Ye Doubles Down On His Controversial Comments, Buys Parler, A Free Speech Social Media Platform

The fashion mogul and hip hop star(formerly known as Kanye West) has recently been embroiled in several controversies and has been locked out of his accounts by social media platforms Instagram and Twitter.

Ye, in an interview Monday on NewsNation doubled down on his supposedly controversial comments. He told far-left host Chris Cuomo that many other celebrities and athletes are happy and privately supportive of him speaking out against the undue influence of Jewish executives in Hollywood, sports and media.

In the heated interview, the rapper said: "I don’t have to say how much money is in my account. I don’t have to say who I voted on. I don’t have to say why I changed my name. The life for a black person in America is like a constant test. Even after we’re out of high school and we’re out of college. We’re always being questioned. Why would you do that? Why would you do that? Do you think that I just had the right and this is a rhetorical question because I don’t want you to answer it. Do you think I had the right to just vote for Trump? I didn’t even vote for Trump because of the people that were around me…So for all of my fellow entertainers that know what I’m saying, I’m not speaking what is called hate speech. I’m saying something that happened out loud to me. And what I’m saying is when I said DEFCON 3, what I was saying is, I’m going to talk about all these things that I saw that just so happen to be by Jewish executives or Jewish friends of mine, where I saw people pulling my coattail, telling me behave, escalate, running the narrative that I’m off, that you need to take your meds. Even this was not supposed to be this conversation. I don’t get a clean platform to tell my truth without being in my name, being called out of my name, being called, suddenly called crazy. I’ve been saying I’m out of control. Part of this thing is you got this. You got people on my ex-wife’s side and this person, Tracy Ramos, every day running a narrative. This person is not even around me because I’m not saying what the media wants me to say. We’re fighting."

Ye, on Monday, agreed in principle to acquire the social media network Parler. The platform's parent company Parlement Technologies said the acquisition, which is expected to close by the end of the year, would help create “an uncancelable ecosystem where all voices are welcome.”

Parlement Technologies CEO George Farmer said in  a statement that the deal would “change the world, and change the way the world thinks about free speech.” He added: “Ye is making a groundbreaking move into the free speech media space and will never have to fear being removed from social media again. Once again, Ye proves that he is one step ahead of the legacy media narrative. Parlement will be honored to help him achieve his goals.”

Ye in a statement said “In a world where conservative opinions are considered to be controversial we have to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves.”

WATCH Ye's interview on NewsNatio