Kanye West has come under severe criticism following his controversial appearance on Alex Jones’ InfoWars this week, where he praised Hitler and Nazis.
Many in the music industry have spoken out and condemned Ye for his words, including “Gold Digger” collaborator Jamie Foxx, The Roots’ Questlove and long-time producer Mike Dean.
“Genius does not mean smart,” Questlove wrote matter-of-factly to Twitter on Thursday (December 1), albeit without naming Kanye. His tweet was reposted on Instagram by The Shade Room, where Foxx entered the comments section and seemingly piled on the Ye criticism.
“Say it louder for the people in the back,” the multi-hyphenate, who also worked with Kanye on 2004’s “Slow Jamz,” wrote. “But for whatever reason we keep giving these so-called geniuses the microphone.”
Mike Dean, meanwhile, reshared a message from Swedish House Mafia’s Steve Angello on his Instagram page, making Kanye West’s “Power” the soundtrack to his post in an apparent effort to make his intended audience clear.
“When media attention becomes more important than life itself you’re on a slippery slope, saying provocative things to trigger social media for clicks and action is pathetic, sitting there triggering the minds of less-educated adults to spread your thoughts like a virus shows pure evil,” the message read.
“There are people out there on this earth doing incredible things for us humans that deserve all the attention we give idiots, let’s lift good people doing good things. People that actually contribute to make this a better place.”
It continued: “We live now, not yesterday, not tomorrow, we live right now but whatever you do today will effect your future and in a couple of years this day is called the past, so use every day as the day that will define your legacy and contribution as a human being, we’re all in this together. Life is short.”
Busta Rhymes and T.I. jumped into Dean’s comments section to give their stamp of approval, while fans reacted to the producer’s continued criticism of West.
“Damn no more Kanye & Mike Dean masterpieces in the future,” one fan wrote, to which Dean replied with a pair of crying emojis.
Kanye West continued to stir controversy on Thursday by admitting that he loved Nazis and praising Hitler during his interview with Alex Jones.
“Well, I see good things about Hitler also,” he said. “I love everyone and Jewish people are not gonna tell me, you can love us and you can love what we’re doing to you with the contracts and you can love what we’re pushing with the pornography.
“And this guy who invented highways, who invented the very microphone I use as a musician, you can’t say out loud that this person ever did anything good, and I’m done with that. I’m done with the classification. Every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler.”
Kanye continued: “I love Jewish people, but I also love Nazis,” which left even Jones — a noted peddler of offensive remarks — uncomfortable.
Yeezy was later suspended from Twitter after posting a photo of the swastika inside inside the Star of David, a Jewish symbol, on the social media platform. Elon Musk ruled that Ye had violated the company’s rules.
“I tried my best,” Musk tweeted in response to a fan asking him to “fix” Kanye. “Despite that, he again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended.”
Kanye West also posted a photo of a topless Elon Musk being hosed down by Hollywood mogul Ari Emanuel on a yacht, but Musk clarified that had nothing to do with the rapper’s suspension.
fuck mike dean he’s satanist anyway that’s clear
Simple, you are simple to exploit. Be aware that weak people are going to be exploited by the loudest voices. I suggest a good set of ear plugs. I wish you well.
I’ma say what the fuck I want anyway though. We are all going to die. Maybe all at once. so fuck you
All jokes aside, it is ironic that Kanye has become essentially a real life version of Clayton Bigsby, who was the skit from Dave Chappelle, where the blind black man was a racist and hung around the white supremacists. In this case, his mental illness is what is causing him to be blind.
I think I’m done. I’m done with this site, I’m done with anything to do with celebrities, rappers, actors.
These people are so self righteous, they’re seeking the exact same attention that they’re claiming Ye is seeking.
They’re all so quick to “condemn” so they can get a pat on the back from their peers, and the dopamine rush from getting thousands of “likes” from instagram and Twitter bots.
It’s getting really pathetic.
If we all would ignore Ye, maybe he would go away for a while. But y’all need the clicks, the views, the ad revenue. And the celebrity mafia needs to appear holier than thou, so they can sleep at night knowing that they’ve all said and done worse behind closed doors.
I won’t contribute to this anymore. I urge anyone reading this to do the same.
When you’re on your deathbed, you’re not gonna reminisce over all the times you left anonymous comments on gossip sites.
a hip hop news site putting up articles of news stories about a hip hop artist. The audacity of them….
Ye: I hate these niggas more than a Nazi….Flashing Lights
Ye: I love Nazis, I love Hilter.
Your are just as stupid as this man…
You sound stupid as fuck lmfao, I don’t think you know what the definition of virtue signaling is, instead y’all just apply it to whenever a large group of people condemn some shit you don’t like. So what you’re really saying is your a nazi and condemning people that profess their love for Hitler is virtue signaling and journalists who do their literal job, sharing news, are virtue signaling. You are lost. And good, leave. You won’t be missed.
real friends jump on social media to criticize you SMH
real friends jump on social media to criticize you
People who you’ve worked with are colleagues, not friends. Kanye doesn’t have friends, at least not in the sense that most people do. He’s alienated the people he came up with that might have genuinely cared about him and rolls with a new circle of people that are more likely to burn a cross than genuflect to one.
Don’t ever disrespect Whodini like that you stupid fucking clown.
My friends would kick my ass royally and check the shit out of me if I even said a 10th of what this fool said. Idiot.
His true friend will be the one who smacks the white devil out of him.
Pull your skirt up
They people he came up with did the exact samething.
hey pooch – suck my dick from the back. whatever you can find to exploit there be my guest
Ye is not the first dude who looked around the music business saw a pattern of fraudulence, lies and exploitation from the entry level to the very top and decided the issue was not individual but collective. And that doesn’t include the Mel Gibson type dudes who take it even further and say that Eyes Wide Shut is basically a G rated documentary compared to the reality of Hollywood. I imagine the people faking outrage on here are junior talent agents wondering what’s next
good things about hitler… hitler saw the jewish people in germany as a credible threat to the german people. not the jewish people, the german people. he wanted to form a master race of blonde hair and blue eyes both men and women. it was called the final solution millions of jews homos blacks and intellectuals died. i mean hey that is that in a nutshell i think a good question is how did he learn this shit and come to believe some of it when his late father was a black supremcist.
But they dont condemn eminem for going to epstein island?? All a bunch of uncle toms.