Kanye West has been sued and dropped by his talent agency after he posted a stream of antisemitic abuse, put T-shirts with a swastika on sale in his online shop, and was alleged to have described himself as Hitler to a Jewish employee.
Last week West, also known as Ye, wrote a barrage of antisemitic posts on X including, “I’m a Nazi … I love Hitler”.
The swastika T-shirt was placed for sale on the website of his fashion brand Yeezy, with the product line “HH-01”, assumed to be code for “Heil Hitler”.
Shopify, the company that provided the online platform for Yeezy, has now taken the store offline, stating: “All merchants are responsible for following the rules of our platform. This merchant did not engage in authentic commerce practices and violated our terms.”
I have some bad news for Yeezy. Nazis
weren’taren’t very fond of brown people either.Yeah, I’m not sure exactly where he thinks he fits in Hitler’s idea of the übermensch.
Unter it
Forgive me if I have misunderstood something obvious, but wouldn’t he be considered black?
He’s not considered white. Which is a problem in nazis circles.
Shopify only dropped him because they didn’t think he’d actually ship the swastika shirts, not because he was selling the swastika shirts.
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The CEO of Shopify is a man named Tobias Lütke
OMG I totally thought this was supposed to be some weird reference to Tobias Fünke from Arrested Development.
Time for ANUSTART
Could very well be, dude has a bit of never-nude energy about him.
Kanye -> Hitler -> Shopify -> Spotify -> Arrested Development -> …
Anyone else experiencing whiplash, or is it just me? I think I need to lie down for a bit.
-> seinfeld -> kramer
And we’re back
Sure, but the CEO of Spotify (which I have no idea why we’re bringing in here)… Is a man named Daniel Ek, so the other part of that comment doesn’t make sense either.
They said Spotify, you say Shopify. I’m confused, who are we mad at now?
Ah, they did say Spotify.
The article and controversy are about Shopify, that’s where Kanye was selling his swastika shirt.
Apparently you can’t read.
Shopify when this happened: No comment.
Shopify after blowback: This is an abhorrent abuse of our policies! We are all adither!
In conclusion: Fuck Shopify. And obligatory fuck ICE.
Actually they fully allow the sale of explicit Nazi merch at Shopify. They just came up with a vaguely plausible excuse to get rid of Kanye’s store specifically. The execs at Shopify are outspoken extreme right wingers. These are guys get along well with the Proud Boys (which is considered a terrorist group in Canada).
Nothing to add except I’ve never seen “adither” written out. I’ve been saying “A tizzy” all my life. 🫣
I reported yeezy.com for being in violation of GoDaddy’s Terms Of Use.
Doubt it was me that caused any of this, but we can all do our part 😊
It says “This store is unavailable” which means it’s probably not a DNS or webserver block and still uses the shop software to serve the page. So it’s most likely a Shopify block.
Welp here’s hoping he loses the domain next.
Good riddance.
Let this be his only legacy.
I worked with someone who defended Kanye for like a year after he went publicly apeshit. Probably up until at least 2019 when I last spoke to him on the topic. He just kept claiming that it was so unfair that Kanye was getting judged as an off-meds mentally ill person suffering. Which I would get, as long as he wasn’t hurting other people. But that’s been the motherfucker’s raison-etre for a while now.
Would they extend anyone else dealing with untreated mental illness the same benefit?
Yeah, if you aren’t ridiculously wealthy and you start crashing out like this, you usually just lose your job and get kicked out on the street.
Being a little stinky in public is enough to get most mentally ill folks harassed by cops.
Likely. Not sure.
I thought that kind of attitude was normal to have. I don’t think my literally insane coworker is an evil person just because the voices in his head tell him to be racist
As someone who’s out of the loop may I ask what the story is?
What I’m getting is that he’s a wealthy has been who has some unmedicated mental health problems which manifest in these spectacular public brain farts.
Is that all there is to it or is there some explanation for the antisemitism?
That’s the whole story. Kanye has been off his meds for the better part of a decade now and that started, continued, and is still continuing to manifest as rampant antisemitism. You can’t interview him for more than three sentences anymore without him bringing up the Jews about something.
