North West raps about piercings and tattoos on new Kanye collaboration

Pagesix reports that North West, 12, rapped about loving piercings and tattoos on a new collaboration with her father Kanye West titled "Piercing on My Hand (Ye’s version)." She shared a snippet to her Instagram Stories Thursday. In the clip North sings lines including "Piercing on my hand, the other holding bands," and "No friends, just filter, you wouldn’t understand." The song also finds her rapping that she wants "more piercings and tats" and that she loves her signature "blue hair," while other lines include "Went to school for two days, then I got banned/Skipping school, yeah, I do it on the daily." She posted a beat titled "Piercing on my hand hardstyle outro" less than 15 minutes after debuting a photo of a double-ball piercing on her pointer and middle fingers.

The song and the recent piercings come after backlash over earlier body modifications, including criticism of her first finger dermal for its allegedly "dangerous" placement and a controversial bridge-of-the-nose look that preceded a brief disappearance of her Instagram account, which appeared to have been taken down either by her parents or by Instagram.

Online reaction has included comments such as "Who the f—k lets their 12 year old have piercings?" a Reddit user wrote, and her mother Kim Kardashian defended North’s creative expression in a September "Call Her Daddy" interview, saying, "It’s really hard and it’s really interesting because all the kids are wearing the same things...

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