Kanye West’s admiration of Adolf Hitler began long before his recent antisemitic remarks, according to multiple former collaborators.
A new Rolling Stone report alleges the Chicago rap icon has been quietly professing his love for the Nazi leader as early as 2003, back when he was an up-and-coming artist and producer working on his debut album, The College Dropout.
The publication spoke to almost half a dozen individuals who worked with Ye, whose affinity for the infamous German dictator is described as a “well-known but well-kept secret” within his inner circle.
One music industry source claimed Kanye would discuss Hitler and Nazis in the studio on a “daily” basis, and even quiz others on their thoughts. They said the Roc-A-Fella signee would “ambush” collaborators and industry executives with questions such as, “So what do you think about the Holocaust?”
West would apparently persist until the other person relented and acknowledged the “good” that Hitler had done. However, such conversations would “sometimes became heated depending on the person,” the source said.
One longtime music collaborator recalled having a “brief, tense” conversation about Hitler with Kanye in 2014. “I think my exact words were, ‘So what if Hitler did some good shit. So what?’” they remembered.
Those who did push back, however, risked being fired, according to the musician. “When these things happened, if you still wanted a place in this group, you stuffed down your concerns, kept a smile on your face, and moved forward as if nothing bad had happened,” they said.
Other sources claimed Kanye West took his affinity for Hitler one step further and sought inspiration from Nazi techniques and power-gaining tactics to chart his own path to fame and success.
“I feel like he used those techniques to get to where he is, to be honest,” one former collaborator said. “He was just so fascinated by [Hitler] — someone that can have complete control over people and how he did it.”
“I think [West] started to almost correlate how he could manipulate things to be, not the same level, but how he could try to get people to be his ‘army,'” they added, revealing that Ye would frequently talk about “building an army” and describe the work they were doing as “war.”
“It’s not a stretch to now compare Kanye’s ‘by any means necessary’ methods and tactics with Adolf Hitler’s,” another source offered. “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.”
Kanye West’s love for Hitler has come into sharp focus in recent months, with numerous stories highlighting the depth of his admiration of the notorious Nazi leader.
Former TMZ staffer Van Lathan claimed in October that the G.O.O.D. Music founder professed his love for Hitler and the Nazis during his infamous appearance on the channel in 2018, where he said 400 years of slavery sounded like a “choice.” His comments were ultimately cut from the broadcast.
It was later reported that West planned to call his eight studio album, which dropped in June 2018, Hitler before settling on ye.
Kanye left little doubt in people’s minds about his neo-Nazi affiliation when he openly praised Hitler during an appearance on right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ InfoWars podcast last month.
When Jones suggested the rapper’s recent series of antisemitic comments inaccurately painted him as a Nazi, Ye replied: “Well, I see good things about Hitler also. I love everyone and Jewish people are not gonna tell me [who I can love].”
He added: “I’m done with the classification. Every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler.”
So what is the big deal?
I’m so sick of these BS stories. At this point it’s making Kanye more believable as THEY keep trying and destroy him
He showed porn at work for years yet we just now hear about it?
He talked about Hitler nonstop over 20 years ago but we’re just now hearing about it?
Meanwhile he did so many outrageous things over the year and we still NEVER heard these stories
Just because you’re hearing about it years later means it’s bullshit? You need to pull your head out of this piece of shits ass. Fucking fan boys. You’d probably suck his dick if he acknowledged you.
yes. if someone was talking about hitler for 20 years and not one story leaked once until now? its not believable
Understand the reluctance to believe this has been going on 20 years and just coming out now. There have been other well know well kept secrets of famous and powerful men- Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, Jeffrey Epstein, R Kelly, the list goes on.
Here’s the difference (1) those men were convicted as serial sex offenders, which is a lot worse than an opinion on Hitler , yet their shit was hidden for decades. (2) Kanye HIMSELF is publicly professing his adoration for Hitler/Nazis. Why would it be hard to believe he did/does that in private too?
Love your enemies
i’m beginning to wonder if this site is owned by jooish people.
