After having attended his partner, Bianca Censori, naked to the red carpet of the Grammys, to proclaim “Nazi” in a series of anti -Semitic and xenophobic posts on the social network X, Kanye West He is again in the eye of the storm.
47 -year -old American artist, rapper and producer Super Bowl Lix. From a strange announcement during the American football final, he invited viewers to visit their fashion brand “Yeezy.” However, what visitors found when entering the website generated a strong wave of indignation: lOn one garment for sale was a white shirt with a swastikafor the price of $ 20.
Kanye West: Advertising at the Super Bowl and Nazi T -shirts
During the American football final, in which they triumphed from the Philadelphia Eagles and Kendrick Lamar, he looked in the part -time show, Kanye West again spoke. Since the rapper, that now callappeared in a homemade recorded advertisement with a cell phone to promote its fashion brand, and website, Yeezy.
In that commercial stranger, the singer, wearing sunglasses, was sitting in what seemed to be a dentist chair, showing a recently modified denture with diamond inlays. There, he asked viewers to visit their website. “I spent all the commercial money on these new teeth. So, once again, I had to record it with my iPhone. Go to Yeezy.com “he said in the commercial.
But, what nobody expected, is that when entering the website, only one garment was offered: one White shirt with a swastika at the price of $ 20. This Chinese symbol is strongly associated with Nazism and anti -Semitism.
Despite this, the scandal did not end there. Since Kanye West shared an image of the design in his X account, describing it as his “best performative art piece so far.” The rapper even added that he had “wanted to make this shirt for years.”
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After a couple of hours, the website, which was backed by the electronic commerce company ShopifyI was offline. The portal exhibited the message “Something went wrong” and “this store is not available.”
“All merchants are responsible for following the rules of our platform. This merchant did not participate in authentic commercial practices and violated our terms, so We eliminate De Shopify, “the firm said in a statement.
Kanye West’s controversy for his anti -Semitic
The new controversy occurred just a few days after Kanye West’s account in the Social network x (Platform previously known as Twitter) disappeared following a series of anti -Semitic messages, full of racism and xenophobia, and even pornography.
Ye, as is known now, he made several posts loaded with hate. Among his most shocking statements, He openly affirmed: “I am a Nazi” and “I love Hitler, and what?” He also assured that he would never trust or work with Jews “and reiterated that he would not apologize for his comments.
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In addition, the rapper said in a series of publications that controls his partner, Bianca Censori. “I have dominance over my wife, this is not a feminist shit ‘Woke’. She is with a billionaire, why would she listen to any of you, stupid poor?”, The singer wrote and said it was thanks to his approval that the model used the controversial transparent dress on the red carpet of the last edition of the Grammy.
In fact, David Schwimmerknown for his role as Ross in Friendshe urged Elon Musk To prohibit Kanye West to use X. According to the actor, the artist has only foster violence, so the healthiest for all is that the owner of this platform definitely blocks the celebrity.
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But, this behavior is not recent, since in 2022, West had to deal that canceled the agreements they had with the rapper.
Source: Ambito
