Jeopardy! clue about Kanye West sparks debate with viewers: Make it stop

“Jeopardy!” viewers want Kanye West to go away.A clue about the controversial rapper, 47, sparked a debate with fans of the game show on Reddit last week.During Thursday’s episode, returning four-day champ Alex DeFrank from Brooklyn chose the $1,200 clue in the Double Jeopardy category “The Song of Roland Drums Machines.”“The title of his album ‘808s and Heartbreak’ refers to the death of his mother Donda, and to the Roland TR-808 used on the songs,” host Ken Jennings read to the contestants.DeFrank, who was competing against Cameron Berry from Brighton, Mass.and Hillary Hess from Arlington, Va., correctly answered, “Who is Kanye West?”But the clue about West —  who has recently exhibited problematic behavior on social media — didn’t sit well with some.In a Reddit thread about the episode, one fan wrote, “That’s the fourth Kanye clue this year.

Make it stop.”“That Kanye question needed a note saying the clue was recorded before he declared himself a literal Nazi,” another viewer said.A third Reddit user wrote, “I’m not inherently against ever featuring bad living people in clues, but there’s an argument to be made that it would be better to feature those sorts of people less often.Bill Cosby has not been featured in a clue since 2014, according to another comment.”A different fan wondered if the clue about West was written prior to his latest controversies.

“He’s been problematic for a while, but the swastika shirt and abuse allegations are relatively recent,” they said.But other viewers defended the game show for featuring West.“Unpopular opinion here but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with having a Kanye question,” one fan wrote.“Yes his recent actions are beyond despicable but he’s an important part of music history.

Having a trivia question about him is not endorsing his action or even shedding more spotlight on him (let’s be real having one Jeopardy question is not going to give him...