50 Cent is the most recent artist to talk out about Kanye West’s current spree of antisemitic hate speech. In an look on Hot 97’s Ebro in the Morning present on Tuesday (Oct. 19), Curtis mentioned that Ye is flirting with treacherous territory with the feedback the rapper/entrepreneur has made in a collection of interviews in which he has repeatedly amplified antisemitic tropes.
“I think he’s in a dangerous area,” 50 mentioned. “I forgive him for the things that he said, because I’ve already identified when something’s going on that I don’t understand.” 50 mentioned that such outrageous, button-pushing conduct has grow to be the norm for Ye, pointing to the provocative “White Lives Matter” shirt West has worn just lately as one other instance of his need to impress.
“There’s nothing for me to say about it, though. I watch it take place and I just look and I go, ‘Okay… yeah,’ that’s just him doing what he does. What Kanye would do,” 50 mentioned. “Even the original Trump support thing was a little out there for me. Everybody looks at things, they navigate things differently. One week it’s, ‘I don’t want my kids raised by a white woman,’ and the next week it’s ‘I wanna go home.’ So you don’t know exactly what he means… Crazy’s unpredictable, unpredictability’s entertaining.”
But, 50 added, once you begin to get into “certain areas,” it grow to be tougher to have compassion for what Ye is saying, as a result of “he’s not crazy where he doesn’t know what he’s saying. He knows exactly what he’s saying.” In July 2020 West’s ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, opened up about his battle with bi-polar dysfunction in a collection of prolonged Instagram Stories.
“He is a brilliant but complicated person who on top of the pressures of being an artist and a black man, who experienced the painful loss of his mother, has to deal with the pressure and isolation that is heightened by his bi-polar disorder,” she wrote, noting that it was the primary time she had addressed how his bipolar dysfunction impacted their household life. “Those who are close with Kanye know his heart and understand his words some times do not align with his intentions.”
As somebody who is understood for talking his thoughts very immediately, 50 was requested how he handles his enterprise when he feels wronged and considers burning every little thing to the bottom to make a level. Curtis informed the Ebro crew that he thinks what’s motivating Ye’s current conduct is “coming from business. The Gap deal falling apart and him being angry with Adidas,” he mentioned of two of Ye’s current style collaborations melting down after disagreements over designs, enterprise plans and West’s allegations that his Yeezy model retail roll-out didn’t happen as anticipated.
If it was him, 50 mentioned he’d work to reinvent these offers in a new approach, as an alternative of specializing in “venting.” Taking a step again, 50 speculated that Ye’s current outbursts are in the vein of attention-seeking “look at me” conduct, earlier than suggesting that West can be struggling to retain his music viewers. “You can’t have [fame] forever. It’s hip-hop. You can have a moment, you can have a run. But you can’t have it forever. It’s not possible,” he mentioned.
Ye’s antisemitic remark have been broadly panned by a variety of fellow artists, whilst he’s reportedly in talks to purchase the conservative social media website Parler, a well-liked vacation spot for supporters of former president Donald Trump and, in response to NPR, “a hotbed of vaccine misinformation, bigotry and right-wing conspiracies.”
Watch 50’s interview beneath.
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