Kanye West has had his Twitter account deactivated after a tirade of anti-Semitic, misogynistic and racist feedback as Elon Musk confirmed the general public ‘will not be seeing’ his account anymore.
The American rapper, 47, took a shot at his longtime rival Taylor Swift in the course of the Tremendous Bowl on Sunday evening whereas peppering in additional anti-Semitic sentiments.
But after the musician thanked Elon for ‘permitting me to vent’ the businessman seems to have shut down his account as he confirmed: ‘Given what he has posted, his account is now categorized as NSFW. You shouldn’t be seeing that anymore.’
In Kanye’s remaining tweet on Sunday evening he wrote: ‘I am logging out of Twitter. I respect Elon for permitting me to vent.’
He continued: ‘It has been very cathartic to make use of the world as a sounding board. It was like an Ayahuasca journey.
‘Love all of you who gave me the power and a focus. To we join once more. Good afternoon and goodnight.’
Kanye West’s Twitter is deactivated by Elon Musk following tirade of anti-Semitic, misogynistic and racist feedback after rapper thanked him for ‘permitting him to vent’
But after the musician thanked Elon for ‘permitting me to vent’ the businessman shut down his account
On Sunday Kanye harassed he was ‘in area’ mentally and that making the controversial feedback – which had been condemned as racist, sexist, tone-deaf, misogynistic and ignorant by social media customers and a number of celebrities – have left him with a way of peace after venting.
Relating to Swift, he tweeted, ‘IF ITS ABOUT THE CULTURE … WHY ARE WE LETTING TAYLOR SWIFT BE SEEN ON TV SINGING A SONG ABOUT TAKING A BLACK MAN DOWN AND ACCUSING OF THINGS THAT CAN TAKE A BLACK MAN DOWN FOR LIFE.’
West was seemingly making reference to Taylor Swift eventually week’s Grammys dancing to Kendrick Lamar’s Drake diss observe Not Like Us.
Lamar didn’t get out unscathed, as West stated of the Tremendous Bowl Halftime headliner Kendrick Lamar, ‘KENDRICK IS BEING USED BY THESE WHITE PEOPLE AND JEWS AND SO AM I.’
Elsewhere Kanye launched a weird Tremendous Bowl advert selling his trend line Yeezy that raised loads of eyebrows.
The unusual, transient clip — which aired on the heels of controversial feedback condemned as racist, sexist, tone-deaf, misogynistic and ignorant by social media customers and a number of celebrities — was shot on West’s iPhone and appeared to have been taken on the dentist’s workplace.
West claimed he needed to movie the advert on his cell phone after blowing his total Tremendous Bowl advert price range on his ‘new enamel’.
‘I spent all the cash for the business on these new enamel,’ West stated, smiling for the digicam and carrying sun shades. ‘So, as soon as once more, I needed to shoot it on the iPhone.’
‘Um. Umm. Umm,’ West continued earlier than definitively directing viewers to his model’s web site. ‘Go to Yeezy.com.’
A subsequent search of his identify revealed the account now not existed
He confirmed: ‘Given what he has posted, his account is now categorized as NSFW. You shouldn’t be seeing that anymore’
In Kanye’s remaining tweet on Sunday evening he wrote: ‘I am logging out of Twitter. I respect Elon for permitting me to vent’
The American rapper took a shot at his longtime rival Taylor Swift in the course of the Tremendous Bowl on Sunday evening whereas peppering in additional anti-Semitic sentiments
Kanye additionally appeared to reference his rising pressure with Musk, as he responded to a person who alluded to the Tesla founder as a Nazi.
This comes simply weeks after the billionaire generated controversy at President Donald Trump’s inauguration with what seemed to be a Nazi salute. (Musk denied the allegations.)
West replied to a person who linked to a narrative about Musk unfollowing West on X/Twitter, with the caption, ‘pretend nazis when an actual nazi walks in.’
West replied, ‘SINCE IM GETTING KICKED OFF TWITTER SOON. EVERYBODY IS A NAZI TILL A REAL NAZI PULLS UP.’
West additionally instructed that Musk, who owns X/Twitter, was sabotaging his social media efforts by way of shadow banning, and tamping down the variety of views he was garnering along with his stream of shock.
‘MY TWITTER REACH HAS BEEN LIMITED SO I AM NOT ALLOWED TO TREND DOING SUPER BOWL,’ he stated. ‘I AM SETTING UP A DISCORD CHANEL ON MY WEBSITE … WELCOME TO AMERICA.’
Milo Yiannopoulos, who owns Tarantula – a expertise administration firm that reps each West and his associate Bianca Censori, in response to The Hollywood Reporter – confirmed that West was taking an indefinite break from the social media platform.
