Kanye West in November 2022. Credit: MEGA/GC Images

West confirmed back in November that Yiannopoulos was working on his presidential campaign, referred to as #YE2024. Just a couple of weeks later, however, Yiannopoulos stepped away from the campaign. “Ye and I have come to the mutual conclusion that I should step away from his political team. Ye is a genius whom I have come to love and respect. We remain friends. I will continue to pray for Ye and all his endeavors,” he wrote on Telegram.

He denied that he had been fired, insisting that his departure from the campaign was a mutual decision. It has been suggested, however, that this came as a result of West’s relationship with Nick Fuentes, a political commentator with white nationalist leanings.

The FEC also revealed that Fuentes had been paid $14,719 (£11,930) to recoup his travel expenses.

Elsewhere, West is currently being investigated for alleged assault after video footage reportedly showed him involved an altercation with a woman who was filming him. West allegedly knocked her phone out of her hand after she protested when he ordered her to put her phone down.

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“Kanye says unbelievably antisemitic stuff drawing on, it should be said, very ancient antisemitic tropes,” Baddiel said. “One key thing about what Kanye says is that antisemitism is often seen by people as punching up, so they don’t see it as racism because what they see is that Jews are powerful.

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“So Kanye will say something like ‘Jews are in control of the music business, I’m finally throwing off the shackles of how Jews won’t let me speak about this, that or the other because they’re in control.’ He then says, ‘I’m going to go defcon three on them all.’ But it comes from a sense of this is a rebel yell against a race that is controlling us.

“It sounds like someone fighting the good fight, right? And that is actually what Hitler, who Kanye has said he’s an admirer of, that is also how Hitler sounded to some people and to a lot of people.”

Baddiel went onto explain that people who share these views and have “powerful voices” like West are a danger to the Jewish community.

“I’m bothered by what’s dangerous for Jews, what’s dangerous for my children,” Baddiel added. “I do think it’s dangerous. I think it’s actively dangerous. The point is these are very powerful voices. Kanye, because he’s a brilliant hip-hop artist, has got a really powerful voice.”

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Asked if he thinks West is racist, Baddiel replied: “I think he already says he’s antisemitic, and antisemitism is racism.”

Recently, an Australian federal minister said West could be denied entry to the country due to his “awful” antisemitic comments.

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“Jew hatred is already out of control in the United States and the last thing we need is a celebrity like Kanye to add fuel to that fire.”

Kanye West performing at an Adidas event in 2018. Credit: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images

West’s spate of recent anti-Semitic comments began when he tweeted that he was going to go “death con 3 [sic] On JEWISH PEOPLE” back in October. He was widely condemned by many figures in the entertainment world, as well as several political figures and organisations that represent Jewish communities. He later walked out of an interview in which he was challenged over his anti-Semitic sentiments. 

Even more controversially, he praised Hitler on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars podcast and later called for Jewish people to “forgive Hitler today”, while also denying that the Holocaust happened. Earlier this month, he tweeted an image of a swastika inside a Star of David.

West has had his social media accounts suspended multiple times – his Twitter account was banned three times in less than two months. Most recently, he was suspended from Clubhouse after claiming that Jewish people “are used by the Chinese” to control Black people, describing them as “just middlemen”.

He has also lost brand deals with Balenciaga, Adidas and Gap and had his honorary degree from The School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago rescinded.

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Clubhouse confirmed the rapper and entrepreneur’s suspension during a statement provided to The Wrap.

Kanye West. Credit: MEGA/GC Images.

“We took action to shut down a conversation yesterday because it violated our policies,” the statement read. “We also suspended those who violated the policies. There’s absolutely no place for bullying, hate speech or abuse on our platform as explicitly stated in our Community Guidelines and Terms of Service.”

West, who charged fans $20 (£16) for entrance to the Clubhouse Q&A, also continued his ongoing rampage against Ari Emmanuel, the CEO of talent management agency Endeavour, against whom he previously wrote anti-Semitic comments about.

In October, Ye’s Instagram was again suspended after he made anti-Semitic comments about Emmanuel alongside a graphic post-lynching photo of civil rights icon Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy who was tortured and lynched in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman.

