Getty Image Earlier this year, Kanye West’s rise to fame was documented in the Netflix film Jeen-Yuhs, which was shot by his longtime friends Coodie & Chike. However, because he remains a fascinating subject and demand for more of his story was high even after the insight provided by Jeen-Yuhs, another documentary about the controversial …
Tag Archives: West
Kanye West Confirmed Reports Of His ‘Yecosystem’ Communities Are Mostly True But They Got A Major Detail Wrong
Getty Image Towards the end of last week, Rolling Stone reported that Kanye West was working on his own series of mini-cities dubbed the “Yecosystem.” Now, Ye himself has confirmed this, although he also offered a clarification. On Friday (October 21), in a post shared on controversial social media platform Parler (which it looks like …
Anna Wintour And ‘Vogue’ Have Reportedly Severed Ties With Kanye West Following His Antisemitic Comments
Getty Image Anna Wintour and Vogue are the latest to sever ties with Kanye West. According to a report from Page Six, a representative from Vogue stated that “neither the magazine nor its editor-in-chief Anna Wintour intend to work with Kanye West again after his anti-Semitic rants and support for the White Lives Matter cause.” …
Balenciaga Severed Ties With Kanye West
Balenciaga’s partnership with Kanye West is officially over. Kanye — now known as Ye — has a long history with the French fashion house, largely due to his close relationship with its creative director, Demna. Demna and his brother, Guram Gvasalia, were enlisted to consult on Ye’s Yeezy Season 1 line back in 2015, and …
Hollywood Super-Agent Ari Emanuel Is Basically Calling For Kanye West To Be Banished From The Entertainment Industry Completely
Getty Image Between his hero worship of Donald Trump, his penchant for spewing antisemitic conspiracy theories, and his move to purchase Parler, which is essentially Twitter for white supremacists, Kanye West has managed to alienate just about everyone except the former president and the unhinged residents of Trumpland who would like to see the failed …
What Did Ye, fka Kanye West, Say About George Floyd?
Only time will tell what comes of the case, but Roxie may have an uphill battle in terms of getting a verdict in her favor. Roy S. Gutterman, the director of the Tully Center for Free Speech at the University of Syracuse, told NPR, “There is no possibility of a defamation action here because there …
Continue reading “What Did Ye, fka Kanye West, Say About George Floyd?”
Why Was Kanye West Sued By George Floyd’s Family?
Getty Image In between parading the phrase “White Lives Matter” and making anti-Semitic tweets, Kanye West also spread misinformation about George Floyd when he was invited on was to appear on the podcast Drink Champs on Oct. 15. The rapper spoke about the conspiracy documentary The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd And The Rise …
Continue reading “Why Was Kanye West Sued By George Floyd’s Family?”
Kanye West Buying Parler Is Already Bad News For Trump’s Own Twitter Clone
Getty Image Kanye West had a busy weekend. After coming under fire — and getting banned from Twitter and Instagram — after spewing anti-Semitic nonsense, he did what any self-respecting conservative does: He doubled down. (Oh, and he also spread some long ago debunked misinformation about George Floyd.) To cap it all off, he then …
Continue reading “Kanye West Buying Parler Is Already Bad News For Trump’s Own Twitter Clone”
Even Donald Trump Thinks Kanye West Is Acting Too ‘Crazy’ And Is Reportedly Keeping His Distance
Getty Image As Kanye West delves deeper and deeper into the world of MAGA, his idol Donald Trump is moving in the opposite direction. The former president has been reportedly keeping his distance after West’s recent spate of antisemitic social media posts. Despite boasting about how the two are friends, even Trump has the wherewithal …
NORE Apologizes For His Disastrous ‘Drink Champs’ Interview With Kanye West
There’s an old adage about journalism that has been attributed to numerous sources but which ultimately boils down to explaining a journalist’s responsibilities in plain and effective terms. “If someone says it’s raining and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the f*cking …
Continue reading “NORE Apologizes For His Disastrous ‘Drink Champs’ Interview With Kanye West”
After Tensions With Twitter And Instagram, Kanye West Is Buying Parler, The Infamous Conservative Social Media Platform
Getty Image Some conservative-minded folks have yearned for an alternative to supposedly free-speech-hating mainstream social media platforms like Twitter, and they got one with Parler. It hasn’t been without controversy, though, as the 2021 storming of the US Capitol was said to have been coordinated on the platform. Subsequently, it was banned from Google Play …
Kanye West Is Still Going Around Spewing Anti-Semitic Horsesh*t
Getty Image Last week, Kanye West was banned from Instagram and Twitter after making anti-semitic remarks and threatening to go “death con 3 on Jewish people.” On last night’s episode of Drink Champs, he addressed the aforementioned comments and blamed Jewish media for controversial stories about him. “It’s Jewish Zionists that’s about that life,” said …
Continue reading “Kanye West Is Still Going Around Spewing Anti-Semitic Horsesh*t”