Kanye West’s Anti-Semitic, Controversial Behavior—Here’s Everything He’s Said In Recent Weeks

October 3West, Candace Owens and at least one model wear shirts with “White Lives Matter” written on them at West’s Yeezy fashion show in Paris; The Southern Poverty Law Center says the term is associated with a Neo-Nazi group with that same name that was founded as “a racist response to the civil rights movement Black Lives Matter” and describes itself as “dedicated to promotion of the white race and taking positive action as a united voice against issues facing our race.”

October 4After criticizing LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault at West’s fashion show, the rapper baselessly claims on Instagram that Arnault “KILLED MY BEST FRIEND,” seemingly alluding to designer Virgil Abloh, who died of cancer last year, and later claims LVMH’s elitism and racism affected Abloh’s health; West is criticized by streetwear brand Supreme’s creative director Tremaine Emory for using Abloh’s death for his own advantage.

October 6After West publicly complained about his contract with Adidas to make Yeezy products, Adidas says it is putting its longstanding relationship with West under review, and in response West writes on Instagram, “FUUUUUUCK ADIDAS I AM ADIDAS ADIDAS RAPED AND STOLE MY DESIGNS.”

October 6In an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, West wears an ultrasound photo around his neck to demonstrate his pro-life views, and baselessly claims, “There’s more Black babies being aborted than born in New York City at this point. Fifty percent of Black death in America is abortion,” and then brings up singer Lizzo when saying being overweight is “genocide of the Black race.”

October 7West is restricted on Instagram for violating the app’s policies after he posts a screenshot of a text conversation he had with Sean “Diddy” Combs in which he said he was going to use Combs “as an example to show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me”—which the American Jewish Committee says invokes “tropes like greed and control” about Jewish people.

October 9On Twitter, West claims he is going to go “death con 3 on Jewish people,” an apparent misspelling of “defcon,” and says it was not anti-Semitic for him to say so because “black people are actually Jew also”—his account is promptly locked by the social media platform.

October 10While his accounts elsewhere are blocked, West posts a documentary to YouTube, which contains footage of him displaying a porn movie to Adidas executives.

October 11Vice’s Motherboard leaks footage from West’s interview with Carlson that was edited out of the broadcast, including him saying the term “Jew” refers to the “the 12 lost tribes of Judah . . . who the people known as the race Black really are”—a belief the Anti-Defamation League says stems from the Black Hebrew Isrealite movement; he also falsely says Planned Parenthood was founded to “control the Jew population.” (Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger did believe in eugenics and the racist and ableist idea of selective breeding, which the organization now denounces.)

October 12Talk show The Shop says it would not air an interview with West because he used the platform to “reiterate more hate speech and extremely dangerous stereotypes.”

October 15In a since-deleted episode of Drink Champs, West falsely claims that George Floyd died because of fentanyl, and not because former officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for nine minutes; Floyd’s family subsequently says it plans to sue West for the remarks.

October 17Conservative social media platform Parler announces West is buying it, and West says, “In a world where conservative opinions are considered to be controversial we have to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves.”

October 17In an interview with Chris Cuomo, West talks about the “Jewish underground media mafia” and says his “death con 3” remarks referred to when “Black musicians signed to Jewish record labels and those Jewish record labels take ownership,” a form of “modern day slavery;” the ADL says his remarks use “age-old anti-Semitic myths about Jewish greed and power and control of the entertainment industry.”

October 19On Piers Morgan Uncensored, after saying he did not regret his anti-Semitic remarks, West apologizes to “the people that I hurt with the ‘death con’” comment and to “the families of the people that had nothing to do with the trauma that I have been through.”

October 19West tells Piers Morgan that President Joe Biden is “f**king r**arded” for not taking advice from Elon Musk, and said he can use the term because he has “mental health issues.”