Almost every canadian girl is Jewish because drake smashed their mamas
smear campaign
He’s going around telling anyone who will listen how much he likes Hitler and the nazis. In what world does there need to be a smear campaign to make him look bad and/or worse?
smear campaign
Ye be running his own smear campaign pretty well ngl
„allegedly”. It is what it is people. Allegedly my neigbhor is a serial killer.
A “source.” So how do we know if this is factual or made-up? Yawn 🥱
Fake news Kanye for president
Freak sideshow clown loser pussy, hope you fall asleep with kayne dick in your mouth coming through your ass you bitch puppet follower
Fake news Kanye for president death to the sheep
cuck
Kanye has said some dumb shit lately, but now we’re to believe he did this back, back in the day?! He had cameras with him everywhere. Show where he said it then. Total smear campaign. Yet we have Will Smith who assaulted someone in front of God and everyone on national television over a joke, and nothing happens. Nothing, but glowing articles about how great he is.
I always though the line “I hate these n more than a nazi” off flashing lights was suspect. And then when he made black skinhead and talking about holocaust on watch the throne. I never liked any of that. And now that he has showed his true thoughts. The signs was always there.
Granted. But is he the first hiphop artist to say something regarding hitler or nazis in that way?
It’s not wild to think he’s had these thoughts in the past. It’s probably stranger to think the thoughts just appeared out of thin air in the past 8 months. The words are coming out of his mouth on video, so it doesn’t need to be a smear campaign, it’s more of “look at this wild shit Kanye said… again….” and allowing people to make their own judgement. Nobody is forcing him to talk about Hilter every other day, he’s doing that on his own. As far the Will Smith comparison… he attacked 1 person, and caught a ton of flack over that for the past year. Kanye is attacking an entire religion. A bit of a difference there.
But if you check all of these articles they all came out in the last month. Seems to be theyre just making sh!t up as they go
Hollyweird
I’ve always rolled my eyes at these weird “Even the worst person in the world has done something good” conversations. I remember a while ago some people at work were having a conversation about Ted Bundy because Netflix had just put out that movie about him and this one guy pulled his phone out and just had to show us an old news story about him saving some kid from drowning when he was a lifeguard in the 60s. It’s like, yeah okay, and? Nobody cares bruh lol your not going to sell nobody on that guys redeeming qualities. I don’t care If Harvey Weinstein donated to blind kids or if R. Kelly helped an old lady across the street once, it doesn’t change who they are.
I’ve always rolled my eyes at these weird “Even the worst person in the world has done something good” conversations. I remember a while ago some people at work were having a conversation about Ted Bundy because Netflix had just put out that movie about him and this one guy pulled his phone out and just had to show us an old news story about him saving some kid from drowning when he was a lifeguard in the 60s. It’s like, yeah okay, and? Nobody cares bruh lol your not going to sell nobody on that guys redeeming qualities. I don’t care If Harvey Weinstein donated to blind kids or if R. Kelly helped an old lady across the street once, it doesn’t change who they are.
Is Kanye the president? Or a politician? Teacher? Or something important? NO!! He’s just a rapper. A very rich and successful one, but just a rapper. So who cares if he’s a fan of hitler? The media is blowing this up waay more than it needs to be. Just don’t report on him anymore and let him fade away.
And if he does have fascination for hitler so what that does not mean he should be attacked by the Jews or anyone else. Tired of this fucked up narrative were a person can not have an opinion and if its not popular they must be silenced or destroyed. And besides history shows there were way more horrific people than than hither look at our story. Man fuck todays society and i would not be surprised if he was trying to tell us something but no ones trying to listen because they want follow this kiss ass culture. Ye do what you do brother your still one of us and even if we dont agree with what your saying we not tolerate you being adjudicated by these fake ass action figure, barbie and ken looking MFs.
finger to the sky bitches.
Not saying what Kanye thinks is valid…but in a country where people protest to keep slave master monuments up, Ye really hasn’t done anything that bad