Elsewhere in the Clubhouse conversation Ye discussed some of the latest controversy surrounding him, including Adidas ending its fashion partnership with him.

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As The Wrap notes, you can listen to most of the full conversation below, though there are inaccuracies in the YouTube channel’s description of the video.

The Wrap added that it was unable to reach West for comment and Wack100 didn’t immediately respond to the publication’s request for comment. West has not commented publicly on his Clubhouse suspension.

In related news, West was last week banned from Instagram again after sharing a clip of a new song called ‘Someday We’ll All Be Free’.

The song, West’s first original release since ‘Donda 2’ dropped in February, samples the 1973 Donny Hathaway song of the same time, which has been adopted in the past as a civil rights anthem. He first performed it as a freestyle a capella rap on far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s talk show Infowars.

In the Infowars interview Ye denied the existence of the Holocaust, praised Hitler, and denied that Hitler killed six million Jews – read more about that here.

Earlier this month the rapper Tweeted an image containing a swastika inside a Star of David: a move that Elon Musk ruled violated the platform’s policies “against incitement to violence”. West’s account was then suspended.

West has repeatedly denied that his comments are racist including saying that he doesn’t believe in the term “anti-Semitism” because he claims that it’s “not factual”.

However he later offered some sort of apology in an interview with Piers Morgan, saying: “I’m sorry for the people that I hurt with the ‘death con’… I feel like I caused hurt and confusion”.

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Some of its lines appear to make reference to his divorce from Kim Kardashian such as “I know it’s ‘cause the headlines / why [you] wanna leave,” and “Waking up to ‘I can’t do this anymore’ texts.” 

Its outro samples West’s recent interview with Jones, in which he declared that he “liked” Hitler. Jones is heard asking, “Can we just kind of say, like, you like the uniforms but that’s about it?” to which West responds, “No, there’s a lot of things that I love about Hitler”. However, the sample in this song cuts off the words “about Hitler”.

The post was quickly removed from Instagram before West’s account was suspended yet again barely days after it was reinstated. West was banned from Twitter for the third time in two months after tweeting an image of a swastika inside a Star of David.

Ye — Someday We'll All Be Free

Premiered via The Alex Jones Show pic.twitter.com/DfMaU0NbhQ

— Kurrco (@Kurrco) December 7, 2022

Despite this, West has carried on making inflammatory statements, recently calling for Jews to “forgive Hitler today” in an interview with far-right commentator Gavin McInnes. He also called abortion “a Holocaust that we’re dealing with right now” and pornography “the gas chamber”.

The School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago revoked the honorary doctorate degree that was gifted to West in 2015 in response to his recent comments. A petition to remove all his work from streaming platforms has now surpassed 80,000 signatures.

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“The Jews…I love everyone, and the Jewish people are not going to tell me ‘You can love us and you can love what we are doing to you with the contracts, and you can love what we are pushing with the pornography’, but this guy that invented highways, invented the very microphone that I use as a musician, you can’t say out loud that this person ever did anything good and I am done with that.

Kanye on Alex Jones:

"Well, I see good things about Hitler also."pic.twitter.com/I969vqrhYP

— Kurrco (@Kurrco) December 1, 2022

“I am done with the classifications. Every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler.”

As the show cut to a break, Jones told the rapper that he did not like Nazis or Hitler, to which West interjected, “I like Hitler.”

During the interview, West also brought out a net and a bottle of Yoohoo chocolate milk, in an attempt to seemingly mock Israeli Prime Minister-elect Benjamin Netanyahu.

It came a day after the Israeli politician said that Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago meeting with West and Fuentes was a “mistake.”

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“I condemned Kanye West’s antisemitic statements. President Trump’s decision to dine with this person I think is wrong and misplaced. He shouldn’t do that. I think he made a mistake. I hope it’s not repeated,” he told American journalist Bari Weiss (via The Independent).

Former Vice President Mike Pence also recently criticised Trump’s decision.

“President Trump was wrong to give a White nationalist, an antisemite and Holocaust denier a seat at the table, and I think he should apologise for it. And he should denounce those individuals and their hateful rhetoric without qualification,” he said.

