Kanye West Banned From Detroit Radio Station After “Slavery Is A Choice” Remarks

Kanye West has been in the limelight for the past couple weeks due to his constant controversial remarks, now a radio station is banning his music.

The Detroit-based station 105.1’s segment the Morning Bounce, hosted by Shay Shay and BiGG, made the statement on their Facebook with the hashtag “Mute Kanye.”

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On Tuesday, West was in the TMZ office for an interview, and while he was there he stated that he believed “slavery was a choice”. Immediately following the release of the interview, West experienced a large amount of backlash on social media.

The station believes that West has officially crossed the line and that he “has gone to far with his latest statement.” This has made them come to the ultimate decision to ban any music from West from their station. “We are over it. We don’t want to hear Kanye’s music, we don’t want to play Kanye on our show, we don’t want to talk about Kanye anymore,” they wrote. “So we are taking a stand and we aren’t playing his music anymore; we just are refusing to give him a platform.”

West’s music is not only banned from their morning show, but from the entire station as well. 105.1 will also no longer be broadcasting any music that was produced by West.

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The host are unsure about how long they will uphold this ban, and are leaving it up to their own discretion. “That’s what it is right now. We need a break,” they told Detroit Free Press. “I think it’s a gut feeling of when we’ll be able to feel comfortable playing it again, when we’ll want to hear it again, and more importantly, when will our listeners want to hear it again.”

This is not the first time a radio station has banned West and his music. Sacramento’s Hot 103.5 banned him 2016 following his verbal attacks on radio station and other artists during one of his Saint Pablo Tour concerts.