Kanye West Takes Aim At Dave Portnoy Over "Meme Coin" While Wearing A Swastika Shirt

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Kanye West continues to provoke with his abhorrent antisemitism, now challenging Dave Portnoy after teasing his own coin or cryptocurrency.

Kanye West has beefed with far too many celebrities to count over the years, especially in recent weeks. But folks probably didn't expect him to trade blows with Dave Portnoy eventually, yet that's exactly what happened on Twitter over the weekend. Things started when the Barstool Sports personality trashed Ye's reported idea for a "meme coin" cryptocurrency. The Chicago artist responded by dragging him in a series of tweets and then addressing the conflict with a video. The problem is that he wore a shirt with a swastika on it, further showing why he cares about little else other than shocking and provoking with his antisemitism.

"So Dave Portnoy, I don't know you," Kanye West expressed in a video. "I saw you was tweeting, I have no idea who you are. We was going back and forth joking. But when you start telling people that my coin is not real and you trying to play with my money, now this is the last time that we are going to be talking online." Ye's beefs extend to streamers, rappers, business tycoons, politicians, and the most random of social media users these days more than ever.

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Elsewhere, though, the Yeezy mogul is making sure to show love to other famous figures that, for one reason or another, get him in hot water. For example, some new prison photos of R. Kelly recently surfaced, and Kanye West offered his cosign online. "My n***a Kells still got that Chicago spirit. They ain't break him. And he got on Yeezy. On you Yeezy over everything," he captioned a Twitter post reposting these newly surfaced pictures, in which the disgraced R&B singer wears what seems to be a pair of Yeezy sneakers with a green shirt and hat.

We will see just how far Kanye West goes in these coin efforts and in his bigoted hyper-fixation on Nazism. We know that he has other endeavors such as various film projects that he's developing or promoting with his wife Bianca Censori. Also, a new solo album Bully is reportedly on the way and set for June 15, but it seems like he cares more about money and status than about actual art.

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Gabriel Bras Nevares is a staff writer for HotNewHipHop. He joined HNHH while completing his B.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication at The George Washington University in the summer of 2022. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Gabriel treasures the crossover between his native reggaetón and hip-hop news coverage, such as his review for Bad Bunny’s hometown concert in 2024. But more specifically, he digs for the deeper side of hip-hop conversations, whether that’s the “death” of the genre in 2023, the lyrical and parasocial intricacies of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle, or the many moving parts of the Young Thug and YSL RICO case. Beyond engaging and breaking news coverage, Gabriel makes the most out of his concert obsessions, reviewing and recapping festivals like Rolling Loud Miami and Camp Flog Gnaw. He’s also developed a strong editorial voice through album reviews, think-pieces, and interviews with some of the genre’s brightest upstarts and most enduring obscured gems like Homeboy Sandman, Bktherula, Bas, and Devin Malik.

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