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Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kanye poses in a swastika chain with white supremacist Nick Fuentes
Kanye West's latest outrageous stunt is a video featuring him posing in a diamond-encrusted swastika necklace next to infamous white supremacist Nick Fuentes. The controversial rapper, who has made numerous public antisemitic comments, introduces a smiling Fuentes on the video as his 'white supremacist homeboy.' In the now-deleted video, which was posted to X, West, who has legally changed his name to Ye, is seen standing next to Fuentes inside some kind of large venue, with loud music blaring nearby. 'Yo,' West says to the camera. 'You know I'm here with my white supremacist homeboy Nick. We're back.' The rapper is wearing the large Nazi symbol on his chest and jewel-encrusted grills. The pair are known to be friendly, having been photographed together at dinner with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence in 2022 — resulting in a backlash against the president. Shortly afterward, West appeared on far-right media network InfoWars and sang the praise of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. In recent weeks, West has displayed a bizarre infatuation with the swastika and other Nazi imagery. In another now-deleted post West claimed to be teasing a new artwork for his Sunday service choir that bore a striking resemblance to the logo of the SS. In February, the rapper appeared in a 60-second ad at the Super Bowl, in which he directed viewers to his website to sell T-shirts bearing a swastika. The shirts cost $20, though the sales website – – later stated that the store was 'unavailable.' Last August Fuentes claimed West had floated the idea of somehow legally changing his name to a swastika. Fuentes is a Holocaust denier and has previously called for non-Christians to be executed.
The Independent
18-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Kanye poses in swastika chain with white supremacist Nick Fuentes
Kanye West's latest outrageous stunt is a video featuring him posing in a diamond-encrusted swastika necklace next to infamous white supremacist Nick Fuentes. The controversial rapper, who has made numerous public antisemitic comments, introduces a smiling Fuentes on the video as his 'white supremacist homeboy.' In the now-deleted video, which was posted to X, West, who has legally changed his name to Ye, is seen standing next to Fuentes inside some kind of large venue, with loud music blaring nearby. 'Yo,' West says to the camera. 'You know I'm here with my white supremacist homeboy Nick. We're back.' The rapper is wearing the large Nazi symbol on his chest and jewel-encrusted grills. The pair are known to be friendly, having been photographed together at dinner with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence in 2022 — resulting in a backlash against the president. Shortly afterward, West appeared on far-right media network InfoWars and sang the praise of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. In recent weeks, West has displayed a bizarre infatuation with the swastika and other Nazi imagery. In another now-deleted post West claimed to be teasing a new artwork for his Sunday service choir that bore a striking resemblance to the logo of the SS. In February, the rapper appeared in a 60-second ad at the Super Bowl, in which he directed viewers to his website to sell T-shirts bearing a swastika. The shirts cost $20, though the sales website – – later stated that the store was 'unavailable.' Last August Fuentes claimed West had floated the idea of somehow legally changing his name to a swastika. Fuentes is a Holocaust denier and has previously called for non-Christians to be executed.
Yahoo
12-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
How Kanye Tricked Super Bowl Advertisers Into Promoting Swastika Shirts
Controversial rapper Kanye West, who goes by 'Ye,' reportedly fooled advertisers by buying 'weird' TV ads that showed him in a dental chair, directing viewers to his website, During the Super Bowl, the ads ran on TV in some regions to promote his clothing site. After making the placement deal, West pulled a bait-and-switch, removing the products on his site and replacing them with a single item for sale: a white T-shirt with a swastika in the center. USIM, which placed the ad, said they found only 'general athletic apparel' upon their initial review of the site. USIM said they cut ties with West on Friday after discovering his X posts. The company directed stations to stop airing the ad Monday when they discovered what was being sold on the site. The Wall Street Journal reports that the ad deal occurred shortly before West went on a now-infamous antisemitic tirade on X. West declared himself a Nazi and made remarks such as, 'whip your Jews' and 'I love Hitler.' West's account was deactivated on Sunday shortly after Elon Musk posted about West. 'Given what he has posted, his account is now classified as NSFW,' he said. 'You should not be seeing that anymore.' Fox aired the ad Sunday on its Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Atlanta stations, and Nexstar Media ran it on its St. Louis Fox affiliate station. The ad aired around 9:30 p.m. ET in most places and it attracted major attention on social media, though most of the country did not see it on television. Shopify, which hosted West's online store, closed the account on Tuesday. 'This merchant did not engage in authentic commerce practices and violated our terms so we removed them from Shopify,' the company wrote. 'All merchants are responsible for following the rules of our platform.' Visitors to have since found out that the site no longer works. The spot may have slipped through because ads that run regionally are subject to less strict evaluation by standards departments than at the national level. On Tuesday, an NFL spokesperson said the league was not aware 'of the ad buy or the spot until after it ran.' He added that the NFL 'strongly condemns any form of antisemitism.' A request for comment has been sent to Kanye West.
South China Morning Post
11-02-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Kanye West's Yeezy website goes down after Nazi T-shirt sales
The website of Kanye West's Yeezy fashion brand was offline on Tuesday after it began selling plain white T-shirts with a swastika. The site displayed the message 'Something went wrong' and 'This store is unavailable'. West, who now calls himself Ye, appeared in a commercial for the site that aired in Southern California during the Super Bowl. In the low-budget ad, the rapper was sitting in what appeared to be a dentist's chair, flashing a set of diamond-encrusted dentures, and saying he had spent all the money for the commercial on the new teeth. He told viewers he had filmed the ad on an iPhone and directed them to visit his website. Immediately after the ad aired, Variety reported, the website had a range of West's fashionware available, but it changed a short time later and began displaying only a single item – a white T-shirt with a large black swastika on the front, with a US$20 price tag. Kanye West and Bianca Censori arrive at the 67th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on February 2. Photo: AP
CBS News
11-02-2025
- Business
- CBS News
Ye website goes offline after Shopify stops handling orders for swastika T-shirts
Shopify, an e-commerce platform, has taken down an online shop belonging to Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, for selling T-shirts bearing a swastika. The T-shirts were available for sale on on Monday, with a local ad featuring Ye that ran during the Super Bowl in some markets directed viewers to the website. On Tuesday, Shopify told CBS MoneyWatch that it was no longer processing orders for the item. The store was "unavailable," according to a message on its homepage. "All merchants are responsible for following the rules of our platform. This merchant did not engage in authentic commerce practices and violated our terms, so we removed them from Shopify," the company said in a statement to CBS MoneyWatch. The swastika was adopted by Germany's Nazi Party as its emblem in 1920 and is associated with Adolf Hitler.
