*Media personality Jason Lee, editor-in-chief, and founder of Hollywood Unlocked, is speaking out about his decision to step down as the Head of Media for Kanye West (now known as “Ye”).
We reported back in October that Lee parted ways with Ye after the rapper teamed with conservative political commentator Candace Owens to promote what many called “white supremacy” overseas. The pair wore matching “White Lives Matter” t-shirts during Paris Fashion Week and some Yeezy fans said it was a disastrous PR move.
Lee explained in a new interview with Complex that teaming with Owens was not a good look. He also took issue with West reviving his White House campaign for the 2024 presidential race.
According to Lee, “Kanye lost track of the strategy behind getting people to understand” the artist and “open up their hearts to empathize with him.” He added, “And because he couldn’t respect the leaders he put around him, look at what happened.”
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As Complex reports, Lee said “everything was great” until he saw photos of Ye wearing “white lives matter” t-shirts with Owens, who he described as a “disgusting, vile pig of a person.”
“I want him to be loved again by the culture,” Lee said. “But I also want to see him take responsibility. What he said about the Jewish community was almost embarrassing because we’re asking one community to politic their pain over ours; slavery was real, it wasn’t a choice. And the Holocaust was a real thing that caused a lot of pain.”
When it comes to cancel culture, Lee shared this take… “Canceling culture is disrupting art. I want to get back to a place where accountability culture can be a real thing. When you look at Kanye, I think that’s a great example of accountability culture, because you know, words do have power, and we should use them responsibly,” he explained.
Lee continued, “When you’re super neglectful of the world that you live in, you should be held accountable. But to cancel you? I mean, if you put out Yeezys today, would everybody buy them? Yes. So cancel culture? I don’t believe [in] it. I don’t believe it’s a real thing. It exists in the minds of Black people, but once we stop buying into it, and we keep pushing forward, and we push for more ownership and more independence and more power in our voices, and using those voices, I think it’ll go away, hopefully.”
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