Kanye West allegedly told TMZ he ‘loved Hitler and the Nazis’ in 2018
Kanye West allegedly professed his love for Adolf Hitler back in 2018, when he infamously told TMZ that slavery was “a choice.”
During Wednesday’s episode of the “Higher Learning” podcast, Van Lathan claimed the rapper had made the comments on camera but TMZ ultimately edited them out of the video.
“I’ve already heard him say that stuff before,” Lathan told his co-host, Rachel Lindsay, referencing Ye’s latest anti-Semitic comments.
“I mean, I was taken aback because that type of anti-Semitic talk is disgusting. But as far as him, I knew that that was in him because when came to TMZ, he said that stuff and they took it out of the interview,” he alleged.
Lathan — who worked for TMZ until 2019 — claimed he brought up the Holocaust while rebutting Ye’s comments about slavery, but the “Gold Digger” rapper made some shocking claims in response.
“If you look at what I said at TMZ, it goes from me saying like, ‘Hey Kanye, there’s real-life, real-world implication to everything that you just said there.’ What I say after that — if I can remember, it’s been a long time — was, ’12 million people actually died because of Nazism and Hitler and all of that stuff,’ and then I move on to talk about what he said about slavery,” Lathan alleged.
“The reason they took it out is because it wouldn’t have made sense unless they kept in Kanye saying he loved Hitler and the Nazis, which he said when he was at TMZ. He said something like, ‘I love Hitler, I love Nazis.’ Something to that effect.”
Lathan recalled a Jewish staff member at the tabloid challenging West over his anti-Semitic remarks, but, it didn’t sway the musician’s views.
“When I saw [the new tweets], I was like, ‘Oh, I knew that this was eventually coming.’ As a matter of fact, I had anticipated it coming, like, way earlier than this,” the podcaster said, referencing Ye’s recent tweet.
Page Six has reached out to reps for Ye and TMZ but did not immediately hear back.
Just last week, Ye was locked out of his Instagram account after he shared a since-deleted screenshot of a text exchange with Sean Love Combs, aka Diddy, in which he suggested the rapper was being controlled by Jewish people.
When Diddy asked the rapper to “stop playing these internet games” amid his latest series of IG rants, he responded, “This ain’t a game,” before continuing, “Ima use you as an example to show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me.”
He then took to Twitter after being kicked out of Instagram and further wrote in a now-deleted tweet, “I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.”
The post was removed and West was subsequently locked out of his Twitter as well.
