Kanye West news – latest: Rapper allegedly wanted to name 2018 Ye album ‘Hitler’

Quentin Tarantino has addressed Kanye West’s claims that he stole the idea for Django Unchained from him.

The director – who won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for the 2012 film – appeared as a guest on Thursday’s episode (27 October) of Jimmy Kimmel Live, during which he directly spoke about West’s allegations.

West said that he had pitched a slavery-themed story for the video, which never came to fruition.

In part of his response to Kimmel about the accusation, Tarantino had this to say: “I had the idea for Django for a while before I ever met Kanye.”

Annabel Nugent has Tarantino’s full remarks to the late-night host here.

Though it was unclear if he was still locked out of his Twitter account on Friday, Kanye West has been experiencing an onslaught of backlash after he made a series of antisemitic remarks during interviews and on social media.

The rapper, who has been involved in various controversies over the years, has been dropped by both Adidas and Balenciaga over the “hateful and dangerous” comments. A number of fellow celebrities have also condemned his behaviour.

Tracing the latest controversy, The Independent’s Isobel Lewis breaks down where this all began and what has happened since the initial incident at Paris Fashion Week, during which he and right-wing commentator Candace Owens wore “White Lives Matter” t-shirts.

Twitter has not commented on the status of Kanye West‘s account amid unverified reports that he’d regained access after weeks of being locked out for posting antisemitic messages earlier this month.

Rumours that he’d been let back on the site swirled on Friday morning, just hours after Elon Musk successfully took over the social media platform for $44bn, a move that many speculated would lead to previously suspended and locked accounts being made accessible by the self-described free speech absolutist.

It seemed a good omen that on Wednesday night, the 45-year-old rapper had seen Instagram reverse the ban on his account, his preferred platform for posting. He’d previously lost access to posting on both social media platforms earlier this month for sharing separate antisemitic posts that broke with each company’s terms of service.

Speculation about the status of West’s Twitter account began to grow on Friday as some outlets began to report that his account had been unsuspended, which was incorrect as the rapper had only been restricted from posting and using his account.

Catch up on the latest here with The Independent’s full report.

Kanye West returned to Instagram after a ban from the platform and a flurry of brands breaking partnerships with the rapper over the antisemitic remarks he posted earlier this month.

Late Wednesday night, West, who legally changed his name to Ye, posted again on his Instagram. He’d been blocked from doing so for weeks since the social media platform and Twitter locked him out of his accounts for sharing separate antisemitic posts that broke with each company’s terms of service.

In an Instagram story and accompanying post shared on 26 October, West seemed to address the recent fallout with Adidas and Gap, two…