Kanye West dropped from talent agency following antisemitic comments

Kanye West is nary longer being represented by endowment bureau 33&West.

Daniel McCartney, who was the rapper’s euphony agent, announced that West had been removed from the agency’s roster of clients arsenic of Feb. 10.

In an Instagram Stories post, McCartney wrote: “Effective immediately, I’m nary longer representing YE (F/K/A Kanye West) owed to his harmful and hateful remarks that myself nor 33 & West tin basal for.”

“Peace and emotion to all,” McCartney added.

West was dropped from the bureau pursuing his antisemitic rants connected X, wherever helium declared himself a “Nazi” and claimed to “love Hitler.” On Sunday night, it appeared that West had deactivated his X account.

Milo Yiannopoulos, whose talent absorption steadfast Tarantula names Yeezy and West’s woman Bianca Censori arsenic clients, posted connected X to corroborate that West had deactivated his ain account.

“Ye has deactivated his X relationship for the clip being. Journalists with requests for remark astir this oregon immoderate different substance pertaining to Ye whitethorn nonstop them to my steadfast astatine my@trnt.la,” Yiannopoulos wrote.

On Tuesday, West’s Yeezy.com had been removed from Shopify aft it featured a azygous product: white T-shirts with a achromatic swastika successful the centre, nether the merchandise sanction HH-01.

Yeezy.com appeared to person gone offline Tuesday greeting and displayed the message: “Something went wrong. This store is unavailable.”

In a connection to Global News, a Shopify spokesperson said, “All merchants are liable for pursuing the rules of our platform. This merchant did not prosecute successful authentic commerce practices and violated our presumption truthful we removed them from Shopify.”

The Anti-Defamation League condemned West’s actions in a station connected X, writing, “As if we needed further impervious of Kanye’s antisemitism, helium chose to enactment a azygous point for merchantability connected his website – a t-shirt emblazoned with a swastika.”

“The swastika is the awesome adopted by Hitler arsenic the superior emblem of the Nazis. It galvanized his followers successful the 20th period and continues to endanger and instill fearfulness successful those targeted by antisemitism and achromatic supremacy,” the station continued.

“If that wasn’t enough, the t-shirt is labeled connected Kanye’s website arsenic ‘HH-01,’ which is codification for ‘Heil Hitler.’

“Kanye was tweeting vile antisemitism nonstop since past week. There’s nary excuse for this benignant of behavior. Even worse, Kanye advertised his website during the Super Bowl, amplifying it beyond his already monolithic societal media audience.”

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This isn’t the archetypal clip that West has been dropped by a endowment bureau pursuing his antisemitic comments. In 2022, West was dropped by Creative Artists Agency (CAA) aft the caput of his aged agency, UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer, condemned the rapper successful a company-wide memo denouncing antisemitism. The institution besides shelved a completed documentary titled Ye.

“This morning, aft treatment with our filmmakers and organisation partners, we made the determination not to proceed with immoderate organisation for our precocious completed documentary astir Kanye West. We cannot enactment immoderate contented that amplifies his platform,” MRC workplace executives Modi Wiczyk, Asif Satchu and Scott Tenley announced successful a memo successful October 2022.

Wiczyk and Satchu are co-founders and co-CEOs of MRC Entertainment. Tenley is the main concern officer.

In their lengthy memo, Wiczyk, Satchu and Tenley scope heavy into the past of antisemitism.

“Kanye is simply a shaper and sampler of music. Last week helium sampled and remixed a classical tune that has charted for implicit 3000 years — the prevarication that Jews are evil and conspire to power the satellite for their ain gain. This opus was performed acapella successful the clip of the Pharaohs, Babylon and Rome, went acoustic with The Spanish Inquisition and Russia’s Pale of Settlement, and Hitler took the opus electric. Kanye has present helped mainstream it successful the modern era,” they wrote.

“The soundlessness from leaders and corporations erstwhile it comes to Kanye oregon antisemitism successful wide is dismaying but not surprising. What is caller and bittersweet is the fearfulness Jews person astir speaking retired successful their ain defense,” the connection concluded.

—With files from The Associated Press

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