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☆ Kanye West's episode of LeBron James' YouTube show won't air because he used his interview 'to reiterate more hate speech'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Travis Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Kanye West's interview on the YouTube talk show "The Shop" won't air. An executive producer said West used the interview to "reiterate more hate speech." "Yesterday we taped an episode of 'The Shop' with Kanye West," Maverick Carter, another executive producer of the show, told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement. Unfortunately, he used 'The Shop' to reiterate more hate speech and extremely dangerous stereotypes." Hate speech should never have an audience."

☆ Kanye West's episode of 'The Shop' won't air over his 'hate speech'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Chloe Melas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Kanye West will not be featured on “The Shop: Uninterrupted.”West, who has legally changed his name to Ye, taped an episode of the HBO conversation series from Lebron James and Maverick Carter earlier this week. In a statement to CNN on Wednesday, Carter said the episode will not air. Unfortunately, he used The Shop to reiterate more hate speech and very ugly stereotypes,” Carter, who is also CEO Springhill Company, which produces the series, said in a statement. “While The Shop embraces thoughtful and difficult topics, we have zero tolerance for hate speech and will not air it on any of our channels under any circumstances. While I understand this may leak, I hope others choose to do the right thing and not give hate speech an audience of any kind,” Carter added.

☆ Kanye West's Twitter, Instagram accounts restricted after anti-Semitic posts
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-09 | by ( Kanishka Singh | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Kanye West's Twitter and Instagram accounts were restricted over the weekend, with the social media platforms saying they removed the rapper's posts after online users condemned them as anti-Semitic. West's first post on Twitter since 2020 was a blurry photo of the rapper and Meta Platforms founder Mark Zuckerberg singing karaoke. That post, in which he said he wasn't anti-Semitic, has been removed by Twitter due to a violation of its policies. Earlier this year, he was suspended from Instagram for 24 hours after he directed racial slurs at comedian Trevor Noah. The company said on Saturday temporary restrictions on posting, commenting and messaging were imposed on West's Instagram account.

☆ More celebrities like Kourtney Kardashian are turning themselves into department stores. Here's the platform helping to grow their customer list.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Cortina enables celebrity marketplaces like Kourtney Kardashian's Poosh and Graydon Carter's Airmail. These marketplaces may soon replace department stores, Cortina founder Keith George says. PooshSeveral celebrity marketplaces have popped up in recent years. Now, platforms that serve as a bridge between brands, celebrities, and their audiences — like Cortina — are also on the rise. Celebrity marketplaces also might help traditional brands have faced in acquiring customers.

The company can sell existing Yeezy Gap stocks until the sell-off period, the letter said. West, known as Ye, in 2020 signed a 10-year deal with Gap to create a line of clothing under the Yeezy Gap brand. 1/2 Rapper Kanye West talks on the phone before attending the Versace presentation in New York, U.S. December 2, 2018. Ties between West and Gap have been increasingly strained recently. Gap has been struggling to protect margins and pull in sales, blaming inflation and outdated styles at its Old Navy brand.

☆ Kanye West pulls an Elon Musk, sends Gap a letter terminating Yeezy deal
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The letter, which was viewed by Insider, said that Gap will still be able to sell current Yeezy Gap clothing. Ye's lawyer, Nicholas Gravante Jr. of Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, told Insider that Gap "left him no choice but to terminate their agreement." Ye is arguing that Gap failed to make his Yeezy merchandise available in Gap's brick and mortar stores by an agreed-upon deadline, and that the company never opened dedicated Yeezy Gap stores. In 2020, Ye told Forbes Musk had offered to support him in his attempt to run for president. Earlier this week, the artist said on Instagram that he wants to open his own Yeezy stores starting in Atlanta, Georgia.

☆ The many faces of Scooter Braun
▼ + stars: | 2022-03-01 | by ( Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +44 min

The former Yeezy associate said that West had offered Braun large percentages of Yeezy several times, which Braun always declined.) Singer told Insider that Braun "did not even see the final cut until the day before it came out." In 2012, Braun told The New Yorker that Geffen's advice to him was "Get out of the music business." Singer told Insider that Braun had only seen Jayne "once in his life, at a political event they both attended. And I couldn't fix it and I'm a fixer, and because I couldn't fix things I started to spiral," Braun told Shetty.

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