Kanye West slammed for promoting copies of Cassie’s hoodie from video of 2016 assault

Kanye West has been slammed for promoting a hoodie seemingly similar to the one Cassie wore when Diddy was captured on movie assaulting her in 2016.

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The musician and vogue mogul – now often called Ye – not too long ago posted a string of hate-filled rants on X/Twitter. Though his account seems to have been deactivated, social media customers have shared screenshots of him promoting the hoodie.

The ‘Carnival’ artist posted a picture of what he dubbed the “LOVE HOODIE” facet by facet with a screenshot of footage from the incident. Obtained and revealed by CNN in March, the video appeared to point out Diddy beating his former accomplice Cassie, and throwing an unidentified object at her from a close-by desk.

The footage aligned with testimony the singer had beforehand given in a lawsuit filed towards the rap mogul, wherein she claimed Diddy “turned extraordinarily intoxicated and punched [her] within the face” on the lodge, then adopted her into the hallway and throwing glass vases at her after she tried to depart when he was asleep.

Ye drops new garments on his web site that includes the hoodie Cassie wore when she was bodily assaulted by Diddy pic.twitter.com/MnbIRFJHRc

— FearBuck (@FearedBuck) February 9, 2025

Social media customers have known as West’s transfer to make use of that incident to promote hoodies “beyond evil” and “possibly the worst thing he’s done“. Per The Standard, Ye additionally shared a submit that learn: “Hey query if somebody had been to beat up their girlfriend in public, would that be thought-about home violence, or is that outside violence, or is it simply public indecency? ….Im simply asking for a pal.”

His short-lived return to X after having beforehand been banned again noticed him make a litany of hateful posts, together with voicing his help for Diddy and Chris Brown and urged for the previous to be launched from jail amid sexual abuse allegations.

As for Diddy, earlier this month, it was reported that the rapper was anticipated to be hit with over 10 new civil lawsuits, in response to a lawyer representing dozens of his alleged victims. He was arrested and charged with crimes together with sexual trafficking and racketeering final September, and has since been held in a federal jail in his hometown awaiting trial, which is about to start on Might 5.

As for Chris Brown, moreover the assault on Rihanna, he was reportedly beneath police investigation over the alleged battery of a girl in 2021, although expenses that had been later dropped as a consequence of “inadequate proof”. Then, in October 2023, he was sued for allegedly hospitalising a person after he beat him with a tequila bottle and stomped on him in a nightclub.

Elsewhere, Kanye additionally went on a rant withdrawing his apology to the Jewish group for previous anti-Semitic feedback, in addition to declaring himself as “a Nazi” and a slew of different demeaning posts that focused a number of communities.

Ye over the weekend had additionally mentioned “I like Hitler”, praised billionaire and X-owner Elon Musk as “probably the most lit individual that [has] ever been on Twitter” and claimed that each one different individuals look as much as him. Musk himself had drawn criticism and allegations of Nazism earlier this 12 months when he made two Nazi-like gestures throughout Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration.

Following Kanye’s weekend rant, Pals star David Schwimmer known as on motion to be taken towards rapper for his hate-filled “Nazi” posts, arguing that “silence is complicity”.