There are people who might not want Kim Kardashian to become a lawyer, because you know what happens when Kim Kardashian becomes a lawyer? That shirt gets a little bit higher. The cleavage gets a little bit more covered up. It’s 14-year-old girls, 17-year-old girls that are posing a little bit they want to become a lawyer,” the 44-year-old artist told podcast hosts N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN.

My dude. Do you not know that nudes live forever on the internet? Seriously, a determined Googler (or honestly, even a half-assed one) can find… any body part of Kim K. Plus she’s explicitly said she won’t change up her wardrobe if/when she becomes a real-life lawyer.

Listen, I’m a big fan of Kim Kardashian becoming a lawyer. For whatever you think of her TV show, SKIMS line, or perfume empire, the work she has done on criminal justice reform is laudable — at this very moment, she’s advocating to stop Oklahoma’s execution of Julius Jones in the face of disturbing amounts of evidence that he is, in fact, innocent. I want her to succeed — and not just for the easy traffic that putting “Kim Kardashian” in a headline garners.

But the way she’s attempting to become a lawyer is notoriously difficult. Recall, she’s going the apprentice route (not having an undergraduate degree makes a traditional law school route a challenge). There’s a reason it’s fallen out of favor, Now, add to the fact Kim is balancing that with a billion-dollar business, motherhood, an ongoing divorce, and she took an iteration of the test WHILE SHE HAD COVID… those are all more likely reasons she’s having trouble passing the baby bar than a vast conspiracy.

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Kanye may be appalled at the challenges Kim in facing but, in this instance, she isn’t above the law — she needs to pass this test to be an attorney. And whinging about how people are out to get Kim isn’t giving her the support she needs to pass the baby bar.


Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter (@Kathryn1).