Kanye West Talks to TMZ, Stands by Antisemitism, Says He Cannot Be Canceled

Kanye West says he hasn’t been canceled but for a pair completely different causes — and he additionally explains why he isn’t backing down from a few of his antisemitic statements.

We obtained Ye Monday at LAX — after he’d returned from Tremendous Bowl festivities in Vegas — and the man talked to us a few bunch of subjects. As his lastly launched new album “Vultures” hit #1 on iTunes, he marked that success by digging into why he survived his “cancelation.”

Test it out … Kanye tells our photog he weathered the storm final yr, and got here out the opposite facet maybe much more profitable than ever … at the very least in his eyes.

That is debatable, after all, as a result of he misplaced out on a variety of enterprise offers, to not point out lots of of tens of millions of {dollars}. And but, Kanye thinks he is landed on his ft fairly effectively … and he explains why.

Kanye says he is obtained a number of various things in his utility belt which have helped him stay common, even in a mainstream capability … and he says a variety of it has to do with the actual fact he is extremely gifted with distinctive, attention-grabbing concepts.

In fact, his devoted followers additionally love that he is outspoken … one thing KW’s effectively conscious of too. All that’s the reason he says he is been capable of survive a modern-day teardown.

He cites his feud with Adidas in making this level, and likewise lays out why he was in Europe for therefore lengthy final yr. It was truly extra enterprise than pleasure in any case.

Anyway, Kanye says enterprise is booming for him but once more … regardless of the trade’s greatest efforts. That is how he sees it anyway.

You may inform from this interview, he is in full us-versus-them mode proper now. He assaults the music trade and report labels, saying the streaming construction is not honest to artists — and vows to talk up on these points on behalf of all artists.

Curiously, he even places himself in the identical boat as his archenemy, Taylor Swift! Sure, he speaks her identify, and never in a disparaging means.

With reference to antisemitism … he presents a non-apology apology for a few of his hate speech however believes different feedback have been spot-on.

He additionally cites an oft-used protection of his as to why he cannot be antisemitic.

Watch it for your self, however actually the one apology he presents is to the Jewish children who needed to hear a “grown-up conversation.”