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Charlie Puth Pleads With Kanye West To End Antisemitic Rants – “I Beg You To Stop”

BY Edwin Lamptey February 12, 2025 8:02 AM EDT

Charlie Puth has reportedly reached out to Kanye West, urging him to end the continuous antisemitism he’s been spreading in recent days.

The message comes after the controversial rapper started selling t-shirts with swastikas on them on his Yeezy website. Taking to his Instagram Story, Puth wrote over a black screen: “@ye The message you are sending out to the world is incredibly dangerous. Please man, I beg you to stop. You are selling a T-shirt with a Swastika on it, and MILLIONS of people are influenced by you. Please I BEG you to stop, PLEASE.”

West reportedly began attempting to sell the t-shirts after buying a Super Bowl commercial to promote his website on Sunday.

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On the morning of Tuesday, February 11, 2025, Shopify banned West from their platform, saying that all merchants are responsible for following the rules on the platform.

“This merchant did not engage in authentic commerce practices and violated our terms, so we removed them from Shopify,” the company said in a statement to CBS MoneyWatch.

Before selling the swastika shirts, West also made headlines describing himself as a Nazi and proclaiming his love for Adolf Hitler on X (formerly Twitter).

In another post, he wrote in all-caps: “SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE JEWISH AND I DONT TRUST ANY OF THEM.” Those remarks came amid a tirade of other controversial posts commenting on Taylor Swift, Diddy, and others.

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In other news, fresh details coming in suggest that Kanye West’s account on X has been deactivated.

His followers observed that in the last days of the use of his account, the musician and producer spent time sharing everything and anything on his mind.

From calling out industry figures who turned their backs on him, attacking white people and Jews, labeling himself as a Nazi, and calling for the freedom of jailed rapper Diddy, he let it all out without caring about any consequences.

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