Final 12 months, Kanye West returned to the general public eye after antisemitic remarks he made in 2022 led to a quick exile and quite a few skilled penalties for the rapper and businessman. His return included the discharge of two albums—Vultures 1 and Vultures 2—and the restoration of his X account, which had been suspended as a consequence of his antisemitic posts. And, this previous Sunday, West and his spouse, Bianca Censori, made a headline-grabbing look on the crimson carpet on the 2025 Grammy Awards.
Now, in a sequence of posts on X that started final night time and are ongoing, West is expressing the identical kind of antisemitic, racist, and hateful rhetoric that obtained him banned years in the past. Right here is one publish that West made: “IM RACIST STEREO TYPES EXIST FOR A REASON AND THEY ALL BE TRUE.”
In one other publish, West wrote (in capital letters) that he doesn’t “like or belief any Jewish particular person.” Extra posts embrace nice reward for Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Get together—fascinations that West has reportedly held for years. In a single occasion, West plainly referred to as himself a Nazi. He additionally mentioned he would by no means apologize for his antisemitism. Additional posts are homophobic, racist in opposition to Black individuals, misogynistic, and ableist.
West additionally used his platform to defend and reward Sean “Diddy” Combs, the disgraced rapper and mogul who stays incarcerated as he awaits federal trial on racketeering and intercourse trafficking costs. West claims that “they” are “making an attempt to make an instance out of” Diddy, who can also be dealing with numerous lawsuits from men and women who declare that the musician abused them. He asks, too, for one in all his allies, President Donald J. Trump, to pardon Diddy, who has largely denied the allegations of wrongdoing.
One other controversial music determine West defends and praises is Chris Brown, the singer who was convicted, in 2009, of assaulting Rihanna. West says that “all of us watched them attempt to cancel Chris Brown,” a musician who additionally has confronted quite a few lawsuits for alleged bodily and sexual assaults.
In a publish this morning, West primarily defined the motivation behind his posts: “Has anybody ever wished to get all of it off they chest Every little thing you felt Every little thing they instructed you to not say assume or really feel.”
