KANYE West has been accused of having an ‘obsession’ with Adolf Hitler by several people who used to work with him.
A business executive who worked for Kanye – who now goes by the name of Ye – has claimed that the father-of-four created a hostile work environment, partly due to his views on the Nazi leader.
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“He would praise Hitler by saying how incredible it was that he was able to accumulate so much power and would talk about all the great things he and the Nazi Party achieved for the German people,” they told CNN.
The executive left his position and reached a settlement with Kanye and some of his companies over workplace complaints, including harassment, which CNN said they have reviewed.
However, the former executive asked not to be named due to a confidentiality agreement.
And according to the agreement, Kanye denied the executive’s allegations, which included a claim that the rapper spoke openly about reading “Mein Kampf,” Hitler’s 1925 autobiographical manifesto.
Kanye allegedly expressed his “admiration” for the Nazis and Hitler for their use of propaganda and several sources have claimed that he suggested he could name his 2018 album after the dictator.
The executive has also stated that people in Kanye’s inner circle were “fully aware” of his interest in Hitler.
The U.S. Sun has reached out to a representative for Kanye asking for comment.
Kanye’s latest controversy kicked off at Paris Fashion Week earlier this month when he wore a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt, considered by many to be a racist response to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Days later he said he was going “death con 3 on Jewish people,” an apparent referral to the US military’s Defense Readiness Condition (Defcon), which indicates the level of threat to national security.
Kanye’s misuse of the term was seen as his intention to start a metaphorical war on Jewish people, which he later doubled down on.
The billionaire went on to allege he wasn’t “anti-Semitic because black people are actually Jew also” and that he is the victim of a “Jewish underground media mafia”.
During an interview on Uncensored with Piers Morgan on TalkTV, he insisted he did not regret his anti-Semitic remarks, though he later apologised for the “hurt” and “confusion” he had caused.
But it was too little, too late.
THE BACKLASH
Kanye was restricted from posting on Instagram and had his account locked on Twitter. It prompted him to say he would buy the “uncancellable” Parler, which claims to be a “viewpoint-neutral social media app dedicated to freedom of expression”.
And on Monday, his ex-wife Kim Kardashian, 42 also condemned his behaviour, posting on her accounts: “Hate speech is never OK or excusable. I stand together with the Jewish community and call on the terrible violence and hateful rhetoric towards them to come to an immediate end.”
Despite 24 Grammys to his name and record sales in excess of 160million, his future in music is also hanging in the balance.
Ye’s record label Def Jam Recordings, owned by Universal Records, has this week been holding emergency meetings regarding his future with the label. It is considering terminating their 19-year relation-ship, going back to the release of his hit 2004 debut, The College Drop-out.
It would be a devastating conclusion for Kanye, who has baffled friends by continuing to stand by his hateful comments.
He has been dropped by his talent agency CAA, as well as his lawyer Camille Vazquez, who had only recently been hired for the sake of his business interests.
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