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Ye Is Already Letting Drama Overshadow His First No. 1 Record in 13 Years

The embattled rapper has a No. 1 record, but can he sustain his recent success?

When the peril seems all too real, he shows contrition either through an apology or through a piece of art that tries to explain why he did the thing that infuriated all those people in the first place. Then came his very public divorce from Kim Kardashian and his run of antisemitic remarks that resulted in adidas dissolving their groundbreaking partnership and other companies like JP Morgan Chase severing ties with the artist. All the activity on her page and with our fans in the past few days has been unauthorized.” Then an email floated around —allegedly from Chief of Staff Milo Yiannopoulos, yes the far right commentator who managed Ye’s presidential campaign—saying she had been fired and will be fined $7.7 million for violating her NDA, even though she didn’t sign her contract.

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