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Kanye West has been put on notice by the Brazilian government. Officials have warned him not to promote Nazism at his upcoming show in São Paulo.
As per TMZ, Kanye West has been threatened with arrest if he brings any antisemitism onstage. The São Paulo State Public Prosecutor’s Office stated he will be detained if he performs his unreleased track “Heil Hitler.” São Paulo Mayor Ricardo Nunes also made it clear that the city will not tolerate hate speech from anyone, regardless of celebrity. “No one who promotes Nazism will play or sing any words on public equipment belonging to City Hall,” he said in a statement.
The mayor added that local authorities will be fully prepared to enforce the order if Kanye crosses the line. “We do not accept it, and we will do everything necessary to ensure that no one who promotes Nazism has any kind of activity here in the city of São Paulo,” he explained. According to Metropoles, event organizers Guilherme Cavalcante and Jean Fabrício Ramos were separately warned that they, too, could face arrest if Kanye violates the restrictions.
This isn’t the first time Kanye’s plans in Brazil have hit turbulence. His original venue, Interlagos Racetrack, pulled out earlier this year specifically over concerns stemming from his antisemitic behavior.
Kanye West might be on a redemption tour. Travis Scott brought out the old Ye at his show in Japan, and the crowd went crazy.
According to Hip Hop N More, Travis Scott was in the Land of the Rising Sun for his Circus Maximus Stadium Tour. His performance was well-received as soon as he started his first song. Cactus Jack took ticket holders through a medley of his biggest hits and even tracks that only hardcore fans could probably sing line by line.
Midway into the evening, the stage lighting was turned off and the music stopped. Out of nowhere, the opening keys from “Runaway” started playing, which sent the crowd into a frenzy. Shortly after Kanye West came out wearing an all black outfit with his face covered.
Needless to say, the surprise electrified everyone at the Belluna Dome in Tokyo. He proceeded to perform a mini-set of his tracks, which included “Stronger” and “All of the Lights,” all the while being backed up by Travis Scott. Kanye then proceeded to add yet another memorable moment to the surprise appearance when he took off his mask at the end of “Can’t Tell Me Nothing.”
In recent weeks, the world has been treated to a more intentional Kanye West. Not long ago, the Chicago native sat down with Israeli Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto and apologized for his antisemitic behavior.
“It’s a big deal for me as a man to come and take accountability for all the things that I’ve said,” Ye said. “And I really just appreciate you embracing me with open arms and allowing me to make amends. And this is the beginning and the first steps, and the first brick by brick to build back the strong walls.”
You can view Kanye West’s surprise performance with Travis Scott below.
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Kanye West has attempted to take a step in the right direction by righting his wrongs.
In the past, Ye has made disgusting comments against Jewish people that came off as antisemitic. Even to the point that Ted Duetch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee, spoke out against it, “This is blatant antisemitism, and it’s disgusting. Ye is profiting off of Jewish-hatred, and the music industry needs to step up and speak out against this obscenity.”
Fast forward to the current time, Kanye has had a change of heart and met with Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto to take accountability for his comments.
In an intimate one-on-one with the Rabbi, Ye appears to be sitting down, holding his hands, giving him a sincere apology for his past actions, “I feel really blessed to be able to sit with you here today and take accountability. I was dealing with some various issues, so it would take my ideas and have me taking them to the extreme, where I would forget about the protection of the people around me. So I wanted to come take accountability.”
The private meeting was posted online by Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, where he seemed to have accepted his apology, “Ye came with humility to seek forgiveness and a new chapter of repentance and love among human beings.”
It was also stated that the Rabbi welcomed Kanye West warmly. Social media has been going crazy after the clip surfaced of Kanye apologizing to the Rabbis for his past antisemitic comments. Folks online had mixed feelings about the apology.
1. Users react to Kanye’s apology
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3. More commentary on Ye’s apology
4. Ye got a new accent?
5. Some users believe Kanye is attempting to turn a new leaf.
6. Some are claiming they’ve seen this story before…
7. Nicki Minaj reacts
8. Are we proud of Ye?
9. Photo of Kanye West and Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto
10. Some fans are calling for Ye to bring back Sunday Service
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Did Kanye West really kick his former employee YesJulz out of his plane and leave her to fend for herself in Poland, allegedly?!
We don’t know, but given her recent story (where she withheld names), many people have come to the conclusion that she was talking about Kanye West when she spilled the beans on one of the wildest experiences she underwent just a few years ago.
Over the weekend, YesJulz, born Julianne Goddard, sat down for a livestream interview with N3on and discussed a bevy of interesting topics. When she was asked about some of the craziest things she’s experienced in Hollywood, she responded as one would expect, saying, “That’s such a broad question. Everything’s crazy.”
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With many everyday people who’ve worked in the industry having referred to Hollywood as “Hollyweird” for decades now, we’re not surprised at YesJulz’s response to the question.
She then went into a personal story about a working experience she had years ago and though she didn’t name who her employer was at the time, many listeners assumed she was referring to her time working with Mr. West.
