Before he was wearing that White Lives Matter t-shirt, before he sent those anti-Semitic tweets,

something wasn't quite right with Yeh, as in Kanye, Kanye West.

At least, that's what Slate's Nitish Pawel started thinking, about a month back.

Ah, man.

For Nitish, it was Yeh blowing up a lucrative contract with the Gap that made him sit up and pay attention.

They were supposed to have a collab with his easy brand, and then he was just like,

nope, I'm out just last month, and it was weird definitely. I mean, it was another sort of like

impulsive Kanye move, so there was kind of that to it, but there was the fact that this was like

a very serious and big contract with, you know, in a field, Kanye loves fashion, brand he likes,

and then he just completely liked over it. And then from there, you kind of had just this whole mess.

From the outside, Yeh's mess has looked like this. First, that trollish picture of himself,

with conservative activist Candace Owens in those White Lives Matter t-shirts.

What was the t-shirt about? No one seemed to think to ask him much less to listen to what he had to say.

That stunt turned into an interview with Tucker Carlson. That's where Yeh talked about abortion,

and his Christianity.

Then, the posts on social media started up, targeting quote unquote Jews. That led to even more

interviews. When I wore the White Lives Matter t-shirt, the Jewish underground media, mafia,

already started attacking me. They canceled my four so-fi stadium shows.

Speaking as someone who's long been, who was a long time Kanye fan and started to kind of drift

away from that, circa 2016, I was just sad. It just felt like another new, like,

Nadir for Kanye in a way, and then he kind of outbought himself in the following weeks.

When he faced pushback on his hateful rhetoric, Yeh announced he was buying himself his own social media

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