Wiley has been widely condemned – by the music community and well beyond – after a lengthy string of antisemitic posts on Twitter and Instagram over the weekend.
The rant saw him dropped by his management and distribution partner, and investigated by police. It also prompted calls for a change in what the law says about hate speech after the social media platforms were deemed to have acted too slowly in reacting to and removing the rapper’s more incendiary posts.Wiley embarked on his lengthy and not entirely coherent outburst on Friday evening, the whole thing seemingly beginning with some common griping about the structure of record deals.
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