YesJulz was telling a story about a flight she took on a private plane after making a “public statement” in which she was “clearing up” her stance on a certain situation. Unfortunately, she says “the person who was in charge of the plane I was on did not like the statement that I made.”
Apparently, that statement was enough to land her in unfamiliar territory (literally), as the trip she thought she was taking ended up landing her in a place she was not expecting.
“I was sleeping. I was thinking I was gonna wake up in Dubai or Saudi Arabia for this thing we were heading to, and I woke up and there was snow on the window and ice on the tarmac. And so clearly, where we had landed was not Saudi Arabia. And I learned I was getting kicked off the plane in Poland, which I’ve never been to, because I made this statement. I had to literally get off the plane. I had taken a Xanax to go to sleep, so I was out of it. And I was in the middle of an abandoned airport in Poland.”
When asked who said person in charge was, Julz didn’t name any names, but did refer to the person as a “f*cking loser.” While that term could be referring to a number of insecure celebrities these days, many quickly assumed she was talking about Kanye West, as at the time that she and West parted ways, he had visited Dubai to perform Vultures with Ty Dolla $ign and Lil Durk.
Couple that with Kanye West’s well-noted pettiness, compulsiveness and overall behavioral issues, we wouldn’t be surprised to learn that he’d kick a person off his private plane in the middle of nowhere. That’s just how rich people get down these days. Rather Trumpian of him, really.
Check out the full interview and her Poland story around the 21-minute mark, and let us know if you think Kanye West was the man who kicked her to the Polish curb in the comments section below.
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Travis Scott has been no stranger to showing Kanye West love through it all.
From the beginning of La Flame’s career, he’s dealt with doubt. Coming into the Hip-Hop game, two big names gravitated to the Houston rising star, T.I., and Kanye West. Since then, Trav has seemed to keep a great relationship with both rappers.
T.I. recently spoke with Hip-Hop Wired about Travis and his impact on the culture, “Soon as I met bro, he just had an idea of how he wanted to present his art. From fashion to live performances, like Astroworld Festival. That was an idea he talked to me about wanting to do the first time I met him. He’s always had an interactive relationship with his fans that they would travel to see him.”
Travis Scott’s relationship with Kanye, of course, goes deeper than just the music. As they both had children within the Kardashian/Jenner family tree. This makes their children related. With all the antics Ye has done, Travis has always kept it short and sweet. Recently, at a concert he was performing, “GOD’S COUNTRY” where he took a second to shout his homie out, “Aye shout out to my brother Ye, I ain’t gon lie man we might have to do something special soon.”
Hinting at a possible collab between the two. Which will be added to a list of songs they’ve cooked up together. La Flame came out the gate on his debut album, “Rodeo,” with a Kanye West feature on the track, “Piss On Your Grave”. A few years after that, they dropped a loosey with “Watch”.
Kanye West is seemingly hanging up his spurs. He has sold his Wyoming ranch back to the original owners in what seems to be a full-circle moment.
As per Complex, Kanye West has let go of his Bighorn Mountain Ranch. The embattled rapper has made several changes to his personal and professional life since he went full bigot back in 2022. This month, he made another significant change to his asset portfolio by selling the 6,700-acre property. According to Cowboy State Daily, the ranch was sold back to the original owners, the Flitner Family. Greg and Pam Flitner purchased it for around $14 million.
The couple expressed interest in buying the property back as the ranch had been listed for sale on several occasions, but in September, they got their chance.
“It was not listed publicly at first. It was just honestly a fluke that we found out it was listed, and then it was taken down again” Pam Flitner revealed. “But we went ahead and got ahold of the realtor, and it was kind of a rush thing, because it sounded like the people who they were flying in to look at it, a lot of them were speculators. So, we were really worried that someone would get it and then turn it into a giant subdivision.”
Kanye West originally bought the property back in 2019, along with another ranch in Wyoming, for a combined $28.495 million. He intended to create the Yeezy Campus throughout both areas to serve as the headquarters for his YEEZY brand. In an interview with GQ, he detailed some of the architectural hopes, which included domed-shaped buildings that were intended to “get people out of boxes” and promote “freer thought.” His vision also included manufacturing facilities for his apparel, recording facilities, and sustainable farming systems.
While the ranch did suffer some decay, the Flitner family was happy to find that Kanye West had left the property with no major structural changes from when their family owned the land.
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Kanye West made a surprise appearance in Kris Jenner’s Father’s Day Instagram post this year, even though he’s had a rocky relationship with her daughter, Kim Kardashian.
Jenner shared a collage of photos to celebrate the dads in her family, and one of them showed Kanye with his daughter North. She also included pictures of Travis Scott and NBA player Tristan Thompson.
In her caption, Jenner wrote, “Happy Father’s Day to all of the dads, step dads, grandfathers and father figures out there! You have shaped, supported, and loved us in so many ways and I’m grateful to have witnessed the love that each of you has for your children.”
