 At Kanye West's birthday, he served sushi off of a naked woman's body, his daughter was there, and I guess it's based off a niche Japanese tradition called Nile Taimori, but David, the internet is debating how problematic it is. Yeah, this is going viral right now. I don't even know if this constitutes as Asian news or not, but the Asian community had a lot to say about it, maybe because it involves, you know, one of the most famous people in pop culture. Joining us to discuss this today is comedian Alvin Kwai. Thank you. What's up, everybody. I don't even know how this is even news after what he said about like Jews and black people. How's this news? How are you still shocked at what this guy does? But it involves Asians. So the Asian community feels like we have a voice. We couldn't comment on that one. Let's be clear. Does it involve Asians or does it involve a niche Asian tradition? I don't even know if those women were Asian. Right. I guess if he would have had Sumo, a Sumo match at his birthday too, that would have been. He didn't have Jiro serving the sushi. You can look at those rolls, man. Those are like dynamite rolls and philly rolls. That's not sashimi and, and churrosi bowls. Yeah, he could serve philly cheesesteaks off these naked women. He could have got more advanced with the sushi and the execution, to be honest. That was the most disappointing part to me. I was looking for the easy reinvention of Nio time already. But anyway, mercy, you like subscribe, turning your notifications. Let's get into the comment section because from silly to serious, I'm going to more put this on silly, but everything Kanye does just generates, you know, internet buzz and people like talking about celebrities like it's serious. Somebody said seems kind of dehumanizing to me. I don't think it's the kind of party his young daughter should be at just my opinion proof that money doesn't buy class. Yeah. Clearly he just watched the art of war movie with Wesley Snipes and Sean Connery. Yeah. I guess initial reactions guys, when you see without knowing the background of this niche Japanese tradition, I guess like does, is this, I mean, is it look like maybe something that, you know, maybe he shouldn't be doing? No, I think it's, I think it's fine. I mean, if you can't serve sushi on naked women, what is, what is America even here for? That's the American dream. You know, you can just do whatever you want. That's what I do company is to do that eventually. So actually the background of Nio time more is I believe it's been around since the 18th century, but it was more reserved for like Samurai's who came back to, I believe it comes from the brotha world. So it's definitely rooted in some type of like, I guess misogyny or at least like power dynamics with a man, you know, has power of them, but, but I'll say this in this party, these are hired models. Okay, they got no, this is from a Nio Taimori company. They trained to do this. This was really big in the nineties Andrew, but some people said they associated with new money or like trashy money or like sort of like the decadence of the Gordon Gekko era. Right. Is this kind of like in music videos where people would pour Chris Stoller champagne down a woman's chest or like, you know, and then you drink it like, you know, I've seen it before, but dude, I don't think this is demeaning at all. I mean, these women are making money just laying down. They're laying down. They're not doing anything. What's a better life? I like that's true. No, I mean, yeah, that is true. I mean, let's be honest. Do we think Masayoshi Sun has maybe done Nio Taimori before? I mean, this is still around guys. Clearly, there's multiple companies. You can get a Yelp review for Nio Taimori. Somebody said, isn't he a Christian? What happened to that whole Christian gospel album? You know, I can't speak for Kanye. I know he did make one hell of a gospel album, but yeah, you know, the world is just full of hypocrisy and just a lot of confusing images. What's a man like in titties? That's like the most Christian thing you could, you could do. Oh, that's true. Yeah. He's concerned. Michelangelo drew so many when he was drawn in every type of mural. So you're saying there's titties in the Bible? Yeah, each titties are in the Bible. Somebody said, why are we hating? Some people actually took people hating on this as like hating on Asian culture. I don't know how people fully drew that conclusion from it, but yeah, I don't know because some people don't understand that it is an ancient Japanese thing. Yeah. Well, I guess it's not considered a super mainstream Japanese tradition. So a lot of people are coming out saying like, hey, I'm Japanese and this was a niche tradition, but it's not meant for everybody. So it's not like all Japanese people approve of this. I think it's massage. It does seem like more of a Yakuza sumo, you know what I mean? In the more bro world type of thing to take on. I mean, dude, doesn't this kind of go to show you that every society just has like different segments of it? Like I'm sure there's a segment of Japanese society that would like to continue these patriarchal traditions because they're late to them, but there's probably another side of Tokyo society that views this as like outdated, almost like a dueling Alexander. What is that Hamilton and Aaron Burr type of like dual? I got a question for you guys because so many people out there love Japanese culture and love where it's at now, but there's certain obviously Japanese traditions that people are like, no, no, no, that's not good. But you know how like people are so fervent about Japanese culture and so revered it? Is this part of why in a way people revere Japanese culture? Not