Kanye West continues erratic behavior online

The musician has come under fire for comments he made about Jewish people, and his odd apology

LIZ DOBBS Staff Reporter

For the past 27 years

Kanye West has been one of, if not the most influential musical artists within the industry. Since then he has found new ways to capitalize on this success by creating his own clothing line and even marrying superstar Kim Kardashian.

Though the highly praised celebrity, Kanye West, has had controversy surrounding him in recent years. The scandals range from anti-semitic remarks against Jewish people where he claimed that

“Jews started a holocaust against Black Americans” to an interview with TMZ in 2018 where he suggested that “slavery was a choice.”

After digging deeper it was clear that West has always made some questionable remarks about things. While it may have seemed to pick up in the past few years this is nothing new for him. Since West's claim to fame, controversy has seemed to follow him every step of the way. While West has always been open about his struggle with bipolar disorder it appeared to only get worse after he was hospitalized in 2016 for “temporary psychosis”.

Not only has his erratic behavior affected his fans, a public on stage breakdown is worth mentioning, it has also greatly affected his family. This behavior soon infested his marriage, on more than one occasion Kim said that she felt like Kanye's “doll” and felt as though she was only there to be Kanye's puppet.

In 2022 after having four kids together their marriage ended in a 2.1 billion dollar divorce. Though in 2018 it was evident that West began using his music as a form of therapy even going as far as putting the quote “I hate being bipolar it’s awesome” on his album cover. Although this may have created a safe space for others who might also be affected by the disorder in a way it may have glorified it in the process. It’s obvious that many of Kanye's fans put him on a pedestal even after excusing all of his erratic choices that have been said to be the result of his disorder. Even so West has failed to acknowledge his influence on his fans and continues to act recklessly without any regard to whom it may affect. Previously though West has been on a tangents within social media but especially on the popular socializing app, Instagram. Periodically

West will delete, post, then delete mass amounts of posts at a time. Recently Kanye posted on March 24, 2023 that “Watching Jonah Hill in 21 Jump Street made me like Jewish people again”. He then went on to say “Thank you Jonah Hill I love you”. While Kanye West has been, and forever will be a great musical artist, it is safe to say that his legacy will forever be tainted by his actions.