‘Ye has deactivated his X account in the intervening time,’ Yiannopoulos stated on X/Twitter Sunday night.
Elsewhere Kanye launched a weird Tremendous Bowl advert selling his trend line Yeezy that raised loads of eyebrows
West once more took purpose at Swift, who he famously stage crashed on the 2009 MTV VMAs
Swift pictured in New Orleans taking within the sport on the Caesars Superdom
West additionally appeared to reference his rising pressure with Musk, as he responded to a person who alluded to the Tesla founder as a Nazi
West’s spokesperson Yiannopoulos informed Dailymail.com on Sunday by way of electronic mail, ‘We simply wish to be clear he deactivated and was not banned.’
Previous to deactivating his account, West stated he ‘simply noticed a video of’ Kodak Black trying worse for put on, and seen he had been carrying a Donda chain from his Yeezy trend line. West stated in a subsequent clip that this led him to interpret it as an indication to board a flight to Florida to assist his fellow musical artist.
Different artists West remarked on throughout his stream of tweets Sunday included Travis Scott, R. Kelly and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
West’s newest point out of Swift comes after practically 15 years of enmity between the recording artists, because the seeds of the feud between had been planted on the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards on September 13, 2009 at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor in New York Metropolis.
Within the notorious trade, West infamously interrupted Swift throughout her victory speech for the Greatest Feminine Video award for You Belong With Me, which had been nominated in opposition to Beyonce‘s Single Girls.
West emerged on the stage and took the microphone from Swift, telling her, ‘Yo, Taylor, I am actually comfortable for you, I’mma allow you to end. However Beyonce had probably the greatest movies of all-time! The most effective movies of all-time.’
Whereas the musical stars seemed to be on higher phrases within the years following, issues blew up after the discharge of West’s 2016 tune Well-known.
West claimed on the time that Swift had given him her blessing to confer with her as a ‘B****’ within the lyrics of the tune, in a reference to the VMAs incident.
Swift stated she by no means made such an settlement, resulting in a public feud with West after he and his former spouse Kim Kardashian in July of 2016 launched a name West and Swift had over the contents of the Well-known tune.
Kardashian, who cut up with West in 2021 and settled their divorce the next yr, alluded to Swift as a snake upon the discharge of the decision
She stated in a tweet, ‘Wait it is legit Nationwide Snake Day?!?!?They’ve holidays for everyone, I imply every little thing today!’
Seeds of the discord between West and Swift had been planted on the MTV Video Music Awards on September 13, 2009 at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor in New York Metropolis
West informed his 33 million X/Twitter followers in a clip, ‘I’m simply telling you calmly that I’m in area – I’m actually in a optimistic area, it’s cathartic’
West additionally addressed a disclaimer X/ Twitter added to his account on Sunday amid a number of days of tweets taking purpose at quite a few fellow celebrities, races, religions, physique varieties, home violence victims and different delicate subjects
Expertise rep Milo Yiannopoulos confirmed that West was taking an indefinite break from the social media platform
West on Sunday tweeted a number of instances all through the sport, together with a video by which he appeared calm and docile after days of frenetic scandal.
The Grammy-winning artist stated he was spurred to say he’s of sound thoughts, amid the cacophony of statements that offended widespread teams of individuals the previous few days.
‘I do know you’re all pondering I’m going one thing by way of proper now and I’ve obtained luggage beneath my eyes and s***,’ a groggy West informed his followers.
He added, ‘I wouldn’t need no one to love, do an intervention on me – that’s why I wished to place this video up trigger you’re all pondering, “Ye actually going it by way of one thing proper now. Any individual have to go get them or go take his Twitter and stuff like that.”‘
West made it clear he would not take again a single tweet, saying, ‘I obtained my concepts out; that’s all that occurred and that was very releasing for me – and it was value every little thing, it was value every little thing to try this.’
‘However I’m simply telling you calmly that I’m in area – I’m actually in a optimistic area, it’s cathartic.’
West additionally addressed a disclaimer X/Twitter added to his account on Sunday amid a number of days of tweets taking purpose at quite a few fellow celebrities, races, religions, physique varieties, home violence victims and different delicate subjects.
The warning learn: ‘Warning: This profile could embody doubtlessly delicate content material. You’re seeing this warning as a result of they put up doubtlessly delicate pictures or language. Do you continue to wish to view it?’
West alluded to the disclaimer, urging X/Twitter proprietor Elon Musk to let him hold his account: ‘AS I TWEET IN CODE WORDS AND KISS ELONS A** AND BEG HIM TO NOT CANCEL MY ACCOUNT.’
