A bombastic new report claims Kanye West allegedly used anti-Semitic rhetoric in the workplace for years and paid a worker to silence her over alleged racist behavior.
The Yeezy CEO, 45, reached a settlement agreement with a former employee who allegedly witnessed multiple incidents of the former billionaire praising Adolf Hitler or Nazis in business meetings, according to NBC News.
West has denied the claims made in the settlement, according to the news outlet.
However, NBC News also spoke anonymously to six other people who claim to have heard West either “mention conspiracy theories about Jews or praise Hitler” in a professional setting over the past five years.
Ryder Ripps, a concept artist who worked off-and-on with the controversial designer from 2014 to 2018, was the only one to speak on the record and claimed he previously dismissed West’s remarks because he’s Jewish himself — but the comments did never thought to be “dangerous”.
Kanye West has been accused of using anti-Semitic rhetoric in the workplace for years. FoxNews
“He had been telling me a lot of stuff about how ‘Nazis are good at propaganda,'” the creative designer claimed, adding that the “Stronger” rapper allegedly said once in 2018, “You’re not offended as if I’m interested in Nazis or something.”
Though it seems like Ripps didn’t take West seriously before, that seems to have changed now after the Praise God rapper’s anti-Semitic comments – including writing – have spiked on social media and in interviews in recent weeks that he would go “Death con 3” on Jewish people.
“It’s dangerous and gross and actually violent,” the artist told NBC News.
“With this pattern that’s happening, and with the doubling and tripling of all of this, it’s pretty obvious that this is some kind of disgusting, hateful, weird Nazi obsession.”
West’s comments have seemingly encouraged anti-Semitic people.
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West’s comments have seemingly encouraged anti-Semitic people.
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Ripps said West has “overshot it with his current actions,” noting that he himself has seen a “rise in people attacking me personally” because of his faith.
Ripps and the other sources are not the first to make claims that West has a history of obsession with Hitler and the Nazis.
Last week, CNN issued a report claiming that West supposedly wanted to name his 2018 album “Hitler” after the disgraced world leader, but changed his mind for an unknown reason.
West has refused to fully apologize for his racist remarks against Jews.GC Images
An executive also claimed to the news organization that the father of four had spoken openly about reading Mein Kampf, the Nazi Party leader’s 1925 autobiographical manifesto.
“He praised Hitler by saying how incredible it was that he was able to amass so much power and talked about all the great things he and the Nazi Party achieved for the German people,” the former colleague claimed.
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In early October, former TMZ reporter Van Lathan claimed West said he loved Hitler and the Nazis during a tirade at the news organization’s offices.
The journalist claimed on his Higher Learning podcast, “I knew it was in him because when he came to TMZ he said that stuff and they took it out of the interview.”
Three sources who spoke to NBC News repeated Lathan’s claims about West using anti-Semitic language at TMZ.
Representatives for West could not be reached immediately.
Celebrities including John Legend, Jamie Lee Curtis and Howard Stern have publicly criticized the rapper’s hateful rhetoric, with the shock jock even comparing West to Hitler.
Meanwhile, West recently lost his billionaire status after the likes of Adidas, Gap, Balenciaga and Vogue severed ties with him following his rants, causing him to be temporarily banned from both Instagram and Twitter.