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Extra.ie
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Extra.ie
Kanye West blocked from entering Australia over pro-Hitler anthem
Kanye West has reportedly been blocked from entering Australia due to the release of his recent song praising Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Australian Home Affairs minister Tony Burke spoke out on the track,which was released in Mary, claiming it promoted Nazism. West, who now goes by the pseudonym Ye, has been travelling to Australia for some time, with his wife of three years, Bianca Censori having been born there. Kanye West has reportedly been blocked from entering Australia due to the release of his recent song praising Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Pic: Edward Berthelot/GC Images 'He's been coming to Australia for a long time. He's got family here. And he's made a lot of offensive comments that my officials looked at again once he released the song and he no longer has a valid visa in Australia,' the minister told Australian Broadcasting Corp. 'We have enough problems in this country already without deliberately importing bigotry,' he added. After the song was released at the start of the summer, Ye made a string of antisemitic posts on X, which included comments such as 'I love Hitler' and 'I'm a Nazi.' West, who now goes by the pseudonym Ye, has been travelling to Australia for some time, with his wife of three years, Bianca Censori having been born there. Pic: Jon Kopaloff/WireImage The track has since been banned in Germany and from online platforms including Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music because of its antisemitic lyrics praising Adolf Hitler. The song repeats the slogan hailing the Nazi leader and also includes a sample of a speech Hitler gave in 1935. Earlier this year Kanye was dropped by Los Angeles-based talent agency 33&West following a series of polemic posts the rapper posted on X. Australian Home Affairs minister Tony Burke spoke out on the track,which was released in Mary, claiming it promoted Nazism. Pic: Broadimage/REX/Shutterstock Variety reported that West's agent took to Instagram at the time to state that they were severing ties with the artist 'effective immediately… due to his harmful and hateful remarks that myself nor 33&West can stand for.' Among the many messages he wrote on the platform were: 'I love Hitler,' 'I'm never apologising for my Jewish comments,' and 'you Jewish n* abort Black children for stem cells, abortion is murder.' Ye also expressed support for rapper Sean 'Diddy' Combs, who is currently in prison awaiting trial for sex trafficking and racketeering charges. Ye posted: 'Free Puff,' and, referring to other celebrities: 'Y'all watch our brother rot and never say s***.' He also claimed he has 'dominion' over wife Bianca Censori, and stated her recent appearance in the nude on the Grammys red carpet was only possible because of his permission.
Extra.ie
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Extra.ie
Kanye West walks out of Piers Morgan interview after bizarre exchange
Kanye West walked out of an interview with Piers Morgan after a bizarre exchange over his number of followers on social media. The rapper, who changed his legal name to 'Ye,' has gone on several anti-semitic rants on Twitter (X) over the last few years and has made several tweets calling for the release of P Diddy from racketeering and sexual assault charges. He has also tried to sell t-shirts with Swastika designs on them. Kanye appeared on Uncensored with Piers Morgan on Tuesday (May 6) with controversial streamer Sneako, but appeared agitated and confrontational when Piers said that he had 32 million followers on the social media site — accusing the presenter of 'trying to take inches off his d**k.' 'You're not gonna take inches off my d**k, bro,' Kanye told Piers when he said that the rapper had 32million followers — with the actual figure being 33million. When Piers told Kanye 'congratulations' for having 1million more followers than they'd said, Kanye went on a bizarre rant, calling himself 'a gift'. 'Why do all you people in media act like you haven't played my songs at your weddings or graduations or at funerals or when your child was born?' Kanye said. 'You take somebody that's living like a [John] Lennon, or Michael Jackson and you just take time to… that nuance is idiotic.' Kanye West walked out of an interview with Piers Morgan over a bizarre exchange over his number of followers on social media. Pic: Piers Morgan Uncensored/YouTube 'It just shows the hate that you put out for people that put out love,' before Piers interjected and asked what he was talking about. Kanye then accused Piers of 'not taking accountability' for getting the number of followers he had wrong, before telling him 'we can circle back when you can count' and walking off. Sharing the interview on Twitter (X), Piers simply captioned the video 'a massive d**k,' with people thinking that Kanye's behaviour was idiotic. Kanye has gone on several anti-semitic rants over the years, including where he said he loved Hitler and went to sell t-shirts with swastika designs. Pic: Rich Fury/VF20/Getty Images for Vanity Fair 'Turns out Biden's brain is functioning much better than Kanye's,' one person wrote, while another wrote 'everyone should just ignore him into irrelevance.' Others, somehow, defended Kanye and called out Piers; with one writing 'you don't want to ask questions. You don't want to understand,' while another simply wrote 'takes one to know one.' Kanye was dropped by his talent agency following his rant on Twitter/X where he said he loved Hitler and was calling for the release of P Diddy, as well as trying to sell swastika designed t-shirts on his Yeezy website. 33&West agent Daniel McCartney said that the company were severing ties with the artist 'effective immediately… due to his harmful and hateful remarks that myself nor 33&West can stand for.'
