Kanye West dropped by talent agency following anti-Semitic posts
Kanye West has been dropped by his talent agency following his highly controversial posting spree on social media last week.
Per a Variety report, West – now legally known as Ye – was dropped by his agency, the Los Angeles-based 33&West on Monday (February 10). At 33&West, Kanye was represented by agent Daniel McCartney who took to social media to announce that he and the agency would be severing all ties with the rapper.
According to Variety‘s reporting, McCartney wrote in a now-expired Instagram story that 33&West were dropping Kanye “effective immediately”, explaining it was was “due to his harmful and hateful remarks that myself nor 33&West can stand for.”
Rolling Stone also reports that a staff member who worked at Kanye West’s company Yeezy (also known as YZY) had quit the company following the rapper’s offensive posting streak over the weekend.
Per Rolling Stone, the staffer was identified as Eric Cui, and that he at one point served as Yeezy’s Chief of Staff. Cui wrote in about his exit: “I loved working at YZY because I believed in your dream. I believe in free speech… so I will use my free speech to say that violence and crimes against women and children is wrong.”
Cui’s exit comes after Kanye last week posted a series of tweets in support of Diddy and Chris Brown and urged for the former to be released from prison amid sexual abuse allegations.
Following his support for Diddy and Brown – the latter of whom has been charged with domestic abuse and assault several times – Kanye West would go on a tweeting spree on X (formerly Twitter) that would see him claim “dominion” over his wife Bianca Censori and withdraw his apology to the Jewish community for past anti-Semitic comments, as well as declaring himself as “a Nazi”.
He had also tweeted “I love Hitler”, praised billionaire and X-owner Elon Musk as “the most lit person that [has] ever been on Twitter” and claimed that all other people look up to him. Musk himself had drawn criticism and allegations of Nazism earlier this year when he made two Nazi-like gestures during Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration.
Other posts saw him mock other marginalised communities, claiming “slavery is a choice” among other controversial opinions. He then wiped his website and is only selling a white t-shirt with a large swastika on the chest listed as “HH-01”. The garment is priced at $20, with the listing’s name of “HH-01” possibly a reference to the ‘Heil Hitler’ chant that would accompany Nazi gestures.
Kanye West’s X account has since been deactivated, and Shopify has shut down West’s website.
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NME
