Kanye West has been dropped by his talent agency following his almost week-long social media rant loaded with antisemitism and hate.
On Monday, West’s music agent Daniel McCartney announced that he and company 33&West will no longer be representing the rapper who now goes by Ye.
“Effective immediately, I’m no longer representing Ye (F/K/A Kanye West) due to his harmful and hateful remarks that [neither] myself nor 33 & West can stand for,” McCartney wrote on his Instagram Stories. “Peace and love to all.”
Over the past week, West has benched several hours of his day to spew vitriol online that heavily targeted the Jewish community. The rapper declared his love for Adolf Hitler and identified as a Nazi. He also promoted a shirt on his Yeezy website that had a swastika printed on it, and went on separate tangents defending disgraced musicians like Sean “Diddy” Combs and R. Kelly.
West later wrote that he was “logging out of Twitter,” and thanked the social media platform’s owner Elon Musk for allowing him to “vent.”
“It has been very cathartic to use the world as a sounding board,” the Graduation artist continued.
On Monday, it seemed that West’s X account had been deactivated—though it remains unclear if he chose to delete his profile or if he was forcibly removed from the app. His defunct page simply reads “This account doesn’t exist.”
The embattled rapper previously lost deals with Adidas, Balenciaga, and Gap over a prior round of antisemitic comments he made in 2022.
