It was one of the most unfortunate moments in the history of the music industry to see Kanye West spiral! The rapper lost his credibility and a significant amount of wealth due to his hate-spewing behavior. In the past two months since October 2022, West went on to decimate the image of Jews and the African -American community. It all started in October 2022, when Ye introduced shirts with ‘White Lives Matter’ printed on them mocking the Black community in America. For this, he received heavy backlash from his contemporaries and the general public.
However, it was when he called to go “defcon3” on Jews, his downhill began. He went on to attack the Jewish people in the country accusing them of running the nation. The ‘Donda’ rapper said offensive things to the Jews due to which many business magnates like Balenciaga, Adidas, and others called it quits on the deals with him and Yeezy. The antisemitism reached its pinnacle when the rapper appeared on Alex Jones’ show and highly praised the Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler. But, this was not the first time he did so. The history of Nazi adoration goes back to his early days in the industry.
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Kanye West Was Inspired By Hitler’s Tactic To Achieve His Success
Kanye West appeared on Alex Jones’ ‘Infowars’ with Nick Fuentes to propagate his agenda further and promote his 2024 election campaign. In November 2022, Ye announced that he will be running for the Presidential elections in 2024. He asked former US President Donald Trump to be his running mate, but explicitly, Trump refuted his offer.
But, on Jones’ show, Kanye went no holds barred and extended his love for Hitler saying, “I see good things about Hitler, also. Every human being has value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler”.
He continued, “The Jewish media has made us feel like the Nazis and Hitler have never offered anything of value to the world. Meanwhile, there’s all of these things that are happening”. The seeds of hate for Jews and admiration for Hitler were sowed even before West exploded on the scene.
Rolling Stone conducted another explosive investigation against the ‘Jesus Walks’ singer. They interviewed many sources closer to Ye when he was starting in the industry after Roc-A-Fella signed him. It was during those times, the studio sessions, he used to make the collaborators uncomfortable.
One of the collaborators allegedly said that West gained his fame and success using Nazi tactics. “It’s not a stretch to now compare Kanye’s ‘by any means necessary’ methods and tactics with Adolf Hitler’s. To know that a Hitler/[Joseph] Goebbels playbook has been a central inspiration to Kanye’s own media playbook helps bring a great deal of clarity to the exact types of moves he’s been making over his career”.
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The Rapper Expressed His Love For Hitler In A 2016 Interview
If you could remember, Kanye West’s antics reached a zenith during the 2018 TMZ interview. During the interview, he said, “When you hear about slavery for 400 years…For 400 years? That sounds like a choice. We’re mentally imprisoned”.
However, the interview was not limited only to this. In a recent podcast ‘Higher Learning’ a former TMZ employee revealed that they edited one of the explosive parts of the interview.
Van Lathan said, “I’ve heard him say that before. But as far as him, I knew that that was in him because when came to TMZ, he said that stuff and they took it out of the interview”. Here, Lathan is talking about the moment when he made the slavery comment and talked about the gruesome Holocaust.
Van warned him that whatever he said will have “real-life” implications, and backed his argument that Nazism and Hitler took lives. During that interview, he recalls, Ye said, “I love Hitler, I love Nazis”.
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