Kanye West’s blistering anti-semitic comments revealed in explosive BBC documentary

Performer Kanye West’s failed presidential campaign and accusations of anti-semitism are uncovered in a new BBC Two documentary.

The TV programme, which will air tonight (28 June), is тιтled The Trouble with KanYe and includes new first-hand accusations of Kanye making antisemitic remarks, from the tech entrepreneur and former friend and business partner, Alex Klein.

Alex and Klein worked together for the music star’s Donda 2 album but the pair parted ways after Kanye made antisemitic remarks.

Alongside the explosive BBC documentary is an eight-part podcast, The Kanye Story, which will drop as a boxset on BBC Sounds to detail the story behind Kanye, his career and his downfall over recent years in greater depth.

Alex Klein, the tech entrepreneur, former friend and business partner who created Kanye West’s Stem Player for his Donda 2 album, has told the BBC’s Mobeen Azhar a never before heard story about when the pair parted ways following Ye’s antisemitic remarks.

Discussing the decision to no longer work with Kanye, who formally changed his name to Ye two years ago, Alex said: “We turned down 10 million dollars. Kanye was very angry you know he was saying ‘I feel like I wanna smack you’ and ‘You’re exactly like the other Jews’ – almost relishing and revelling in how offensive he could be, using these phrases hoping to hurt me.”

Alex continued: “I asked him and I said ‘Do you really think Jews are working together to hold you back?’ and he said ‘Yes, yes I do but it’s not even a statement that I need to take back because look at all the energy around me right now.