Edit: Actually, I’m going to add on to this. I had a hunch and did a little research, and it seems I might be pretty on point. I remember Kanye first starting to seem kind of weird (well - weirder than expected from a rapper with more money than God) around the release of The Life of Pablo. The previous album, Yeezus, was pretty much a spot on killer, crisp, good album. TLoP was a mess in many ways, and at the time it was viewed as an interesting and out of the norm artistic endeavor and actually had pretty good reviews, but it’s universally regarded as messy, incomplete, and disjointed. Kanye stans will say that “the album is intended to sound unfinished” and that nobody else could have actually pulled that off except for Kanye because of his unique musical genius and status in the industry. And they could even be right. But that still means the album is choppy and strange and unfinished. And check this out:
Ray Rahman of Entertainment Weekly noted the album’s frequent meditations on matters of faith, family, and West’s own role as a cultural figure while observing that “Pablo frequently (some might say abruptly) toggles between Sad Kanye and the bombastic and celebratory Kanye”.[64] McCormick described West as “constantly veering between swaggering bravado and insecurity bordering on paranoia, smashing the sacred against the profane and disrupting his own flowing grooves with interjections”.[54] He claimed the interjections sound as if “they are spilling over from another studio altogether”.[54] Referencing West’s lyrical performance, Sheffield wrote that he “knows he’s got some issues to work on”.[52] The Life of Pablo features “gloomy, doomy” discussions of trust issues, antidepressants, and familial problems on tracks such as “FML” and “Real Friends”.[64]
Source: Wikipedia
And after he released the album he still continued to tweak and change things on it and release new cuts and new entire songs on the already released, triple plat album. Again, at the time seen as brilliant, striking, and strange artistry, in hindsight maybe signs of instability.
Somewhere between 2014, at the release of Yeezus, and 2016, at the release of TLoP, Kanye started losing his battle with whatever illness he struggles with. Since then he has slid down farther and farther with time. Kanye, once famously quoted saying “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” wholeheartedly endorsed Donald Trump in 2020. In 2024 Kanye West openly self identifies as a Nazi and sells swastika merch on a Super Bowl ad and invades an award ceremony he wasn’t invited to in order to force his wife to strip nude on camera.
Kanye West died in 2015, R.I.P. to a real honest to God hip hop legend. Whatever is left piloting his corpse around is no longer who he once was. I mourn the artist we lost and I hope he can find help to recover himself, but I find that unlikely given his attitude.
Well now there’s a ten dollar word if I’ve ever seen one.
Slips scrabble back to the top…
Dang I misspelled it. Raison d’etre, from French, meaning “reason for being”. Probably couldn’t use it in Scrabble.
Don’t tell me what I can and can’t do. You’re not my supervisor.
I did say probably
😋
The only thing that amazed me about this is that he had a “talent agent”.
Yes, I too am shocked that one of the most successful musicians of the century had a “talent agent.”
The guy is a piece of shit but this is such an asinine comment. The only shocking part is he got dropped in the first place, considering he still somehow manages to make money hand over fist anytime he releases some half-finished album these days. The talent agencies will tolerate a hell of a lot as long as the money keeps flowing.
Nah, I’m surprised he has a talent agent, too, after his last outburst. I know talent agents aren’t immune to bigotry but it’s still a bit surprising that anyone would attach their name to his like that
Dude has been out of it for years, and hasn’t put out anything of note during that time. He’s already made statements that should have alerted any reputable talent agency to stay the fuck away.
The last recent things I remember of his are “you’re such a fucking ho” and fuckin “poopity scoop”
Which, what the actual fuck. How can someone look at those some and think “producer of all time”?
Any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold it long enough.
I’m not sure, but I think he’s been dropped and picked up by someone else before.
Talent agents choose money over ethics all the time. It’s practically their job. Regardless, things like this happen when the negative publicity makes a client a bad return on the agency’s investment (or a client hurts their reputation, which is to say, when a client hurts their chances of making money in the future). Their only concern is money, not antisemitism.
Next, he’ll be contacted by an even less prestigious agency whose desperation outweighs their ethical concerns. He may already have been.
I guarantee some PR-hack(s) reached out to him to offer a brilliant way they could spin this into a positive for his “brand.”
Not only that, but they only signed him last year.
Every time I see shit like this, where it’s framed as “THIS HORRIBLE THING IS NOW HAPPENING TO THIS RICH PERSON AND THEYRE SUFFERING THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTIONS” I’m always like
So what?
They’re still billionaires. They’re still incredibly rich. There’s nothing you can actually do to these people with shit like this. We’re far past the “we can just not support their company” or the “we can just not vote for them and ruin their life” stage of this, gang.
Yup. The time for alternative actions is now.
I mean, apart from his money giving him a platform to really spread hate and hurt people, it really is pretty sad at an individual level. Dude is mentally unwell, and not just because he’s an evil hateful person.