Express Tribune
15-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Perils of problematic posts
SLOUGH, ENGLAND: When it comes to social media zapping away celebrities, 2025 has proved to be quite an exciting year. Just this week, we have had rapper Kanye West – admittedly not known for his shy and retiring ways – going off on a hate-filled misogynistic, Nazi-laden X-posting rampage. Unsurprisingly, West – or Ye, as he wants to be called now – found himself having to post a goodbye message to his followers (although in a burst of good manners, he remembered to thank X owner Elon Musk for allowing himself to express himself so openly in the first place.) Musk told his followers that they would not be seeing West's account anymore, but three days after his rant, Ye's account is up and running again, albeit with a cautionary warning advising readers that the account posts "potentially sensitive content". Ye's X days may not be as numbered as he had hinted just three days prior, but the businesses associated with him are taking no chances. Reading the room, Ye's talent agency, 33&West, announced this week they'd be severing ties with the musician, and Shopify, which hosted his Yeezy webstore, shut the site down for violating its terms of service. Propping up this mouthy hip-hop star as a haunting example, it is time to remind ourselves that should we, like him, feel the urge to indulge in an unhinged vitriolic posting session, we should approach it with the clinical diligence of a neonatal surgeon, as opposed to the hot-headed fury of a sleep-deprived toddler. In other words: think very, very carefully before you go down the dark path of posting, unless you want to tango with that most detestable thing of all: consequences. Naturally, the ease of typing and hitting send means this sobering lesson is one we forget at our peril, but fear not. As long as there are celebrities with access to a keyboard, there will always be someone willing to prove to us that the social media posts we thought were lost to the mists of time are unfortunately like cockroaches partying through a nuclear holocaust: they can survive anything. The Gascón debacle Ye may hog the limelight when it comes to stirring up a hornet's nest with interestingly worded posts, but he most certainly is not the only celebrity tempting fate via social media. Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofia Gascón, dethroned darling of film award-givers, exists to teach us that potent five-year-old historical tweets can resurrect themselves from their digital graveyard and swoop down to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. To get us all up to speed, a Variety report baring Gascón's Twitter (as it was then called) escapades shows us that in November 2020, the actor used the social media platform to unburden her thoughts regarding Muslims in particular and diversity in general. Here is one agitated musing the Spanish trans actor shared with her followers: "I'm sorry, is it just my impression or is there [sic] more Muslims in Spain? Every time I go to pick up my daughter from school there are more women with their hair covered and their skirts down to their heels. Next year instead of English we'll have to teach Arabic." Please do not assume that it is just Muslims Gascón is (was?) pained by, because the following year, she also felt compelled to offer her uncomplimentary observations about the overall diversity on show during the Academy Awards ceremony from 2021. "More and more the #Oscars are looking like a ceremony for independent and protest films, I didn't know if I was watching an Afro-Korean festival, a Black Lives Matter demonstration or the 8M," Gascón wrote. "Apart from that, an ugly, ugly gala." Gascón may have sighed with relief getting all these troubling thoughts off her chest back in 2021, but sadly for her Oscar 2025 dreams, those tweets could not have resurfaced at a worse time. Once a shoe-in for a best actress academy award for a few glorious weeks, Gascón's social media musings have triggered a swan dive from grace, with her career having effectively been flattened by a bus. The Guardian tells us that Netflix has already removed her from campaigning materials for Emilia Pérez – in which she has a lead role. It is not yet clear whether or not Gascón will turn up for the Oscars in March, but we do know that her presence will no longer be required during Sunday's BAFTAs, and nor did she attend Spain's prestigious Goya awards, the country's equivalent of the Oscars. Emilia Pérez director Jacques Audiard has told Deadline