With everything that’s going on in the world at the moment, Kanye West probably feels like he was ‘ahead of the curve’ as far as his antisemitic sentiments go, and he’s now done some trolling on this topic with new track ‘Vultures’, featuring Ty Dolla $ign.
The rapper – who now formally goes by Ye – openly expressed his admiration for Nazis last year, admitting he ‘likes Adolf Hitler’, tweeting that he would soon go ‘death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE’, and even advising a Jewish executive at Adidas to hang a picture of Hitler in his kitchen and kiss it every day in order to practice forgiveness.
Since then, Ye has been dropped by his agency CAA and a number of brands (including Adidas) have cut ties with him, but it looks like he’s now focused on his music again, sparking outrage with this clip of himself and Chris Brown partying to the ‘vile’ and ‘antisemitic’ lyrics:
Kanye West, Chris Brown, Ty Dolla Sign, Bump J, Vory, Cyhi The Prynce and more listening to Ye’s song “Vultures” at his party in Dubai. pic.twitter.com/Itl7wF0Uxt
— XXL Magazine (@XXL) November 24, 2023
The offending lyric goes: “How am I antisemitic? I just f**ked a Jewish b*tch.” Which is a bit like saying, “I’m not homophobic, I watch lesbian p0rn.” But then Kanye already knows this and is doing what he has to do to make people pay attention to him, ahead of a joint album he’s set to release with Ty Dolla $ign (apparently they’ve had some trouble finding a label to release it on, but it’s coming soon).
Elsewhere in the new track, Ye appears to call out his former manager Scooter Braun as he raps: “I just fucked Scooter’s b*tch”, so it sounds like he’s busy making friends as usual. No doubt there’ll be plenty more Ye lyrics making headlines when the album arrives.
For the conspiracy theory that was doing the rounds that Kanye deliberately used antisemitism to cancel himself and get out of his professional contracts, click HERE. Genius if true.