{"id":181776,"date":"2025-07-19T18:04:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T18:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/19\/scooter-braun-on-old-friend-kanye-west-i-dont-know-him-anymore\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T18:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T18:04:03","slug":"scooter-braun-on-old-friend-kanye-west-i-dont-know-him-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/19\/scooter-braun-on-old-friend-kanye-west-i-dont-know-him-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Scooter Braun on old friend Kanye West: &#8216;I don&#8217;t know him anymore&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-07-19\" datetime=\"1752948243\" pubdate=\"\">19 July 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Scooter Braun has had to &#8220;mourn&#8221; the person <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/kanye-west\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,kanye-west\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kanye West<\/a> used to be when they were friends.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Scooter Braun is speaking out on mourning his old friend Kanye West after his attack on Jews<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old record executive &#8211; who retired from artist management in 2024 &#8211; was the controversial rapper&#8217;s manager between 2016 and 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2022, the Stronger rapper has lost people&#8217;s respect and faced financial consequences after he made a series of antisemitic remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Scooter &#8211; who is Jewish &#8211; says he doesn&#8217;t recognise Kanye anymore and has no &#8220;relationship&#8221; with the 48-year-old star.<\/p>\n<p>He told Danielle Robay on her Question Everything podcast: \u201cI don\u2019t know him anymore.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe continued: \u201cI think the person that I knew wasn\u2019t someone who says those things. Sometimes the hardest thing to do with someone you care about is mourn them while they\u2019re still here. The person that I knew is not the person that I\u2019m seeing, so I don\u2019t have a relationship anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen asked if he thinks the Bound 2 rapper can claw his way back, he dodged the question and insisted: \u201cI have three beautiful kids that need a dad to focus on them and make sure they\u2019re prepared and strong in this world. That\u2019s going to be my focus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/scooter-braun-old-friend-kanye-west-know-anymore-1422279.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 July 2025 Scooter Braun has had to &#8220;mourn&#8221; the person Kanye West used to be when they were friends. Scooter Braun is speaking out on mourning his old friend Kanye West after his attack on Jews The 44-year-old record executive &#8211; who retired from artist management in 2024 &#8211; was the controversial rapper&#8217;s manager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[154,2224],"class_list":{"0":"post-181776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-kanye-west","9":"tag-scooter-braun"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}