Other former employees or former collaborators, who preferred to remain anonymous, confirmed that the artist had made these types of comments in the last 5 years.
kanye-west indemnified a former employee to stop his comments about conversations in the workplace in which the rapper allegedly would have used antisemitic languagepraising the Nazis and Adolf Hitler, NBC News reported exclusively on Wednesday.
Conceptual artist Ryder Ripps, who worked with West between 2014 and 2018, submitted documents to the US network in which claimed to remember positive comments about the Nazis or Hitler made by the musicianas well as mentioning anti-Semitic conspiracy theories during the summer and fall of 2018.
Ripps said he had refuted Ye, as the musician is now known, but that he was not aware of the seriousness of the claims until now, when the interpreter of ‘Can’t Tell Me Nothing’ has been involved in a great controversy for spreading messages against the Jews in social networks and through different interviews.
“It’s pretty obvious that this is some kind of disgusting, hate-filled Nazi obsession”Ripps said according to the NBC News publication.
The incident settled with Ye’s payment for his former employee to keep quietAccording to Ripps himself, although the singer has denied that this situation occurred.
In addition, according to the same news, another 6 former employees or former collaborators, who preferred to remain anonymous due to a confidentiality agreement, confirmed that the artist had made these types of comments in the last 5 years.
Forbes magazine calculated that West’s wealth has gone from exceeding one billion dollars to about 400 million, after the family of George Floyd, the African-American murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis (USA) in 2020, announced a defamation lawsuit against the musician.
The family claims 250 million dollars for saying that the cause of his death was the consumption of fentanyl and not suffocation caused by the agent’s leg, as confirmed by the autopsy.
Days before, the author of ‘Yeezus’ had worn a T-shirt with the message “White Lives Matter” during a fashion show in Paris (“White lives matter”), a slogan often used by white supremacists in response to the anti-racism movement “Black Lives Matter” (“Black lives matter”).
In the midst of this cycle of provocations, Twitter and Instagram blocked West’s accounts on their platforms, where countless users denounced, among others, a series of anti-Semitic comments related to Jared Kushner, a Jew and son-in-law of former President Donald Trump.
Ye admitted a few years ago that suffer from bipolar disorder and, among other striking actions, he came to present himself as a candidate for the presidency of the United States. in several states during the 2020 elections.