United Kingdom, July 19 -- Scooter Braun has had to "mourn" the person Kanye West used to be when they were friends.

The 44-year-old record executive - who retired from artist management in 2024 - was the controversial rapper's manager between 2016 and 2018.

Since 2022, the Stronger rapper has lost people's respect and faced financial consequences after he made a series of antisemitic remarks.

Scooter - who is Jewish - says he doesn't recognise Kanye anymore and has no "relationship" with the 48-year-old star.

He told Danielle Robay on her Question Everything podcast: "I don't know him anymore.

He continued: "I think the person that I knew wasn't someone who says those things. Sometimes the hardest thing to do with someone you care a...