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Ishani Sarkar

The jet-setting lifestyle of Kanye West is showing no signs of slowing down. Not long ago, the “Runaway” rapper was photographed on a trip to a 7-Eleven store in Ginza, Tokyo, with children Saint, Chicago and Psalm, while their mother, Kim Kardashian, fled her Los Angeles home to escape the fires. The outing came days after West’s wife, Bianca Censori, celebrated her 30th birthday.

More recently, the couple were spotted at Tokyo’s Azabudai Hills, accompanied by online sensation Justin Laboy. Ye and The Download host have been cosying up for a while now, with the former even sitting down with Laboy for an interview for the podcast, during which he made bombshell claims, alleging that streamer Kai Cenat was an “industry plant” and calling rapper Chris Brown a “god”.
But who is Justin Laboy, who has curried such favour with Ye and is also close to the likes of NBA star Kevin Durant and Sean “Diddy” Combs’ son Justin?
What is Laboy’s background?

According to The Independent, Justin Laboy hails from Queens, New York, where he grew up with four older siblings. He described his family situation as “broken”, according to the outlet and hoped to break “generational curses”. Laboy attended ASA College in Brooklyn, New York, per Revolt TV.
He played basketball

During his time as a student at ASA College, Laboy had a successful stint in the school’s basketball team, according to Revolt TV. He eventually turned professional and played for Macedonia’s Pelister Bitola Basketball Club. After suffering two career-ending tears to his Achilles tendons, Laboy decided to hang up his jersey and started working as a nightlife promoter. “I wasn’t going to be the next Michael Jordan or LeBron James,” he said, per The Independent.
He’s the creator of ‘Demon Time’

If you’ve been online in the last few years, you can hardly have escaped the phrase “Demon Time”. It’s in a Beyoncé verse in rapper Megan Thee Stallion’s “Savage Remix” and has even made The New York Times. Laboy and Diddy’s son Justin Combs came up with the term for their viral virtual nightclub livestream on Instagram, which, reports The Independent, aimed to provide exotic dancers with income during the Covid-19 pandemic. Demon Time patrons included Durant and rappers YG and Meek Mill, according to Revolt TV.

2025 is going to be the greatest year ever. #Respectfully
— Respectfully Justin (@JustinLaboy) December 29, 2024

When it was shut down by Instagram, the pair moved the “experience” to internet service OnlyFans. They also hosted the Revolt TV show Respectfully Justin together. Laboy is now the host of his own YouTube talk show, #Respectfully The Justin Laboy Show. He popularised the hashtag and even released a song called “Respectfully”.


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Kanye West’s close pal Justin Laboy is a social media personality and the man behind ‘Demon Time’. Photo: @justinlaboy/Instagram

Kanye West attends the Anonymous Club fashion show during Berlin Fashion Week last July. Photo: Getty Images

Justin Laboy is a New York native. Photo: @justinlaboy/Instagram

Justin Laboy played basketball professionally. Photo: @justinlaboy/Instagram

Justin Laboy is close to Kanye West and interviewed him for The Download. Photo: @justinlaboy/Instagram

Meet Pete Hegseth’s bestie Will Cain, who’s replacing Neil Cavuto on Fox News: the former ESPN radio host will take over the 4pm slot, hangs out with Donald Trump, and is a ‘devout Christian’

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Former Fox News host Neil Cavuto is leaving the network’s 4pm slot. Photo: Getty Images

Will Cain poses with a fan outside the Fox News studios. Photo: @cwillcain/Instagram 

From left to right: Pete Hegseth, Will Cain and Donald Trump. Photo: @cwillcain/Instagram

Will Cain studied law in Texas. Photo: @cwillcain/Instagram 

Will Cain has talked about being a devout Christian. Photo: @cwillcain/Instagram 

Fox’s Will Cain with his family. Photo: @cwillcain/Instagram

Who is Steve Sarowitz, who’s named in Blake Lively’s lawsuit against Justin Baldoni? The billionaire funder behind It Ends with Us claimed the Gossip Girl actress was spreading ‘vicious lies’

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Steve Sarowitz (left) and Justin Baldoni (right). Photo: @wayfarertheaters/Instagram

Blake Lively at the UK Gala Screening for the film It Ends With Us in London, in 2024. Photo: AP

The movie poster of It Ends with Us. Photo: Wayfarer Studios

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Steve Sarowitz at a Wayfarer event in 2024. Photo: @wayfarerfoundation/Instagram

Justin Baldoni and Steve Sarowitz. Photo: @wayfarertheaters/Instagram

Xavier Lamar Truesdell and Steve Sarowitz. Photo: @xaviertruesdell/Instagram

Sarowitz at the One Planet Summit in 2023. Photo: @laylayarjani/Instagram

Where is Gavin Newsom’s former aide Ruby Rippey Gibney now? The California Governor had an affair with Gibney while she was his subordinate in 2005, and he was still with Trump fan Kimberly Guilfoyle

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In 2007, Gavin Newsom admitted to an affair he had back in 2005. Photo: AP Photo

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Ruby Rippey Gibney is now married to Ryan Gibney. Photo: Ruby Rippey Gibney/Facebook 

Gavin Newsom and his current wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom. Photo: @jennifersiebelnewsom/Instagram

Meet Pete Hegseth’s wife Jennifer Rauchet: the Trump defence secretary pick and Fox TV host’s romance with his producer partner began with a cheating scandal – but did she get Tucker Carlson fired?

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Pete Hegseth and his wife Jennifer Rauchet in November 2023. Photo: @jennycdot/Instagram

Pete Hegseth and his wife Jennifer Rauchet work in television. Photo: @jennycdot/Instagram

“Happy Birthday to the love of my life,” Pete Hegseth wrote on Instagram in January 2023 to his third wife Jennifer Rauchet. Photo: @petehegseth/Instagram

Jennifer Rauchet, Pete Hegseth and their brood on their wedding day in August 2019. Photo: @jennycdot/Instagram

Jennifer Rauchet and Pete Hegseth have seven children in their blended family. Photo: @petehegseth/Instagram

Meet Alex Karp, the reclusive billionaire who can’t drive, but can mine data – the CEO of Palantir, which has CIA and FBI ties, backed Kamala Harris, loves cross-country skiing, and teaches meditation

Palantir Technologies CEO and co-founder Alex Karp (right), at a forum with Elon Musk. Photo: @guygruber/Instagram

Billionaire Alex Karp keeps a low profile. Photo: @quantummobile1/Instagram

Palantir Technologies does work for government agencies around the world: Alex Karp meets Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine. Photo: @palantirian/Instagram

Alex Karp promotes wellness at Palantir. Photo: @kinemathek/Instagram

Alex Karp has never learned how to drive. Photo: @palantirian/Instagram

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The host of YouTube’s #Respectfully The Justin Laboy Show, also a friend of Diddy’s son Justin, coined ‘Demon Time’ to raise money for exotic dancers during the Covid-19 pandemic


The host of YouTube’s #Respectfully The Justin Laboy Show, also a friend of Diddy’s son Justin, coined ‘Demon Time’ to raise money for exotic dancers during the Covid-19 pandemic.


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