Kanye West dropped by talent agency

Maria Leaf

October 24, 02:46 PM October 24, 02:58 PM

Rapper and clothing designer Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has been dropped by his talent agency, according to reports.

Creative Arts Agency is said to have made the move earlier this month following a controversial tweet by Ye that caused Twitter to shut down his account.

“I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE. The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda," Ye said in the now-removed tweet.

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The agency is the latest to cut ties with Ye, following similar moves by clothing designer Balenciaga and JPMorgan Chase in recent days.

His ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, took to Instagram on Monday with a general statement about antisemitism.

Last week, Ye announced plans to acquire conservative social media platform Parler.

"In a world where conservative opinions are considered to be controversial we have to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves," Ye said in a statement.

Kanye West and Chris Cuomo spar about Jewish reviews controversy

Brady Knox

October 17, 11:05 PM Oct 17, 11:05 PM

Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo confronted Kanye West around his controversial opinions about Jews that have been commonly condemned as antisemitic and gotten him deplatformed on a number of social media web-sites.

The rapper, who has lawfully changed his identify to Ye, appeared on Cuomo's NewsNation demonstrate to focus on his title improve, move to buy the Parler social media system, and his recent controversy about opinions about Jewish men and women. Cuomo challenged West's statements, specifically getting issue with his remark about a "Jewish underground media mafia," which the rapper repeated in his physical appearance.

"Search, there is no Jewish media, cabal, mafia. That is a figment of possibly your imagination or a projection of a prejudice. You may well have had bad company dealings with people today — it's about those people folks. It's not about their faith or religion. And I know that you happen to be intelligent and recognize that when you concentrate on persons for the reason that of their faith, other persons may well do so the exact same," Cuomo claimed in response to a tangent from West in which he explained his problems with the "media mafia."

"So we don't want to tolerate that, and you are playing into that right now irrespective of whether you know that or not," Cuomo extra.

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"And I don't tolerate it as a black individual. What you just stated was that you are hoping to say that there isn't really a collective — over 50% of the executives and CEOs in Hollywood are Jewish," West responded. "You can not notify me what to do or sense."

West also repeated his declare that he won't be able to be antisemitic due to the fact black persons are Jewish.

"I never feel in that term. 1 issue is ... I classify as Jew also, so I basically can't be an antisemite. So the phrase ... is not factual," West stated.

"I comprehend you assume that, but I don't believe that's a common comprehending, that black individuals can say whatever they want about Jewish persons," Cuomo responded.

"Jewish folks have the black voice," West stated at an additional place.

Despite the responses that lots of see as antisemitic, West maintains that he is "coming from a put of love" and "a position of 'We're not gonna be owned by the Jewish media anymore.'"

Cuomo completed the interview by inquiring about the star's psychological wellness, which West took situation with, accusing him of asking if he was behaving.

"Did you operate out this early morning?" West asked.

"No," Cuomo admitted. "But I took my medicine, but I took my antidepressant medicine that I consider each working day."

West pressured throughout the job interview that his identify was Ye and corrected Cuomo a number of times.

The rapper, style designer, and former presidential prospect has come underneath hearth lately just after building a lot of negative community reviews about Jews, which many consider are antisemitic. Owing to the comments, West has been booted from Instagram and Twitter, inspiring his current bid to invest in Parler.

Instagram restricts Ye more than seemingly antisemitic post

Jenny Goldsberry

Oct 08, 03:57 PM October 08, 04:01 PM

Ye, formerly recognized as Kanye West, is restricted from Instagram subsequent a seemingly antisemitic post he shared Friday.

He shared an alleged conversation with fellow rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs in a screenshot. He captioned the photograph, "Jesus is Jew." Instagram has considering that taken out the article from its platform, with a Meta spokesperson reportedly confirming that his account was limited for an undetermined amount of time. The spokesperson stated the restriction came due to the fact the rapper violated guidelines and guidelines but did not specify which kinds.

"N**** deliver me a deal with. Let us prevent playing these web online games," a supposed textual content from "Puff" reads. "And will not experience threatened. You can be fantastic. Just enjoy."

