Kanye West has brought on a number of points over the previous few years, dropping a number of enterprise offers and mates for his antisemitic habits, promotion of hate and declaring himself a Nazi. Justin and Hailey Bieber minimize ties with the controversial rapper, and Ye’s ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, reportedly has to maintain her lawyer on pace dial. It feels like he can even depend Scooter Braun amongst his former mates, because the music mogul mentioned his relationship together with his ex-client.
Scooter Braun — probably finest identified for his feud with Taylor Swift — has retired as a music supervisor however has a reasonably storied profession of serving to artists like Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato and extra attain excessive ranges of fame. Braun went on the Query Every little thing podcast, the place he admitted to feeling “betrayed” by some former shoppers. That probably consists of Ye, who he managed for 2 or three years, Braun mentioned. He defined the particular person Kanye West is at present just isn’t the person he as soon as labored with. In his phrases:
I don’t know him anymore, and I believe the person who I knew wasn’t somebody who says these issues. Typically the toughest factor to do with somebody you care about is mourn them whereas they’re nonetheless right here. The individual that I knew just isn’t the person who I’m seeing, so I don’t have a relationship anymore. I’d moderately stand proudly in who I’m and who my individuals are and be gracious and type to all folks.
Principally, Scooter Braun mentioned that whereas he doesn’t have any unwell will towards Kanye West, he doesn’t have a relationship with him anymore, because of the former supervisor being Jewish and having grandparents who have been Holocaust survivors.
Nevertheless, moderately than concentrate on the hate he’s seen since Ye’s antisemitic rants from October 2022, Scooter Braun would moderately unfold positivity by displaying how “lovely, sort and loving folks” these of Jewish religion are. Podcast host Danielle Robay requested if Braun thought Kanye West may ever be reached by that message, and he replied:
I don’t know, and I don’t know him, and I believe proper now, I’ve three lovely youngsters that want a dad to concentrate on them and ensure they’re ready and powerful on this world, and that’s going to be my focus.
Scooter Braun says he’s “rattling proud” of who his grandparents have been and of who he’s, and he’s extra involved with educating his youngsters to deliver the fantastic thing about their beliefs to the world than telling folks to not say issues about him.
Regardless of Kanye West declaring that he was “achieved with antisemitism” earlier this yr, 2025 has seen the rapper promoting merchandise with Nazi propaganda on it, recruiting a “hooligan choir” who’re snug carrying swastikas and releasing a tune referred to as “Heil Hitler” for an upcoming album. The only — which brought on his Australia visa to be revoked — was reportedly banned in its unique kind from main streaming platforms and has been re-released in a number of altered variations.
One can see how such actions may trigger his relationships with Scooter Braun and others to turn out to be frayed, to say the least.