Ye, after a weekend of spewing extra antisemitic and hateful feedback on X, supplied a message of reward for the app’s proprietor, Elon Musk.
“I appreciate Elon for allowing me to vent,” the controversial rapper previously generally known as Kanye West tweeted Sunday night, based on KTLA. “It has been very cathartic to use the world as a sounding board.”
Ye gave kudos to Musk as he introduced he can be going darkish on X. The “Vultures 1” rapper, 47, seemingly deactivated his account days after utilizing Musk’s platform to declare himself a Nazi and specific renewed reward for Adolf Hitler. Along with the antisemitic posts, Ye known as for the discharge of jailed music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs and declared his “dominion” over spouse Bianca Censori.
The “Heartless” musician has an extended historical past of creating provocative and dangerous statements and lately confronted scrutiny for his feedback in regards to the Jewish group — quite a lot of which he revealed on X. In 2022, Ye had threatened on X that he would go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE,” prompting suspensions from each that platform and Instagram. His feedback additionally prompted a number of clothes firms and administration companies to chop ties with Ye. However each X and Instagram ultimately reinstated the Grammy winner’s account and he continued to double down.
In December 2023, Ye apologized for an additional spherical of antisemitic “outbursts” and stated he would commit himself to “learning from this experience to ensure greater sensitivity and understanding in the future.”
Throughout Tremendous Bowl LIX on Sunday, Ye aired a cryptic industrial directing viewers to a hyperlink for his Yeezy clothes line. The web site touts just one merchandise: a $20 white T-shirt bearing a black swastika.
Earlier than Ye credited Musk’s platform for internet hosting his venomous posts, the X proprietor on Sunday tweeted that the rapper had been posting illicit content material. Musk, additionally head of the Division of Authorities Effectivity, apparently discovered time between gutting varied authorities businesses over the weekend to chime in on Ye’s web exercise. Musk additionally flirted with Nazi imagery earlier this yr when he prolonged a number of salutes together with his proper arm throughout an inauguration occasion for President Trump.
“Given what he has posted, his account is now classified as NSFW,” Musk replied to an X consumer who alleged Ye had posted pornography. “You should not be seeing that anymore.”
Solely time will inform.
Occasions assistant editor Christie D’Zurilla contributed to this report.