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Alex Klein, the founder of Kano, the company that made the Stem player, told The Times in 2022 that West was initially “very funny, and can be super candid,” but after his collapse into neo-Nazi sloganeering, Klein said, “I asked Kanye not to take the path he’s on. We’ve told him that we’re unable to work together while he’s putting out racial conspiracy theories.”

The album was a sequel to his 2021 record “Donda,” his last mainstream solo album before his descent into openly neo-Nazi rhetoric.

A newly unsealed search warrant also alleges that the suspect's phone contained material relating to a neo-Nazi group called the Order of Nine Angles and praise for Adolf Hitler.

He also asked the South African president to step in and prevent the “genocide of white people in South Africa”—to the delight of the former leader of the neo-Nazi group Identity Evropa, who wrote, “In 2016 South African white genocide was a fringe issue—now, the richest man in the world, who also owns Twitter, is drawing attention to it. Things are moving in the right direction!”

The drop was especially steep in Germany, where Musk irritated voters by throwing his electoral support behind the extreme-right neo-Nazi party Alternative for Germany.