What caught people off guard was that Jenner included Kanye at all. Since his split from Kim Kardashian, Kanye has gone after Jenner online many times. He’s made some pretty wild claims, including saying she slept with rapper Drake. During an interview on Drink Champs, Ye even joked about one of his Instagram posts, suggesting that Drake would “hook up with your baby mama’s mama,” clearly referring to Kris.
Even with all that drama, Jenner still decided to feature Kanye in her post. It might mean she’s trying to keep things peaceful for the sake of the kids, or she just wanted to show respect to him as a father. Either way, fans were surprised to see him included, and it shows that family dynamics in the Kardashian-Jenner world are never simple, and always newsworthy.
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Ye, the former Kanye West, has remixed his name once more in his ever-changing quest to forge his identity. In recent business document filings, it appears that Ye is now known as Ye Ye, although it hasn’t been explained why he’s decided to make the change.
As reported by Page Six, Ye Ye initially changed his name from Kanye West to Ye back in 2021. By way of his business manager, the Chicago superstar added the additional Ye, but it hasn’t been explained why he’s decided to make the change.
The new name was seen on the new documents, replacing the former Ye West that had been there before. Yeezy Apparel, Yeezy Record Label LLC, and Getting Out Our Dreams Inc. are now signed as Ye Ye being the “manager or member name.”
The outlet notes that the Vultures star has sunsetted his former @KanyeWest account on X, formerly Twitter, writing on June 1, “Ima finally stop using the @kanyewest twitter cause my name is Ye.”
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Do not look for any Pusha T and Kanye West reunions anytime soon. The Clipse is back and the group landed a feature story in GQ magazine, and Push A Ton held nothing back when speaking on his once choice collaborator turned foe, Kanye West.
Malice and Push are great with the timing since the GQ feature arrives shortly after they announced their new album, Let God Sort ‘Em Out, is dropping in July and just after a surprise set at this past weekend’s Roots Picnic in Philadelphia. The story is full of plenty of insight into the VA group’s return, but the tea that many are jumping to is Pusha’s take on his former friend Ye.
Unless you’ve been AWOL from society, you’re aware of Kanye West burning every relationship with most of his past collaborators of note, Push included. Just in 2022, Ye handled half of the production (Pharrell covered the rest) on Pusha T’s last solo project, It’s Almost Dry. What a difference three years make because the one-time President of GOOD Music (he stepped down in 2022) is anything but good with Mr. West.
“But…let me tell you something. He’s a genius. And his intuition is even more genius level, right?,” explains Push to GQ. “But that’s why me and him don’t get along, because he sees through my fakeness with him. He knows I don’t think he’s a man. He knows it. And that’s why we can’t build with each other no more. That’s why me and him don’t click, because he knows what I really, really think of him. He’s showed me the weakest sides of him, and he knows how I think of weak people.”
Apparently, Push got word that collaborators weren’t speaking of him in the best of lights as far back as during the recording of Donda back in 2021, and he kept his third eye open ever since. While those interview words are biting, Push also let it be known in song that West was persona non grata on the new Clipse single. On “Ace Trumpets,” he spits, “Look at them, him and him, still waiting on Yeezy/I hope you got your squeegee, at your interviews, I just kee kee, life’s peachy.”
If Kanye West eventually responds, you just know Push—who does give Ye kudos for keeping his word and giving him back the profits to his Def Jam music—has more bars in the tuck.
Also, as far as Yeezy’s erratic behavior being due to mental illness and deserving some grace, Push offered how he takes that into account. “He’s sick, I do believe that much,” said Pusha. “You’re sick, but you’re also very calculated. And if I take your sickness and take how calculated you’ve been and disruptive you’ve been and tried to be to me, then it cancels itself out. I can’t look at it as sick, because you’re detrimental. You’re detrimental to everything.”
Read the full GQ interview, conducted by Frazier Tharpe, right here.
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Kanye West is now singing a different tune when it comes to the Jewish community. He has announced he is now done with antisemitism.
As per The Huffington Post YE is back on social media and according to his latest post he is no longer promoting hatred against Jews. On Thursday, May 22 he took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to declare his new stance. “I am done with antisemitism” he wrote which was quickly followed up by “I love all people.” He went on to ask God for forgiveness for the pain he caused and offered forgiveness to those “who caused me pain.” Kanye shared that his family got him thinking differently. “I simply got a FaceTime from my Kids and I wanna save the world again” he wrote.
Kanye West first made bigoted references towards the Jewish community back in October 2022. After being either dropped or rebuked by partners such as The GAP, Balenciaga and adidas, he issued an apology in early 2023. “It was not my intention to offend or demean, and I deeply regret any pain I may have caused” his statement read. Days later he retracted the message on Twitter saying “I’m never apologizing for my Jewish comments.” Since then Kanye West has referred to himself as a NAZI, released music promoting antisemitism (“Heil Hitler”) and even sported a KKK like outfit during an interview with DJ Akademiks.
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