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It looks like everyone seems to be stepping away from Ye today, together with his most frequent collaborator, Ty Dolla Signal. On Wednesday (Feb. 12), the “Recollections” singer took to social media to sentence hate speech, coincidentally simply days after his ¥$ counterpart’s antisemitic tirade.
“I don’t condone any type of hate speech in the direction of anybody,” Ty Dolla Signal wrote on his Instagram Tales, alongside raised fist emojis in each pores and skin tone. Although he didn’t point out Ye by title, the timing stated all of it.
The true query is: Why now? Again when Ye was contemporary off the “White Lives Matter” T-shirt controversy and denying the Holocaust, Ty Dolla Signal was one of many first artists to face by him. In actual fact, their 2023 collaboration “VULTURES” had Ye doubling down on the very factor that price him thousands and thousands: “How I am antisemitic? I simply f**ked a Jewish b**ch / I simply f**ked Scooter’s b**ch and we ran her like Olympics.”
One of many extra apparent causes for Ty’s IG Story message is that standing subsequent to Ye generally is a enterprise danger, particularly while you don’t have his $2.77 billion web value as a security web. If the California native was high quality working with the “Heartless” rapper by way of each previous controversy, it may very simply be harm management.
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It’s additionally value mentioning that Ty Dolla Signal and Ye dropped “Wheels Fall Off” not lengthy after the entire “Yaydolf Yitler” feedback and all the pieces that got here with it. To not point out, VULTURES 3 remains to be on the invoice for 2025, marking the third and certain ultimate installment of their album collection beneath the ¥$ moniker.
Understanding Ye, it wouldn’t be surprising if it will get pushed again as soon as once more or scrapped altogether. In any case, his Shopify retailer and social media accounts had been shadow banned or deactivated inside the previous week, so the rollout already isn’t trying nice.
Ty Dolla Signal actually solely has two selections right here. One is to distance himself from a longtime good friend and collaborator. The opposite is to drop music so good that individuals transfer on from all the pieces that’s occurred. Given the success of their chart-topping hit “CARNIVAL,” each are doable, albeit dangerous. If Ty did minimize ties, would you’re feeling that at this level, it’s too little, too late?