Ye's website is selling swastika shirts after boosting its profile with Super Bowl ad
The website of rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, used a Super Bowl commercial to send people to his website which is selling T-shirts emblazoned with a swastika.
Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, used a Super Bowl commercial on Sunday night to send people to his website as it sells T-shirts emblazoned with a swastika, the symbol of Nazi Germany which is still used by modern-day far-right extremists.
The white T-shirts have a black swastika on the front and were the only items for sale on the front page of yeezy.com as of Monday morning. No text or explanation accompanied the item, just the letters "HH-01." They are available for $20.
The Super Bowl ad — which was not shown nationally but, according to multiple reports, was at least seen in the Los Angeles area — shows Ye in a dentist's chair apparently undergoing treatment.
“So what’s up, guys? I spent, like, all the money for the commercial on these new teeth," he said. "So once again, I had to shoot it on the iPhone. Um, um, um, go to yeezy.com.” The shirts were not mentioned in the ad.
Milo Yiannopoulos, who acts as a spokesperson for Ye, told NBC News in an emailed statement: "Ye is an intergenerational artist and icon who continues to redefine the limits of creativity and free expression. He has deactivated his X account for the time being.”
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