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Pusha T, who worked with ye on his recent album ‘It’s Almost Dry’, explained how he felt after hearing about West’s comments in a new interview with the Los Angeles Times.

He said: “It’s definitely affected me. It’s been disappointing. As a Black man in America, there is no room for bigotry or hate speech. So yeah. It’s been very disappointing.”

Kanye West. CREDIT: Gotham/GC Images

Despite that, the Virginia rapper said it was always “a very special thing” to work with West

He continued: “Creatively, Ye has meant freedom to me. A lot of times, people would try to get me to change certain things about my process, change certain things about me lyrically, change certain things about the content. He never has been like that. He always saw me for who I was and knew how to take it to the next level.

“We actually have a lot of the same taste, we love just barred-out rap. He would tell me things like, ‘Man, you just be the extreme version of yourself. And I’m gonna be the extreme version of myself.’”

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The rapper previously spoke to NME about his creative process with West earlier this year.

“Ye and I are very different people,” he said at the time. “The only thing we have in common is our love of street rap. He’s a huge fan and I’m the DNA of that. We’re really parallel on it. I feel like everything else is a debate because we’re just very different people.”

“He’s very emotional and I am way more calculated than him,” he continued. “So, music is never the debate; it’s the strategy that is the debate with us all day long. His superpower is his instinct, so when that’s your superpower, the shit works the majority of the time.”

Meanwhile, Donald Trump has called West a “seriously troubled man” following their recent dinner together at the former US President’s Florida estate.

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The rapper has repeatedly denied that his comments were racist, including saying that he doesn’t believe in the term “anti-semitism” because he claims that it’s “not factual”. However, he later offered some sort of apology in an interview with Piers Morgan, saying: “I’m sorry for the people that I hurt with the ‘death con’… I feel like I caused hurt and confusion”.

Testing Testing Seeing if my Twitter is unblocked

— ye (@kanyewest) November 20, 2022

Following West’s comments, Musk also said that he spoke to the rapper about his conduct, tweeting: “Talked to ye today & expressed my concerns about his recent tweet, which I think he took to heart.”

Musk then deleted a tweet hinting at a possible business collaboration with the rapper shortly after.

Meanwhile, earlier this week, Kano Computing, the company that developed the Stem Player to allow fans to listen to and customise songs from West‘s ‘Donda’ albums, severed ties with the rapper in the wake of his anti-semitic comments.

Klein, who is half Jewish, spoke to The Los Angeles Times about his dealings with the embattled star. “[West] tried to call me racist when I gently told him that attacking a whole race of people wasn’t good for him or Stem,” he said.

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“I asked Kanye not to take the path he’s on. We’ve told him that we’re unable to work together while he’s putting out racial conspiracy theories. There’s no deal in place.”

Kano’s move follows numerous other organisations and figures that have worked with West. Adidas recently cut ties with the star – so have his lawyer and booking agency. And Hollywood production company and financiers, MRC, revealed that it will shelve a “recently completed” documentary about West.

Luxury fashion house Balenciaga also recently axed its relationship with West, while a representative for Vogue magazine confirmed to Page Six last month that neither the magazine nor its editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour, plan to work with West moving forward.

West’s return to Twitter comes after Donald Trump also returned to the social media platform yesterday (November 19) following an online poll.

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Kanye West pictured in California 2016. CREDIT: Jonathan Leibson/Getty Images for Adidas)

News of Ye’s net worth comes following news that Adidas will stop production of its Yeezy line after nine years due to his “unacceptable, hateful and dangerous” comments.

The German sportswear brand said in a statement today: “Adidas does not tolerate anti-semitism and any other sort of hate speech.

“Ye’s recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous, and they violate the company’s values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness.”

The company added it expects to take a hit of up to €250million (£217million) to its net income this year from the split.

Adidas is the latest organisation to cut ties with West following the likes of Def Jam, JP Morgan Chase, and Balenciaga who have all condemned the rapper’s recent statements which have been criticised as being anti-semitic.

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During a recent interview on the Drink Champs podcast, which has since been removed, the rapper made further anti-semitic comments, saying “the Jewish media blocked [him] out”. He also made more inflammatory comments during a recent interview with Fox News that was not aired but leaked online.

