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Quentin Tarantino says Kanye West approached him astir ‘very funny’ slave-themed euphony video

Quentin Tarantino has addressed Kanye West’s claims that helium stole the thought for Django Unchained from him.

The manager – who won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for the 2012 movie – appeared arsenic a impermanent connected Thursday’s occurrence (27 October) of Jimmy Kimmel Live, during which helium straight spoke astir West’s allegations.

West said that helium had pitched a slavery-themed communicative for the video, which ne'er came to fruition.

In portion of his effect to Kimmel astir the accusation, Tarantino had this to say: “I had the thought for Django for a portion earlier I ever met Kanye.”

Annabel Nugent has Tarantino’s afloat remarks to the late-night big here.

Johanna Chisholm28 October 2022 20:05

What did Kanye West primitively bash to get locked retired of Instagram and Twitter?

Though it was unclear if helium was inactive locked retired of his Twitter relationship connected Friday, Kanye West has been experiencing an onslaught of backlash aft helium made a bid of antisemitic remarks during interviews and connected societal media.

The rapper, who has been progressive successful assorted controversies implicit the years, has been dropped by some Adidas and Balenciaga implicit the “hateful and dangerous” comments. A fig of chap celebrities person besides condemned his behaviour.

Tracing the latest controversy, The Independent’s Isobel Lewis breaks down wherever this each began and what has happened since the archetypal incidental astatine Paris Fashion Week, during which helium and right-wing commentator Candace Owens wore “White Lives Matter” t-shirts.

Johanna Chisholm28 October 2022 19:05

Twitter won’t remark connected aboriginal of Kanye West’s relationship aft Elon Musk’s takeover

Twitter has not commented connected the presumption of Kanye West‘s relationship amid unverified reports that he’d regained entree aft weeks of being locked retired for posting antisemitic messages earlier this month.

Rumours that he’d been fto backmost connected the tract swirled connected Friday morning, conscionable hours aft Elon Musk successfully took over the societal media level for $44bn, a determination that galore speculated would pb to antecedently suspended and locked accounts being made accessible by the self-described escaped code absolutist.

It seemed a bully omen that connected Wednesday night, the 45-year-old rapper had seen Instagram reverse the ban connected his account, his preferred level for posting. He’d antecedently mislaid entree to posting connected some societal media platforms earlier this period for sharing abstracted antisemitic posts that broke with each company’s presumption of service.

Speculation astir the presumption of West’s Twitter relationship began to turn connected Friday arsenic immoderate outlets began to study that his relationship had been unsuspended, which was incorrect arsenic the rapper had lone been restricted from posting and utilizing his account.

Catch up connected the latest present with The Independent’s afloat report.

Johanna Chisholm28 October 2022 18:07

ICYMI: Kanye West returns to Instagram aft prohibition contempt astir a twelve brands dropping him implicit antisemitism

Kanye West returned to Instagram aft a prohibition from the level and a flurry of brands breaking partnerships with the rapper implicit the antisemitic remarks helium posted earlier this month.

Late Wednesday night, West, who legally changed his sanction to Ye, posted again connected his Instagram. He’d been blocked from doing truthful for weeks since the societal media level and Twitter locked him retired of his accounts for sharing abstracted antisemitic posts that broke with each company’s presumption of service.

In an Instagram communicative and accompanying station shared connected 26 October, West seemed to code the caller fallout with Adidas and Gap, 2 of the larger commercialized partners who person terminated their concern narration with him successful caller weeks.

West shared a purported screenshot of a substance speech with “Quinn Emmanuel,” apt referring to the attorneys from Quinn Emanuel and Stradley Ronon who person antecedently worked for West connected his concern with Gap.

“As to adidas, you tin commencement to marque caller designs for footwear, apparel and accessories immediately,” the substance read. “As to Gap, the non-compete expires December, 15 2022.”

Johanna Chisholm has the details below.

Johanna Chisholm28 October 2022 18:05

Mixed reactions to disorder implicit presumption of Kanye West’s Twitter account

Confusion implicit the presumption of Kanye West’s Twitter relationship - with unverified reports suggesting helium whitethorn person been reinstated - led to a adjacent adjacent chorus of solemnisation (via fans, escaped code activists and far-right agitators) and condemnation (via everyone else).

“Elon’s archetypal determination connected his archetypal time is to bring Kanye West back. Is Twitter‘s caller motto ‘making antisemitism large again’?” observed 1 Twitter user, portion different successful their campy tweeted: “Twitter: Under New and Anti-Semitic Management.”

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, an advocacy radical of Jewish Federations crossed Canada, had a much ominous informing astir the reports that the antecedently locked-out rapper mightiness beryllium backmost connected the societal media platform.

“We are profoundly acrophobic by this development. If societal media platforms are not funny successful warring online antisemitism & racism, authorities needs to measurement successful with legislation. We cannot proceed to let antisemitism to beryllium fixed a platform,” the radical tweeted.

On the different broadside of the spectrum, comments were acold much enthusiastic astir the 45-year-old’s imaginable instrumentality to the microblogging site.

“It’s happening folks! @kanyewest is backmost connected TWITTER!!!” tweeted Lavern Spicer, a Republican who ran for predetermination to the US House to correspond Florida’s 24th Congressional District and mislaid this past summer

Others took his imaginable instrumentality arsenic a affirmative motion that the erstwhile US President, Donald Trump, could besides beryllium returning to his erstwhile preferred societal media level of choice.

