Kanye West compensated a former employee to stop his comments on conversations in the workplace in which the rapper allegedly used anti-Semitic language, praised the Nazis and Adolf Hitler, NBC News reported exclusively on Wednesday .
Concept artist Ryder Ripps, who worked with West between 2014 and 2018, sent some documents to the US network in which he claimed to remember positive comments about the Nazis or Hitler made by the musician, in addition to mentioning anti-Semitic conspiracy theories during the summer and fall of 2014 .
Ripps said he had refuted Ye, as the musician is now known, but that he was not aware of the seriousness of the claims until now, when the interpreter of “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” has been involved in a great controversy for spreading messages against the Jews on social networks and through different interviews.
“It is quite obvious that it is some kind of disgusting and hateful Nazi obsession,” Ripps said according to the publication of NBC News.
The incident was settled with the payment by Ye for his former employee to remain silent, according to Ripps himself, although the singer has denied that this situation occurred.
In addition, according to the same news item, another 6 former employees or former collaborators, who preferred to remain anonymous due to a confidentiality agreement, confirmed that the artist had made these types of comments in the last 5 years.
Forbes magazine estimated that West’s net worth has gone from over a billion dollars to about $400 millions, after the family of George Floyd, the African American murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis (USA) in 2018, will announce a lawsuit for defamation against the musician.
The family claims $250 million dollars for saying that the cause of his death was the consumption of fentanyl and not suffocation caused by the officer’s leg, as confirmed by the autopsy.
Days before, the author of “Yeezus” had worn a t-shirt with the message “White Lives Matter” (“White Lives Matter”), a slogan often used during a fashion show in Paris by white supremacists in response to the “Black Lives Matter” anti-racism movement.
In the midst of this cycle of provocations, Twitter and Instagram blocked West’s accounts on their platforms, where countless users denounced, among others, a series of comments anti-Semites related to Jared Kushner, a Jew and son-in-law of former President Donald Trump.
Ye admitted a few years ago that he suffers from bipolar disorder and, among other striking actions, even ran as a candidate for the presidency of USA and n several states during the elections of 2020.