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.

— Kim Kardashian (@KimKardashian) October 24, 2022

West has refused to accept that the term “anti-semitism” exists because he claims it’s “not factual”, but he has since offered something of an “apology” to those whom he’s offended with his comments.

Yesterday (October 24), Kim Kardashian said she “[stands] together with the Jewish community” in the wake of her ex-husband’s comments.

“Hate speech is never OK or excusable,” she tweeted. “I stand together with the Jewish community and call on the terrible violence and hateful rhetoric towards them to come to an immediate end.”

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“Tarantino can write a movie about slavery where – actually him and Jamie [Foxx], they got the idea from me because the idea for ‘Django’ I pitched to Jamie Foxx and Quentin Tarantino as the video for ‘Gold Digger’. And then Tarantino turned it into a film,” West claimed to Morgan.

Neither Tarantino nor Foxx have responded publicly to Ye’s claims. NME has contacted Tarantino’s representatives for comment.

While Ye didn’t expand on his claims, he did make a comparison, when speaking about how free speech exists with context, to the film’s slave master (played by Leonard DiCaprio) using racial slurs in the film and not being deemed a racist.

This is in light of West making multiple comments that were criticised as anti-Semitic over the past few weeks, which he has continually denied were racist. In the same interview with Morgan, the rapper offered something of an “apology” to those whom he’d offended with his comments.

Quentin Tarantino on the red carpet at the BAFTA Awards 2020. Credit: Getty

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In the end, West’s ‘Gold Digger’ music video had nothing to do with slavery and instead featured pin-up girls posing for fictitious magazine covers.

Django: Unchained grossed more than $425million (£380million) worldwide at the box office against its $100million (£88.4 million) and became Tarantino’s most commercially successful film.

In other Ye news, luxury fashion house Balenciaga has cut ties with the star over his recent social media comments.

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As WWD reports, a photo of West walking the runway has been removed from the website.

Balenciaga is not the first company West has been associated with to terminate a relationship with him. Last week, JPMorgan Chase confirmed that they had “decided to end its banking relationship with Yeezy, LLC and its affiliated entities”.

Kanye West. CREDIT: Edward Berthelot/GC Images

Elsewhere, Music News reports that officials from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) have written an open letter to Adidas, asking them to reconsider releasing products from West’s Yeezy footwear line. They have urged the sports brand to prove that they have not given his “antisemitism a pass”.

“We urge Adidas to reconsider supporting the Ye product line and to issue a statement making clear that the Adidas company and community has no tolerance whatsoever for antisemitism,” they wrote.

West has been widely condemned for his recent slew of antisemitic comments, which have resulted in him being banned from both Instagram and Twitter. Celebrities such as Jamie Lee Curtis, Sarah Silverman and David Schwimmer have taken to social media to speak out against him, as have politicians and other organisations such as the Black Jewish Entertainment Alliance.

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However, West has refused to apologise for his remarks, telling Piers Morgan in a recent interview that he purposely made the comments to spur on animosity. 

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“Kanye gave me this verse a couple of months ago when he was just all over the media, because of all of the things that were going on,” Cardi told Lowe. “I like how his verse, it’s personal, but it’s not that personal.”

“I’m so happy that he gave me this verse,” she added. “And I had a lot of conversations with Kanye West. I learned so much about him and he’s such an amazing, sweet person. I’ve been feeling like, I wish a lot of people have conversations with him so they could just see the real … the him.”

During the chat, Cardi also revealed that ‘Hot Shit’ was first recorded in 2019, but she felt it needed a male feature.

“I did not know which male artist to put on this record because this has a certain type of beat that I feel like only certain artists could freak it,” she said.

She secured her verse from West before approaching Lil Durk at the suggestion of her record label, with the rapper handing over his part in a day.

“I feel like Durk verse is really street,” she said. “I see almost Bronx kids listening to his verse. And then when Kanye verse come in, you see people that are more into that money, that grown shit.”

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The track is another taste of the rapper’s forthcoming album, following ‘WAP’ and ‘Up’. In December last year, she said she planned on releasing the record in 2022, and has since cited “technical difficulties” as the reason for its delay.

