Kanye West allegedly praised “Hitler and the Nazis” in past interview
nme.comKanye West once praised “Hitler and the Nazis” during an interview with TMZ, an ex-staffer at the site has claimed.Van Lathan, who’s now the host of the Higher Learning podcast, said he wasn’t surprised by West’s recent antisemitic comments while recalling the time TMZ sat down with the rapper in 2018.It was in that same conversation that Ye expressed controversial views on slavery, which resulted in a backlash.“I’ve already heard him say that [antisemitic] stuff before,” Lathan explained (via the Independent).“I mean, I was taken aback because that type of antisemitic talk is disgusting.
But as far as him, I knew that that was in him because when came to TMZ, he said that stuff and they took it out of the interview.”The ‘DONDA’ artist allegedly said that he “loved Hitler and the Nazis”, per Hip Hop DX.
Lathan claimed that he challenged Ye on his comment, as did a Jewish TMZ producer.“If you look at what I said at TMZ, it goes from me saying like, ‘Hey Kanye, there’s real-life, real-world implication to everything that you just said there’,” Lathan remembered.“What I say after that – if I can remember, it’s been a long time – was, ’12million people actually died because of Nazism and Hitler and all of that stuff’, and then I move on to talk about what he said about slavery.”He continued: “The reason they took [the comment] out is because it wouldn’t have made sense unless they kept in Kanye saying he loved Hitler and the Nazis, which he said when he was at TMZ.
He said something like, ‘I love Hitler, I love Nazis’. Something to that effect.”Last Sunday (October 9) West had both his Twitter and Instagram accounts suspended after sharing antisemitic posts on the two platforms.
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