Kanye West had a sophisticated hologram of Kim Kardashian’s late father created for his wife’s 40th birthday with an interesting message… about her husband.
The rapper is the “most, most, most, most, most genius man in the whole world,” declared the hologram of lawyer Robert Kardashian, who died of cancer in 2003 when Kim was 22.
Fortunately, Kim loved it anyway.
“A special surprise from heaven. A hologram of my dad,” she tweeted. “It is so lifelike! We watched it over and over, filled with emotion.”
The hologram version of Robert Kardashian told his daughter she was beautiful — and that he watches over his kids and grandkids every day.
He also recalled driving Kim to school in his “tiny Mercedes”.
“I am so proud of the woman you’ve become, Kimberly,” the image said. “The most beautiful thing that I have witnessed is watching you grow your family.”
Robert Kardashian was a criminal defence attorney best known for successfully defending his friend O.J. Simpson against charges that the former football star and actor killed his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman in Los Angeles in 1994.
In a 1996 interview with Barbara Walters, Robert said that he had doubts about Simpson’s innocence.
Some on Twitter were moved by Kanye’s gift, while others were agog that the made part of it about himself with over-the-top praise from a man he never met. Others found the whole idea a tad… creepy.
Kim is currently still stinging from social media criticism over her boasting about her private island getaway — with entourage — at a reported cost of $1 million to celebrate her birthday.
“This … is a frustrating year,” sister Kloe Kardashian told Ellen DeGeneres on Thursday about the backlash, calling the birthday celebration a “beautiful experience.”
This story originally appeared on the US edition of HuffPost.