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"This ain't a match," Ye's response reads. "Ima [sic] use you as an instance to present the Jewish men and women that instructed you to contact me that no one particular can threaten or influence me. I advised you this was war. Now long gone get you some organization."

Ye also deleted all Instagram posts prior to three times back, alternatively publishing a slew of far more screenshots due to the fact then. The last he posted was Friday evening.

This is Ye's next temporary suspension this year after violating the platform's guidelines in March. Ye was issued a 24-hour suspension relating to a write-up that integrated racial slurs when describing television temperament Trevor Noah.

Kanye West: I will be president one working day

Daniel Chaitin

October 07, 10:21 PM October 07, 10:23 PM

Kanye West declared he will be president 1 working day.

The rapper, who lawfully transformed his identify to “Ye,” produced the assertion in the course of element two of his job interview with Fox Information host Tucker Carlson, which aired Friday evening, even though conversing about how he thinks it is "crazy" for a presidential administration not to "use a talent" this sort of as Tesla CEO Elon Musk additional.

"I will inevitably be president — in my lifetime," he mentioned. "If I was in place of work right now, I would be calling Elon every day," West additional. "I would have him sleep in the White Dwelling," he reported about designs to clearly show folks how to "are living a simplified everyday living."

The rapper ran for president in 2020. He was equipped to get on the ballot in some states, like Florida, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, but only garnered about 60,000 votes out of an estimated total of 160 million, per the BBC. West indicated he plans a different run in the future presidential cycle, tweeting, "Kanye 2024."

For the duration of the job interview, West talked about a broad variety of concerns, together with his admiration for former President Donald Trump, why he wore a "White Lives Make any difference" shirt at his fashion present in Paris, getting shocked about learning the romance his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, experienced with Bill and Hillary Clinton, and far more.

He also decried the standing quo. "Our region is underneath assault, and media and industries outside the house of our nation are doing everything to continue to keep it as it was," West stated.

Observe: Kanye West describes 'White Lives Matter' shirt and adore for God and Trump

Maria Leaf

October 06, 09:23 PM Oct 06, 09:24 PM

The rapper and manner designer previously known as Kanye West is conversing about his political beliefs next a stir he prompted on social media this week by wearing a "White Lives Make any difference" shirt at his trend demonstrate in Paris and later placing a assertion on Instagram calling the Black Life Matter movement "a scam."

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In a large-ranging job interview Thursday, West explained the cause for the concept on the shirt was "for the reason that they do."

"My father is an educated ex-black panther and he put a textual content to me nowadays and he stated, 'White lives make a difference, hahaha.' I believed it was funny, the plan of me carrying it was funny, and I stated, 'Why do you feel it is amusing?' And he said just, 'A black man stating the clear,'" West mentioned on Tucker Carlson Tonight. "That was my favourite reaction for the reason that I saved thinking — people today are hunting for an explanation, and individuals say as an artist you don’t have to give an explanation, but as a chief, you do."

West spoke at duration about his religion in God and how that guides him.

“I never care about people’s responses, but I treatment about the simple fact that there are far more black babies being aborted than born in New York Town at this place. That 50% of black loss of life in America is abortion. I truly do not treatment about people’s response to that. I perform for an viewers of a single, and that is God,“ West added.

West explained to host Tucker Carlson that he started off to feel the will need to categorical himself "on an additional degree" when Donald Trump ran for president.

“My so-called buddies/handlers all around me instructed me if I stated that I favored Trump that my career would be about, that my lifetime would be around," West instructed Carlson.

"They claimed stuff like 'People get killed for carrying a hat like that.' They threatened my life. They fundamentally stated that I would be killed for carrying the hat. I had somebody simply call me past night time and explained anyone carrying a 'White Life Matter' shirt is heading to be greenlit. That suggests they are going to conquer them up if they have on it. I'm like, you know, Ok, greenlight me then,” West additional.

"God is preparing us for the authentic battles. We are in a struggle with the media. The the vast majority of the media has a godless agenda, and they are like, 'Ye is crazy.' They never get the job done due to the fact the media have also viewed travesties come about, even precisely to me. Just watch it and act like it was not going on and they stay quiet about it," West stated.

Element two of the interview with West will air on Tucker Carlson Tonight on Friday.

