Kanye West deactivated his Twitter after a three-day tirade of anti-Semitic, misogynistic and racist comments before Elon Musk wrote that the public ‘won’t be seeing’ the musician’s account anymore.
The American rapper, 47, took a shot at his longtime rival Taylor Swift during the Super Bowl on Sunday night while peppering in more anti-Semitic sentiments.
Yet after the musician thanked Elon for ‘allowing me to vent’ the businessman appears to have shut down his account as he confirmed: “Given what he has posted, his account is now classified as NSFW. You should not be seeing that anymore.”
Elon finally addressed Kanye’s tirade three days after he began posting incessantly with a thread of offensive erratic comments.
In Kanye’s final tweet on Sunday night he wrote: “I’m logging out of Twitter. I appreciate Elon for allowing me to vent.”
He continued: “It has been very cathartic to use the world as a sounding board. It was like an Ayahuasca trip.
“Love all of you who gave me the energy and attention. To we connect again. Good afternoon and goodnight.”
On Sunday Kanye stressed he was ‘in a good space’ mentally and that making the controversial comments – which were condemned as racist, sexist, tone-deaf, misogynistic and ignorant by social media users and multiple celebrities – have left him with a sense of peace after venting.
Regarding Swift, he tweeted, “IF ITS ABOUT THE CULTURE … WHY ARE WE LETTING TAYLOR SWIFT BE SEEN ON TV SINGING A SONG ABOUT TAKING A BLACK MAN DOWN AND ACCUSING OF THINGS THAT CAN TAKE A BLACK MAN DOWN FOR LIFE.”
West was seemingly making reference to Taylor Swift at last week’s Grammys dancing to Kendrick Lamar’s Drake diss track Not Like Us.
Lamar did not get out unscathed, as West said of the Super Bowl Halftime headliner Kendrick Lamar, ‘KENDRICK IS BEING USED BY THESE WHITE PEOPLE AND JEWS AND SO AM I.’
West replied to a user who linked to a story about Musk unfollowing West on X/Twitter, with the caption, ‘fake nazis when a real nazi walks in.’
West replied, “SINCE IM GETTING KICKED OFF TWITTER SOON. EVERYBODY IS A NAZI TILL A REAL NAZI PULLS UP.”
West also suggested that Musk, who owns X/Twitter, was sabotaging his social media efforts via shadow banning, and tamping down the number of views he was garnering with his stream of shock.
“MY TWITTER REACH HAS BEEN LIMITED SO I AM NOT ALLOWED TO TREND DOING SUPER BOWL,” he said. “I AM SETTING UP A DISCORD CHANEL ON MY WEBSITE … WELCOME TO AMERICA.”
Milo Yiannopoulos, who owns Tarantula – a talent management company that reps both West and his partner Bianca Censori, according to The Hollywood Reporter – confirmed that West was taking an indefinite break from the social media platform.
“Ye has deactivated his X account for the time being,” Yiannopoulos said on X/Twitter Sunday evening.
Elsewhere Kanye released a bizarre Super Bowl ad promoting his fashion line Yeezy that raised plenty of eyebrows.
The strange, brief clip — which aired on the heels of controversial comments condemned as racist, sexist, tone-deaf, misogynistic and ignorant by social media users and multiple celebrities — was shot on West’s iPhone and appeared to have been taken at the dentist’s office.
West claimed he had to film the ad on his mobile phone after blowing his entire Super Bowl ad budget on his ‘new teeth’.
“I spent all the money for the commercial on these new teeth,” West said, smiling for the camera and wearing sunglasses. “So, once again, I had to shoot it on the iPhone.”
“Um. Umm. Umm,” West continued before definitively directing viewers to his brand’s website. “Go to Yeezy.com.”
