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Ye — formerly known as Kanye West — has been dropped by his talent agency 33 & West after the Vultures rapper went on another anti-semitic rant on X. Ye had been with the independent talent agency for about a year before his agent Daniel McCartney took to Instagram Stories on Monday (Feb. 10) to […]
Los Tigres del Norte has always been known for addressing political issues and social justice in its songs, with strong and direct lyrics, and for giving a voice to immigrants who have come to the U.S. in search of a better life. Amid recent immigration raids by President Donald Trump’s administration, the band’s latest single, “La Lotería,” is no exception.
“It always breaks your heart to leave your land because the tree no longer provides good shade … It’s not that they want to change their flag; although far away, they always long for their roots,” goes the song released on Feb. 6 under Fonovisa.
“I think it comes at a time when we were already seeing what was coming,” Jorge Hernández, lead vocalist and leader of Los Tigres del Norte, tells Billboard Español. “The song is narrated according to how life has led us.”
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Last year, during presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ campaign, Los Tigres performed at her rally in Phoenix. The appearance aligned with the Mexican band’s continued support for Democratic candidates during U.S. presidential elections. In the past, it has endorsed Hillary Clinton (2016) and Joe Biden (2020), and has used its platform to get Latinos to go out and vote.
“We had the opportunity to work on this Kamala Harris campaign, hoping that we would have the pleasure of having another type of government, but well, such is life. Now we have to adapt and do what we have to do,” Hernández says. “I think this moment is very important for all of us Latinos, it’s a crucial moment for everyone.”
“We also have to see what the Mexican government will grant to those people who for some reason have not been able to settle in the United States,” he adds about the fate of the people deported.
The norteño music band known for classics such as “De Paisano a Paisano,” “La Carta,” “Jefes de Jefes” and “Somos Más Americanos” left its native Sinaloa, Mexico, in 1970 — two years after the group’s foundation — and has established itself in San Jose, Calif., since then.
When asked if he fears any kind of retaliation from President Trump for being the voice of many immigrants in the U.S. and for having supported the Harris campaign, the musician stays focused.
“I don’t think negatively,” he says. “We have always participated when we are called not only in the U.S., in different countries and for different organizations. It’s part of our job. We have been identified with Latinos since the ’70s, so it’s nothing new for us. If there were to be something against us, well, we would have to see what process we would follow. For now, we are calm.”
“We did what we had to do as human beings and as citizens of this country and as citizens of our Mexican Republic,” Hernández concludes. “We will continue to move forward fighting for those people who have no voice.”
Ye’s — formerly known as Kanye West — Yeezy website has been taken down following backlash to the sale of his swastika T-shirt in recent days.
The rapper’s website used Shopify to make e-commerce transactions. Variety reported on Tuesday (Feb. 11) that Shopify said Ye had violated the company’s terms in recent days.
“All merchants are responsible for following the rules of our platform,” a spokesperson for Shopify relayed to Variety. “This merchant did not engage in authentic commerce practices and violated our terms, so we removed them from Shopify.”
In place of the Yeezy website is now an error message that reads, “Something went wrong. What happened? This store is unavailable.”
Billboard has reached out to reps for West and Shopify.
Just prior to the website’s shutdown, Ye paid for a Super Bowl commercial promoting Yeezy and encouraging fans to shop the marketplace. He shot the spot on an iPhone while sitting in a chair at the dentist. Variety reports the ad was shown on three Fox stations, including KTTV Los Angeles.
“What’s up, guys? I spent all the money for the commercial on these new teeth,” he says in the clip while showing off his diamond-encrusted teeth. “So, once again, I had to shoot it on the iPhone. Um … go to Yeezy.com.”
Before deactivating his X account on Monday (Feb. 10), the rapper spent the weekend going on several X tirades filled with antisemitic, misogynistic and homophobic remarks, which also included him calling for the freedom of Diddy and praising Hitler.
Ye’s latest string of hate speech has been rebuked by the Anti-Defamation League, Friends star David Schwimmer and Charlie Puth, who took to his Instagram Story to beg the Chicago native to stop posting.
“@ye The message you are sending out to the world is incredibly dangerous,” wrote Puth. “Please man, I beg you to stop. You are selling a T-shirt with a Swastika on it, and MILLIONS of people are influenced by you. Please I BEG you to stop, PLEASE.”
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Charlie Puth has a very urgent message for Ye: STOP. The “Left and Right” singer took to his Instagram Story on Monday (Feb. 10) to implore the artist formerly known as Kanye West to stop selling a t-shirt commemorating the Nazi slaughter of six million Jews.
“@ye The message you are sending out to the world is incredibly dangerous,” wrote Puth. “Please man, I beg you to stop. You are selling a T-shirt with a Swastika on it, and MILLIONS of people are influenced by you. Please I BEG you to stop, PLEASE.”
The call seems unlikely to land with the rapper whose once praised, prodigious skills as a musician and culture mover have been overshadowed, again, by his embrace of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Nazi symbolism and virulent antisemitic messaging.
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Puth’s plea came after Ye went on a four-day hate spree on X beginning last Friday, in which he posted dozens of all caps screeds every hour that included homophobic, ableist and antisemitic slurs. He capped things off on Sunday night with a Super Bowl commercial for his Yeezy brand that aired in a handful of markets and took fans to a site that at present is selling only one product: a white t-shirt featuring a swastika.