It’ll mark the follow-up to her 2018 debut LP ‘Invasion of Privacy’, which earned her a Grammy for Best Rap Album.

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“So he seen that, just talking to ’em, knew that we had a relationship with Kanye and then with Drake through J,” Hoover Jr. said about his father’s thoughts on the rappers feuding. “He seen them guys was at odds and he would hear about other artists and stuff, you know what I mean, killing each other and going to jail over back-and-forth nonsense. So he was just saying, ain’t there something y’all could do to try to bring them together?”

Kanye West, Kenny Burns and Drake in 2015 CREDIT: Prince Williams

Hoover Jr. also discussed both Drake and Kanye’s status as “the biggest artists in the world”. He added, “We put our efforts there and brought ’em together hoping that it would be a blueprint for the other artists to try to follow to look and see, like, if these guys can bring it together and put they differences aside and make money and enjoy life, maybe some other people will follow suit.”

“There are way too many of these guys out here, you know, feeling like they’re living the gangster life when they should be living the millionaire life and they dying and losing everything when they just get to that position,” he said. “They should be enjoying and bringing other people up instead of going to jail and dying and their friends dying. I thought they became entertainers to get out the street. That’s what it’s supposed to have been about.”

Meanwhile, Kendrick Lamar recently wrote in a new song that he was “confused” by West and Drake‘s reunion last year.

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Lamar released his long-awaited, 73-minute fifth studio album ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’ in May. On the track ‘Father Time’ – which features Sampha – he briefly shares his thoughts on West and Drake’s unlikely reconciliation.

“Daddy issues kept me competitive, that’s a fact, n***a / I don’t give a fuck what’s the narrative, I am that n***a / When Kanye got back with Drake, I was slightly confused / Guess I’m not as mature as I think, got some healin’ to do,” Lamar raps in the cut.

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Elsewhere in the set, Davidson asked “does anyone else secretly Kanye pulls a Mrs Doubtfire?” referencing Robin Williams’ 1993 film where the actor disguises himself as a Scottish housekeeper to see his children during a bitter divorce. “I come home one day and they’re like ‘this is the new housekeeper’. He’s like “what’s up fam?’”

Davidson also spoke about his friend Jack Harlow appearing on Kanye West’s ‘DONDA‘. “People ask does that bother me? No. He’s a rapper, that’s his field. That’s what they do” explained Davidson. “That doesn’t hurt my feelings. It would hurt my feelings if I saw (comedian) Bill Burr at Sunday Service.”

It comes after repeated attacks from Kanye West. Earlier this year his video for ‘Eazy’ saw the rapper kidnap and kill a claymated version of Davidson. The track also features the line “God saved me from that crash / Just so I can beat Pete Davidson’s ass.”

Though he initially kept quiet on the matter, Davidson responded to West’s attacks a few days after the second ‘Eazy’ video landed, writing to the rapper in a text: “I’ve decided I’m not gonna let you treat us like this anymore and I’m done being quiet.”

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At the end of Davidson’s sets at Netflix Is A Joke: The Festival, Machine Gun Kelly – a close friend, former housemate and longtime collaborator of the comedian – came onstage to perform a surprise three-song set. The pair duetted on the ‘Mainsteam Sellout’ cut ‘Ay!’, while MGK performed ‘Candy’ and ‘Make Up Sex’ by himself.

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“I feel like he’s dealing with some demons and anyone who needs support, we should give them that grace,” Emma McCardell, a 26-year-old attendee from Seattle, Washington said when asked about Kanye’s drop from the line-up. “If people need space, let them have their space.”

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Her partner, James who is also 26, shared in that sentiment. “It sucks that it was so last minute, but it feels like we’re watching him go through the worst moment of his life which is super weird because he’s such an outspoken guy.”

Both fans bought their tickets before seeing the line-up and were excited to see Phoebe Bridgers, Vince Staples, Denzel Curry, and Billie Eilish.

“She’s such a performer, and she cares so deeply about her music,” Emma said of Eilish. “I’m really excited to see it happen.”