There’s plenty of evil people just as bad and just as loud that are in control of their mental state and understand what they’re doing.
Gutting your house and living in a utility closet is pretty messed up, rich or poor
Wait, what? Did he gut his house and decide to live in a utility closet?
May his future be lit by the bridges he’s burned.
Never heard that before… it’s very dark, but good.
“… assumed to be code for heil hitler.”
The news really has got to stop with this “assumed to be” bullshit. It’s as clear as day that it is code for heil hitler, as HH/88 has been a long fucking time. It’s the whole “Elon made what looked to be a nazi salute” thing all over again. No it didn’t look like a nazi salute, it was, and this HH is not maybe code for something, it is.
Get some fucking courage and call it like it is.
“… assumed to be… looks like… could be construed as… according to a source…”are all weasel words and phrases to avoid litigation, to give a little leeway if it got to court.
Reporting - with a nod and a wink; and a little protection.
My favourite euphemism for “drunk/drugged and aggressive” celebrities in newspaper stories is “tired and emotional”.
Sometimes it’s best to say something without actually saying it if you want to stay in business. Granted, it’s not ideal.
Libel lawsuits can be expensive, and you can bet your ass that without that ambiguity Ye’s lawyers would be all over them.
He’s really and truly lost it. Was bad before, but this.
The last outfall was so bad that even Alex Jones had to argue that Hitler wasnt a good guy. I’m just wondering how he was able to get back into the spotlight to repeat this shit. I mean, I have an idea what convinced him now is the time to shine again.
He said he was jealous of Elon and that it should have been him to do the salute
I don’t think you have to wonder
If he somehow manages to maintain any popularity even now, that’ll tell us a lot.
Don’t worry, he will.
You really think he will, even after all this? Cause that would truly be insane… and scary.
Don’t underestimate the stupidity of people.
Take it from The Boondocks “The Trial of R. Kelly”:
“why do you still support him after all these allegations have come to light?” “Cause he sound good!”
I mean who knows whats really going on in his head. I think he is trying to be shocking.
I get the whole shock value thing, but this is more like shooting yourself in both feet, on purpose. I mean, he might as well just amputate them at this point. Like, that’s some seriously messed up stuff he’s doing now, he’s gotta know a lot of people are gonna hate him for it. Unless, like I said elsewhere, he manages to still remain popular… and then anyone left who’s sane might as well pack up and move to the mountains.
Yeah, I’m sure theyre all just absolutely shocked Kanye doubled down on the Nazi shit yet again.
He still had a TA after the last nonsense? Who is that TA and wtf is wrong with them?
Money. Money is what was wrong with them.
Let’s not forget the first time he got banned from Twitter when he put “the Jews” on “deathcon 5.” This guy is broken. I hope he can get some help.
He subscribes to the black hebrew conspiracy theory so to him, jews aren’t the real israelites, they stole it all from the original israelites, who were all black.
It’s completely nuts and the cult has killed people before, including… MLK’s mother
Not taking your prescription drugs is a hell of a drug.
Mental illness doesn’t make you a Nazi. Saying Ye is acting like this because he’s off his meds is saying that those with diagnosed with bipolar or narcissism are just one step away from being a bigot. That’s not true and it only furthers the stigma of those with mental health issues.
Ye is the one choosing to be racist, that choice is on him alone.
Saying Ye is acting like this because he’s off his meds is saying that those with diagnosed with bipolar or narcissism are just one step away from being a bigot.
Nah, it’s just saying that a specific attention-seeking bigot with a personality disorder, which is marginally controlled with meds, is more likely to go on insane attention-seeking tears of bigotry when he goes off those meds.
Exactly. I have autism and an anxiety disorder, and I don’t go around seig heiling and doing Nazi shit, and it isn’t JUST because the Nazis would have me killed.
It’s entirely possible that being off his meds is why he’s acting like this…but it’s not the reason he’s a bigot, just a reason he isn’t hiding it.
I think it’s just as likely that he’s being loud about it because bigotry is back in fashion, though.
I’m bipolar and I’m fucking tired of hearing that excuse for him. Even if I’m off my meds I’m not a fucking Nazi
Not sure where I said or implied it was an excuse?
He’s some kind of weird bigot for sure, but he’s also got a history of these random unhinged outbursts from time to time that are clearly a result of something more acute/immediate than being a nazi.
Oh he’s not taking any drugs except for nitrous
Give him a one way ticket to birkenau and see if he can feel more at home
