A new song from Kanye West has surfaced, in which the troubled rapper looks back at his anti-Semitic statement from a year ago.
On Friday night, radio station WPWX Power 92 Chicago premiered the new song, “Vultures”, featuring West, Lil Durk, tie doll sign And Bump J. Over contemplative production in the middle of the song, West raps, “How am I an anti-Semite?”
The song was not on streaming services or online stores as of Saturday afternoon, and there was no information on an official release date.
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According to Billboard, West and Ty Dolla Sign recently reported the arrival of a new joint album, which the duo has been sending out to distributors since last month. On October 23, Ty Dolla Sign announced that he and West would host a “multi-stadium listening event” for new music on November 3, although the date came and went without any activity.
“Vultures” is West’s first musical release in over a year; Recently she featured with Durk on Cardi B’s song “Hot S—”.
In late 2022, West launched an antiwar media blitz, during which he claimed that he “saw good things about Hitler” and also alleged that george floydFloyd’s family became “gross” after he was killed by then-police officer Derek Chauvin in 2020.
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West’s business partners, including Adidas, Baleniaga, Gap, and Def Jam, severed ties following his anti-Semitic statements. After promising to go “Death Con 3” on Jewish people on Twitter and later tweeting a swastika, he was suspended from the platform, now called X, for several months, although Elon Musk reinstated his account in July. Restored.
“Kanye is as big an influencer as there is in the culture,” Omar Wasow, an assistant professor of political science at UC Berkeley who studies race and politics, told The Times last year. “Now associating with this rogues gallery of white supremacists and Christian nationalists and insurrectionists legitimizes these hateful movements.”
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