Ye’s promotion of Nazi symbolism drew yet another rebuke from the Anti-Defamation League, which warned that such antisemitic behavior from a person with a large social audience is both dangerous and irresponsible at a time when attacks on Jewish people have been on the rise. “As if we needed further proof of Kanye’s antisemitism, he chose to put a single item for sale on his website — a T-shirt emblazoned with a swastika,” read the group’s statement.
“The swastika is the symbol adopted by Hitler as the primary emblem of the Nazis. It galvanized his followers in the 20th century and continues to threaten and instill fear in those targeted by antisemitism and white supremacy,” the group that works to combat antisemitism and other forms of hate and bigotry continued. “If that wasn’t enough, the T-shirt is labeled on Kanye’s website as ‘HH-01,’ which is code for ‘Heil Hitler.’ Kanye was tweeting vile antisemitism nonstop since last week. There’s no excuse for this kind of behavior. Even worse, Kanye advertised his website during the Super Bowl, amplifying it beyond his already massive social media audience.”
West’s barrage of hate speech included declarations such as “I’m a Nazi” and “I love Hitler,” as well as offensive tweets targeting people with disabilities, Taylor Swift and Super Bowl halftime performer Kendrick Lamar. He also petitioned Donald Trump to free disgraced Bad Boy Records founder Sean “Diddy” Combs, who is in jail without bail awaiting trail in New York on charges of racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution charges.
The rapper’s lauding of Nazis and Hitler also drew a rebuke from former Friends star David Schwimmer, who on Saturday implored X owner Musk 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 to the world’s richest man, who himself was accused of making a gesture that many said evoked the Nazi straight-arm salute at one of Trump’s inaugural events last month. “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.”
Ye was booted from X (then still known as Twitter) in October 2022 for antisemitic posts, briefly reinstated in November of that year and then re-suspended that month after posting an image of a swastika intertwined with a Jewish star. Musk reinstated West’s account eight months later. West, who capped off his manic post salvo by sharing uncensored porn clips, appeared to sign off from X on Sunday night, just hours after his Super Bowl ad promoting the swastika shirt aired.
“I’m logging out of Twitter. I appreciate Elon [Musk] for allowing me to vent. It has been very cathartic to use the world as a sounding board,” Ye wrote before the account went offline. At press time it did not appear as if Musk had responded to West shutting down his account and it was still 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.
West’s music and fashion empire went into free fall in late 2022 and early 2023 when he went on a series of similar hate-filled, antisemitic rants that included a threat to go “death con [sic] 3″ on Jewish people, as well as repeated praise for Hitler and the parading of the white supremacist phrase “White Lives Matter” on shirts at Paris Fashion Week.
In quick succession, Ye was dropped by the Gap, Adidas, Balenciaga and his agents at CAA and has his social media accounts suspended or revoked in a fallout so complete that the once — and according to him, again — billionaire said in February of last year that he nearly went bankrupt.
The Anti-Defamation League has spoken out against Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, following the rapper’s bout of antisemitic posts on X over the weekend that recently escalated into the sale of swastika T-shirts on his website. In a statement posted to X Monday (Feb. 10), the ADL — which works to combat […]
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It looks like Kai Cenat and Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) are back on the outs again. On Friday (Feb. 7), the popular streamer — who was on the cover of Billboard magazine in January — told his fans that he’s no longer going forward with a planned Japan stream with the troubled rap […]
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.
Kendrick Lamar may have been the headline performer at the 2025 Super Bowl, but Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) made sure that his presence was still known during the event.
In a strange commercial dropped during the game in some local markets, Ye appeared in a vertical video, appearing to film himself on his iPhone from a dentist’s chair. Sporting a dark pair of sunglasses and a blue hoodie, a visibly drowsy Ye explained that this was his Super Bowl commercial for his fashion brand Yeezy.
“What’s up, guys? I spent all the money for the commercial on these new teeth,” he said, flashing the audience a look at his new diamond-encrusted fangs. “So, once again, I had to shoot it on the iPhone. Um … go to Yeezy.com.” The website currently contains pre-orders for new articles of clothing, along with a few pieces of music available to purchase.
The clip comes after Ye went on a series of antisemitic, misogynistic, homophobic, hate-speech-fueled rants on X, in which he praised Adolf Hitler, referred to himself as a Nazi, asked Donald Trump to “free my brother” Diddy, mocked people with disabilities and openly claimed that he has “hit women” before, among myriad other offensive claims.
Friends star David Schwimmer chimed in to ask X owner Elon Musk to ban Ye from the app. “We can’t stop a deranged bigot from spewing hate filled, ignorant bile… but we CAN stop giving him a megaphone, Mr. Musk,” the actor wrote. “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.”
Even Ye’s wife, Bianca Censori, has expressed her own “concern” over Ye’s latest string of hate-filled posts, sharing a prayer to help her husband. “Soften his heart, guide his words, and fill him with wisdom and kindness. Protect him from trouble & lead him toward understanding & respect for all people,” she wrote. “Despite our differences, I love him unconditionally. Strengthen our bond & help me be a source of patience & encouragement.”