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Ye appeared to sign off from X on Sunday (Dec. 9) following a days long spree during which he posted dozens of antisemitic, misogynistic and homophobic messages, culminating with the rapper sharing a string of uncensored clips from pornographic movies.
According to KTLA, West signed off with a final post on Sunday night — just a few hours after appearing in a cryptic ad promoting his Yeezy shoe brand during Super Bowl LIX — writing, “I’m logging out of Twitter. I appreciate [X owner] Elon [Musk] for allowing me to vent. It has been very cathartic to use the world as a sounding board.” At press time it did not appear as if Musk had responded to West shutting down his account and it was unclear if the move was West’s choice or if the account had been suspended by X; a spokesperson for West had not returned Billboard’s request for comment at press time.

The sign-off came after West posted another shot at frequent target Taylor Swift, who attended the game to support boyfriend Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. “If its about the culture… why are we letting Taylor Swift be seen on TV singing a song about taking a Black man down and accusing of things that can take a Black man down for life,” West, 47, wrote in one of his all-caps missives.

He then lashed out at Lamar, issuing the latest in a four-day deluge of antisemitic slurs. “Kendrick is being used by these white people and Jews and so am I,” Ye wrote. In prior days, West had also expressed his support for disgraced Bad Boy Records boss Sean “Diddy” Combs, who is currently in jail without bail awaiting a May trial on racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution charges.

“@realDonaldTrump please free my brother Puff,” wrote Ye of the formerly high-flying rap mogul who is also facing dozens of lawsuits from men and women who claim he sexually and physically assaulted them and forced or coerced them into sexual activity over the past 25+ years, accusations Combs has denied.

Ye’s comments also included repeated attacks on the Jewish people via stereotypes and antisemitic language, jokes about the disabled, homophobic slurs and a double-down on his praise for Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (“I love Hitler”) and the statement “I’m a Nazi.”

The hate-filled posts drew alarm from the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, who said in a statement that it was, “Another egregious display of antisemitism, racism and misogyny from Ye on his X account this morning. Just a few years ago, ADL found that 30 antisemitic indents nationwide were tied to Kanye’s 2022 antisemitic rants. We condemn this dangerous behavior and need to call it what it is: a flagrant and unequivocal display of hate.”

Ye also referenced Twitter/X owner and unofficial White House advisor Elon Musk’s repeated use of a Nazi-like salute at an inauguration event for Donald Trump last month, which was widely criticized; while not disavowing directly that the gesture was similar to the Nazi salute, Musk responded to critics at the time by saying they “need better dirty tricks.” “Elon stole my Nazi swag at the inauguration… yooo my guy get your own third rale,” Ye wrote on Friday, adding, “I can say Jew as much as I want. I can say Hitler as much as I want.”

Ye was kicked off X (then still known as Twitter) in October 2022 for antisemitic posts, then briefly reinstated in November of that year and re-suspended in November after he posted an image of a swastika intertwined with a Jewish star. Musk reinstated West’s account eight months later.

The manic posting spree, which at times found West firing off dozens of all-caps tweets per hour, prompted former Friends star David Schwimmer to ask Musk on Saturday to ban Ye from the platform. “This is so 2022. We can’t stop a deranged bigot from spewing hate filled, ignorant bile… but we CAN stop giving him a megaphone, Mr. Musk,” the Jewish actor, 58, wrote on Instagram. “Kanye West has 32.7 million followers on your platform, X. That’s twice as many people than the number of Jews in existence. His sick hate speech results in REAL LIFE violence against Jews.”

Following Schwimmer’s comments, Ye posted on X that Musk had unfollowed him. “Elon unfollowed me so I’m not sure how much longer I’ll be on twitter / X If I’m taken off go to,” he wrote. Last week, Ye’s hate posts were amplified by white supremacist Nick Fuentes, who wrote “we’re back” in response to one of the rapper’s tweets, in which he wrote, “all you pleeeeease come at me… that’s who we spot the k–ns… let these white people and Jewish people tell you what to do and say.”

Ye’s barrage of hate speech was capped on Sunday by a string of posts featuring scenes from uncensored porn films, as well as some that appeared to target singer Cassie, who dated Combs for a decade. Cassie alleged in a since-settled lawsuit that she suffered years of rape and repeated physical abuse at Combs’ hands, including allegations that he forced her to have sex with male prostitutes while he watched; Diddy has denied those, and dozens of other allegations of abuse.

“When I [sic] man truly loves a woman he may express it in rage I empathize with both sides,” West wrote in the since deleted tweet alongside an image of Diddy and Cassie screenshotted from a video of Combs assaulting the singer in a hotel hallway. He doubled down on the misogynistic comments by appearing to downplay the seriousness of Cassie’s charges of intimate partner violence.

