An attorney for the family of George Floyd says the family feels “betrayed” by Kanye West’s false claim that the 46-year-old’s death was from fentanyl and not a police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly nine minutes. Attorney Lee Merritt confirms to Rolling Stone that the Floyd family is …
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While Kanye West has long had a tempestuous relationship with social media, recent days have seen him unleash a barrage of misleading and particularly offensive statements, some of them deleted by Twitter and Instagram. His most disturbing ideas, however, are finding an eager audience on TikTok. At the root at …
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After a controversial and troubling couple of weeks, Kanye West returned to Drink Champs for Round Three with hosts N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN. While the 45-minute interview hasn’t been posted to YouTube, it can be viewed on the Revolt TV website. After a brief introduction, West immediately went into a …
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In addition to railing against “the Jewish media,” Kanye West spent some time on Drink Champs regurgitating what he gleaned from the George Floyd “documentary” made by alt-right firebrand Candace Owens, his partner-in-White Lives Matter. Most notably, West said that fentanyl, and not being suffocated by a police officer’s knee, …
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Kanye West’s ongoing public meltdown and antisemitic outbursts have become too extreme even for the famous rapper’s most unapologetic, scandal-prone backers. This now includes the leader of the Republican Party, who used to brag that West was “a friend of mine for a long time.” In the days since West …
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Given 500 guesses, it’s unlikely anyone would completely nail the certifiably nonsensical lineup of guests that hit the red carpet together at the Nashville premiere of alt-right provocateur Candace Owens’ “documentary” The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM. The bingo-card-from-hell featured none other than recent …
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Kanye West’s recently-taped episode of the talk show The Shop has been pulled, with one of the hosts, Maverick Carter, telling Andscape that West used the show to spout off more “hate speech.” In a statement shared Tuesday night, Oct. 11, Carter said that after booking West several weeks prior, …
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Daily Wire founder and conservative podcast host Ben Shapiro took to Twitter on Wednesday to downplay rapper Kanye West’s head-first dive into antisemitism. West had his Twitter and Instagram accounts restricted last week after lobbing various attacks at the Jewish community. On Tuesday, Vice revealed that Fox News had cut …
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Online white supremacist forums and prominent reactionary figures are lauding rapper Kanye West’s turn to antisemitic conspiracy mongering with a barrage of memes, praise, and calls for escalation. Across Telegram, 4chan, and neo-Nazi forums, posts reviewed by Rolling Stone show that West’s statements have been received with nothing short of …
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Lizzo is used to getting hate online for being a plus-sized, Black musician — and she’s opening up about how she deals with those comments. In a Vanity Fair cover story published Tuesday, the singer spoke about an Instagram Live last August where she addressed some of the fat-phobic and …
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