All of the lights were shining on North West.
The 12-year-old took to the stage alongside her dad Kanye “Ye” West during his concert at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium on April 1—but their duets were no joke. In front of more than 70,000 attendees, North and her dad performed their two collab songs, “Talking” and “Piercing On My Hand.”
For the occasion, North appeared with her now signature turquoise hair done into pigtails, black sneakers, black pants and a matching sweatshirt advertising the concert. The eldest of Ye and Kim Kardashian’s four kids styled the look with large black sunglasses on her face and a chunky, glittering skull and crossbones chain around her neck.
Meanwhile Ye—for whom the performance marked his first time performing live in LA since 2021—donned an all gray ensemble.
As for their tracks, “Piercing On My Hand,” is a direct clapback at the haters who have criticized the tween for her fashion and body piercing choices.
“Piercing on my hand, the other for them bands,” North raps in the song. “No friendship if you do not understand. Shopping in Japan that’s where I always am. Went to school for two days then I got banned.”
Plus, she confirms in the song that she has no plans to alter her style choices any time soon.
“I want more piercings and tats, I love blue hair put it in some plaits,” she continues in the song. “Put the music to the max. I want 100,000 racks.”
And this isn’t the first time North has shown she isn’t paying attention to her critics. Amid backlash over her dermal piercing, she lip synced to a TikTok sound in a Dec. 15 video, “Why are you crying? How old are you? Just pull it together.”
She captioned the post, “This is for everyone that’s mad over a finger piercing.”
As for how her mom—who also shares kids Saint, 10, Chicago, 7, and Psalm, 6, with Ye, in addition to North—feels about her eldest’s style, she’s just happy to let her daughter be who she is.
“She'll be like, 'Mom, I saw this and I don't really care if someone says they don't like my blue hair, or my this or that,’” the Kardashians star told Alex Cooper during her October appearance Call Her Daddy. “And she's really confident and is like, ‘I probably wouldn't be hanging out with those people.’”
Plus, Kim runs a tight ship in other areas of her kids’ lives.
“I think like the one misconception that people might have is like, ‘Oh, she's trying to be her bestie and lets her get away with a lot,’” the SKIMS founder said during an appearance on the Jan. 21 episode of sister Khloe Kardashian’s podcast. “Like, no. North actually has a lot of rules. The one area is I do let her express herself, and I do let her do that. And I love her for it.”
For more of North’s sassiest online moments over the years, read on.
Wanna Bet?
North West never forgets her bets.
Kim Kardashian shocked TikTok last January when she unveiled a surprising transformation that included a heavy face of makeup and dark eyebrows. Kim finished the beauty routine by putting on a nude lip and fake lashes, posing for the camera while chewing gum and lip-syncing to Millie B's viral song "M to the B."
While The Kardashians star's fans were initially confused, Kim later revealed that her 10-year-old daughter was responsible for the eyebrow-raising look, tweeting, "The bribes and bet losing I have going on with North is unreal!"
Read the Sign
North had a message to send to the paparazzi when she accompanied Kim to Paris Fashion Week last summer, famously holding up a piece of paper that said "Stop."
After their trip, Kim took to Twitter to reveal the backstory behind North's note.
"For anyone who knows North knows how funny she finds this video!" Kim wrote in a July 7 tweet. "North I guess had it with the people taking pictures of her so she wrote on her invite STOP and held it up."
According to Kim, North simply "wanted them to just focus on the show" and not her.
Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
North trolled her mother in epic fashion—pun fully intended—when she recreated her Balenciaga packing tape look from Paris Fashion Week 2022.
In a TikTok that July, North wrapped a few strands of the tape Kim used around her black t-shirt, completing her look by donning a platinum blonde wig. Not only did she dress like Kim, North also poked fun at her mom even further by lip-syncing alongside an audio that featured a few of Kim's iconic Keeping Up With the Kardashians quotes alongside Megan Thee Stallion's song "Savage."
Of course, North recreated the infamous moment where Kim lost her diamond earring in Bora Bora, as well as when she hit Khloé Kardashian with a purse all while telling her not to be rude.
Eyebrow-Raising Behavior
In a Dec. 18 TikTok video posted to their join account, North pranked Kim by pretending to shave the SKIMS mogul's brows off as she slept in bed.
"So funny, the fake eyebrows filter," the caption over the video read, with North was using a camera filter to make Kim's eyebrows appear thinner onscreen.
So, how did Kim react after being woken up by North? After opening her eyes and seeing what's on screen, the reality star quipped, "North, this is not funny."
Extreme Special Effects
Anyone who follows Kim and North's TiKTok account knows North is as gifted as her mom when it comes to makeup. In fact, her skills might be a little too good as Kim revealed one of her pranks involving special effects makeup almost got the cops involved.
"I have a teacher come and show her special effects makeup—where it's like wounds and blood and tons of stuff," Kim explained to Allure in July 2022. "She's actually so good that I rented a house this summer and she took all of her special effects makeup and she decided not only to prank me and do it on her and Chicago, but she made the whole room look like a murder scene."
Because she was tired, Kim left the mess to clean up the next morning. "I had to rush out the door and go to school," Kim continued. "The housekeeper came and tried to call the authorities and called the homeowner thinking that it was a full, real murder scene."
"It was bad," Kim said. "I have photos and it's crazy."
A New Way to Roast Your Vegetables
North clearly doesn't beet around the bush.
When Kim took to her Instagram Story to show off freshly picked crops from her home garden last April, not everyone was impressed by her bounty of "cute" carrots, kale, leeks and beets. "They look disgusting," North quipped off-camera while Kim was filming her healthy haul.
In the caption, Kim also poked fun of daughter's unprompted honesty, writing, "Thanks North."
Talk That Talk
Forget a baby voice, Kim clearly has social media speech.
"Why do you talk different?" North asked a September 2011 video, noting that Kim changes up the way she sounds for her clips.
A surprised Kim responded, "From my videos? I'm the same human being. I don't talk different." Kim then inquired if she speaks differently when she films videos about makeup contouring, which prompted North to imitate her mom's glam tutorial voice.
Sour Indeed
It's brutal out there for a mom of an Olivia Rodrigo fan.
When the "driver's license" singer sent Kim a PR package filled with merch in May 2021, the KKW Beauty founder shared the gift on her Instagram Story. "You guys know I love 'drivers license,'" Kim told the camera.
However, an off-camera North was standing by to call her out, claiming, "You never listen to it." A shocked Kim laughed before telling her, "Yes, I do! I listen to it all the time. Stop, North." Kim captioned the video with "NORTH!!!!!" along with three laughing-crying emojis.