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Kanye West Has Listening Party for New Album, Chants That He’s an “Anti-semite,” Says The Weeknd’s Label Won’t Approve Participation

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Kanye West did not drop his new album, “Vultures,” last night. It’s not a surprise, frankly, and just as well.

The avowed antisemite and Hitler admirer should be shunned, away. I’m amazed anyone wants to hear what he has to say beyond what he’s already said. All his sponsors and business partners have dropped him because of it.

In Chicago last night, West filled up an arena for a listening party for “Vultures.” It didn’t start until 10pm. According to some reports, the live stream — which could be purchased for $19.99 — was cut off when West chanted “I’m still crazy, bipolar, antisemite, and I’m still the King.”

A post from West on X, taken from a deleted text he shared, claimed he couldn’t release the album because “Abel’s label” — meaning Universal, which distributes The Weeknd — wouldn’t approve their artist’s participation.

Tonight, West moves the circus to the UBS Arena near Belmont Park here in New York. According to Ticketmaster, there thousands of seats available.

PS Kudos to Kim Kardashian for letting her daughter, North, participate in this chaos.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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