Kanye West’s Twitter account appears to have been deactivated after the rapper issued an eight-word note to the site’s owner, Elon Musk, amid his takedown of Taylor Swift during the Super Bowl.
On Sunday (February 9), a bizarre commercial featuring West - legally known as Ye - which was shot on his iPhone at the dentist was aired during the 59th Super Bowl.
The 30-second clip showed the 47-year-old wearing a pair of sunglasses inside the medical facility.
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It featured just two lines of dialogue: “What's up guys. I spent all the money for the commercial on these new teeth.
"So once again I had to shoot it on the iPhone. Erm... uhm.... go to Yeezy.com."
Meanwhile, during the NFL Championship match, West used Twitter to take aim at Taylor Swift, 35, for apparently ‘singing’ along to Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show performance of his Grammy award-winning track, ‘Not Like Us’.
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“IF ITS ABOUT THE CULTURE ... WHY ARE WE LETTING TAYLOR SWIFT BE SEEN ON TV SINGING A SONG ABOUT TAKING A BLACK MAN DOWN AND ACCUSING OF THINGS THAT CAN TAKE A BLACK MAN DOWN FOR LIFE,” he wrote.
In another post, he thanked Elon Musk, 53, for ‘allowing [him] to vent’ on the platform before claiming he was ‘logging out’.
“I'm logging out of Twitter. I appreciate Elon for allowing me to vent. It has been very cathartic to use the world as a sounding board. It was like an Ayahuasca trip.
“Love all of you who gave me your energy and attention. To we connect again. Good afternoon and good night.”
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The controversial exit comes just days after West took to Twitter to claim he had ‘dominion’ over his wife Bianca Censori, 30, after she posed beside him in a see-through dress on the Grammys red carpet.
“I have dominion over my wife. This ain’t no woke as feminist s**t. She’s with a billionaire, why would she listen to any of you dumb a** broke b*****s?
“People say the red carpet look was her decision… Yes, I don’t make her do nothing she doesn’t want to, but she definitely wouldn’t have been able to do it without my approval, you stupid a** woke pawns.”
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In another post, the ‘Runaway’ rapper branded himself a ‘Nazi’.
“I love Hitler. Now what b****es,” he also typed on Friday (February 7).
A ‘sensitive content warning’ was added to West’s Twitter account following his antisemitic tirade and celebrities like Friends’ David Schwimmer and Piers Morgan called for West to be banned by Musk from the platform.
“We can’t stop a deranged bigot from spewing hate filled, ignorant bile… but we CAN stop giving him a megaphone, Mr. Musk,” Schwimmer, 58, wrote.
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“Kanye West has 32.7 million followers on your platform, X. That’s twice as many people than the number of Jews in existence. His sick hate speech results in REAL LIFE violence against Jews.”
West recently revealed in an interview that he had been misdiagnosed with bipolar in 2016 and that he actually had autism.
“I went to this doctor, one that works with Justin Bieber, one that work with I'm not even going to name other names and stuff,” the father-of-four told Justin Laboy.
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“My wife took me to do that because she said: ‘Something about your personality doesn’t feel like it’s bipolar. I’ve seen bipolar before’.
“She’s educated - so she says: ‘I’ve seen bipolar before’, and I’ve come to find it’s really a case of autism that I have.”
West went on to say that his diagnosis is the reason he does the ‘opposite’ to what his loyal fans want.
“I've come to find out it's really a case of autism that I have and autism takes you to a Rain Man thing where you're like ‘Oh man I'm going wear this [Donald] Trump hat because I like Trump in general and then when people tell you to not do it you just get on that one point.
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“That’s my problem when fans tell me to do my album a certain way, I’ll do it the opposite way just because.”
Topics: Kanye West, Bianca Censori, Social Media, Twitter, Elon Musk, Celebrity
Ella Scott