Kanye wanted to call his 2018 hit album Ye – HITLER – as anti-Semite rapper’s disturbing history of praising Nazi leader is revealed

Kanye West has long admired Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, and once wanted to name an album after him, insiders claim.

Sources close to the now disgraced rapper told CNN how West was ‘obsessed’ with Hitler and even wanted to name his 2018 hit album after the fascist leader —  before ultimately releasing it under the name ‘Ye.’ It is unclear why he changed his mind.

‘He would praise Hitler by saying how incredible it was that he was able to accumulate so much power, and would talk about all the great things he and the Nazi Party achieved for the German people,’ a former business executive said.

The unnamed source claimed that people in West’s inner circle were ‘fully aware’ of his interest in Hitler, as he would speak openly about reading Mein Kampf, Hitler’s 1925 manifesto, and expressed his ‘admiration’ for the Nazis for their propaganda.

The Nazis, under the direction of Hitler, killed six million Jews in the Holocaust.

Kanye’s former business executive also said West created a hostile work environment with his anti-Semitic remarks, leading him to ultimately quit.

He is said to have reached a settlement with Ye and some of his companies over workplace complaints, including harᴀssment, and asked not to be named due to a confidentiality agreement and fear of retribution.

As part of the agreement, CNN reports, West denied the accusations against him.

The rapper is now seeing his billion dollar empire crumble around him after tweeting he would go ‘death con three on the Jewish people’ and claimed Jews in the media are conspiring against him.

Others have previously stepped forward to accuse the Gold Digger singer of being anti-Semitic, with a former TMZ employee claiming in a podcast earlier this month that West made similar comments that the outlet chose not to publish in 2018.

Speaking on his Higher Learning podcast, Van Lathan Jr said that when he confronted West over his remarks that slavery ‘sounds like a choice,’ West also spoke about his love of Nazis.

‘I already heard him say that stuff at TMZ,’ Lathan Jr said. ‘I mean, I was taken aback because that type of anti-Semitic talk is disgusting. It’s like, I’m taken a back any time anyone does that, right?