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As his Vultures album sits in limbo, Kanye West has become apologetic to the community he has consistently insulted.
Spotted on The Guardian, Kanye West, or Ye, is doing his best impersonation of Ruben Studdard and singing sorry to the Jewish community.
The spiraling rapper took to his sparsely used Instagram account to apologize in Hebrew to the Jewish community for the Hitler appreciation and antisemitic rhetoric he has spewed out.
Per The Guardian:
In a statement posted in Hebrew on his Instagram account, where he has 18.2m followers, he wrote (as translated by Google): “I sincerely apologise to the Jewish community … It was not my intention to hurt or demean, and I deeply regret any pain I may have caused. I am committed to starting with myself and learning from this experience to ensure greater sensitivity and understanding in the future. Your forgiveness is important to me, and I am committed to making amends and promoting unity.”
Was This Apology A Strategic Move?
The apology comes on the heels of the Chicago rapper trying to drop his Ty Dolla $ign assisted project, Vultures.
The “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” rapper has held “listening sessions” in rooms full of people egging on his poor behavior and nonsensical rants.
Oh, and he’s been rocking “merch” with a two-headed eagle symbol on it that is ironically similar to Nazi Germany’s coat of arms.
Coincidence? Many think not.
Some people are in Ye’s comment section under his single post calling C A P on his “apology.”
“Lol. Using Hebrew to apologize so his fans can’t read it. Can’t even write in English anywhere on the post as he’s too embarrassed to be seen apologising to us Jews … coincidence his album is out soon? Give me a break,” influencer Liv Schreiber wrote.
We shall see if West has indeed seen the error of his ways or if he’s trying to get back into the good graces of companies like adidas, who have all distanced themselves from him after his antisemitic rants and comments on social media.
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Kanye West’s antisemitic rants has cost him dearly both in his music career and other business ventures, but now we get to see how his unhinged rants affected the personal life of his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian.
Variety is reporting that in the latest episode of The Kardashians, cameras were around Kim Kardashian when Kanye took to Twitter to spew his antisemitic rhetoric, and naturally, it did not go over well in the Kardashian household. Touching on the situation, Kim admits that “It’s really confusing for me that it’s so different than the person that I married because that’s who I loved and that’s who I remember,” and that “I’ll do anything to get that person back.”
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Of course, like the rest of us, she loved the old Kanye, but doesn’t want to get involved in his messiness. “I don’t ever want to jump in and be apart of a downfall for the father of my kids,” she said.
Variety reports:
“It’s really fucking hard,” she adds. “And I don’t wish that upon anybody.”
In the episode, Kardashian is in conversation with her sister, Khloé Kardashian, distraught over how to navigate her emotions and the public backlash against her ex-husband’s hate speech, while continuing to support her children and their father. “I’m just not OK. I’m just having such a hard day today,” Kardashian says through tears to her sister. “I literally haven’t changed my outfit in like two days. I just have to get it together. I just can’t.”
“You don’t have to get it together. You don’t have to be strong all the time,” Khloé tells Kim. “You’re allowed to go through this and have your feelings. What you’ve been dealing with is not okay.”
“I feel so bad for him,” Kim responds. “I don’t even think he feels bad for himself because I don’t even know if he knows how…I just feel so bad.”
Many women who’ve been scorned by an ex would gladly watch their former lover’s life crash and burn before them, but Kim isn’t one of those women. Good for her.
Still, Kim felt that if she weighs in on Kanye’s rants that “he’ll probably go off on me,” and the way he was acting at the time, he probably would have. Still, after Kanye’s unprovoked rant against the Jewish community, Kim took to Twitter to denounce hate speech, but never mentioned Ye in the tweet saying “I stand together with the Jewish community and call on the terrible violence and hateful rhetoric towards them to come to an immediate end.”
Well, she tried.
Kanye, meanwhile, felt the backlash immediately as he was canceled by millions of his fans and dropped by adidas, Gap, Balenciaga, and basically every other venture he had going for him at the time.
Well, at least he doesn’t have to see Kim and Pete Davidson enjoy life together anymore.
What do y’all think of Kim Kardashian’s reaction to Kanye West? Should she have called him out at the time or was she smart to keep her distance? Let us know in the comments section below.
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