Days after anti-Jewish activists made Heil Hitler gestures while hanging a banner over the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles that read "Kanye is right about the Jews," Century City-based talent agency CAA has confirmed that Ye has been dropped as a client.
"I can confirm that Kanye is not a client," a CAA spokesperson said in a statement to NBC News.
Kim Kardashian also tweeted that she was standing with the Jewish community against hate speech.
In Kardashian's tweet, she didn't call out her ex Ye, also known as Kanye West, specifically.
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"Hate speech is never OK or excusable. I stand together with the Jewish community and call on the terrible violence and hateful rhetoric towards them to come to an immediate end," she wrote.
Khloe Kardashian, Kendall Jenner, Kylie Jenner, and Kris Jenner also reposted an image on social media that reads: "I support my Jewish friends and the Jewish people."
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MRC, a film studio, also said it would be shelving a documentary about Ye.
"Kanye is a producer and sampler of music. Last week he sampled and remixed a classic tune that has charted for over 3000 years - the lie that Jews are evil and conspire to control the world for their own gain. This song was performed acapella in the time of the Pharaohs, Babylon and Rome, went acoustic with The Spanish Inquisition and Russia’s Pale of Settlement, and Hitler took the song electric. Kanye has now helped mainstream it in the modern era," Asif Satchu and Modi Wiczyk, co-founders and Scott Tenley, CEO, said in a letter.
All of the events come after rapper and designer Ye had made antisemitic statements, resulting in several brands, like Gap and Balenciaga, severing ties with him.
The Anti-Defamation League was urging Adidas to do the same. The ADL has also posted a list of Ye's comments about Jewish people.
In an Oct. 8 tweet that has been removed, Ye's account tweeted he was "going death con 3 on Jewish people."
Ye was also blocked on Twitter and Instagram over antisemitic posts. Twitter and Instagram said the statements violated their policies after he suggested "slavery was a choice" and called the COVID-19 vaccine the “mark of the beast.”
Ye was also under fire for wearing a “White Lives Matter” shirt to his Yeezy collection show in Paris. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, White Lives Matter is a neo-Nazi group.
On Oct. 23, about 25 flyers were disbursed at the north end of Beverly Hills blaming Jewish people for gun control, about a day after several protesters were photographed on a 405 Freeway overpass with a banner that reads: "Kanye is right about the Jews'' and "Honk if you know.''
It wasn't clear if the group on the overpass was related to the flyers. Police said the flyers didn't pose a "significant threat."