As far as who they would’ve gone with for Sunday night’s closeout set, James said the “Silk Sonic rumours” had gotten him really excited, before adding that Elton John would’ve also been a great pick “for the history”.

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Fans attend Coachella 2022 CREDIT: G Noire Courtesy of Coachella

Dan Flynn, a 23-year-old attendee from New Port Beach, said he “really liked” that Kanye pulled himself from the line-up, adding that he’d “prefer to see someone whose along the lines of EDM music”.

His friend, 25-year-old Evan Clark of Los Angeles, agreed. “As much as we love Kanye West, I feel like he was going to pull out the whole time,” he said. “Old Kanye is not new Kanye. Hopefully, Swedish House Mafia fills his boots.”

Clark also said that he thought Goldenvoice, the producers of Coachella, missed out on the opportunity to bring out “an old school rock and roll band” before saying: “my new vote is AC/DC to replace Kanye.”

Coachella Festival 2022 CREDIT: L Gerber courtesy of Coachella

Another attendee called Jane Marshall from Los Angeles said that she was “bummed” at first that Ye was dropped from the line-up but also felt like he needed to “sit down” because of his recent remarks.

She also remarked, however, that after watching the Netflix documentary Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy, she’d had renewed “respect for Kanye as an artist” and felt like she was “missing out” on not seeing him.

Although Marshall mentioned she wasn’t too excited about The Weeknd headlining since she’d seen him play multiple times in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, she was excited about Megan Thee Stallion‘s set, although she felt the Houston-born rapper should have actually topped the festival’s bill.

Nima Chetlany, from San Francisco, was “pretty bummed” when Kanye pulled out, ” because she’s a fan even though he’s somewhat questionable.” She would’ve preferred a Tame Impala or Frank Ocean, headline, however, as opposed to Swedish House Mafia, or at the least, The Weeknd take the stage by himself.

The Coachella 2022 weekend has been filled with surprise guests and performances. Arcade Fire played a secret set on the first day of the festival, performing tracks from upcoming new album ‘WE’, due out next month.

Harry Styles headlined the night and was joined on stage by Shania Twain, who performed her hits ‘Man! I Feel Like a Woman!’ and ‘You’re Still The One’.

During his 18-song set, Styles gave a live debut to record-breaking comeback single ‘As It Was’ as well as live debuts to new tracks called ‘Boyfriends’ and ‘Late Night Talking’.

Carly Rae Jepsen also debuted a brand new track called ‘Western Wind’, which she had been teasing for the past few weeks; Justin Bieber teamed up with Daniel Caesar for a performance of their collaborative single ‘Peaches’.

Friday also saw Phoebe Bridgers joined by Arlo Parks for two songs during her set, while Saturday’s proceedings were headlined by Billie Eilish, who was joined onstage by Damon Albarn for a two-song cameo.

Check back at NME all weekend for more reviews, news, interviews, photos and more from Coachella 2022.

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The rapper’s remark garnered all types of reaction online and sparked a debate on who of the two producers actually did more for him.

The latest guest to appear on Drink Champs is Snoop Dogg, who has worked with both The Game and Dr. Dre. During his interview, N.O.R.E. brought up the comments made by The Game.

Before taking Snoop’s opinion on it, the show’s co-host revealed that he showed West the specific clip and he responded by saying: “I don’t think Game should’ve said that.”

Snoop then said that he can’t agree or disagree with The Game’s opinion. “That’s his personal experience,” Snoop said. “Kanye could’ve shown him something, Dre not really good at showing you nothing. He’s basically good at bringing your talents to light, to where it’s about you not what he do for you.

He added: “I couldn’t answer that, but Game is my little homie so I respect everything he say and do.”

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Meanwhile, Kanye West has made his debut on Forbes’ billionaire list alongside Rihanna and JAY-Z.

According to the annual list, Rihanna has now become the world’s richest female musician with a net worth of $1.7billion (£1.3billion), largely thanks to her Fenty Beauty business and Savage X Fenty lingerie line.

She sits at number 1,729 on the worldwide list of richest billionaires, with JAY-Z following at 2,076 with a net worth of $1.4billion (£1.1billion). West sits higher than both of them at 1,513 with a net worth of $2billion (£1.5billion).

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