“Hey, question if someone were to beat up their girlfriend in public, would that be considered domestic violence, or is that outdoor violence, or is it just public indecency? … I’m just asking for a friend,” Ye wrote. The rapper was also reportedly selling a sweatshirt on his Yeezy site similar to the one Cassie was wearing in the widely seen 2016 assault video that he was calling “The Love Hoodie,” in seeming reference to Combs’ nickname “Love.”

At press time, however, it appeared that the only item for sale in the Yeezy store was a white t-shirt featuring a swastika.

In the midst of his hourslong spree of hate-filled, antisemitic, homophobic and ableist tweets on Friday morning (Feb. 7), Ye reached out to his friend President Donald Trump with a plea for the commander in chief to free disgraced hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs.
“Free Puff,” Ye wrote in all caps on X in the first missive of the barrage of tweets, later adding, “@realDonaldTrump please free my brother Puff.” Combs (variously known as Puffy, Puff Daddy and Puff over the course of his career) was arrested in September and is currently in jail without bail awaiting federal trial in New York on racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution charges tied to what prosecutors say was an intricate scheme in which he “abused, threatened and coerced women and others around him to fulfill sexual desires.”

Combs is also facing dozens of civil lawsuits from women and men who claim that the once unstoppable Bad Boy Records boss sexually and physically assaulted them, forced or coerce them into sexual activity during hedonistic “freak off” parties and threatened them over the course of incidents dating back almost 30 years; Combs, who has denied all the allegations, is slated to go on trial in May in the case that could land him in prison for the rest of his life.

West visited the White House during Trump’s first term and has proudly worn the MAGA hat over the years. Amid the offensive tweets he also announced the launch of a collaboration between his Yeezy fashion brand and Comb’s Sean John fashion line. As of Friday morning, a number of basic-form white, grey and black “Sean John” t-shirts were available on the Yeezy site alongside a black sweatshirt with the white supremacist phrase “White Lives Matter.”

According to West, profits from the $20 shirts will be split evenly with Combs. “I just found out that Puff is not allowed to make or collect money while he’s locked up so I’ma send his half of the money to Justin,” he wrote, not identifying which Justin he was referring to.

The profanity-filled tweet string also featured a call-out of fellow celebrities — whom he referred to as “celebrity ni–as and b–ches [who] is p–sy” — who “watch our brother rot and never say s–t.” Trump, who pardoned more than 1,500 January 6 rioters on his first day in office in January — and who in the waning days of his first term pardoned or commuted the sentences of rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black — has not mentioned Combs’ case in the first few weeks of his second term.

In addition to advocating for the release of Combs, Ye also praised singer Chris Brown, writing, “we all watched them try to cancel Chris Brown and aint nobody do nothing,” adding, “I was p–sy then too Chris Brown its til the wheels fall off,” a seeming reference to West’s new song with Ty Dolla $ign, “Wheels Fall Off.”

Brown plead guilty to felony assault on then-girlfriend Rihanna after brutally beating the singer in 2009, for which he was sentence to five years probation, domestic violence counseling and six months of community service. In the years since, as Brown has continued to release charting songs as his list of reported physical altercations and allegations of battery have grown.

He was involved in a scuffle with Drake’s entourage at a New York nightclub in 2012, got into an altercation with singer Frank Ocean in 2013, was arrested for felony assault later that year in D.C. and was identified as the person who allegedly assaulted another adult male during a 2015 basketball game in Las Vegas; two months later a woman told police that Brown battered her in a Vegas hotel room during a spat over a cell phone. In August of 2016 Brown was arrested at his home in Los Angeles for suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.

Since then, former girlfriend Karrueche Tran was granted a five-year restraining order against Brown in 2017 after sharing threatening texts he’d allegedly sent her and last year he was the subject of a lawsuit in which four men said Brown and his associates “brutally and severely” beat them backstage at Dickies Arena.

Ye’s advocacy for Combs and Brown came during a seven-plus-hour X rant in which he repeatedly used homophobic (“fag–t a– n–gas”) and ableist slurs (“f–k ret-rds,” “dumb a– ret-rds”) and praised Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (“I love Hitler,” “I’m a Nazi”) while repeatedly denigrating the Jewish people (“you can get money with Jewish people but they always gonna steal.”)

In a statement on X, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt responded by calling the comments, “Another egregious display of antisemitism, racism and misogyny from Ye on his X account this morning… We condemn this dangerous behavior and need to call it what it is: a flagrant and unequivocal display of hate.” Some of West’s antisemitic post were amplified and re-shared by white supremacist Nick Fuentes, who joined Ye at the White House in 2018 for the meeting with Trump, who the rapper said at the time was like a “father” to him.

Ye went on a hate-filled tweet spree on Friday morning (Feb. 7) in which he once again praised Nazis and Adolf Hitler, while insulting the LGBTQ community and people with disabilities with phrases such as “f–k ret-rds.”
West, whose once formidable music and fashion empire crumbled in 2022 after a string of hate-filled, antisemitic rants in which he stated “I like Hitler” and repeatedly embraced antisemitic stereotypes and hate speech, doubled-down on that rhetoric in the dozens of posts on Friday.