necessarily this tradition. I could see why some people don't like want to celebrate this, but then the fact that Japanese even did this, it shows that Japanese can do so many other things. Japanese got a lot of funky stuff that is, you know, whether it's the hentais with the octopuses and things like that, that people find it like they really like to discuss it on the internet or in IRL. But is it even Asians getting upset? Like I feel like the most, the people who are the most into Japanese culture, it's not even Japanese people. It's just like those creepy white guys who like walk around in like geisha robes. They're like skinny. You're talking about the weeaboos and the otakus and things like that. Yeah, it's always those guys, you know, have like hentai body pillows and stuff. The waifu pillows. Yeah, they're the ones getting pissed off, probably. All right, this comment talked about Northwest. So Kanye and Kim Kardashian's daughter is only like, she's not even 11 years old yet. She's at this party and a lot of people are saying that's very inappropriate. But I will say somebody did reply back and say, Hey, just so you know, Northwest life is far from normal. Well, somebody says she, uh, they were roasting Kim for letting her have a TikTok and letting her hang out with ice spice, but just both her parents are messed up. Or like, you know, some people are supporting Kim, some people are supporting Kanye. I mean, I guess this is natural. Like people are supporting the parents in a divorce about who is less or more problematic to a celebrity. Yeah, sure. Now, by all means, it's going to be the naked sushi woman that messed this girl's life up. Not her, not the video of her mom getting pounded. It's fine. And also she's a girl. Like if it was like male, like naked, like naked like men, that would be a problem. Just like dudes hanging dong, but it's naked women. Like, I don't know. It just feels different. Yeah. I mean, listen, guys, she's the one the internet comments were all over the place. And you know, obviously to a place that didn't even really relate to the initial issue, you could debate whether the initial issue is even worthy debating as the Asian community. But people want to be inserted into relevant mainstream TMZ news, right? TMZ doesn't open up the discussion to Asian culture very often. So I guess we got to shoot our gaps when the gaps pop up. Ultimately, Andrew, what is your takeaway? My takeaway is like, this is a hired model. This is a company that does this. And honestly, if you think that this is misogynistic, then a lot of things are almost every single music video is okay. So then we got to like stop having sexy women do anything on video, right? Whether and this is all, you know, people who decided to take the gig. Now, this is not something that I would spend my money on. And I don't necessarily think like everybody should do it. But is it well within the legal right of people to do? I mean, she's making a living doing this. And it's a crossover between hip hop and sushi. Just like when Drake said, you're my sushi roll hotter than wasabi. Or when future said, no boo, no boo, no boo, this would be the third noteworthy event crossover between Sashimi hip hop. I think for me, I'm just more disappointed in the execution. I thought Yeezy was going to like reinvent Nioh Taimori, Nioh Taimori, you know what I mean? Like I thought he kind of did it with like nineties looking sushi, you know what I mean? He did it like exactly like the Art of War, maybe even, you know what I mean? Like there's a lot of different versions of Nioh Taimori. I looked it up. There's ones where it's directly on the skin on a leaf, on a platter. Obviously he did one with the granite platter. I don't know. I just thought Kanye could have even did something more doper with it from a design standpoint. Right. Knowing that it's Kanye and this guy sees music in colors, right? That he should have probably. I know this kind of supports the thing that Kanye fell off his latest outfits look like weird robo cop things. He's shaving his eyebrow. It looks like demolition man from, you know, Stavessar Stallone. It's like he's losing his creative powers, man. Yeah. His music's like not as good as he used to be. So it just wasn't creative enough. It was just like fitting in with wet. This guy used to hang out with Teriyaki boys in Nigo. You know, he's seen Nioh Taimori like a hundred times, I bet 50 times. No, I think he either decided like, because Free the Nipple is like, that's that's supposed to be feminist, you know, but this is the meaning. So you got to make up your mind. Is the titty out or in? You know? All right, everybody. Keep it out. Let us know in the comments down below what you think. This isn't the biggest news. We don't have to care about Kanye and have to care about Kim Kardashian. I think their child is going to be fine. Obviously she sees things in this world that are way different than what our kids are going to see. Do you think that Asians are just talking about this because it finally involved Asian food? Right? Yeah, I don't even think this food is made by a Japanese sushi chef. I don't know. I saw a Japanese guy putting it on there though, or like an Asian looking guy. I don't know. He could be Fujinese, man. We don't know. Um, but ultimately, no, I mean, ultimately, yeah, don't do this for your kids. That's fine. But I just thought for a guy who based the original Yeezy off of Yoji, I'm a moto sneaker. He was going to do something more inventive with now time already if, uh, but you know, I wouldn't necessarily do this on my birthday. Anyway, let us know what you think in the comments section below. Keep it civil and until next time we out. Peace.