he is no longer in contact with her. In simple terms, Gascón is being treated with the abundance of caution usually reserved for bat-originated coronaviruses. Consequences are real Is it fair to persecute someone for years-old online ramblings? Literature lessons at school have taught us all that the pen is mightier than the sword – but as the fallout from Gascón's tweeting habits has shown, compared to a pen, a keyboard is more akin to a hydrogen bomb than a sword in the consequences spectrum. Today, young school children are taught basic cyber security during IT lessons where they are repeatedly reminded of the dangers of posting online. Gascón may not have posted her thoughts with the fervour brandished by Ye, but the damage to her reputation has already been engraved. Because it would not do to stay silent, Gascón has gone on record to apologise for her tweets. She has also deleted them and, according to CNN, insisted they were "pulled out of context", although quite what that context was is not something she made clear. However, no amount of apologising and deleting is going to stuff that Pandora's box shut again. It is like fighting a house fire with a squirt gun. What has all this social media nastiness taught us? Perhaps this analogy will help. Picture a pillowcase stuffed with tiny Styrofoam balls. Now imagine that this pillowcase is in a car travelling along a bumpy road with potholes the size of moon craters. Before you can blink, every last one of those beastly little balls will catapult out of your pillowcase and colonise crevices you did not even know existed in your car. You will think a vacuum cleaner will get them all, but you will be wrong. From now until the end of time, there will be at least one little Styrofoam ball stuffed in a cup holder or a seatbelt pouch, repelling vacuum cleaners and evading capture. Your social media posts are those Styrofoam balls. Somehow, somewhere, whatever you do, they will live forever. Proceed with caution.
The Independent
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Cara Delevingne tears into former friend Kanye West with viral Amy Winehouse clip
Cara Delevingne has distanced herself from former friend pal Kanye West following a string of antisemitic, homophobic and misogynist posts. The disgraced rapper, 47, sparked outrage over his tirade, in which he declared he 'loved Hitler' and that he was 'a Nazi'. Days later, he was dropped by his talent agency for selling T-shirts with a swastika on them on his online shop. Delevingne, who was friends with the artist when he was married to Kim Kardashian. has officially turned her back on West, now legally known as Ye. Officially proving their friendship is no more, Delevingne shared a viral clip of Amy Winehouse tearing into West during her performance at Glastonbury in 2008. The footage shows 'Back to Black' singer Winehouse telling the crowd: 'At least I'm not opening for a c*** like Kanye.' Delevingne shared it to her 41 million followers with the caption: 'Amy Winehouse hating Kanye West is my favorite thing.' Earlier this week, West's agent, Daniel McCartney of the 33 & West agency, announced that his working relationship with the rapper had been terminated 'due to his harmful and hateful remarks that myself nor 33 & West can stand for'. West's antisemitism controversy erupted in December 2022 after he said he 'liked Hitler' during an interview with right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on his show Infowars. West, who had recently been dropped by brands including Adidas, GAP and Balenciaga following a string of antisemitic comments, repeatedly praised the Nazi leader during his appearance on the show. His most recent posts have been condemned by fellow celebrities including Friends star David Schwimmer, who called on Musk to ban the rapper from the platform, as well as several organisations that campaign against antisemitism. The drama followed a controversial appearance at the Grammys, in which his Australian wife Bianca Censori attended while 'nude'. A representative for West has denied reports that he and Censori, who married in December 2022, are heading for a divorce. In a statement to The Independent, longtime West representative Milo Yiannopolous said: 'Ye and Bianca are in Los Angeles, about to enjoy Valentine's Day together. Announcements about their private life will come from them directly – not unsourced rumours in the tabloid press.' He added: 'Is this the fifth or is it the sixth time the press has wrongly reported that Ye and Bianca are separating? I've lost track.'
