JPEGMAFIA defends assembly up with Kanye West
JPEGMAFIA has hit again in opposition to controversy surrounding his choice to fulfill up with Kanye West, arguing that “there’s nothing political about it”.
The pair have been pictured collectively in a submit to JPEGMAFIA’s Instagram final week, through which Kanye West was sporting a shirt by the controversial black steel band Burzum. They appeared to cross paths after JPEGMAFIA – actual title Barrington DeVaughn Hendricks – questioned in a tweet why West was acknowledging musicians “who’ve much less to supply u than me”.
After posting several since-deleted tweets in response to the controversy, the rapper shared an intensive submit on his Instagram story addressing the scenario.
“when i mentioned i like an artist theres nothing political about it ye is my favourite artist of all time. Ive been saying it for years,” he started [via Stereogum]. “If it wasnt for him i wouldnt be right here interval. And i like him interval.
“its offensive to me that some folks on right here took a second i had been ready on my complete life and twisted into some bizarre ass oppression olympics. You cant play oppression olympics with a grown black man whose handled racism in actual time. so please shut the precise fuck up and hold bumping the artist yall like that beat bitches up and rape ladies in actual life.
“As a result of thats your actuality not mine. dont spherical me as much as be a nazi as a result of your sheltered and silly and don’t have any respect or context for something black or for my experiences as black man on this nation. Simply go to again to reddit. I make objectives and that i obtain them. you make imply reddit threads. We are going to by no means be alike regardless of how a lot u need it’s.”
West has been courting controversy because the rollout of his forthcoming collaborative album with Ty Dolla $ign , ‘Vultures’, due to his collection of anti-Semitic actions. The album allegedly accommodates anti-Semitic lyrics reminiscent of “How I’m anti-Semitic, I simply fucked a Jewish bitch.”
West issued an apology in December 2023; a month later, he shared the album’s cowl artwork –per these images – whose typography that is analogous to the font utilized by black steel band Burzum, whose frontman Varg Vikernes is a convicted assassin and has been identified to carry neo-Nazi and far proper views.
West lately shared a dramatic trailer for his new three-volume ‘Vultures’ albums and introduced their respective launch dates.
He confirmed that the long-delayed collaborative undertaking will start its rollout on February 9 with the primary quantity. The second two volumes will then be accessible on March 8 and April 5, respectively.
The information confirms earlier studies that ‘Vultures’ would certainly be launched on February 9, although on the time it gave the impression to be a standalone launch fairly than a trio of volumes.
Ye and Ty Dolla $ign had been teasing their new album for some months, after information first circulated in August 2023 that West can be releasing new music “imminently”.
Elsewhere, Jack Antonoff branded Ye a “little cry child bitch” after studying that the rapper’s new album will drop on the identical day as his.