Kanye West strikes deal with ex-employee who accuses him of anti-Semitic speech

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Rapper Kanye West, 45, paid a settlement to a former employee who testified using anti-Semitic language in the workplace. NBC News spoke, on condition of anonymity, with the former employee who showed documents and proof of payment. West denied the allegations made by the witness.

NBC News also spoke anonymously to six other people who confirmed — three of whom worked with the rapper and others heard an anti-Semitic rant from him at business meetings. They said they heard him praising Hitler and mentioning conspiracy theories against the Jewish people.

Ryder Ripps, an artist who worked with West from 2014 to 2018, claimed the former boss repeatedly spoke positively about Hitler and the Nazis during meetings in the summer and fall of 2018. He, who is Jewish, said he rejected the comments. at the time, but thought they “didn’t look that dangerous”.

Following the rapper’s latest flurry of statements, Ripps has changed his mind and now sees things differently. “This is dangerous and disgusting and really violent,” he told NBC.

Ripps and other sources by NBC News are not the first to speak of the rapper’s anti-Semitic language. Last week, CNN published a report that claimed that several people claimed that West wanted to name his 2018 album “Hitler” but changed his mind for an unknown reason.

In October, West lost the partnership with Adidas, in which it promoted the Yeezy brand. The German brand released a statement about the decision to immediately end the partnership after anti-Semitic speeches.

“Adidas does not tolerate anti-Semitism or any other form of hate speech. Ye’s recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous, and violate the company’s values ​​of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness,” the company said in the statement. text released by Bloomberg.

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