The all-cap tweets began early in the morning with a statement in which Ye claimed that he “turned down 3 photos this week with Make-A-Wish kids in wheelchairs,” followed by a further, full embrace of antisemitic language. “I love Hitler, how what b–ches,” Ye wrote, followed by “I’m a Nazi.”

Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt responded to the posts on X with a statement that read: “Here we go again. Another egregious display of antisemitism, racism and misogyny from Ye on his X account this morning. Just a few years ago, ADL found that 30 antisemitic indents nationwide were tied to Kanye’s 2022 antisemitic rants. We condemn this dangerous behavior and need to call it what it is: a flagrant and unequivocal display of hate.”

He added, “We know this game all too well. Let’s call Ye’s hate-filled public rant for what it really is: a sad attempt for attention that uses Jews as a scapegoat. But unfortunately, it does get attention because Kanye has a far-reaching platform on which to spread his antisemitism and hate. Words matter. And as we’ve seen too many times before, hateful rhetoric can prompt real-world consequences.”

Ye’s spree also included the use of homophobic slurs (“f—ot a– n–gas”), ableist insults (“dumb a– ret-rds”) and the statement “all white people are racist.” A number of the tweets were marked “visibility limited” as they ran afoul of X’s rules against hateful conduct.

Among them were comments such as, “Jewish people actually hate white people and use Black people,” “you can get money with Jewish people but they always gonna steal” and “this is how I really feel, how I really felt and how I will always feel… f–k all of your f–k a– unfair business deals any Jewish person that does business with me needs to know I don’t like or trust any Jewish person and this is completely sober with no Hennesy [sic].”

West also referenced Twitter/X owner and White House advisor Elon Musk’s repeated use of a Nazi-like salute at an inauguration event for Donald Trump last month that was widely criticized (Musk responded to critics by saying they “need better dirty tricks”). “Elon stole my Nazi swag at the inauguration… yooo my guy get your own third rale,” Ye wrote, adding, “I can say Jew as much as I want. I can say Hitler as much as I want.”

Claiming he has no interest in “adjusting nothing I do or say for anybody,” West promised to “normalize talking about Hitler they [sic] way talking about killing ni–as has been normalized,” followed by “Hitler was sooooo fresh” and “call me Yaydolf Yitler.”

The string of hate speech was seemingly embraced by white supremacist Nick Fuentes who wrote “and we’re back” in response to one of Ye’s tweets; Ye posted a series of crying laughing emoji on that Fuentes comment. Fuentes, known for his antisemitic, misogynistic and white supremacist views, also reposted a few of Ye’s most incendiary tweets, including one that read: “all you pleeeeease come at me… that’s who we spot the k–ns… let these white people and Jewish people tell you what to do and say.”

Amidst Ye’s earlier embrace of Hitler and Nazi propaganda, experts spoke to Billboard about the dangers of someone with such a wide social media reach promoting antisemitic tropes at a time when hate crimes against Jews and Jewish institutions were at the highest point in recent memory.

“At a time when the community is dealing with this level of hatred to have one of the most well-known entertainers in our culture making statements like ‘I like Hitler’ and showing up on [Jones’] InfoWars is not just vile and offensive, but it’s also endangering Jews by giving people permission to express that kind of prejudice,” Greenblatt said at the time. “People in the mainstream did not make such overtly awful, inflammatory comments before like this.”

Ye also tweeted support for Diddy, who is currently behind bars as he awaits trial for sex trafficking charges. “Puff we love you,” he posted. “I stood up for Puff and I’m still winning 20 Grammies [sic] next year and doing the Super Bowl.”

In a podcast interview earlier this week, Ye claimed that he’d recently been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) after his wife said she thought his previous diagnosis of bipolar disorder was incorrect.

Over the past year, West had slowly begun to try and rebuild his music and fashion empire following its rapid meltdown after his 2022-2023 spree of antisemitic hate speech in interviews, which included a tweet announcing he was going “death con [sic] 3 on Jewish people,” repeated praise for Holocaust mastermind Adolf Hitler and the promotion of the white supremacist phrase “White Lives Matter” on shirts at Paris Fashion Week.

In the wake of those incidents, Ye was dropped by the Gap, Adidas, Balenciaga and his agents at CAA and his social media accounts were suspended or revoked in a fallout so wide-ranging that the former — and according to him, again — billionaire said in February of last year that he nearly went bankrupt.

At press time, the string of antisemitic statements continued unabated with Ye writing, “I don’t even know what the f–k anti semetic [sic] means… its just some bulls–t Jewish people made up to protect their bulls–t,” as well as a claim that he “channeled” misogynist influence Andrew Tate in his comments. Tate was released from five months of house arrest in Romania in January related to allegations of human trafficking and sex with a minor; Tate has denied the allegations.