Yahoo
13-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Kanye West's Yeezy Site Now Has ‘Stores Coming Soon' Message
Days after Kanye West's Yeezy site started selling only one product — a white T-shirt imprinted with a black swastika — the e-tailer's site had been deactivated Thursday. But hours later its home page teased Yeezy stores 'coming soon.' The 24-time Grammy winner has been criticized over the past week, after making antisemitic remarks on social media. That controversy intensified after West ran a commercial during Sunday's Super Bowl LIX that aired in select markets including Los Angeles and directed viewers to the Yeezy site. Instead of the assortment of products that had been previously featured on the site, there was only a T-shirt with the swastika imprinted on it. The item was described as 'HH-01' with no further information. More from WWD Sean Combs Files $100 Million Defamation Lawsuit Against NBCUniversal for 'Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy' Documentary Kanye West's Yeezy Brand Sells Antisemitic T-shirts Adidas Unveils A-Type, an Elevated Collection of the Brand's Iconic Products A spokesperson for the Anti-Defamation League said Thursday, 'Millions of Super Bowl viewers were shown an ad of Ye promoting his clothing website. Before the website was taken down, the only item for sale was a plain white T-shirt with a black swastika. And if that isn't enough, the T-shirt was labeled as 'HH-01' which is code for Heil Hitler.' The ADL statement continued, 'We cannot become numb, desensitized to Nazi symbols and rhetoric. We appreciate that Shopify and Apple Pay took action, and that Fox News has condemned antisemitism and apologized for airing this ad. We urge Nexstar to do the same. Ye's words have offended several communities and it's time to stop excusing this kind of behavior.' Shopify stopped processing orders of Yeezy merchandise on Tuesday and the talent agency 33 & West stopped representing West, who is legally known now as 'Ye.' A media request to Yeezy was not acknowledged Thursday afternoon, nor was one to his attorney Manoj Shah of the Brand Counsel. Representatives at Shopify and 33 & West also did not respond immediately to requests for comment Thursday. On Thursday afternoon the Yeezy e-commerce site and the @Yeezysupplyofficial account on Instagram posted a handwritten note, which read 'YEEZY STORES COMING SOON❤️' Susan Scafidi, founder of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham University, said that while unlike in Germany, 'it is legal in the U.S. to sell items that use the swastika to advocate Nazism, the T-shirts may have violated Shopify's 'Acceptable Use Policy,' which prohibits actions that 'breach the social contract of commerce,' including advocating violence against specific groups.' She said, 'Shopify reserves the right to terminate any account that violates its AUP, and arguably Ye's T-shirts coupled with his public statements did just that.' Scafidi said the 'Coming Soon' message on the Yeezy site could 'simply be due to the lack of having back-end merchant services to keep it running. It could also be that Ye is more interested in provocation than commerce at the moment. One thing is for sure: his followers will keep hitting 'refresh' until the next drama emerges.' In 2021, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation to ban the selling or displaying of hate symbols on public property and taxpayer-funded equipment. Considering that Shopify isn't 'just an anonymous back-end merchant service provider, but a company with a brand name in its own right,' the company has a strong interest in protecting its reputation, according to Scafidi. She speculated that 'the outcry over Ye's T-shirts likely caused internal concern and led Shopify to use contractual means to protect its reputation.' Scafidi added, 'Like other companies before it, Shopify chose to distance from Ye before being blamed for his statements,' an apparent reference to Adidas and other brands that have parted ways with the musician. Although Ye still has 'a significant following, apparently including fans ready to buy whatever he puts on a T-shirt,' Scafidi said it may be increasingly difficult for him to find fashion business partners, who are 'willing to risk working with him, even if they're providing something as general as e-commerce services.' Another offshoot of the situation was falsely created by an AI-generated video featuring the likenesses of Scarlett Johansson, Steven Spielberg, Jerry Seinfeld, Woody Allen, Adam Driver and other Jewish celebrities wearing T-shirts imprinted with a middle finger with a Star of David inside of it and 'Kanye' imprinted below. The footage was reportedly created by Ori Bejerano and Guy Bar. In response to that, Johansson is urging U.S. lawmakers to place limits on AI, describing it as 'a bipartisan issue.' Ye also caused a stir on Feb. 7 by announcing plans to collaborate with Sean Combs' Sean John clothing label, and sharing sales of Yeezy products 50-50. Combs is being held in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, as he awaits his trial for sex trafficking and racketeering charges. Combs has denied any wrongdoing. 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