Kanye West is pressing on with his praise for Nazism, now looking to have a chain designed with a swastika emblem.
Taking to X on Thursday (February 27), Ye shared a rendering of what he’d seemingly like the chain to look like while soliciting jewelers to submit their own designs.
“For all jewelers I’m looking for swastika chain designs,” he wrote. “Please submit to swastachain@yeezy.com.”
You can view the post below.
Just weeks ago, Kanye West’s website was shut down after selling a t-shirt with a swastika on it for $20.
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Yeezy.com now has an error message when you visit the site after a public outcry resulted in Shopify taking down the store.
Ye ran an ad during the Super Bowl that aired in select cities and directed viewers to his website – which before the game featured regular items from his Yeezy clothing line. But once it aired, he wiped his store clean and began selling just the one shirt which he named HH-01, likely for “Heil Hitler.”
Ye himself had even posted those exact words to X days prior in a yet another antisemitic tirade against Jewish people, among other things.
Days later, he defended the idea in another rant on X, saying: “IVE HAD MY SWASTIKA T SHIRT IDEA FOR OVER 8 YEARS IT WAS SO INTRIGUING TO ME THAT A SYMBOL HAD SO MUCH PROGRAMING IN IT.
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“I REMEMBER GOING TO JAPAN AND GASPING WHEN I SAW WHAT IS KNOWN AS THE SWASTIKA ON CLOTHING IT FELT ILLEGAL TO EVEN LOOK AT IT THATS HOW I HAD BEEN PROGRAMMED I THEN FOUND OUT THAT SWASTIKA HAD MANY DIFFERENT MEANINGS AND MANY DIFFERENT NAMES.”
Shortly after that, Ye made a surprise U-turn and claimed that he no longer considers himself a Nazi.
On Wednesday (February 19), Ye wrote: “After further reflection I’ve come to the realization that I’m not a Nazi.”
While he did not divulge what that reflection was, it appears we may have Adam Sandler to thank for the change of heart.
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During Saturday Night Live‘s 50th anniversary celebration this past weekend, the actor and comedian, who is Jewish, appeared to reference Kanye while performing a song about the show’s history.
“50 years of finding out your favorite musician is antisemitic,” he joked.
Ye appeared to enjoy the shoutout and responded on X: “Adam Sandler Thank you for the love.”
But just days after that, Ye reiterated his recent (and highly improbable) claim that he would headline next year’s Super Bowl halftime show and added that he would wear the swastika shirt during his performance.
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“Next year I’m performing at the superbowl wearing my wittle T shirt,” he wrote on X.
The G.O.O.D. Music founder also spoke about wanting to become an official member of the Nazi Party and jokingly compared himself to the Dave Chappelle character Clayton Bigsby, a blind Black man who is a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
Kanye continued by posting a photo of Sex Pistols punk rocker Sid Vicious wearing a swastika T-shirt, applauded a video of right-wing figure Steve Bannon doing a Nazi salute during a recent speech, and defended his adoption of Nazi imagery.
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“When I use a swastika I render myself unusable to users,” he added. “The swastika to shows n-ggas that we don’t have to be afraid of white people. When I grew up in Chicago there were gang bangers who were scared to go downtown where the white people were.”
