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Kanye West sued, dropped by talent agency and retail platform over antisemitic slurs

www.theguardian.com Kanye West sued, dropped by talent agency and retail platform over antisemitic slurs

Rapper’s fashion brand Yeezy taken offline by Shopify, after he sold T-shirt with swastika design and praised Hitler

Kanye West has been sued and dropped by his talent agency after he posted a stream of antisemitic abuse, put T-shirts with a swastika on sale in his online shop, and was alleged to have described himself as Hitler to a Jewish employee.

Last week West, also known as Ye, wrote a barrage of antisemitic posts on X including, “I’m a Nazi … I love Hitler”.

The swastika T-shirt was placed for sale on the website of his fashion brand Yeezy, with the product line “HH-01”, assumed to be code for “Heil Hitler”.

Shopify, the company that provided the online platform for Yeezy, has now taken the store offline, stating: “All merchants are responsible for following the rules of our platform. This merchant did not engage in authentic commerce practices and violated our terms.”

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The only thing that amazed me about this is that he had a “talent agent”.
- Yes, I too am shocked that one of the most successful musicians of the century had a “talent agent.”
  The guy is a piece of shit but this is such an asinine comment. The only shocking part is he got dropped in the first place, considering he still somehow manages to make money hand over fist anytime he releases some half-finished album these days. The talent agencies will tolerate a hell of a lot as long as the money keeps flowing.
  
  Dude has been out of it for years, and hasn’t put out anything of note during that time. He’s already made statements that should have alerted any reputable talent agency to stay the fuck away.
  
  The last recent things I remember of his are "you're such a fucking ho" and fuckin "poopity scoop"
  Which, what the actual fuck. How can someone look at those some and think "producer of all time"?
  
  Nah, I'm surprised he has a talent agent, too, after his last outburst. I know talent agents aren't immune to bigotry but it's still a bit surprising that anyone would attach their name to his like that
  
  Any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold it long enough.
- I’m not sure, but I think he’s been dropped and picked up by someone else before.
  Talent agents choose money over ethics all the time. It’s practically their job. Regardless, things like this happen when the negative publicity makes a client a bad return on the agency’s investment (or a client hurts their reputation, which is to say, when a client hurts their chances of making money in the future). Their only concern is money, not antisemitism.
  Next, he’ll be contacted by an even less prestigious agency whose desperation outweighs their ethical concerns. He may already have been.
  
  I guarantee some PR-hack(s) reached out to him to offer a brilliant way they could spin this into a positive for his "brand."
- Not only that, but they only signed him last year.

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