The removal of Ye's image comes as he's lost key business partnerships because of his offensive and antisemetic comments.
– A mural depicting Ye, best known as Kanye West, was painted over in the West Loop neighborhood in light of recent controversial comments made by the rap star.stories showing the blacked-out silhouette of Ye with a caption saying"We need better role models."
The original mural, located on the side of a building near the intersection of Morgan Street and Lake Street in the West Loop, showed Ye in a jacket. Peterson had also made the mural into anand put it up for bid. On the website, Peterson said the mural was created in collaboration with another artist and was"based on a photographic portrait of Kanye West shot by Jason." He also said the mural is visited by over 55 million of Chicago's annual visitors.
A video posted to Twitter on Wednesday showed someone painting over Ye's image with what appeared to be black paint.
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