John Legend suggests friendship with Kanye West could not endure Donald Trump

Julia Johnson

August 06, 05:00 AM August 06, 05:00 AM

Musician John Legend told the director of the University of Chicago Institute of Politics, David Axelrod, that his friendship with fellow musician Kanye West could not overcome his assistance for previous President Donald Trump.

"We usually are not close friends as much as we made use of to be," the EGOT winner claimed of West on CNN's The Axe Files podcast, "mainly because we publicly disagreed on his jogging for place of work, his supporting Trump"

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"It became much too considerably for us to maintain our friendship," he included.

“He was upset that I did not assistance his run for presidency of the United States of The united states — for understandable motives,” Legend claimed.

"You were not by yourself in that," Axelrod chimed in.

"He was not joyful about that," spelled out the singer. As a end result, he stated they "have not been near given that then."

Of West, Legend claimed the rapper is "pretty authentic," including that "you can find not a good deal about him that people today don't get," he additional.

"What you see with him is very a great deal what you get," the singer continued.

Axelrod then questioned the star about his previous activism in the course of the Iraq War, to which he asserted, "We all understood ... it was bulls***."

"You could notify they were hoping to obtain ... intelligent assistance for a little something that evidently they just made a decision they preferred to do," he stated of the Bush administration.

"Evidently, Saddam experienced very little to do with 9/11, and the scenario for him acquiring WMDs was ... weak at greatest," Legend mentioned.

"They have been selling us a invoice of merchandise," he discussed, adding that he "did not consider it."

"I was a person of those people people today," he stated, who did not believe that it from the commencing.

"I grew up pretty influenced by civil rights leaders," he additional told Axelrod.

Legend also explained when he cried immediately after previous President Barack Obama, the first black U.S. president, was elected. "The second that broke me was observing the more mature black Us residents," he claimed.

He also specific making use of his movie star power, influence, and sources to build modify, revealing that he is at this time targeted on justice reform and regional governments. Notably, Legend a short while ago endorsed various Democratic district attorneys in elections throughout the country.

Georgia investigators seek former Kanye West publicist in excess of 2020 election meddling

Christopher Hutton

June 14, 08:21 AM June 14, 08:21 AM

Georgia officials are trying to get out the previous publicist of Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, to get her to testify about her initiatives to intimidate election personnel above the 2020 election final results.

Fulton County's District Attorney Fani Willis is searching for the testimony of Trevian Kutti, a previous publicist for Ye and R. Kelly, relating to an alleged endeavor to intimidate an election worker in excess of allegations of voter fraud, according to CNN.

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Kutti traveled to the residence of election worker Ruby Freeman in December 2021, according to Reuters. Kutti gave her identify and mentioned she was sent by a "high profile individual" to give Freeman with a message: Confess to staying involved with voter fraud inside of the future 48 several hours or individuals would take her to jail. Freeman refused the menace and referred to as the law enforcement, who questioned each persons to occur to a neighborhood law enforcement precinct. Kutti did not directly title Ye or any other identified employers all through her trade with Freeman.

"Ms. Kutti stated that Ms. Freeman was in hazard and experienced 48 hrs to communicate with her so that she could get in advance of the problem," the law enforcement report explained. The publicist also arranged for Freeman to discuss to several events in an try to get her to give a "wrong confession," Chief Senior Assistant District Attorney F. McDonald Wakeford wrote in a court submitting.

"The identity of these 3rd get-togethers, as very well as the character and extent of their interactions to the Witness [Kutti] or other folks publicizing disproven allegations of election fraud, are recognized only by the Witness [Kutti]," the submitting said.

Kutti is a person of various witnesses who has been questioned to appear right before a distinctive grand jury. Other requested witnesses incorporate former investigator Frances Watson, and Trump-skeptic Gabriel Sterling, an election official.

Ga has been a stage of emphasis regarding the previous president's tries to impact the benefits of the 2020 election. Fulton County's district lawyer announced on June 6 that she was pleased with the selected grand jury that will handle the county's trial about former President Donald Trump's attempts to affect the condition election's benefits. Some specialists believe that the odds of Trump dealing with prosecution for his actions in the state are "really most likely."