Kanye West’s episode of The Shop shelved, controversial cut clips from Fox News leak

Even Fox News, which hosted an already incendiary conversation between Ye and Tucker Carlson, apparently had to curb some of Ye’s remarks. Vice News’ Motherboard obtained several clips from the interview that didn’t make it to air, which included—you guessed it—antisemitism and conspiracy theories, like the fact that Planned Parenthood was created “to control the Jew population.”

He also expressed a disturbing belief that his kids were socializing with “fake children”: “I mean, like actors, professional actors, placed into my house to sexualize my kids.” Specifically referencing the “so-called son” of an associate, he added, “We don’t, we didn’t even believe that this person was her son because he was way smarter than her, right?” (According to a tweet from Vice writer Anna Merlan, the outlet chose not to share that particular clip “to protect the family’s privacy.”)

As Motherboard points out, Ye has previously discussed how his bipolar disorder can trigger this kind of paranoia. (“When you’re in this state, you’re hyper-paranoid about everything, everyone. This is my experience, other people have different experiences. Everyone now is an actor. Everything’s a conspiracy,” he explained in an episode of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman.) However, he has also been resistant to having his public outbursts attributed to mental health episodes.

Elsewhere in the leaked footage, he reiterates complaints about his daughter Chicago’s fourth birthday, espoused conspiracies about the death of designer Virgil Abloh, and his “visions” from God about “how to build these free energy, kinetic, fully kinetic energy communities.”

The cut portions of the interview are certainly telling as to the kind of narrative Carlson and Fox News were trying to craft around Ye’s appearance. Not only did the network omit his most outrageous statements, but it also cut a clip in which he stated he was vaccinated. Though The Shop may have been mistaken in inviting Ye on the show in the first place, at least that show neither gave his rhetoric a platform nor took advantage of his celebrity for its own gain.

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