Tweets like, “Waiting for our Trumpooo..” and “please denote Kanye West and Donald Trump arsenic Co CEOs of Twitter !” rapidly began circulating arsenic the quality broke that the Donda creator was perchance returning to the microblogging site.

Megan Sheets28 October 2022 16:56

Fans shame Charlamagne’s comments astir Kanye West: ‘How tin you accidental specified a happening astir Kanye?'

Charlamagne tha God, big of the greeting vigor program The Breakfast Club, is facing vigor for caller comments helium made astir Kanye West connected his podcast this week.

On Thursday night’s occurrence of The Brilliant Idiots, the famed vigor property discussed the rapper with his co-host, Andrew Schulz, and claimed that “he’s moving similar a idiosyncratic who doesn’t consciousness similar he’s gonna beryllium present overmuch longer.”

The 2 hosts had begun by discussing however often the 45-year-old creator invokes God, with Shulz archetypal suggesting that it seems to beryllium the lone narration helium has these days.

“He request to commencement truly leaning into God, origin thing he’s doing is of God. Nothing I’ve seen him bash is of God,” said Charlamagne successful response.

“I anticipation that this is what helps him to spell find immoderate existent healing due to the fact that intelligibly he’s hurting. Right? And I conscionable — I don’t spot this ending well. I consciousness similar he’s moving similar a idiosyncratic who doesn’t consciousness similar he’s gonna beryllium present overmuch longer. You cognize what I mean?” added the vigor personality.

Those comments person since drawn aggravated backlash from online observers.

“That @cthagod speech astir Kanye saying helium won’t beryllium astir immoderate longer is not it. For idiosyncratic who person advocated for intelligence health. That’s not thing you should privation connected someone,” tweeted 1 observer, portion different wrote: “#Charlamagne however tin you accidental specified a happening astir #Kanye?”

One idiosyncratic online noticed that NBA subordinate Kevin Durant seemed to wade into the matter, commenting connected an Instagram station that had shared a clip of Charlamagne’s remarks that, “That’s a nasty convo these men are having.”

Megan Sheets28 October 2022 16:00

Kanye West addresses Adidas fallout successful his instrumentality to Instagram: ‘I mislaid $2bn successful 1 day’

ICYMI: Kanye West has returned to Instagram to code the important alteration successful his luck - according to Forbes, from $2bn to $400m - aft Adidas and different brands chopped ties with the rapper implicit his antisemitic remarks.

On Thursday, the rapper returned to his recently reinstated Instagram, which was banned aft a bid of antisemitic remarks, to bespeak connected the quality that helium “lost $2bn successful 1 day” successful the fallout implicit his comments.

In the post, which was addressed to Ari Emmanuel, the CEO of amusement and media bureau Endeavor, and captioned: “Love speech,” West wrote: “Ari Emmanuel. I mislaid $2bn successful 1 time and I’m inactive alive. This is emotion speech. I inactive emotion you. God inactive loves you.”

Read the afloat study from Chelsea Ritschel here.

Johanna Chisholm28 October 2022 15:00

ICYMI: Kanye West reportedly dropped by sixth divorcement lawyer amid antisemitism controversy

ICYMI: Kanye West has reportedly been dropped by a sixth divorcement lawyer successful his ongoing divorcement proceedings with Kim Kardashian.

West has been dropped by New York divorcement attorneys Bernard Clair and Bob Cohen from Cohen Clair Lans Griefer Thorpe and Rottenstreich LLP, according to Page Six.

“The steadfast is nary longer representing Kanye West,” a root told the outlet.

The Independent has contacted West and his erstwhile lawyers, Clair and Cohen, for comment.

Meredith Clark has the afloat study here.

Johanna Chisholm28 October 2022 14:00

Law steadfast Greenberg Traurig moves to sever ties with lawsuit Kanye West

Greenberg Traurig, a Florida based instrumentality steadfast that is presently representing Kanye West successful 2 ongoing cases, said in a statement shared with The Financial Times that it is successful the process of severing ties with their personage lawsuit successful the aftermath of his antisemitic remarks.

“We are taking steps successful effect to the reported remarks successful accordance with ethical obligations and tribunal rules,” the steadfast said, according to FT. “We condemn anti-Semitism and each hatred code oregon bigotry, which is repugnant to the halfway values we judge successful and live.”

“This steadfast was founded by individuals who faced favoritism and galore of america mislaid ancestors due to the fact that of that benignant of hatred and prejudice,” the institution added successful its statement, highlighting however its founders - Larry Hoffman, Mel Greenberg, and Robert Traurig - were each Jewish.

Johanna Chisholm28 October 2022 13:00

Fans began celebrating the imaginable instrumentality of Kanye West, Trump with Elon astatine Twitter’s helm

With Elon Musk’s $44bn takeover of Twitter officialised, online commentators who are fans of Kanye West began celebrating his imaginable instrumentality to the societal media level aft helium was locked retired for sharing antisemitic posts earlier this month.

“Imagine however bully twitter volition beryllium erstwhile Trump Kanye West Alex Jones Roger Stone and Nick Fuentes are each backmost connected here,” wrote 1 Twitter user, keenly alert that the company’s caller proprietor has antecedently declared himself a “free code absolutist” and has near galore speculating whether helium would licence online trolls, specified arsenic the erstwhile US president, backmost connected to the platform.

USA Singers, a radical of self-described absorption singers, joined successful connected the speculation and tweeted jokingly that, “Elon Musk volition astir apt prosecute Kanye West to beryllium Head of Public Relations for Twitter.”

Johanna Chisholm28 October 2022 12:20

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