US rapper Kanye West has made headlines in recent years for his psychiatric problems, controversial comments about slavery and support for former US president Donald Trump
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KEY POINTS

  • Kanye West claimed Planned Parenthood was founded alongside the KKK to "control the Jew population"
  • The rapper also suggested that Black people are the real Jews
  • West is currently on a social media lockout following posts that were largely deemed antisemitic

Kanye West had more bizarre things to share during his sit-down interview with Tucker Carlson, and they included several antisemitic remarks and racist conspiracy theories, unaired footage showed.

Fox News recently aired the 53-year-old conservative political commentator's two-hour interview with the 45-year-old Yeezy founder. However, Motherboard reported that several crucial portions of the interview were edited out of the final broadcast, including a series of comments based on racist conspiracy theories.

In unaired footage from the interview obtained by the publication, West, who now goes by Ye, detailed his belief in an unfounded and antisemitic conspiracy theory that Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, who the rapper described as a "known eugenics," created the non-profit organization with the KKK "to control the Jew population."

"When I say Jew, I mean the 12 lost tribes of Judah, the blood of Christ, who the people known as the race Black really are," the rapper told Carlson in the footage. "This is who our people are. The blood of Christ. This, as a Christian, is my belief."

West also referred to the unproven claim that Black people were "the real Jewish race," which is not supported by any historical evidence.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the antisemitic belief is sometimes associated with the Black Hebrew Israelites, a movement that originated in the 19th century. "Radical Hebrew Israelites appropriate biblical Jewish heritage to claim an exclusive identity as the true chosen people of God and decry Jews as the impostors and thieves," the organization stated.

In the leaked footage, West used a metaphor involving Jewish people when talking about Black people judging one another.

"Think about us judging each other on how white we could talk would be like, you know, a Jewish person judging another Jewish person on how good they danced or something," the artist said.

He then seemingly asked Carlson to remove one of his bizarre remarks, saying, "I mean, that's probably like a bad example and people are going to get mad at that s--t... I probably want to edit that out."

West also complained to Carlson that his children with ex-wife Kim Kardashian were attending a school that celebrates Kwanzaa, the African holiday in December, saying he preferred the Jewish Hanukah.

"I prefer my kids knew Hanukah than Kwanzaa – at least it will come with some financial engineering," he said in another clip posted by Motherboard, apparently referencing the age-old antisemitic trope that Jews control the financial system.

On Sunday, the "Donda" rapper's Twitter account was restricted after he posted that he would go "death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE." It has since been deleted by the social media platform for violating hate speech restrictions.

Shortly after, Instagram's parent company Meta also restricted West's account on the photo-sharing site after he suggested that his fellow rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs is being controlled by Jews.

In addition to his antisemitic remarks, the unaired footage also showed West admitting that he's vaccinated against COVID-19 and claiming that "fake children" had been placed in his house to "manipulate and sexualize" his own kids.

He also claimed that one of his children, Chicago, was "kidnapped" on her birthday so he was unable to see her.

West and Kardashian share four children, 9-year-old daughter North, 6-year-old son Saint, 4-year-old daughter Chicago and 3-year-old son Psalm. The exes' divorce proceedings are ongoing.

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LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 24: Kayne West attends LACMA Director's Conversation With Steve McQueen, Kanye West, And Michael Govan About "All Day/I Feel Like That" presented by NeueHouse in association with UTA Fine Arts at LACMA on July 24, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for LACMA