kanye west

its the typical grammys thing where for a more obscure category like that kanye is by far the most famous guy nominated so he gets it by default

This from a guy who stopped his Grammy performance to complain about not winning the year before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZDWq6xE6X4

(to be fair he actually integrated it into the performance)

love when the broke guys dance-shove all the women offstage. a charming outing by one of our great Christian artists.

He later advised a Jewish Adidas manager to kiss a picture of Hitler every day, and he told a member of the company’s executive board that he had paid a seven-figure settlement to one of his own senior employees who accused him of repeatedly praising the architect of the Holocaust.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/business/kanye-west-adidas-yeezy.html

The Adidas team was huddled with Kanye West, pitching ideas for the first shoe they would create together. It was 2013, and the rapper and the sportswear brand had just agreed to become partners. The Adidas employees, thrilled to get started, had arrayed sneakers and fabric swatches on a long table near a mood board pinned with images.

But nothing they showed that day at the company’s German headquarters captured the vision Mr. West had shared. To convey how offensive he considered the designs, he grabbed a sketch of a shoe and took a marker to the toe, according to two participants. Then he drew a swastika.

This fucking guy

I had to read this a couple times before it sunk in to me that he was using the swastika in a disapproving manner.