Kanye had a lot of antisemitic episodes before the AJ interview.

In the song "Flashing Lights" he says he hates the paparazzi more than the nazis. Which many saw as comedic exaggeration for the sake of an easy rhyme way back when it came out, but in hindsight it's a big red flag about how he sees the media (including the celeb-stalking media) as Jewish-owned, and how he hates the (Jewish) media more than the killers of Jews.

In his album Life of Pablo he praises homophobic and antisemitic NOI leader Louis Farrakhan on a couple of occasions.

He also has this antisemitic lyric from the song Saint Pablo off of Life of Pablo:

Brother Don Muhammad told the minister about the presentation

He sat back and smiled

Black on black lies is worse than black on black crime

The Jews share their truth on how to make a dime

These were all invisible to people for some reason. It took him going on Alex Jones and praising Hitler before people noticed.

Of course a normal person praising Nazism should get punched in the throat, and having bipolar has nothing to do with political views.

A rich person praising Nazism is to be expected. Accumulating wealth as a vassal of empire is inherently fascistic. The act of holding wealth is violent. Taylor Swift is a fascist too, she's just neurotypical enough to not discuss it in interviews. Anyone surprised to find out Kanye was a Nazi just hasn't been paying attention.

So everyone in this thread trying to say Kanye is somehow different than other rich artists are focusing on vibes instead of reality, and discriminating against Kanye for being unable to control the impressions he gives off.