Kanye West’s controversial appearance on the Drink Champs podcast has been taken down, as George Floyd’s family considers suing the rapper.
After receiving backlash for West’s antisemitic comments and lies about the death of George Floyd, Drink Champs has made the video private on YouTube.
Earlier in the day, the podcast was removed from both Spotify and Apple Music, but had remained on YouTube in its entirety.
“We actually posted it and saw that this was the wrong edit, took it down, and then it got reposted again with those same comments that was there,” N.O.R.E, one of the podcast’s hosts, said on The Breakfast Club after apologizing for the contents of his interview.
“So it was a mistake on our behalf, on our team’s behalf. Because we don’t edit nothing… but we will start from here on out, because we understand that’s people that’s hurt out there.”
On Drink Champs, West followed up a series of antisemitic posts with further comments about his belief that Jews control the media and falsely claimed that George Floyd died from fentanyl rather than a police officer’s knee on Floyd’s neck.
Floyd’s family said that they’re considering suing West with Lee Merritt, an attorney for the Floyd family, telling Rolling Stone they would know by the end of the week what claims they have and said the Floyd family feels “absolutely betrayed by his comments.”
“While one cannot defame the dead, the family of #GeorgeFloyd is considering suit for Kanye’s false statements about the manner of his death,” a lawyer for the family wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
Kanye, meanwhile, is going ahead with his acquisition of Parler, following his fallout with Twitter and Instagram.
“He’s obviously wanting to have a conversation that plenty of people want to have and I think that he is trying to engage in the free speech environment,” said George Farmer, Parler app chief executive and husband of Candace Owens. “But I would like to say that he’s in a place where he’s fallen victim to the cancellation narrative.”
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